Testimonials

‘Just a quick line to say how much I enjoyed the course at Walton Hall last week. Your approach was refreshing and invigorating. Two days well spent.’ Caroline Robinson, Senior Account Executive of Towergate Healthcare. 

'Many thanks for a great performance. Stylish, humorous and relevant content for our customer focused audience, what more could we want? Your performance, coupled with your very professional approach to the speaking business, means that I have no hesitation in recommending you to any conference organiser (except that instinctively, I perefer to keep my best performers away from my rivals)'. Don Hales, Institute of Customer Service Annual Conference. 

"Patricia once again proved invaluable. Her speaking or Chairing contributions are always first class." Adrian Dion, Solicitor and Director of The Solicitor's Group. 

"Broker Network has worked with Patricia on a number of occasions, using her training skills for both our staff and for our customers. We have always found her to be insightful and thought-provoking in her approach, and with an excellent ability to get everyone involved. There is a genuine desire to ensure each delegate takes something away from a training session, and this is very important to us. I would have no hesitation in recommending Patricia’s services to others." Martyn Denney, Director, Broker Network.

"Patricia, thank you so much for your excellent input!" Mark Solon, Bond Solon Conference. 

Feedback from attendees at The Law Society's Trainee Solicitors Induction Course:

"Patricia was great!"
"Patricia helped me to develop organisational skills and timekeeping."
"Patricia was instrumental to me being able to relate my problems with other trainees."
"Thanks to Patricia I really enjoyed it!'"

'Patricia Wheatley Burts CD "Talking Through My Hat" has been very instrumental in heightening my awareness about my own personality styles, as well as those with whom I interact and it has given me greater insight into further developing and managing my relationships with a team or individually, therefore achieving greater success.' Judith-Ann Clarke, Manager of BlueWave Networks Inc, Barbados.

'Patricia's ability to connect with the audience was great, as was her description of different personality characteristics. Patricia was extremely helpful and approachable throughout the event.' Sioned Rees, Director of Enterprise Development, WDA.

'Patricia Wheatley-Burt’s presentation ‘Profitable Strategies and Plans for Business Growth’ was very well received by the delegates at our recent ‘From Vision to Growth’ seminar. As well as helping delegates set goals and objectives Patricia described, in a lively and fun way an 8-step process to guarantee that those goals delivered tangible benefits. She was an asset to the day’s programme.' Lynne Gater, Marketing Director, Business Link for Staffordshire.

Young Solicitors Management Conference at The Law Society:

'Patricia Wheatley Burt has been a blessing. Enabled me to take an inward look at myself and ask myself 'Where do I go from here ie paving future plans and working towards achieving it'.
'Patricia's talk was an eye opener to me as to how I project myself career wise.'

'Patricia is a marvellous speaker. Not only does she inspire us on the subject of motivational skill but also brings great fun to the training. It is enjoyable to attend her training' Champa Xu, Macau JCI chairperson.

STATPRO Management Development 2 day Workshop:

"Very clear and "lifelike" presentation.  Very practical programme. Patricia incited us to give our opinions, to share our management issues...Patricia proves that managing people is easy!"     Nathalie Diette, Paris Development Manager.

"Great tutor! Very inspiring! Lots of energy coming out since we saw her!"    Sandra Fabre, Financial Controller.

"I always have good intentions after a course but actually the key learning points from this course are easily applied without taking up lots of time. Hence they're more than likely to happen! "    Suzanne Clark, Head of Performance/Account Manager.

Blue Skies Awayday:

"Patricia, you managed to engage and entertain a group of people who had been talked at all day. The task of livening up a bunch of people after six hours of listening is no mean feat. Your content and wild delivery certainly did the trick!    We could all identify with the personalities you described and the session left us all thinking more about how we work together as teams as well as feeling energised. I am so glad we had you in the ‘finale’ slot of our company day to send us all off on a high.    Many thanks and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend you to any other companies looking for some team building inspiration."    Caroline Morton,  Marketing Manager,  Blue Skies Recruitment.

PSA 

"Patricia Wheatley Burt is inspiring, exciting, orginal, riveting... and completely mad!" - Jim Ewan, President of the Professional Speakers Association.

Chase Conference - London:
"Life Time – Life Line educates you to achieve goals through inspirational constructive thinking. Vibrant outgoing natured Patricia Wheatley Burt turns shadows into sunlight." - Cheryl Crawley, Grants Manager & Office Manager, Occupational Charity

Fife Business Conference:

• "Enabled me to understand what competency frameworks can do for " ScotAsh, MD
• "Reaffirmed the existing processes at Dunfermline Building Society are consistent with current thinking" - Manager
• "We will certainly be considering implementing Competency Frameworks " - James Clark, MD, James Clark Properties
• "Excellent, all aspects were very inspirational and exciting – kept me interested and wanting to hear more!!"
• " Linked very well with evaluation process within our school"

JCI – London:

• "It is absolutely brilliant!. I have heard it twice and if I were without ethics I would copy the CD ten times and pass it on... what I will do instead is buy the other 3 CDs and let people borrow them and decide for themselves. This is not a lot of money to spend on something as important as making a success of your business!" - Amber Chidakshi, Entrepreneur who bought a copy of Patricias audio CD and Pocketbook: Pro£itable Strategies and Plans
• "Patricia is a marvellous speaker. Not only does she inspire us on the subject of motivational skill but also brings great fun to the training. It is enjoyable to attend her training." - Champa Xu, Vice Chair of Macau JCI (China).

Personal Impact Course for HCW London Office:

• “Patricia has a very different style and approach to the majority of the training courses I have been on and I found it very easy to listen to her”. – Audit Manager.
• “Very confident – I felt that the skills were explained and demonstrated to a high-level” – Corporate Finance Manager.
• "Very stimulating thanks to the personality and energy of Patricia” - Corporate Finance Manager.

Management Development programme for Statpro:

• “The course covers a range of skills that I felt were very useful!"
• “I felt I could put everything I learn into practice immediately”
• "The course was fun and the personality of the course trainer was beneficial in keeping me alert and all times!” – Managing Director
• “Great variety – kept me interested throughout the 2 days of training”

Rave reviews about Talking Through My Hat!:

• "I've just seen Patricia speak and if you want your conference to be livened up and enthused want them to have fun, Patricia can certainly do that for you." - Marie Mosely, Past President of PSA and Business Psychologist.
• 'I've just taken part in an ocean race sailing the wrong way round the world and I wish I had known the information Patricia has given us today. I've seen it before, I've heard it before, but with her presentation which was audio visual it was entertaining, it has made me really get a grip of what she was saying, And that will stay with me for a long, long time. All I can say is thank you Patricia, that was fantastic!" - Rona Cant is a round the world sailor, adventurer and author.
• "I've just seen Patricia speak; I got 10 minutes of brilliance and I can't wait to see the whole programme. You'd be mad to miss her. The words she had will take you and your business from where it is to where you'd like it to be." - Nigel Risner, International speaker, Awarded the best UK speaker, author and business guru.

Training programme for firm of Accountants on Time Management and Networking Skills:

• "Patricia was very interested in helping us and she is an entertaining presenter." - Corporate Tax manager
• "Thought provoking!!" - Partner
• "Very well presented, Patricia kept our interest levels high by including our views, and audience participation" - Audit Manager

Presentation Skills programme for a large firm of London Accountants:

• "the most useful part of the programme was being videod. Amazing what you can learn by looking at yourself.....!"
• "Really enjoyed the day and got a lot from the course. It is good to have a video to see how one progresses...."

Programme on Lexcel & Investors In People for Legal Department of the Commission for Racial Equality:

• "...Patricia involved everybody, was very knowledgeable, and made what could have been a boring programme, motivating and interesting." Head of Operations
• "...Patricia Wheatley Burt was energetic and enthusiastic, participants were keen to be involved." Head of Services
• "...Potentially a boring topic but a fun style of presentation by an enthusiastic Patricia." Member of staff

Personal Impact Programme for Horwath Clerk Whitehill Accountants:

• "..programme content had a good balance of instruction and participation..." - Senior Manager
• "For once I have been on a course which has kept my attention for the duration. The whole course was full of relevant topices. A very approachable, confident and good presenter." - Senior Account Manager

Presentation Skills Programme for the Manchester office of a large firm of Accountants:

• "excellent programme content..." - Senior Manager
• "the comments received from the presenter were exceptionally helpful..." - Audit Manager

Time Management Programme for a firm of Accountants:

• "....well presented and easily digestible..."
• "....interactive and informative, good presentation ...."

Effective Networking Programme for a firm of Accountants:

• "....it was great - I can use it ...." (Manager)
• "....very energetic and focused presentation... great"

Training the Trainer Programme (Morgan Cole):

• Very useful ideas on more flexible training methods & presentations
• "....a very positive, helpful course..."

Training the Trainer 2-day course for Morgan Cole:

• Excellent, trainer was very interesting and enthusiastic - Partner
• "I feel thorough trained - hope I can implement it!" - 6yr PQE Lawyer
• Very good presenting, hard work and most enjoyable - 6yr PQE Lawyer

Delegation Skills programme for Olswang Solicitors in the West End of London - clients comments:

• Programme content was well thought through and presented as a Effective mixture of presentation and group discussion - Senior Advisor
• Very stimulating and excellent Tutor, it was good to interact with other assistants to consider points raised - 5yr PQE Lawyer

During a recent 2-day Director Development Programme - feedback on 360° review process and programme content for Statpro.

• Content and style very stimulating with a lively presentation which was well structured and conducted - Finance Director
• Very interactive with useful examples and feedback - Operations Director
• Useful discussions and viewpoints with some interesting topics covered - Managing Director

Developing Networking & Interpersonal Skills for London Lawfirm, clients comments:

• Very good delivery - kept my interest going and an extremely useful programme - Partner
• Excellent entertaining style of presenter, all very stimulating - 5yr PQ Solicitor

Advanced Presentation Skills programme for Lawyers/Partners of London Law firm, clients comments:

• Simple, effective and very stimulating - Partner

Lexcel Programme for Legal Dept of a London Borough Council, clients comments:

• I Learnt a lot about Lexcel through lots of practical exercises and course covered in depth - Head of Department
• The workshops practicalised various aspects of the standard and put it into context - a valuable course

Handling Difficult Situations programme for a major Law Firm in Oxford, clients comments:

• "learnt lots - how to approach and manage difficult one-to-one situations" - Partner in Litigation
• "learnt some new techniques and how to understand my own style" - Head of IT
• "Excellent course, really enjoyed it" - Partner

Partner Development Programme + 1:1 Coaching for a medium sized Law Firm in london

• "Good individual delivery, clearly a product of experience not just training" - Head of Department
• "Very stimulating, entertaining and informative" - Chief Executive
• "Enthusiastic presentational style - very motivational" - Head of Department
• "A very confident and energetic speaker who knew her subject well. Well presented, kept interest and involved all partners" - Head of Department