“Having the actors involved ... was more enjoyable, faster moving ... you had to think quicker on your feet.” Thomas Holcroft, Savills
John has distilled a number of theatre techniques and an actor’s voice training to provide inspirational teaching for those who need to improve their delivery of formal business presentations.
His methods have been applied, at one end of the scale, to intensive private coaching sessions for executives preparing important speeches and at the other end of the scale to major presentations undertaken by sales teams at events in the UK and overseas. He also delivers training to teachers within schools and to groups from the NHS
Examples of the varied work John undertakes include:
He has considerable experience as a performer and is well known from television. He has appeared in The Alchemist, All in the Game, The Bill, Casualty, The Chief, City Central, Cover Her Face, Cracker, Dalziel and Pascoe, Death of an Expert, Doomwatch, Duchess of Duke Street, The Franchise Affair, Heartbeat, Kings Royal, The Knock, Miracles Take Longer, The Money Men, Murder Not Proven, Ninety Nine to One, QED, Sam Saturday, Seven Dials Mystery, Shoestring, Shroud for a Nightingale, Soldier Soldier, Starhunter, Surviving Disaster – Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster, Touch of Frost, Van der Valk, Westbeach, William and Mary, and Wycliffe. In the theatre he has appeared in: The Canterbury Tales, Dial M for Murder, Dirty Linen, Gasping, Heartbreak House, Hoagy and Bix, Macbeth, Much Ado about Nothing, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Tom Thumb, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Wozzeck. His film appearances include: Eureka, The Keep, Richard’s Things, Sweeney II and Ghandi.