News and Events

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Systemic Team Coaching
Nov 18th 2020

Olwyn Merritt was awarded the Systemic Team Coaching Master Practitioner Diploma at the Awards Ceremony of the Academy of Executive Coaching in November 2019. The course was developed and supervised by Professor Peter Hawkins and is accredited with the International Coaching Federation (ICF).

Nov 18th 2020

Neville Merritt was panel guest for the conference session discussing “Education in the workforce” chaired by Matt Hatton, VP Research, Gartner at the IoTBuild Conference on 13th November at Olympia, London. The conference was examining the technology and potential impact of the evolution of the connected world – the Internet…

Richmond Events Directors Forum
Nov 18th 2020

2017 was the final year the annual Richmond Events Directors’ Forums were held aboard the cruise ship Arcadia sailing out of Southampton. Olwyn Merritt, founder and director of Pure Potential, was invited to join the Directors’ Forum to demonstrate the power of executive coaching to the delegates on board. It…

Nov 18th 2020

Attracting the best talent to join your organisation can be a challenge, particularly when there is fierce completion for good people in areas of high employment. On 28th April, Neville  Merritt presented a Breakfast Briefing at the Surrey Technology Centre in Guildford for the Enterprise M3 Growth Hub (LEP). Neville explained…

Nov 18th 2020

On 26th January Neville Merritt was guest chair for the panel discussion “Marketing in the time of omnipresent technology” at the PLUG Polish Technology Link meeting at techUK.  The panel included Justis Saayman (IMB); Paulina Mitelsztedt (Trendwatching.com) and Andrzej Woynarowski (Logisfera Nova), all experts in the the field of marketing…

cIMA workshop
Nov 18th 2020

Pure Potential was commissioned to run the CIMA “Leadership Excellence Workshop – Essential skills for upgrading your leadership” held at CIMA’s headquarters in London on 7th December. This workshop was jointly presented and facilitated by Neville and Olwyn Merritt, directors of Pure Potential Development Ltd. Topics included Leadership Styles: characteristics…