The Family Man
You can choose your friends…
For the past twenty-five years, I have been lucky enough to enjoy a career doing what I love.
As a professional speaker, training consultant and mentor, I’ve had the privilege of helping individuals enjoy and thrive in their careers by giving them practical tools to make their working lives happier and more successful.
I’m known as The Family Man because my experience has shown me that workplaces are like the family home: they both come with the same challenges, issues, niggles and frustrations.
In my book “You can choose your friends…”, I punctuate my advice for a more harmonious and productive work life with examples of issues in my own family life to make it personal and, above all, relatable.
I don’t dispense acres of bland general advice or mountainous off-putting step-by-step processes.
I don’t do management-speak, use high-brow lingo or make ludicrous claims about building a new planet or becoming a tiger.
What I do best is empower people to get on with anyone and everyone – and I have the results to prove it.
What clients say
I have helped improve relationships in all sorts of organisations and industries around the world. For example:
• I coached a senior Relationship Director at Europe Arab Bank, helping him adapt his communication style when dealing with a challenging client. Result – a successful transaction earning the bank over £2million net income
• I ran a sales training programme in the USA for Fantech Systemair, a leading global supplier of energy efficient air climate solutions, which resulted in $500k increase in sales within fourteen days
• I have been working with Pfizer, the world’s No. 1 pharmaceutical company, for sixteen years, developing and delivering over 100 management and leadership training interventions
• I led a programme with BUPA’s Member Services Department, successfully improving customer retention by 20%
• I completed a leadership programme for Red Funnel, the well-known ferry company, resulting in a highly motivated management team who guided the business to an increased 15% market share within twelve months.
But enough about me…
When in front of an audience, I challenge them to change and I get them to laugh. People often tell me they come away inspired – motivated to make a change and do something about it.
I’m a Londoner who loves wine, food, football, comedy, autobiographies, music (from Madness to Mozart) and the company of my family and close friends.
In order to counter the food and wine bit, I keep fit, sometimes taking it to extreme lengths like completing the ultra-event Marathon des Sables, a grueling race consisting of running six marathons in six consecutive days in the Sahara. (Did I mention I was competitive?)
I put any success I may have had down to the entire Saunders family, especially my wife, Helen, and my son, Luke.
My two best mentors, they remind me daily that I’m not as great as I sometimes think I am.
And they’re right.
