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Danny McGuigan - Center Director

Danny was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and educated both in Belfast and Glasgow, Scotland. He holds a number of graduate and postgraduate qualifications from Queens University Belfast and an MBA from the Strathclyde Graduate Business School at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. He is close to completing his PhD in the Human Resource Management Department at Strathclyde where he is also guest lecturer in marketing, lecturing annually on marketing and business growth.

Having worked for Siemens and the British Council in the early 1980’s he went to Glasgow for MBA studies and subsequently took up a number of sales / marketing and general management positions in the UK before setting up his own marketing consultancy. Fifteen years later Danny switched consultancy discipline to Human Resources.

He is currently Centre Director of his thriving HR practice based in Glasgow and directs a team of business consultants, psychologists and counselling therapists in Glasgow and Munich. His team specialises in pressures at work auditing, leadership development, teambuilding and organisation culture change. The client portfolio includes both public sector and private sector organisations in the UK, Ireland and Germany. Danny is also developing training strategies for emotional coaching and is passionate about the role of emotions for high performance in our professional and personal lives.

Terry Daly

 

Terry works as part of a team within the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow Scotland providing Postgraduate training in psychotherapy and runs a private practice offering psychotherapy and supervision of psychotherapists.

He has a background in social work and the voluntary sector over a period of 23 years in London and Glasgow. He holds Diplomas in Social work and Person-centered Psychotherapy.

He is currently a United Kingdom Registered Counsellor (UKRC) and a British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy approved trainer. (BACP) .

Terry has a particular interest in offering training in human growth and development and communication skills.

Linda Goodwin-Huber-Wilhelm

Linda has been a trainer and consultant to international businesses since 1984. She studied at the University of Massachusetts and became certified as a bi-lingual teacher in English and German. She did post-graduate studies in psychology and intercultural communications both in Portland, Oregon and at the Ludwigs-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany, which she has called home since 1972.

Linda has been developing and delivering training programs to facilitate human integration in the global corporate environment for the past 22 years. Among her major clients are Siemens Corporation and many of its business partners worldwide, Chrysler, KPMG, Bang & Olufsen, Unilever, Microsoft, Cyanamid, IBM, Toshiba, TBWA Ltd, European Vinyls Corp. and the West German Broadcasting Corporation. She has also conducted programs for the Universities of Passau, Munich and Augsburg, the Management Academy of Munich and the Bavarian State Government.

Her areas of special interest lie in the social competence area of relationship building and personal development, which include topics such as coaching intercultural teams, customer-oriented selling and facilitating corporate culture change.

Herb Nestler

Herb is an American with a multicultural background who has lived in Germany since 1988. He holds a Master of Arts degree in Communications from Northwestern University in the USA and has held executive positions with Westinghouse Broadcasting, Plough Inc. and Rotary International. He has been on the faculties of three US universities and two international studies programs in Europe.

While still living in the US he negotiated agreements and conducted business in 27 countries. He was the first European resident to be certified by the non-profit Center for Creative Leadership to conduct their Working with Others seminar.

He has trained and coached thousands of professionals on four continents from Siemens and its daughter companies, Daimler Chrysler, Kurtz GmbH, Körber AG, Audi, Goodyear Tire, KPMG Consulting, E.ON Energy, the city of Munich and Sartorius AG, just to name a few. His topics cover a wide range of performance-enhancing skills including leadership styles, teamworking, self-assessment and stress management.

 

 

The Business Development Centre has a well earned reputation for guiding and supporting individuals, teams, and whole organisations towards top level performance and achievement using tried and tested PP methodology.