The areas listed below give an overview of the key aspects that when combines, should give you the peace of mind that you are employing the services of a professional. Together they combine to create a compelling recipe of experience, knowledge, originality, understanding and quality.

1. An Experienced Presenter

Jon Bradshaw is a man with huge amounts of energy and passion, someone who loves to push himself to his physical and mental limits. As a natural optimist his attitude to life has helped his accomplish a huge amount leading to the nickname “Mr Horseshoe” in reference to the fact that things tend to work out for him in most aspects of life.

Jon is an experienced and accomplished presenter having captivated, challenged and inspired audiences all over the world. His energetic, passionate, humorous and educational presentations have been heard in over 20 countries resulting in some outstanding testimonials.

2. A Professional Athlete & Adventurer

The experiences gained from regularly pushing himself to his physical and mental limits are the key to Jon’s unique and fresh presenting material.

A passion for understanding human behaviour and how we react to extreme conditions has led him to take part in various adventures where he has pushed himself to the very limit of mental and physical exhaustion. Trips to Mt. Everest, Mt. Kilimanjaro, and a 3400 mile (5400km) bike ride, has given him a huge experiential pot from which to draw from when presenting.

Jon also excelled at a variety of sports and was a semi-professional footballer for 2 years. His personal experience of the mental techniques he refers to and the fact that he has played competitive sport at this level adds another dimension to his work.

Finally, having run his own personal training business for 10 years, he has worked with hundreds of other individuals leading him to understand how differently humans set and achieve goals, as well as respond to certain stimulus. It is an experience that very few people get and helps give him another perspective when presenting.

3. A Unique Style

Jon delivers with passion, flair, humour and emotion, whilst using his vast experience as a presenter to engage every member of the audience.

The specific objective in Jon’s sessions will differ depending on what is required but the underlying goal is usually to challenge audiences, sparking their curiosity about human behaviour, thoughts, feelings and perceptions. Delivered with amusing and powerful personal anecdotes from everyday life the fusion of humour and emotion creates inspiring learning tools relevant to all whichever session is delivered.

His storytelling ability and powerful delivery of subject matter is what sets Jon apart. The ability to take an audience on a journey both mentally and emotionally is one of his most recognised attributes and an essential ingredient in keeping audiences entertained. This ability comes from his natural presence, honed communication skills, down to earth personality and very British sense of humour and is a skill which very few people genuinely possess.

4. A Corporate Background

Working in the corporate world since 1993, including 3 years with the BBC, has exposed Jon to the issues that owners, managers, team leaders and HR departments are faced with and can empathise with business owners, middle management as well as junior staff. His ability to speak the corporate language and tailor presentations to fit in with key corporate objectives is essential. Jon is a speaker with experience in and understanding of the business world.

Through his work in the international meetings, incentive travel and events industry, he has worked with some of the best known names in business travel and corporate motivation. He travels extensively working primarily in the Middle East presenting to and working with companies on attracting corporate business and helping them gain a better understanding of how to market to the meeting and incentive travel market.

5. Research and Qualifications

To add to the vast experience Jon has gained personally he is passionate about research and education. His approach is not to study one specific behavioural science and then use it exclusively but rather to accept that, just as people differ, there are a range of different approaches some of which will work better than others depending on the situation.

His interests including sports psychology, chromology (how the use of colour effects humans thought and behaviour), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) in which he holds master practitioner certification and has a general interest in the power of the mind, persuasion techniques, hypnosis, emotional state management and subjects related to human communication, thought patterns, beliefs, perceptions and ultimately behaviour.