Ania is an accredited Business Coach and Learning Specialist, from a Pharmaceutical Sales Management background. She is also a practicing artist, having completed a certificate in Portraiture at the Art Academy in London. Ania combines her passion for behavioural change with her artistic practice. Ania demonstrates a flexible approach, adapts her style to suit organisational needs, and works in collaboration to help people and companies develop and succeed.

Anuj is an experienced leader with a track record of commercial success having developed a career in the Pharmaceutical & MedTech industries over the last 20 years. He is passionate about developing innovative approaches to organisational development, commercial execution & building engaging cultures for individuals. With a background in L&D, Anuj developed his training (CIPD, CTP) & coaching (Pf Magazine Coach of the year) practice with technical expertise in various diagnostic (LNA), design & blended learning techniques.

Åse is a Swedish, UK qualified, counsellor, personal performance coach, NLP practitioner and parenting coach. She is an experienced facilitator and coach who enjoys the interaction with people from varied backgrounds. Åse & Jenni deliver fun and informative workshops in the mental health and emotional wellbeing arena. Her spare time involves mountain biking, singing, traveling and hanging with family & friends.

Bernd had a broad career in Services and the Media industry where he held a range of leadership positions in Marketing and Human Resource Development.  As a confident and engaging trainer, he is certified to deliver a number of behavioural and psychometric profiles including Franklin Covey and Tracom Social Styles. In his spare time, he enjoys travelling with his wife and children and is also passionate about football.

Bill is an executive coach and facilitator. He is passionate about helping participants enhance their business skills, behaviour and mindset. Bill has superb communications skills on all levels and he leverages his broad business background and international experience to enrich the delivery of executive coaching and workshops across different business sectors.

Chris is an international leadership trainer and coach with specialist experience and knowledge in advanced inter-personal communication skills.  His qualifications include Master Practitioner, Trainer and Coach in NLP as well as an MSc Applied Educational Psychology. When he is not working Chris likes to spend time with his family and can be found on the local tennis courts.

Having established a successful career in sales, marketing and management, Dave has a passion for sharing his expertise through training. His Master NLP Practitioner means he can bring his wealth of knowledge to the training room. He is accredited in Tracom Social Styles, MBTI, Belbin and Emotional Intelligence (EBW) and he is a Fellow of the Institute of Sales and Marketing Management and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. In his spare time, Dave likes to spend time with his family and is a keen downhill skier.

David has extensive experience in facilitating highly engaging learning with real-world impact for leaders, teams and front-line employees in global organisations. He has a career background in engineering and IT in the manufacturing and chemicals industries. He is a certified NLP Master Practitioner and is accredited in Tracom Social Styles. Away from work he enjoys days out with his family, playing the guitar, and outdoor activities including a recently discovered passion for sub aqua diving.

David takes great pride in designing and delivering sessions that change the way people think about what they can achieve. Combining over 30 years of business experience with four years as a TV and film actor, David brings to any event a uniquely entertaining and thought provoking training style. When not working he enjoys playing the guitar and can often be found underneath his classic car in an effort to keep the “old girl” on the road.

Dido is an accomplished trainer, facilitator and coach with over 20 years’ experience of delivering high quality workshops. She is a certified NLP Master Practitioner and incorporates this thinking and techniques into her work. She is passionate about using communication skills to assist people in achieving what they consider to be beyond their expectations and capabilities. Dido is a keen equestrian with a depth of experience in solving equine behavioural problems; communicating through body language (sometimes nick named “horse whispering”).

Georgie has always been passionate about people development, culture and creativity. She uses art-making and inspiring facilitation to uncover insights to inform opportunities for people and business growth. Georgie loves using her Art Therapy within businesses; encouraging creativity for personal wellbeing and interpreting interpersonal and leadership dynamics towards enabling organisational change.

Gillian has over 20 years’ experience working in global FTSE 100 organisations as a HR Director, supporting and developing leadership teams working in manufacturing, commercial, medical, R&D and service organisations. During this time, Gillian has led HR teams and partnered and coached senior leaders and Executive members around the world. She is an experienced coach, mentor, trainer and facilitator and is passionate about unlocking potential in individuals, teams and organisations. She holds the NTL Organisation Development (OD) Certificate, is an accredited NLP Practitioner, has used Insights Discovery in previous roles, is a Fellow of the CIPD and is Social Styles accredited. Outside work, Gillian is a Pets as Therapy Volunteer with her Old English Sheepdog, Blue Belle and enjoys travel, walking and generally being outdoors.

Gilly has a background in Media. She is a highly experienced trainer and coach who has delivered global training for many years. Gilly’s approach to training is high energy and her style is very engaging. Her accolades include being a qualified Personal Performance Coach, Corporate & Executive Coach and NLP Practitioner.

Graham is an international speaker and speaking coach. He is best known for his ability to convey business ideas with a quick sketch. His numerous conference audiences have been amazed to discover that they too can draw their ideas – a talent they never knew they had. As a former manager in Corporate Training at a large airline, he was responsible for the delivery of leadership and management development training.

Originally, from Buenos Aires and now based in Barcelona, Gus is one of our international creative trainers. Gus brings energy and experimental approaches to his workshops.  Gus is an experienced musician, songwriter and composer.

After several years in the sporting industry, Harald moved to the pharmaceutical industry where his interest in training developed.   His experience as a field coach and training manager has made him one of our clients’ favourites. In his spare time, Harald of course loves to play sports, including badminton, golf and rollerblading.

With a background in public relations, Isabel has a proven track record in implementing both large scale and individual training programmes across a wide range of sectors.

Her main passion is to deliver training that integrates the experience, education and background of the participants.

To support her own learning, Isabel successfully gained her Social Styles qualification and uses this insight to allow her to understand participants and client’s own training needs.

Originally from Canada, Isabel offers training throughout South America and apart of her style is to bring a high energy to the classroom.  Isabel speaks native Spanish and has a fantastic level of English.

Excel Communications can guarantee your training will not be dull with Isabel facilitating.

With a background in education, psychology, counselling and the prison system, Jenni has years of facilitation and training experience. She’s lived in numerous countries and has a particular interest in parenting and early childhood development. Her Master’s degree focused on Adult Learning with a teaching degree in Life Orientation (PSHE). She is a Mental Health First Aid Instructor with emotional wellbeing at the heart of all she delivers. She keeps busy looking after an active family and travelling.

Jo has gained a wealth of experience in a number of industries before settling on becoming a leadership and management trainer. She is an NLP Master Practitioner and has a special interest in the use of NLP to overcome performance nerves. This fascination has also led her to study the connection between mind and body and become a qualified Nia teacher. Jo is also a keen horse rider.

Julie is an experienced facilitator, trainer, executive coach and learning consultant. She is also a Certified Public Accountant and started her career as an Auditor with Ernst & Young (EY) Singapore where she managed a large portfolio of international audit clients in various industries. Subsequently, Julie transferred to the Learning & Development department of EY to pursue her passion to become a trainer. After more than 15 years with EY, Julie left to focus on being a trainer and an executive coach. She is a certified facilitator for 360-degree assessments, MBTI Accredited Administrator, Social Styles facilitator, Corporate Etiquette & International Protocol Consultant, Colour & Image Consultant and GlobeSmart Profile facilitator. Her passion is to help her clients become effective leaders, trainers, presenters and communicators by using a blended learning approach.

Karin is an experienced trainer and facilitator and a certified leadership development coach. She brings a wealth of personal and professional experience to her work, including a 16-year international career in a top 10 FTSE company, specialising in corporate communications, reputation management and sustainability. She is a Certified Integral Development Coach™, an Accredited Strengths Profile Practitioner and a LINC Personality Profiler trainer and coach, as well as Social Styles accredited. In her spare time, she loves travelling and has visited all seven continents.

Linda is a qualified trainer, coach and NLP master practitioner based in Sydney, who is passionate about helping everyone become the best version of themselves. She is an ABC (Australian Born Chinese) with over 34 years advertising/media experience, including 17 years in regional roles, and 10 years in the award-winning learning and development unit of a media company. When not working, she enjoys trekking, yoga, skiing and camping.

Based in California, Liz has dedicated over 30 years to helping people reach their personal and professional potential as an educator, therapist and trainer. Liz loves excursions by trains, planes, automobiles or on foot. She likes day hikes, food and wine pairing, and growing her own tomatoes and Italian herbs.

Based in California, Lora has been working in leadership & management training for over 20 years.  She is able to tailor her training to her audience and her style is high energy and engaging. Lora is a member of The American Society of Training & Development (ASTD) and Project Management Institute (PMI).

Louise is an experienced coach, trainer and facilitator and is able to see people’s true potential. She is highly effective at working with teams to deliver powerful performance and greater connections. With an extensive background in recruitment and selection, she worked with major global organisations before becoming an Excel Communications trainer.

Luud has over 30 years of international experience acting as an inspirational speaker, management trainer, executive coach and senior manager. Having worked in over 35 countries on 5 continents he has a vast experience in dealing with global audiences and different cultures. He specialises in: Leadership Development, High Performing Teams, Personal Development, Organizational Transformation & Change and Work / Life Harmony and is Social Styles accredited. Luud is Dutch and since 2002 he lives in the South-West of France and frequently travels around the world.

With over 15 years’ experience as a leadership trainer and 10 years’ experience as a life and leadership coach, Magdalena’s passion is people. Her training is innovative, interactive and high energy. She currently resides in Portugal and enjoys writing her Japanese cooking blog in her spare time.

International senior consultant changing organisations and teams through its people and behaviours for the last 25 years. Specialised in Change Management, Leadership for Results, Negotiation and Conflicts, Challengers and Value Sales, Impact Presentations and Personal Effectiveness.
University degree in Management and certification is DISC and Neuroscience. Loves nature and water sports, was a triathlon athlete, a swimming teacher and a boy scout.

Marc has many training accolades to his name but since 2009, Marc has been a full-time trainer and coach. Marc enjoys spending his spare time hiking and bicycling around Catalonia, and cooking for family and friends.

Maree is an experienced trainer, instructional designer, facilitator, coach and NLP master practitioner residing in Sydney. She enjoys nothing more than working with people to enable them to be even better tomorrow than they are today. She has spent over 35 years in the Advertising / Communications industry in local Australian and regional APAC roles. She began her focus on training others almost 18 years ago with her remit including leadership, management and communication skills. In her spare time Maree enjoys running, yoga, walking her black lab Jack and spending time at her beach shack on the NSW mid north coast.

Mark is another of our leadership & management experts with his experience coming from scientific research and the pharma industry. He is an NLP Master Practitioner and Tracom Social Styles facilitator. When Mark is not working, he enjoys spending time with his family, and supporting Newcastle United (sometimes!) with his sons.

Miwa’s intellectual curiosity is one of her strengths and she is also a practitioner of active listening to help her coaches discover their beliefs and inner speech. Her way of retaining self-confidence, raising self-efficacy and exerting leadership is highly valued among the CEOs and executives she is coaching.

For over 15 years, Parveen has enjoyed designing and facilitating learning experiences for professional and personal growth in the areas of education, emotional intelligence, communication, service excellence, thought leadership, resilience, well-being and leadership development. She uses human-centred approaches informed by neuroscience and positive psychology to create learning spaces where people feel safe enough to connect, make mistakes, collaborate and thrive.

Punit joined the Excel Communications training team after a very successful career in the pharmaceutical industry in a learning and development team. His qualifications include an NLP Practitioner and he is a certified Tracom Social Styles trainer. In his spare time, Punit likes to spend quality time with his family.

Ralph has built up an impressive CV in sales, management and training, initially within the demanding hotel profession. Ralph has done a lot of training delivery to a wide range of healthcare professionals. He is a Certified NLP Practitioner and holds diplomas in Psychometric Profiling, Management and Administration. In his spare time, he enjoys family time and is a keen musician.

Rolf is a truly international trainer, having been born in Europe, educated in the USA, and has lived with his family in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He has now made the move back to Europe.  Working within leadership and management, his passion is people development. His other loves are tennis, skiing, kite surfing and yoga.

Ruth is an accomplished international trainer, facilitator and coach. She is highly experienced in the field of professional development, with a proven track record of assisting organisations, managers, teams and individuals to attain business goals. She is a qualified NLP Master Practitioner and is an accredited trainer in MBTI, Firo B, Social Styles and  Belbin. Away from work, Ruth enjoys walking in the hills, camping in the rain, playing classical piano, fast swimming and slow Tai Chi – but not all at the same time!

Drawing on more than 25 years’ experience, Ruth is passionate about great leadership in the workplace. Specialising in Leadership Development, Coaching & Mentoring, Ruth also believes that learning and growth never stops and should be enjoyable, interactive and applicable in the real world. Ruth is a certified NLP Master Practitioner and uses these techniques in her training.

Sergio’s has gained a great deal of experience and knowledge within the Leadership & Development space by delivering a large range of our workshops for our clients.

He is based in Barcelona and is fluent in Spanish/Catalan, English, French, Italian and Portuguese.

With more energy than ever, Sergio is a fabulous and engaging trainer and he will brighten up your training experience.

A native Englishman based in Madrid, Terry gains most satisfaction from seeing confidence and charisma blossom in people’s performances and in areas where they least expected it. Passionate about language, communication and human relationships, Terry’s strength lies in his ability to relate to, bring together and motivate individuals, groups and teams from different backgrounds and nationalities. Terry is a certified NLP Practitioner and holds an MSc in Linguistics & Phonetics; Terry is a keen musician and in his spare time performs stand-up comedy on a regular basis. He is a keen sportsman in rugby, cricket and soccer and enjoys the Mediterranean lifestyle.

Tom completed a very successful career in the pharmaceutical industry before moving into training. He is certified in Advanced Coaching and Mentoring and is an MBTI Practitioner. Tom is also a Situational Leadership II certified trainer and is Tracom Social Styles Accredited. In his personal life, Tom likes to run, play guitar badly and has been a season ticket holder at Anfield for over 18 years.

Based in New York State, Trista has over 15 years’ experience in the financial and advertising sectors and Human Resources/Recruiting industry. She has extensive experience working autonomously in results-driven environments. Trista’s style is engaging and exploratory as she works with participants to identify the underlying challenges they face.

Will is an accomplished international facilitator and coach. He specialises in all aspects of communication, collaborative working and coaching. A former UK Head of Training in two global pharmaceutical companies he joined the Excel team in 2001. He’s a certified Coach, Master Practitioner of NLP, Social Styles licensed (TRACOM and Wilson Learning), OPQ and Hogan Development Survey accredited and qualified in MBTI Step 1 and 2 – he also holds British Psychological Society Level A and B certification. As well as being a keen, but awful guitarist, he can sometimes be found on a windsurfer.

Yohan’s portfolio includes stress management, resilience, wellbeing, mental health awareness and mental health first aid training.  He also provides one-to-one executive coaching to support individuals, helping them to develop and deliver their personal and professional goals. Yohan has a holistic approach to improving emotional competence. He has travelled extensively, with his favourite country being Vietnam, is a keen long distance competitive cyclist and enjoys practicing mindfulness including regular visits to Buddhist wellbeing retreats to recharge from a busy professional and family life.