About (more formal)

So you know a little more about the source from which these words are flowing here are some facts about me…

I hold a BA(Hons) in Philosophy from Durham University

And another in History from the University of Sunderland

And an MA in English from Northumbria

I lectured for several years at East Birmingham Business School in Business Studies where I was awarded the student’s best lecturer award for three consecutive years.

I have established several offline and online businesses some of which I have sold and others that are still running. Most notably Powerbond which has been established and traded successfully now for more than ten years.

I have been a lecturer, speaker and writer for more than twenty years with particular interest in the art of self improvement through personal growth and development. My latest work in this area is the Mechanics of Happiness series which is presumably what brought you here.

I am also a qualified life coach, holding a Diploma in Life Coaching, and have worked with a great many people as a mentor and specifically in the area of helping them to achieve their goals.

Some years ago after struggling for 15 years with an illness that passed ‘under the radar’ I was diagnosed with a rare potentially fatal genetic disorder of the liver called Non Alcoholic Steato Hepatitis (NASH). I was told by doctors that the condition was incurable and that it would kill me within a few years. My partner, Margaret, and I set out to disprove the ‘incurable’ tag and remedy the disease that I had. Through diligence and research we managed to create a regime that did indeed result in a 100% cure of the incurable disease. Unfortunately for other sufferers my liver specialist Prof. Chris Day, one of the world’s leading authorities on diseases of the liver, advised that he could not pass on the benefits of my own cure to others without subjecting it to extensive and thorough clinical trials over many years. However I am the living proof of the efficacy of our method.

In addition to writing, consulting and running other businesses, I work with children that have severe Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties (EBD) and have done since 2004. These are young people that we foster and try to engender a positive attitude in about their lives and situations which are often anything but positive. I am qualified to work with children and young people who find themselves disadvantaged for various reasons and have achieved ‘outstanding’ feedback from fellow professionals.  

 We have two adult children who are uniquely brilliant and accomplished in their own fields but whom I would not presume to embarrass here. They are quite capable of that through their own Facebook pages.