Centrica – Senior Leader Development Programme

Facilitators

Didi Hopkins is a Theatre Director, Executive Coach and Associate of Theatre4Business. She trained as an actor and director and has been bringing theatre to leaders and executives in business schools, and companies worldwide working on energy, presence, voice and all aspects of communication. Didi is an Associate Faculty at the Cranfield School of Management. She currently runs a coaching clinic at the McKinsey London office. An acclaimed expert on the tradition of ‘La commedia dell’Arte’, in theatre, Didi has worked for the National Theatre on the West End/Broadway Hit ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’, with the Royal Shakespeare Company and before lockdown, directed a show in London’s West End, ‘The Life I Lead’, and she is about to embark on a show going to the Albert Hall. Jenny Robinson is a serial entrepreneur, leadership scholar and communications expert. She started her first business at just 18 years old, it is still running, and making a profit. Previously, a partner in a global consulting firm, called TowersPerrin now merged to form Wills Towers Watson. For the last fifteen years she has worked on leadership development and as a mindfulness coach to senior executives and a social enterprise for those struggling with mental and emotional difficulties. Her scholarship for research and practice draws on Organizational Psychology, Leadership and Mindfulness. Jenny brings new awareness to self, to others, and to situations. Helping leaders see things from a new perspective and open-up a range of different decisions and actions. New thinking and new behaviour arise from her approach to being more mindful and, in this way, change can be instant and painless.

Didi Hopkins Advanced Storytelling

Jenny Robinson Mindfulness in Leadership

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