Abandon Theatre's work has enabled senior leadership to develop the skills to best engage and inspire the team behind a common aspiration and to coach them for performance.
Managing Director, leading global healthcare PR Agency.
The work Abandon did with our senior Partners and Managers was incredible. I have never experienced a presentation skills course like it ever before, and never have I learned so much about myself and my ability to present. Brilliant!
Senior Partner, global engineering firm
Our partnership with Abandon Theatre has delivered change on an organisational as well as an individual level, with a coaching and development programme that reflects our core values and is keenly linked to our business objectives.
Director, NHS Westminster
I attended a Pitch Perfect day to improve my presentation skills and had a brilliant day gaining confidence, learning new tricks and being myself in a safe environment.. I highly recommend her as a coach!
MD, London-based SME
We do this by empowering people through:
Building client relationships...
When someone has a good experience with a product or service, this experience generally leads to an emotional connection to that product or service. We suggest understand what these emotions are for your potential or existing clients, then use the emotion to engage with your client. We believe this is the fundamental way you can affect your clients' desire to buy from you.
Deon is an Executive Coach and Director of Abandon Theatre and possesses business and people development expertise gained within private commercial enterprises, the public sector and third sector agencies. His main expertise lies in: business development, organisational restructuring, change and people development, leadership and talent development.
Some say he can make you feel like you are the only person in the room, and that he challenges the status quo...
Deon is a specialist in leadership and talent development. He has supported multi-cultural and cross-functional teams, committees and global executives in a variety of fast-paced, high-pressure and ever-changing environments.
Taking a client-centred approach to his work, Deon uses value-driven behavioural coaching and leadership Presence (personal branding) coaching within a Meyers Briggs context. He also encourages thought-leadership using Neuro-Linguistic Programming techniques and action-centred learning.
ILM Level 7 Accredited Coach, Masters Coaching Psychology, Post Grad. Dip. Exec Coaching, Dip. Counselling (University of Ulster), Grad. Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, B.Ed.(hons) Geography, Post Grad. Dip. Acting (Webber Douglas)
Emma is an experienced Coach and Director of Abandon Theatre working across all three sectors. Her passions lie in: personal development and personal branding, change and people development and leadership and talent development.
Some call her an extraordinary coach, actor, director and stand-up...
Emma is a specialist in supporting individuals though periods of change personally and professionally. She excels in empowering an individual's personal presence (personal branding), this allows her client to feel more confident in various performance-driven scenarios, such as: presenting at meetings or conferences, new business pitches and team leadership and engagement.
As a Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) practitioner Emma takes a client-centred approach to her work. She uses clean language techniques to challenge and sustain individual and team behavioural change within a Meyers Briggs context.
NLP Practioner, Performance and Life Coach, Dip. Acting and Musical Theatre (3 years), BA (hons) Theatre and Performance Studies