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I really enjoyed being in your company - it is like being in wonderful tropical rain.
Paul Toombs,
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Biography
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After graduating from high school in the United States, Piero enjoyed a brief spell as an apprentice butcher before travelling to the West Indies, where he worked on charter yachts for a year before returning to London when he was persuaded to enter a course of study.
He chose Sound Design and Technical Theatre.
Having completed a course he both understood and enjoyed, he then spent a number of years working in the music industry and backstage in theatres, before moving out of the wings and into the spotlight.
Three more years were spent at drama school before beginning a glittering career playing drug couriers, insurance salesmen and transvestites, as well as working as a promising voiceover artist.
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Despite being both employable and competent as a performer, his career as an actor was short-lived. In 1995, he had a life-changing moment at the hands of a medical consultant who delivered a diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis in less than two minutes.
Years of drifting, lack of direction and indolence were focused in an abrupt epiphany. Realising that he had learnt the skills of an actor but had neither the will nor the talent of one, Island 41 was founded with the objective of using actors' techniques in the business world. He started helping doctors with their bedside manner, basing his work on the single premise that instinct and intelligence are not always good bed-fellows. Training people in presentation skills was a natural fit, and with this solid grounding in place, he began expanding his portfolio and defining his inimitable style over the ensuing years. Piero now works as a lecturer, trainer, facilitator, consultant and coach in the business, educational and voluntary sectors. He works throughout Europe and beyond, and has developed, written and delivered training courses in areas such as presentation technique, personal impact & presence, MBTI®, voice technique, communication, Belbin® team roles, change response, negotiation, developmental Transactional Analysis, time management, networking, creativity and feedback.
Piero believes that effective communication should be clear, direct, simple and unambiguous. A dedicated champion of experiential learning, Piero is a natural teacher; invariably he finds the vocabulary of his audience, and his style is dynamic, engaging and involving.
He has NCDT certificates in theatrical stage management and acting, is a certified practitioner for MBTI®, Belbin® and NLP, and has completed a recognised course in Transactional Analysis. |
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