Adam Henshaw

Adam is a communications specialist who has spent his career managing both internal and external initiatives.  He has worked internationally for corporations such as Royal Dutch/Shell and Bell Canada Telecommunications on issues ranging from strategy to market development.

Adam combines the ability to see the ‘big picture’ of a business challenge, with an attention to detail that ensures execution is consistent with strategy.  A creative and energetic personality, he is a motivating force and an asset to any team initiative.

Bill Krouwel, MA, ACIS, FITOL

Bill Krouwel has over twenty years’ experience as a trainer of managers.  After qualifying as a Chartered Secretary, he joined a packaging and printing company as Training Officer rising to Company Training Manager before taking up an appointment as Regional Personnel Manager for a large retailer. After some years, he was invited to join the management team of Lindley Educational Trust to which he introduced Management Development Outdoors, a training medium in which he has been closely involved since 1978.
In 1984, Bill began working independently, specialising in practical and imaginative approaches to personal, management and team development using the outdoors. His work has involved him with a wide range of organisations  worldwide. His overseas work includes assignments in Romania, Serbia, Croatia, France, Serbia, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Poland, Finland and Singapore.
Bill’s publications include ‘Management Development Outdoors’, (Kogan Page 1994), numerous short articles in the training press . A book which critically examines the  commodification  of experiential training was published  in late 2002.
Bill holds a Masters in Management Learning from Lancaster University, maintains his Chartered Secretaryship, and is a Fellow of ITOL. (The Institute if Training and Organisational Learning).
Apart from his long-term involvement in experiential approaches to management learning, Bill is qualified and experienced as a Myers-Briggs and Firo-B practitioner, and has recently successfully designed and delivered:

• organisational simulations,
• assessment centres,
• performance management programmes,
• programmes aimed at enabling managers to provide leadership in times of change.

He is based in the West of England, and aims to design and deliver positive and intelligent vehicles for personal and management learning.

Barrie Taylor

A west of England based Consultant who has worked with Connect-CEE on many of its team-building and leadership programmes in both Europe and North America since 1995.

Barrie has a proven track record and a depth of experience in Team Building and Leadership Training in the United Kingdom both in industry and the voluntary sector.  His work is well respected particularly within the banking sector and more recently he has devoted more time to sharing his skills and experience with new leaders and young people within the voluntary sector, where his outstanding achievements have won him several prestigious awards.

Barrie has been heavily involved with Team Building and Leadership training in partnership with Connect-CEE, based in Romania, both as Consultant and Facilitator and has worked with such multi-national clients as Orange, GSK, Ipsos and others.  He has recently been involved with the take-over by a Romanian client of a North American corporation, and has been instrumental in facilitating integration of the units and seeking out and addressing the concerns of employees affected as a result. 

His approach is down to earth and practical, it is always to the point and relevant.  A demanding facilitator who encourages participants to think for themselves and take responsibility, he quickly earns client respect.

His experience working with young people was brought to bear in assisting with the execution of a project bringing managers and street children together in Bucharest. The programme went on to win international recognition and awards for its innovation and achievement.

Barrie has worked all over the world, including France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Romania, USA and Canada and is a fluent French and German speaker to business standard.

Claudia Dogaru

Claudia Dogaru – is an experienced Organisational Development professional, who consolidated her expertise by working over the last 10 year in a world leading pharmaceutical company. Over the time, she covered various internal communication and organisational development management roles, being responsible for creation, implementation and evaluation of all development and training activities for 700 employees of the Romanian business. She designed and implemented sales, marketing and functional development and training programmes, for employees, managers and senior managers. Several of the projects she worked on were recognised as best practice by the HR&OD community.
Claudia's expertise covers areas as: leadership and management development, team and organisational development, talent management and development, succession planning, performance management, culture change, change management, internal communication, development CSR projects.
She was involved in several pan – European projects covering leadership development, performance management and culture chance. Also, she has experience in delivering trainings for culture awareness, performance management, management basics, leadership basics, coaching, resilience, motivation, change management, communication & presentation skills.
She is certified for independent use of the Hogan Assessment Systems psychological methods.
Claudia holds a degree in philology for “Transilvania” University in Brasov. Also, she did 2 years of postgraduates studies in communication and public relations at SNSPA Bucharest.

Cristian Ontanu

Cristian is a highly experienced multi-lingual project manager and consultant whose 19 years experience also includes a wide variety of operational roles. 

With extensive international experience across many sectors, he has led highly complex IT and ERP projects that have delivered successful and sustainable change for clients.  Supply chain and financial process analysis, redesign and improvement have been a key component of projects, including change management and growth management.

Cristian has led numerous teams including multi-ethnic and cross-functional project teams.  A highly accomplished project manager, he is experienced and accredited in a number of tools and methodologies including PMI’s PMBOOK. 

A former VP Organisation and Systems for a French retailer, Cristian brings experience of bringing people and process together in a business that was expanding at hundreds of per cent per annum.  In addition he has wide consulting experience in supply chain, IT and organisational development across Europe.  He has worked with clients such as Unilever, Orange and GSK. 

Cristian brings a patience that is unusual in people with operations backgrounds and completely focussed upon achieving through others.

He is a fluent English speaker.