Mike spent 18 years as an infantry officer in the British Army. In 1982 he was awarded the General Officer Commanding Commendation for Bravery and saw service throughout the world. He represented the Army and Combined Services rugby teams and played cricket for the Infantry. After retiring from the Army in 1992, he became Operations Manager of Challenger World specialising in outdoor management training, a post he held for 3 years before taking the post of Director of Training at Insights Ltd.

There he was responsible for the design and delivery of leadership and team development programmes for business teams with KPMG, Royal Mail, Vickers Plc, British Telecom, Standard & Poors and many others. He has also delivered motivational training for The England Cricket team, Harlequins RFC and The Royal Sun Alliance Ocean Racing Team.

A keen ski mountaineer and rock climber, he has led expeditions over much of the Alps, volcanoes in Mexico, the mountains of Africa as well as the deep jungles of Central America. In addition to his love of altitude, in 2003 he and his colleague Rob Abernethy rowed 2000 miles into the Indian Ocean before tropical storms battered both them and their boat leading to a dramatic rescue by an Australian warship.

Mike is a Member of The Institute of Management Consultancy, The Professional Speakers Association and is a Practitioner of NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming).

Mike is married to Buffy and they have three children aged 20, 18 and 14 years and they live in Devon.

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