About Ellen Bothwick (Formerly Ellen Gifford) – Founder, Owner and Trainer

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Ellen is an experienced International Trainer, Coach and Public Speaker in NLP and published author, utilising a style of training and coaching which actively involves the collaboration of students to help them achieve maximum results and sustain life-changing behavior in both their professional and personal lives

• Founder of The Learning Path in 1998, Ellen is an experienced trainer and public speaker who combines business skills with inter-personal skills and NLP training.
• Ellen has a strong business background with over 20 years’ experience in management, training, sales and marketing.
• She brings her NLP focus to areas of expertise including management training, teamwork, leadership, sales and marketing and personal growth.
• Her pragmatic style of NLP training focuses on assessing needs, determining goals and facilitating their rapid achievement.
• She actively involves students to help them achieve maximum results and sustain life-changing behaviour in their professional and personal lives.

My learning path

I have worked mainly in sales roles untill retraining to work in ‘change management’, although nobody called it that back then. It was tough and most people took the approach of ‘how are we going to make people do it?’ I believe having a difficult start in life gave me an understanding that there were more beneficial ways of encouraging and influencing change. I understand that everyone is different. In my work, I’m aware of my very strong sense of fairness, equality and justice, which is why I believe passionately in NLP as a set of tools that can help people move on and get on with their work and lives. We hear people describe what we do as ‘soft skills training’. We show people the choices they have to adapt their behavior and attain specific business goals. To my mind, the personal development work we do is anything but soft and the tools we use have a hard business focus as well as a strong personal edge.”

Ellen Lives in Wiltshire with her husband, her cat Spike and her dog Harley www.pawsforeffect.co.uk

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