Land & Associates International- Meet the Team
Developing individual and team strengths for greater
influence,
communication and results.
In January 2007 Rachael Land expanded the existing company to
bring on board a team of specialised freelance trainers and coaches;
to form Land & Associates International
Ltd.
“As a team we aim to succeed by genuinely helping our clients
and participants find solutions to their challenges as well as
greater meaning and success in their lives, through the products
and services we offer. It’s exciting times as we continue
to grow and the new team are outstanding, transformational and
entertaining trainers!”
Rachael Land, Managing Director
Bringing you the experts in leadership and communication - please
meet the team:
 Rachael Land
Born in Sydney Australia, Rachael’s career began in education
and counselling for young people with drug & alcohol issues. Her
passion for training all started when she was asked to design and
implement a highly successful training program for teachers, police,
nurses and others working with these youth. Described by
friends and colleagues as ‘confident and inspirational’;
running a training and coaching business is her natural calling.
One of her dreams from early childhood was to travel the world. An
advocate for living life to the full and inspiring others to do
the same, Rachael decided to take time out and feed her growing
hunger for travel and adventure. Leaving her homeland over
a decade ago, she worked and travelled across the world, before
settling in London with her husband in 2002.
During her career Rachael has also worked in business development
and management in the hospitality and events industry. Highlights
include co-owner and PR manager for a hotel in Turkey; interior
manager on private yachts; and business development manager for
a prestigious event venue in London.
Once in London, she came across NLP and hypnotherapy, and undertook
all the qualifications to become a Master Practitioner & Trainer;
realising her dream to set up her own business and continue her
passion to teach and assist others to reach their true potential.
Rachael will set up another office in her home city of Sydney
in 2008, splitting her time between them to satisfy the constant
desire for travel and adventure with her business acumen and ‘live-life-to-the-full’ philosophy.
FREELANCE TRAINERS AND COACHES
 Nette Knauer
Nette’s experience includes 12 years of working and training
for internationally recognized hotel groups such as Starwood, Hilton
and InterContinental Hotels Group. Her extensive experience spans
from frontline customer service roles to Sales and Revenue Management
positions and she has worked in the US, UK and Continental Europe.
Her most recent position as Director of Revenue Management for
Continental Europe required her to travel extensively and constantly
adapt her approach in interacting with different management levels
and cultures.
Nette is a Certified Master Practitioner and Trainer of Neuro
Linguistic Programming (NLP). She specializes in training focused
on Communication, Impact and Influencing Skills as well as Strategic
Business Planning and Business Processes. She has a passion for
growth and learning and transposes basic NLP skills into tools
applicable to any business, personal or interpersonal scenario.
Nette is a member of the British Board of NLP (BBNLP) and in her
ongoing search for growth is currently pursuing a certification
in clinical hypnotherapy.
She also works as a corporate and relationship coach, assisting
people to achieve their goals and dreams in all areas of their
lives. She was born in Germany and speaks three languages. Passionate
about travel and diversity, she divides her time between France
and the UK. She enjoys reading, outdoor activities and meeting
with friends all over the world.
 Mike Kemball
Mike combines a unique fusion of practical skills:
Business Consultant à to find solutions, direction and focus;
Interim Manager à to implement, resolve issues and deliver
results; and Motivational Trainer à to give people the skills,
confidence, meaning and inspiration.
Mike’s passion is to facilitate and train organisations
to develop - inspiring people to take ownership; form high performing
team; focus on the customer; and deliver results. Business
grows where people grow.
He is skilled at delivering rapid results, as an experienced hands-on
manager. For over eight years, he has worked as a troubleshooting
interim Managing Director / Sales Director to turn around and grow
companies. He has a strong track record of leading change and turnaround
in technology sectors. He is a natural leader who uses influence
and persuasion to deliver the desired outcome.
Mike’s outlook is international and cosmopolitan. He has
worked extensively across Europe based in-country. His recent
focus has been in the telecommunication and technology sectors
for companies such as GN Comtext, Esprit Telecom, Global TeleSystems,
Ventelo, Energis, Compair and the Bulgarian Telecommunications
Company. His early career was in sales and marketing in the
pharmaceutical industry with CIBA-GEIGY (now Novartis), and then
into telecommunications with DHL.
For seven years he was Managing Director of a successful business
training company focused on the beauty industry. In addition
to senior roles in large corporations, Mike is also experienced
in start-ups and building small companies.
Mike grew up in Angola and Mozambique in Africa and was born in
Singapore. He holds an MBA from London Business School and
speaks five languages. He uses powerful, effective success
technologies and is a certified Trainer of Neuro Linguistic Programming
(NLP). He loves to fly, as a keen paraglider.
 Tim Hodgson
Tim is an author, trainer, adventurer and visionary and provides
coaching and training for individuals and businesses across the
UK and internationally. His strength is in helping individuals
to achieve a new level of personal leadership, equipping them with
the skills they need to be successful in the modern fast paced
business environment.
He is passionate about developing the individual – to equip
people with the core skills they need to work effectively, to communicate
powerfully and to lead and contribute as part of a high performance
team.
Tim is a Certified NLP Trainer, NLP Master Practitioner, and accredited
Master Coach, with a passion for bringing out the absolute best
in those he works with.
He works with individuals and organisations to challenge, coach
and develop them either working one to one as a coach, or through
training programmes incorporating his corporate experience and
Neuro-Linguistic Programming skills with his understanding of the
issues facing corporate business. His approach is to get
maximum results for his clients as quickly as possible.
He is a member of the British Board of Neuro-Linguistic Programming
and the American Board of NLP and Hypnotherapy, and a Member of
the European Coaching Institute, and has produced two books on
starting up in business. He is also a Chartered Engineer
with a background in computer engineering and physics.
Tim was previously responsible for global IT projects for multinational
giant Unilever, running international teams based worldwide and
implementing major IT projects across five continents. He
was part of the Unilever strategic IT team and responsible for
the introduction of many of the organisation’s advanced computer
services, including global networks, email, conferencing, information
sharing, and the original introduction of the personal computer
into the company.
Tim now lives in East Northants with his two sons. He is
a dedicated martial artist, with a second degree black belt in
traditional shotokan karate, and is a passionate skier and snowboarder.
 Alex Boyd
Using his experience gained in many high risk environments around
the world, Alex Boyd specialises on driving projects forward whilst
under pressure. Bringing topical case studies that have grabbed
the world’s attention, from designing the security at Saddam
Hussein’s courthouse to taking an integral part in the peace
process in Aceh, Alex provides an illustrative view on how to tackle
issues.
Putting his extensive management, planning and presentation skills
from the British Army into the civilian world, Alex now consults,
trains and speaks in the areas of risk and development. During
his commission with the British Army Light Infantry, he served
on operations, trained recruits and led a number of expeditions. Leaving
to become a yacht captain in the West Indies, Alex skippered an
assortment of ocean going craft. After leading an expedition to
build the largest charity centre in the Belizean rainforest, Alex
was approached to work on a number of governmental and NGO projects
across the globe.
Acting as the senior advisor on the world’s first tri-nation
peacekeeping mission, Alex was able to ensure that all monitors
could be safely evacuated when the situation deteriorated due to
the host nation’s drive towards martial law. After
leaving to assist in developing a Middle Eastern country’s
counter terrorist policy, he brought initiatives that still play
a part in their doctrine to this day.
Alex now lives in London where he has been advising clients on
the operational risk issues pursuant to the Basel II directive
and delivering speeches on motivational and business issues. An
inspiring and engaging speaker, he now enjoys training others on
presentation skills, unique sales and negotiation skills and management
issues.
In his spare time, Alex is a keen but ineffective sportsman, having
learnt to enjoy losing more than winning. Taking part in numerous
activities such as sailing, squash, skiing and tennis occupies
the majority of his spare time, the rest of which is spent sleeping!
 Kevin
Hall
Kevin Hall is passionate about sales and sales training. An
accomplished salesman, he really flourishes and excels in teaching
various ways of selling. In particular, Kevin has extensive
experience in his specialist area of telephone sales and dealing
with difficult customers.
Kevin was the sole sales trainer for one of the key business areas
within RBS Insurance Group which includes companies like Direct
Line, Churchill, Privilege and Green Flag. Kevin was also
responsible for the Brokers and Intermediaries across England and
Ireland.
Despite the challenge of different styles, cultures and business
areas; Kevin’s flexible style of training allowed effective
and efficient integration between the companies. His
training of the sales departments had significant impact - achieving
improved and sustained results only every time.
Kevin began working for Churchill Insurance in Sales in 1994 and
moved into Training in 1999. He went on to develop and manage high
quality training teams that the business areas had never had the
benefit of before. Not only does Kevin develop his team members’ ability
to train; and more importantly to him, he develops them as people
- helping them to grow and succeed.
Kevin is highly qualified in many areas of Training and Communication
and is a Certified Trainer of NLP. Kevin is very interested in
exercising the body and mind. He is a keen runner, golfer and regular
visitor to the gym. To exercise the mind he reads many personal
development books and is a practicing clinical Hypnotherapist and
results coach.
 David Warren
David Warren is an experienced and skilled facilitator, trainer,
mediator and stakeholder engagement consultant. David pulls
upon a wide variety of participatory methods (e.g. Stakeholder
Dialogue, Participatory Appraisal, Future Search, PinPoint, Consensus
Workshop, Open Space Technology, Group Mediation) to assist a diverse
range of groups and teams around the UK to work together to consult,
engage with and empower their stakeholders.
Drawing on this experience, David also delivers high quality training
in facilitation methods and skills to clients ranging from large
multinational corporations to small community groups. Recent
projects and clients include Westminster City Council, New Economics
Foundation, BNFL, Welsh Development Agency, Thames Valley Housing
and the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency.
David’s energetically enthusiastic style helps participants
feel at ease, have fun and develop new skills effortlessly.
David first experienced the power of facilitation whilst working
for The Environment Council, an independent charity that resolves
contentious environmental problems through conflict management
and stakeholder dialogue techniques, and has been hooked ever since. David
has previous experience as a project manager and an environmental
consultant. He is a Certified Practitioner in the widely
recognised project management system PRINCE2 and is a Certified
Trainer of NLP. David is a member of the International Association
of Facilitators, the International Association for Public Participation
(IAP2) and ICA:UK.
David has a healthy addiction to high mountain tops, and can regularly
be found scrambling around some of the countryside’s most
inaccessible (yet stunningly beautiful) locations.
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