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| "Over the past four years our growth as a company has been rapid with now some 14,000 employees based in 75 offices
around the globe. As a highly technical company working around the globe, our success has been largely driven by the quality,
commitment and performance of our people, many of whom have substantial post-graduate qualifications. Nearly five years ago we
identified iSolon as the company we wanted to work with to provide us with a foundation framework of leadership and management
skills. Our experience with John and his colleagues during that time has proved highly beneficial to over 500 of our most
promising talents who have attended the development programs. We have been delighted with their service and continue to
leverage their expertise." |
Klaas Wester
President and Chief Executive Officer
Fugro nv
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| "We approached John and his team to set up a tailor made program for our senior management in order
to sharpen their 'soft' skills and get them acquainted with new aspects of leadership. John's approach and realistic
understanding of our industry's training needs helped us to define the content for the course. When it came to the
actual training, we were very taken by the approach, the personalities of both John and Nikki, their energy, subject
matter expertise, life experience and sense of humour! They've given our people lots to chew on, think about and
induct into their lives. A very worthwhile experience from start to finish. We plan to maintain our partnership with
iSolon for the foreseeable future." |
Education Department
Van Oord nv
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| "We've been working with Isolon for over five years. They provide a stimulating, challenging and fun learning
environment for our programme participants, in particular a week long business skills workshop, a key component to
our annual Emerging Leaders Programme for high potential employees, and the Business World workshop, an element of
our graduate management development programme. Isolon are straightforward to deal with and deliver results that
help to make a difference to our employees and our business." |
Lesz Sikorski
Head of Organisational Development
Tarmac Ltd
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| "John, thank you. You surpassed expectations. A quality act!" |
Martin Hess
Vice President, Sales UK&I
Technology Solutions Group
Hewlett Packard
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| "First, I would like to thank you John and everybody who contributed to the first Fugro Senior Management
Development Program for their efforts and enthusiasm. Reading all the feedback and having talked to some of the
participants and the members of the Fugro Executive Board that were there on the presentations day, the program
has been a great success and participants feel that they have learned a lot from the learning provided during the
two weeks and also from each other." |
Rob Luijnenburg
Regional Manager
Europe & Africa
Fugro N.V.
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| "John was of enormous value in helping us kickstart our Leadership Programme. He led well received
sessions with the Board and then with the whole senior management team. He challenged our thinking and
perspective and really helped move us on." |
Steven Green
Senior HR Manager
Government Office for the East of England
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| "I strongly believe the Convincing the Board program from iSolon to be a cornerstone
for professional people's development. The insights from the team at iSolon, folk who
have 'been there and done that', add more weight and credibility than anything I've heard
from Analysts and other professionals in the past. This is one of the main reasons I support
this program. Feed back from colleagues who have also attended rate it as I do, and that is,
its one of the best development and insightful programs we have experienced. The thing I
really like is all the practical items that come from the program, items like the value of
understanding and using the customer's own business case templates and formats" |
Doug Woodcock
Technology Management Solutions
HP Asia Pacific & Japan
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| "I personally attended two iSolon workshops towards the end of 2004,
both focused on leadership and strategy issues. These were in-house
sessions and at the last one, John addressed the entire executive board,
including both the CEO and CFO. Both sessions were challenging,
effective and enjoyable. We are currently reviewing our requirements for
the year ahead and hope to use iSolon again." |
Terry O'Brien
Group HR Director
Kingston Communications Group plc
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"In HP workforce development we have good training curricula. Our
internal trainer resources are strengthened with some external, state of the art,
training providers. For our EMEA Support Solution Architect [SSA] Advanced Development
Program, we searched for someone, who really understands the "CxO's" world from an
outside of HP point of view. iSolon fully understood our needs and was able to put a
training solution together to address those needs in a short time.
The class was very successfully delivered in Duesseldorf, Germany, in June 2004 to an
EMEA wide audience, which included seven nationalities, by two executive level
instructors from iSolon. The content of this training, combined with the solid business
knowledge and executive background of the iSolon instructors was very well perceived by
our audience.
The iSolon training solution "Convincing the Board" is now one of the key elements in
our SSA Advanced Development Program." |
Manfred Doering
EMEA HP-Services
Workforce Development
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| "iSolon deliver! The company is creative and innovative and they have developed both qualititive
and quantative measures to assess the effectiveness of their learning and development programmes. We
have used them sucessfully for the past eighteen months and continue to benefit from their
expertise." |
Ken Claridge
Head of Organisation Development & Learning
BT Wholesale
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| "Sincere thanks for the work you did with my team last week. Without exception, all
the team thoroughly enjoyed the sessions. Your approach was spot on and the sessions
proved to be successful. You questioned their motives and challenged them to consider
their style and baggage. There was a very serious intent to this but you delivered this
in a fun and interesting way. My key objective of getting the team to know each other
and challenging complacency was most definitely fulfilled. My one concern of irritating
the seasoned sales people with simplistic studies was completely unjustified." |
Sandi Beaumont
General Manager
BT
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| "iSolon's experience of working at high level in organisations was of considerable
benefit to us. Their staff are experts and their programmes are very interactive. We
enjoyed their company and will work with them again." |
Richard Evans
Sales Director, EMEA
Telcordia Technologies Inc
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