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- Mr Andrew Halfacre
Mr Andrew Halfacre
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- Title
- Mr
- Forname
- Andrew
- Surname
- Halfacre
- Gender
- Male
- Date record last updated
- Monday 19 July 2010
Contact information Back to top
- Preferred contact address:
- Lighthouse 365 31 Chatsworth Avenue Great Notley Braintree CM77 7ZB
- Regions prepared to work:
- East of England; London; Midlands; North West; Scotland and Northern Ireland; South East; South West and Wales; Yorkshire and North East; International
- Telephone:
- 07717 437 365
- E-mail:
- andrew@lighthouse365.com
- Website
- http://www.lighthouse365.com
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Experience Back to top
- Job title:
- Director
- Current institution:
- Lighthouse 365
- Relevant qualifications:
- MBA, Certified NLP Trainer, MCIM
- Personal profile:
- Andrew works with people who want to leave their job and start their own business. More and more people today are looking for a way of earning money that has a closer fit with their personal values and gets away from all the stuff that goes with corporate life. Since 2002 he has helped hundreds of people get inspiration, ideas and practical help with leaving their job and starting their own business. Following a successful career in business management, project management and management development within the energy industry, Andrew decided to start his own business and is passionate about using this experience to help others find the best way through the minefield. Andrew holds a Masters degree in Business Administration, is a graduate of the Institute of Personnel Management and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. He is also a certified Trainer of Neuro Linguistic Programming and Master Practitioner Time Line Therapy. He lives in Essex and is the father of three noisy daughters!
- Biography:
- Andrew has over 18 years successful experience in business management. He worked in the Utility industry during the change from public to private ownership and led significant integration projects following two major acquisitions. His work as a coach and trainer is supported by experience "at the coal face" managing teams, running cross-functional projects and making direct marketing pay. Some of the projects Andrew has been involved with include: * Coaching at all levels within a blue chip energy company. * Design and delivery of a staff development programme. * Workshop leader for project management, creative thinking and personal development groups. * Creating a cross-functional team to move a substantial business across London, leaving it in a fully operational state, within 12 weeks. * Managing the integration of two industrial and commercial gas businesses following acquisition. * Managing the complete migration of 30,000 customers to a complex network of new databases with no loss of revenue. * Extensive direct marketing experience including generating over £10m of leads in 10 weeks leading to complaints from the sales team that it was too successful! * Marketing Communications Manger for both Consumer and B2B markets. Andrew is a good listener with a passion for helping others</strong> achieve their personal and professional goals. He believes that any change work should be an enjoyable experience and creates a safe, supportive environment for people to explore what they want to achieve. He is able to ask just the right question to enable people and teams to get a new perspective on old issues and is known for taking complex concepts and making them easy to use as part of his mission to help others make the changes they want to make.. He is a great storyteller and a challenging facilitator who will stimulate your thinking in creative ways.
- Testimonial one:
- “I attended Andrew's course on Starting Your Own Business and was so impressed that I talk about what I learned constantly and have already recommended his training to two other professionals. Andrew's style is engaging and witty which alleviates any anxieties at the daunting number of tasks involved in business set up. His training is grounded in personal experience and full of useful, practical advice which imbues confidence.” February 3, 2009 Pauline Williams , Director , incite2action limited
- Testimonial two:
- “Through an effective combination and balance of empathy, challenging discussion and business acumen, Andrew has helped me to have more insight into work-life balance and career decisions. Over the last five years Andrew has proved his competence as a Life-style coach, and has helped me to deal with complex problems, improve my own work performance while maintaining a healthy perspective on the bigger picture.” March 12, 2007 Top qualities: Personable , Expert , High Integrity Allan Gifford hired Andrew as a Lifestyle Coach in 2001
- Testimonial three:
- “Andrew and I worked together as co-facilitators in a high profile workshop with British Airways in 2005. Andrew is a highly skilled coach and a brilliant facilitator. His extensive knowledge of Neurolinguistic Programming adds another dimension to his training style which is fun, interactive and intelligent.” February 9, 2006 Tom Battye worked directly with Andrew at Lighthouse 365 - Coaching & Training
- Audience:
- Postgraduate researchers
- Postgraduate skills trainers
- Research staff
- Staff developers/trainers
Specialist areas Back to top
- Type of work:
- Blended learning design / delivery
- Coaching
- Event management
- Training delivery
- Training design and development
- Subject areas:
- Enterprise and entrepreneurship
- Interpersonal skills development
- Leadership
- Well-being and work life balance
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Experience of delivering
Vitae programmes: - GRADschool Tutor
Additional information Back to top
- Additional information:
- As well as work as a Grad School tutor on National and Local Schools I have worked with CRAC on "The Skilled Graduate" and in particular as a facilitator on the (then) DTI Knowledge Transfer Partnership working with researchers on industrial placements. Recently, along with two other colleagues on this database, we have been working with the Graduate School at University Of Kent delivering a range of interpersonal and career skills training.