SIMON RIGDEN Managing Director 

Simon Rigden has had a very successful career of over 30 years in industry, largely in the IT sector. Graduating in 1970, Simon joined ICL as a graduate trainee and spent over 11 years developing his sales and sales management skills. This was followed by Simon holding various leadership and executive roles in enterprise software sales with Informations Resources Inc., JDEdwards, Lawson and JPMorgan FundsHub.

During the mid 1990’s Simon experienced the opportunities and success that can be brought about through the use of Empathy and over subsequent years introduced this approach to his management, sales and consultancy teams. So having personally experienced the power of Empathy, he is now passionate about sharing the techniques of being able to read people to change their personal and business fortunes.

As an acknowledged expert in the Empathy programme, Walter has trained salespeople, managers, customer service teams and trainers over the last 10 years.

Walter brought the Empathy concept to the UK in the mid 1990's having founded PeopleTrack Ltd a few years previously. Prior to this Walter had a successful 20 year career in sales, management and personal development training. He has developed leading edge training programmes and built a team of superb trainers to deliver quite remarkable results.
His vision is to inspire people, enabling them to achieve their full potential.

TONY ROBINSON, Trainer

Tony Robinson is a highly skilled international Sales Presenter, Coach and Sales Trainer. He is a sales focused presenter with over 23 year’s sales experience. For the last 12 years Tony has worked with many international companies in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, The Netherlands and across the UK

Having presented at sales events, seminars, kick offs as well as delivering sales based training programmes for companies including the BBC, Cisco Systems, Computer Associates, Sun Microsystems and Microsoft, Tony is also a sought after personal presentations coach to senior executives.

His ability to motivate and inspire a sales audience together with a specialist skills in audience interaction has lead him to be in high demand across many industry sectors. Tony helps bring the Empathy offering to life!