Gwenno Dafydd – Broadcasting, Comedy and Resilience
Gwenno Dafydd M.Sc.Econ is a West Walian Warrior Woman (And Global Life, Leadership and Public Speaking Kick Ass Coach). She grew up in Fishguard, West Wales, in the United Kingdom. She worked on television, radio, films, theatre, Theatre in Education, and cabaret and has performed in America several times and extensively around Europe and the UK as a professional performer and broadcaster since 1980.
She has written and still performs a one-woman show about the French singer Edith Piaf (August 2019 – Sell out the show with a standing ovation and two encores at Café Zedel, Picadilly Circus. London’s West End). She worked with Chief Executives of Welsh SMEs (Small Medium-Sized Enterprise), developing Company Handbooks and Diversity Awareness as an expert in Equal Opportunities with the Welsh Development Authority (WDA) for ten years.
She has an ILM (Institute of Leadership Management) Level 7 (equivalent) Coaching, a Train the Trainer qualification, and recently completed her First Aid for Mental health qualification and bring all these three strands together in her coaching.
She is the author of ‘Stand up and Sock it to them, Sister. Even though she had to live with challenging daily chronic low back pain following a severe car accident in August 1989, she finally got her Welsh 400meters vest 37 years after she reserved for the Welsh Team in 1975.
Her motto is “Never give up.” She shows her clients how to become resilient and to do this. She wants to meet women who can see through the glass ceiling but don’t know how to crash through it.
https://linktr.ee/gwennodafydd
Gwenno Dafydd M.Sc.Econ is a West Walian Warrior Woman (And Global Life, Leadership and Public Speaking Kick Ass Coach). She grew up in Fishguard, West Wales, in the United Kingdom. She worked on television, radio, films, theatre, Theatre in Education, and cabaret and has performed in America several times and extensively around Europe and the UK as a professional performer and broadcaster since 1980.
She has written and still performs a one-woman show about the French singer Edith Piaf (August 2019 – Sell out the show with a standing ovation and two encores at Café Zedel, Picadilly Circus. London’s West End). She worked with Chief Executives of Welsh SMEs (Small Medium-Sized Enterprise), developing Company Handbooks and Diversity Awareness as an expert in Equal Opportunities with the Welsh Development Authority (WDA) for ten years.
She has an ILM (Institute of Leadership Management) Level 7 (equivalent) Coaching, a Train the Trainer qualification, and recently completed her First Aid for Mental health qualification and bring all these three strands together in her coaching.
She is the author of ‘Stand up and Sock it to them, Sister. Even though she had to live with challenging daily chronic low back pain following a severe car accident in August 1989, she finally got her Welsh 400meters vest 37 years after she reserved for the Welsh Team in 1975.
Her motto is “Never give up.” She shows her clients how to become resilient and to do this. She wants to meet women who can see through the glass ceiling but don’t know how to crash through it.
https://linktr.ee/gwennodafydd
Mark Pollock – Making the Impossible Become Possible
Mark Pollock is an international motivational speaker that focuses on collaborating and building resilience. He is also an innovator, author, explorer, and collaboration catalyst from Ireland. He is well-known for being the first blind person to race to the South Pole. An avid rower Pollock has won bronze and silver medals at the 2002 Commonwealth Rowing Championships in Nottingham, England.
Pollock enrolled in a course to help him come to terms with his disability. He engaged in other athletic pursuits, including running six marathons in seven days with a sighted partner across the Gobi Desert, China in 2003 when he raised tens of thousands of euros for the charity Sights avers International.
He took 43 days in January 2009 to complete the Amundsen Omega 3 South Pole Race. He had participated against nine other teams, including that of BBC personality Ben Fogle and the Olympic gold medalist James Cracknell. Pollock asserted his disability had slowed him down but they finished fifth overall from the six teams that finished the race. Pollock also wrote a book entitled Making It Happen.
Doug Gordon – From Near Death, Perfect Health and Success
Doug Gordon is CEO of D&S Performance Optimisation, a coaching, consulting & corporate training company. He is also the Global Goodwill Ambassador for Dublin. He speaks professionally all over the world alongside ex prime ministers, film stars, TV celebs, NY Times bestselling authors, renowned CEOs & sports stars. He runs a radio show on Dublin radio, called “Inspirational People, Inspirational Stories” & has had the likes of Lisa Nichols & Dr John Demartini from the Secret Film, Stuart Lancaster: Leinster rugby coach, Adam Byrne: Irish rugby international, Brian Fenton: GAA star, Dean Holdsworth: former England footballer, Gary McGann, Chairman, Paddypower Betfair & many other stars on the show.
Doug worked in the Investment world for 21 years selling Hedge / Mutual funds B2B to Global Banks & Fund Managers. He worked as Sales Director for Columbia Threadneedle ($490BN aum) & Head of Sales & Marketing for Davy Asset Management. During his investment career he grew a sales area from $50m per annum to $1.75Bn in a year in 6 yrs.
Between 2008 & 2012 Doug went through major stress, two operations that went wrong & then a near death experience. He has since healed himself
completely by using wellness techniques & is now passionate about helping others. Since then Doug has been helping people deliver High Performance Success without Stress focusing on top executives & sports people helping them with accelerated business growth, sales mastery, presentation skills, lifestyle architecture, wellbeing & performance optimisation. His background includes: premier league national league hockey, master teacher of 5 modalities of healing, business/life/performance coach. Plus a highly successful board level career.
LinkedIn testimony: Bill Liao, Founder of weforest.org & coderdojo, 3x TED talker:
“Want to know how to get the best return on investment for you & your business? Want to increase your business growth & learn from a guy who tripled his sales to $1.75Bn in 1 year? Want to optimise your performance to get more done in less time with less stress? This is exactly what Doug Gordon speaks, coaches & teaches about. He helps you & your teams get into the “Flow” & be 500% more productive through his mindset programs, his action orientated techniques, his extensive knowledge from his investment career, his radio interviews with global leaders & his energy optimisation program to help you optimise your energy to optimise your performance in business & life.”
Best wishes,
Doug
Doug Gordon
CEO/Coach/Professional Speaker/Radio Presenter D&S Performance Optimisation Dublin/ London UK
+353871174288 +44773428354
Recommendations:
Following on from a fantastic keynote he gave at our annual conference, Doug has been working with me for over a year now. His unique mix of business experience combined with his motivational coaching style have been a powerful combination for me and Ocuco.
Owen O’Malley (LION) Skype ticnowen
worked with Doug in different groups
Doug is an amazing high energy speaker, a wonderful man and a beautiful soul. His presentation’s and trainings are full on, inspirational and motivational in equal measures. Doug has enjoyed great success and can show you how you can achieve fantastic results in your life as well. I would highly recommend Doug as a coach, business mentor and keynote speaker for any event. If you ever have the honor of spending time with Doug ask him to explain his “MAKE” acronyms to you. Maybe he could make you great again!
Bill Liao Venture capitalist, humanitarian, philanthropist, 3 times TED talker, with one of the most extensive Wikipedia’s. August 29, 2019.
Bill worked with Doug but at different companies.
Want to know how to get the best return on investment for you and your business? Want to increase your business growth and learn from a guy who tripled his sales to $1.75Bn in one year? Want to optimise your performance to get more done in less time with less stress? This is exactly what Doug Gordon speaks, coacbyhes and teaches about. He helps you and your teams get into the “Flow” and be 500% more productive through his mindset programs, his action orientated techniques, his extensive knowledge from his investment career, his radio interviews with global leaders and his energy optimisation program to help you optimise your energy to optimise your performance in business and life.
Mike Armstrong – Wolf of Wales , Networker, Sales and the Power of People
C. Michael Armstrong is a retired business executive, benefactor, and former board chairman for Johns Hopkins Medicine. He joined IBM Corp. in 1961 and led international operations as chairman of the board of IBM World Trade Corporation.
He became chairman and CEO of Hughes Electronics Corporation, a public company majority-owned by General Motors Corporation. He served as chairman of the board of Comcast Corporation, retiring in 2004.
He endowed the C. Michael Armstrong Professorship in Medicine to support Johns Hopkins’ leadership role in stem cell research, followed in 2004 by a four million dollar to support research in that field. He served as chairman of the board of trustees for Johns Hopkins Medicine, Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation, and The Johns Hopkins Hospital from July 2005 to June 2011 and from July 2012 to June 2013.
In 2011, he gave ten million dollars to the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality. His goal is eliminating preventable harm to patients throughout Johns Hopkins Medicine and serving as a model for other institutions.
Armstrong has served as chair of the President’s Export Council under President Bill Clinton, the U.S.-Japan Business Council, and the Federal Communications Commission’s Network Reliability and Interoperability Council. He also served as chair of the Homeland Security Task Force, the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, and the Defense Policy Advisory Committee.
Xeno Muller – Elite Rowing Coach
Xeno Muller is an Olympic single sculler and a member of Brown’s national championship Men’s crew that gained national and international recognition. He was born in Switzerland and lived in Spain and Germany before they settled in Fountainebleau in Paris. Muller joined a rowing club and became one of the top junior scullers in Europe.
In June of 1992, less than a week after finishing his freshman year, Muller rowed to a fourth-place finish at a World Cup Competition in Lucerne. Muller won the gold medal at a World Cup Competition in Switzerland in the single scull in 1994. Competing in a series of regattas before 1996 helped prepare Muller for the 1996 Olympics. He did not fall short of the finals this time and won the gold medal for Switzerland in the single sculls at the Olympics in Atlanta.
He won the gold medal in the World Cup Competition in Switzerland and Belgium and the silver medal in Germany in 1998. In 1999 Xeno won two silver medals in the World Cup Competitions in Austria and Canada.
Patricia Lohan – The Power of Feng Shui
Patricia Lohan is a coach, healer, Feng Shui expert, and entrepreneur.
She is an alchemist, healer, spiritual nomad, and real-life Irish Celtic Shaman. Some people call her the Mary Poppins of Prosperity, Abundance & Peace of Mind.
She worked with women from all walks of life: successful and aspiring entrepreneurs, homemakers, women in corporate, artists, writers, athletes, heart-centered coaches, healers, designers.
She was born and bred in Western Ireland. She always felt the great dichotomy of life. On the one hand, she set out on the spiritual path a bit young, at 15. But at the same time, she had a burning passion for business, progress, and the financial rewards that come with it.
Patricia Lohan | Feng Shui Expert | Manifesting Magnet
Paulette Egan – Sports Yoga
The mother & daughter team has developed the first indigenous Yoga & Active Wear to support the increasingly active and growing numbers of Irish women practicing sports and yoga daily.
At Sports Yoga, Paulette Egan created a whole new concept in Sport training. She encourages sports enthusiasts to think outside the norm and jump off the treadmill of stress and frustration while there is still time to save their game and offers expert advice and coaching skills to ensure the safety and well-being of the athlete.
Paulette creates a balance between mental, emotional, and physical aspects of training which is the key to peak performance in sports. She is a highly qualified yoga instructor with a diploma in yoga therapy and yoga Nidra therapy.
Over the years, she worked with many high-profile athletes from Olympians, Irish mountaineers, Irish adventure athletes, Irish triathletes, golfers, Munster rugby players, and county GAA players list go on.
Specialties: A therapeutic approach to training that can be a powerful tool at any stage in your training, preventing injury and creating greater synergy between body & mind for the sport.
Mark Cleary – From Martial Arts to Yoga and Therapist
Mark Cleary is a natural health practitioner from Dublin, Ireland, who currently resides in Spain. He has been developing and studying in the area of Natural Health for over three decades.
He was a Therapist with thirty years of experience in Massage, Bodywork, and Cranial Osteopathy. He was also a Martial Artist & brought the Japanese structure of Amatsu to Europe. Using these tools, he developed his System of treating and teaching his work.
Mark runs a busy Practice in Dublin & travels throughout the World, sharing his abilities with Clients, Students & fellow Therapists.
He has grown and developed an intuitive and unique healing modality, thus becoming one of the most respected and sought-after healers in Ireland and abroad.
Andrea Cullen – Sports, Functional Medicine, and Nutrition
Andrea Cullen is a Functional medicine therapist, nutritional therapist, and pharmacist. She trained in energy healing, sports nutrition, and functional diagnostics. She has 20+ years of experience working as a pharmacist and health consultant and worked with hundreds of patients struggling with complex health conditions as world-class athletes and Olympic standard athletes.
She is working with world-class athletes since 2004. She has multiple courses and conferences and ongoing study (Herbs, aromatherapy, crystals, PEMF (Pulsed electromagnetic wave frequency therapy), body composition assessment (BIA and skinfold measurements), interpretation of conventional blood tests and other medical tests, functional diagnostic medicine.)
She had experience in multiple sports (across strength to endurance), avid reader of sports training methods and techniques. She competed in tennis, swimming, triathlon, and running and participated in several water sports, horse-riding, racket sports, yoga, pilates, gym, and resistance training, and a few more.
Her growth journey is meditation, mindfulness, grounding, dreamwork, energy work, past life work, akashic record work, shamanic work, and communication with the ancestors.