James Talbot

Trainer at Informa Connect Academy

Trainer

James Talbot is the HR Director of Synergy Group an author, international speaker, trainer, coach, facilitator, management consultant, accountant, and conference presenter, who has a diverse range of expertise. An Organisational and People Strategist, having in the last 12 years worked almost exclusively overseas in the Middle Eastern and Asian market advising, consulting and delivering performance improvement training to an international audience.

James has been the HR Director of his own learning solutions company for 17 years in the UK. He works with the private, public, third sector and charitable foundations, and has also been a lecturer and guest speaker at three universities in London and a Treasurer of two mental health charities. James is currently working on a book on human behaviour. He started life in accountancy in retail, expanding that financial knowledge into financial services, then delving into corporate strategy and finally his personal interest with a PhD in psychology and human behaviour and neuroscience, achieving Master Trainer status on NLP, organisation psychology, emotional intelligence, psychometrics, organisational stress management and human profiling.

His style of delivery is thought-provoking, engaging and motivational, and he uses accelerated learning techniques, psychology and persuasive language.