Daniel Wain
Consulting Editor (host)
Daniel Wain runs his own learning and development (L&D) consultancy, training and coaching across the world in a range of business, communication and relationship skills. He is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development, a Fellow of the Market Research Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, as well as a full member of the Society of Authors, the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain and the UK actors’ union Equity. He started his business career as a market researcher over 30 years ago, before moving into business development and then L&D. His last ‘proper job’ was as Worldwide Director of L&D at Research International, part of the WPP Group. Since founding Daniel Wain Consulting Limited in 2007, his clients have included Avon, the BBC, BT, Capita, Coca-Cola, GfK NOP, Hewlett-Packard, the House of Commons, Ipsos MORI, Kantar, McCann, Ofcom, PwC, Telia Sonera, Tesco Bank, Transport for London, the U.S. Embassy in London, Utility Warehouse and Waitrose. Daniel is also an accomplished and award-winning conference speaker and chair, as well as a regular contributor to a variety of business and academic magazines and journals. He has been a fellow or lecturer at several UK business schools, as well as a Visiting Professor at the IE Business School in Madrid. His passion is theatre: he runs his own semi-professional company, is a published playwright, a multi-award-winning actor and recently made his debut as a film director!