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Natasha Cannon
Consultant
People really do inspire and amaze me, and no less than the many individuals I have had the pleasure of working with over the last 16 years!

During this time, running Executive Assistant Network, I have been in a wonderful position to build a fantastic network of over 7,500 members and thousand more followers and contacts.

Growing such a business and network has been a rewarding challenge and great learning curve for me and I have had the honour of being able to make a difference in so many individuals lives, whilst meeting some great people along the way!

After developing my career in the finance industry, I went on to set up an events company around the finance and corporate world. This resulted in me also growing and connecting a large personal network of Executive and Personal Assistants, lots of whom have become personal friends.

Then, in 2005, many of these contacts and friends were lamenting the lack of any specific business community or organisation created specifically to meet their needs, so EAN was born!

One of my main drivers is to develop an all-encompassing membership organisation. One who truly partners with EA’s helping them develop, learn, grow, strategize, interact, inspire and empower others and in turn be inspired and empowered themselves!

We like to think of what we do in EAN as a family, one who looks out and looks after each other, whilst being our own (and others) cheerleaders and advocates.
David Thomson
Chief Learning Officer
David has a unique mix of training, facilitation, instructional design and coaching skills at all levels combined with over 18 years of strategic business and sales experience.

Throughout his career he has worked across a wide range of industry sectors with large corporates, small to medium businesses and within the public sector – Federal, State & Local. With extensive knowledge of organisational & behavioural psychology, David draws from being a certified hypnotherapist and counsellor, therefore truly rounding off the mix of pyschological, behavioural and indepth strategic business acumen. He is not only able to provide participants with highly effective tools and methodologies on what to do, but also able to raise their awareness on why they do what they do. This provides the additional benefits of greater insight and heightens the participant’s emotional intelligence in the process.

He brings this extensive experience to benefit participants and transforms the training room into a highly interactive and enjoyable learning environment. His dynamic delivery and excellent engagement of participants ensures that they see real changes when they return to their workplace. He has many examples and stories to share with participants that are relevant to their own challenges and helps expand their thinking and cement the learnings. This coupled with his pragmatic approach ensures that participants have the best skills and techniques available to create real workplace change and come out with practical tools they can use throughout life.

Equally David has solid practical experience in one on one coaching environments, from new employees right through to top C level management across industry verticals. Here he draws on a combination of tools and methodologies to enable the participants to develop pragmatic skills and knowledge, whilst creating achievable outcomes and goals. David aims to take the “fluff” out of training and provide easily adaptable knowledge that has been empirically proven to be effective in the real world.