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Daniel Wain Consulting Limited | A Proven Track Record | Life before Learning & Development | Life beyond Learning & Development

Daniel Wain Consulting Limited
Daniel Wain founded Daniel Wain Consulting Limited in August 2007.

The company’s three core specialisms are:

- Bespoke and creative learning & development consultancy

- Senior-level coaching to increase personal impact, effectiveness and engagement

A Proven Track Record
Immediately prior to establishing Daniel Wain Consulting Limited, Daniel Wain was Worldwide Director of Learning & Development at Research International – a global market research consultancy, part of WPP, with over 2400 people across 46 countries working for a wide range of international blue chip clients.

Daniel was responsible for developing, driving and delivering the company’s training, learning and development (L&D) strategy, first within the UK and then across its global network. He created & implemented Research International’s first-ever worldwide learning & development (L&D) strategy and launched a truly blended learning programme.

Whilst at RI, Daniel also created a portfolio of programmes aimed at developing client relationship and business development skills (from account planning to presentation delivery, via cold calling, pitching, consultative selling, negotiating and ongoing client relationship management). He personally trained (link to training delivery page) close to 1000 RI employees, from trainee to Board Director, across the RI world, including the US, the UK, Continental Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia-Pacific (from China and Korea via Singapore and Hong Kong to Indonesia and Australia).

In addition, he acted as a specialist L&D consultant to many RI clients (link to L&D consultancy page), developing & facilitating programmes on subjects such as Market Intelligence Leadership and Effective Communication Skills for clients’ internal marketing, research and senior leadership teams.

More widely, Daniel trained frequently for the British Market Research Association (BMRA) & chaired the association’s Education Committee from 2003 to 2006, quadrupling the number of BMRA courses and increasing revenue by 600% within 3 years. Moreover, he designed and then delivered over 30 of the twin presentation skills courses ‘Delivering the Sizzle, not the Sausage’ and ‘Hook, Line & Thinker’ for the BMRA, achieving the association’s highest mean score for quality of trainer (9.47 out of 10).

During the BMRA’s merger with the Market Research Society (MRS) in 2006, Daniel played a key role in the blending of the two organisation’s L&D offers, resulting in a much enlarged MRS programme which develops business, people & client skills as well as technical & research capability. Upon the completion of the BMRA / MRS merger, Daniel accepted an invitation to join both the MRS Professional Development Advisory Board & its Training Advisory Group.

He also now delivers a range of MRS courses (link to training delivery page) in leadership, performance management, client relationship and business development, delivering insight and presentation skills, as well as appearing as guest speaker on a number of other programmes including the MRS Summer School.

Daniel was awarded an MA with Distinction in Human Resource Development (HRD) by Middlesex University Business School in 2006, and has returned frequently as a guest lecturer on the subject of ‘The Innovative L&D Practitioner’.

A Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (CIPD), he was recently commissioned to write a ‘Reflection’ on the CIPD’s 2007 Learning & Development Survey’, which was published in 2007. This was then reproduced as a lead article in ‘People Magazine’ to coincide with the April 2007 CIPD HRD Conference. (Click here for the original ‘Reflection’.

Daniel Wain also chaired a keynote session at the 2007 HRD Conference on ‘The Role of the Line Manager in Learning and Development’, with fellow speakers Professor John Purcell (of Warwick Business School) and Geraldine Grainger (Head of L&D at John Lewis).

Having spoken at many industry conferences over the years, Daniel won the award for Best Presented Paper at the 2006 Market Research Society (MRS) Conference and spoke again at the 2007 MRS Golden Jubilee Conference. Both papers can be viewed here.

Now widely regarded as one of the UK’s leading commentators and practitioners in the field of people development, Daniel has contributed to a variety of business & academic journals, including ‘Research’, ‘ResearchPlus’, ‘People Management’, ‘Admap’ and ‘The HR Director’, and to online blogs such as ‘ResearchTalk’. Most recently he wrote the cover story to the September 2007 edition of ‘Research’ and a main article in the Summer 2007 issue of ‘The HR Director’. As of October 2007, Daniel will be contributing a regular monthly column to ‘Research’, on people management and development issues. A selection of his articles is available here.

Life Before Learning & Development
Before his move into learning & development in 2002, Daniel spent his first 10 years with RI as a market researcher. Focusing primarily upon the areas of customer relationships, service measurement & mystery customer research, his clients included Royal Mail, Audi, Boots, GNER, the BBC, Virgin, Chanel, Next & BT. He is a full member of the Market Research Society.

For several years, he led the New Business Development & Marketing team for RI Service Measurement (the largest and most profitable division of RI’s flagship UK company). As head of the company’s Mystery Customer Research team, he succeeded in growing the business by over 450% in 3 years, before moving into his learning & development role.

Life Beyond Learning & Development
Daniel ran his own theatre company, Strut & Fret (link to Strut & Fret page), for many years. The company achieved three successive 5-star years on the Edinburgh Fringe, presented a dozen shows in London, and consistently succeeded in making a profit! Further details of Strut & Fret’s productions, with photographs and reviews, can be found here.

As well as founding Strut & Fret and producing & marketing all of its output, Daniel acted in many of its productions, playing such diverse roles as Lloyd Dallas in the company’s first 5-star Edinburgh hit ‘Noises Off’, Archer in ‘The Beaux Stratagem’, Moon in ‘The Real Inspector Hound’, the title roles of ‘Tartuffe’, ‘The Libertine’ and ‘The Suicide’ and one of the ugly sisters in ‘Cinderella’.

This last show was also the first of several that Daniel Wain wrote for Strut & Fret. The others included an adaptation of Beaumarchais’s ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ (with Marc Brenner) and the original works ‘Burying Caesar’ and ‘Look Behind You’. Extracts of all of these are available here. The latter has now been published by Josef Weinberger Ltd, and is available from www.josef-weinberger.com, Amazon, theatrical bookstores, or indeed from the playwright himself! Click here for reviews of Daniel Wain’s plays.

After Strut & Fret, Daniel continued to act, predominately for Hamish Gray at London’s Tabard Theatre in such roles as Mr Morland in ‘Mary Rose’ by J M Barrie and the title role of ‘The Master Forger’ by David Weiner.

After several years dedicated to the development of Research International’s learning & development strategy, Daniel Wain is now returning to the theatre as actor, writer and producer. He has recently co-founded Rattling Tongue Theatre Company, which aims to debut in spring 2008. In addition, he is currently writing a new play.

Daniel is a full member of Equity, the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain, the Society of Authors and English PEN. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Board Director & Trustee of Audiences London: a registered charity funded by the Arts Council of England (amongst others) to work with arts organisations throughout London to develop larger and more diverse audiences.

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