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Fantastic tutor - managed to build my confidence, show me new techniques and keep me fully engaged for two days.  Learnt a lot about, not just presenting, but also about myself.
Karen - thank you so much for helping me ... 'find' me !
Super, clear, concise.  Engaged the whole team at all times.  Amazing ability to use what she teaches to achieve results. 
Karen is an inspiration.  I told her that I wished she was my manager.  She would make me a better manager over time.
Really excellent - funny, great facilitator, good at reading the group's mood, excellent explanations and feedback.  I personally have learned a lot which I will deliver on the workshops I run.
I found Karen to be a superb coach; it was exceptionally easy to communicate openly with her when talking about often difficult subject matter.   I was extremely impressed at how quickly a true NLP expert was able to understand my personality and how quickly we developed a sense of rapport.  She was appropriately fun, friendly and professional.
karen dandridge ...
... is passionate about people and their potential, with a deep-rooted love of her work : evidenced by the fact she left a highly successful Corporate career, at the top of her game, to re-train and start her own people development business, aleato !
 
Karen's hand-on operational background lends her training a credibility and authenticity at even the highest levels of an organisation.  Most of her business responsibilities have been front-line and customer facing : her functional experience includes global responsibility for Sales & Business Operations; Services Delivery; Project, Program & Bids Management.  She also has experience working within HR in various EMEA L&D capacities, including Diversity; Executive Coaching; High Potential Development; Work/Life Balance; and Corporate Social Responsibility. 
 
Within the training environment Karen quickly establishes rapport with her delegates, with an engaging delivery style that is typically informal, adaptable, fun (occasionally off-the-wall !), responsive and challenging.  She loves to 'spin the box' to help her clients see that there is always another face to any given situation ... and therefore choice ! 
 
Karen walks the talk where continued professional development is concerned, investing both time and finances into high quality learning opportunities for herself every year.  As a result, she is fortunate to have trained internationally with industry leaders in the fields of Business Coaching, Executive Communications and Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP).
 
She is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development and also of the Chartered Management Institute.  Karen is qualified to use the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) psychometric tool with clients and is a professionally qualified CIPD CTP trainer.  Additionally, Karen employs her skills and experience as a Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming in all aspects of her work and across most situations in her life - whether working one-to-one with a coaching client, training multiple delegates/teams or facilitating cross-functional groups of staff.  With her previous global experience, Karen is comfortable and adept working internationally and cross-culturally.  
 
It is a testament to the quality of how she works that most of Karen's contracts come from referrals and repeat business.  Whether existing or new, Karen offers her clients high quality coaching, training and consultancy solutions - including both bespoke and packaged programs.  Some of the exciting offerings in her current portfolio include :
 
 Business Management
& People Leadership
Career Planning &
Personal Development
 Corporate Presentations
& Exec Communications
Visioning :
'Planning for your BEST Life'
Coaching & Mentoring
High Potential Staff
An Intro to  NLP :
'It's ALL in the Experience'
Refreshing Retreats
[Corporate & Open events]
 Work/Life Balance
& Remote Working
 1:2:1 Coaching
[Corporate & Individuals]
 
Karen's training delivery experience includes Currys, PCWorld, Westminster City Council, Dell, NPower and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.  Some delegate 'quotes' are included within the aleato website and will hopefully provide a flavour of the typical client experience when Karen is front of room or coaching 1:2:1.