Leaps and Bounds

Project team

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• Dilesh Desai
  Operations Director
• Niall Cluley
  Sales & Marketing Manager
• Sheila Lane
  Administrator
• Nicole Evans
  Project Administrator

Dilesh DesaiDil's approach to life is to keep things simple and it's this way of thinking that gets us to challenge the way we do business, along with his cheeky approach that immediately puts people at ease. Some words from people that know him are measured, insightful, open, kind. His background has been retail with Marks and Spencer and financial services with JP Morgan – where in both areas he has been able to develop his management capability to support his love for coaching and has been particularly useful in mentoring young teenagers. His two greatest achievements so far are finding the love of his life and learning how to swim, all after 35 – as Dil would say "it's never too late!"

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Niall Cluley Niall believes that developing people and business performance centres mainly on helping people focus clearly on what they are trying to achieve as well as on their confidence. In trying new ways of doing things and learning from the impact! For him, this principle consistently applies to the wide range of fantastic people he works with from contact centre based customer service agents through to managers and directors of large businesses. He believes that Leaps and Bounds start this process of open-minded improvement together with our clients through the fun, interactive and creative style of learning that we believe so passionately in using.

His performance coaching background originates in sports coaching (having also been a member of the British Sailing Team). He has also been involved in a variety of business challenges including running large sales and operations teams and held senior roles in companies in the communications, retail, logistics and leisure industries. Niall is also the Chairman of Leaps and Bounds highly successful sports incentives sister company Extremelives.

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Sheila LaneSheila joined Leaps and Bounds in 2005 and loves the "pace, strength and vitality" of the company. Sheila supports the team and the clients in all their diverse wants and needs and ensures that the training courses, sales meetings, marketing ventures and general personal initiatives are run smoothly. She is the one to contact when "no one else knows" or "no one else can do it" or even when just a virtual hug would make the day go better. In life and work making a difference is what matters to Sheila and she leaves her mark with everyone she comes into contact with.

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Nicole EvansNicole is the newest member of the Leaps and Bounds team joining, in March 2007. She is known for her enthusiastic, hardworking and well-organised nature.

Having a positive attitude towards life and working in a great job encourages Nicole to embrace life. As a member of the support team she ensures the smooth organisation of all the courses.

Nicole admits that it gives her great pleasure to work with such a supportive group of people "Job satisfaction means so much to me as a person, coming from a retail background this is what makes Leaps and Bounds so fantastic. Working with an organisation, which encourages people to fulfil their potential

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