Paddy Gormley is a trainer, researcher, writer and web designer whose 30-year career to date includes strategic planning and business management consultancy.

Paddy conducted his first training sessions in the late 1980s while working as a management consultant for Spicer & Oppenheim. He taught the firm's week-long course in business problem solving and report writing in Belgium, Holland and Sweden to management/sales professionals in IBM and Philips and also to UK-based clients. The quality of his teaching was much acclaimed by course organisers and delegates alike.

His approach to training evolved considerably in the 1990s when, as a self-employed management consultant, he facilitated board/partnership-level meetings with leading law firms and with the Law Society, and created the "Leading Lawyers" conferences for management partners. 

He achieved personal CPD (Continuing Personal Development) accreditation, enabling professional clients to gain professional development credits by attending his courses and seminars, and even partnership meetings, under his facilitation.

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Paddy Gormley's teaching,
as featured in The Test on Granada Television

Testimonials

Feedback on Paddy Gormley's teaching by Georges Abrial, course manager of IBM Belgium

“I would like to congratulate Paddy Gormley for his outstanding contribution... It is the second time, I believe, that we get a 5.00 for this class [100% excellence rating by all students without exception].”

"He managed to run the Learning Phase with short presentations in front of the whole class, but with a lot of coaching in the groups. I think that this approach — with a direct contact with each participant — was extremely good because it gave a chance to each student for personal exchanges with the instructor and to get the maximum benefit of the course."

Feedback on Paddy Gormley's teaching by Celia McNicholas, Performing Arts Co-ordinator, Crisis UK

"You ran the class brilliantly yesterday.  You had a challenging combination of members yet I could see that each one felt valued and their mutual respect for each other and for you was touching and impressive."

Feedback on Paddy Gormley's analytical writing by former Law Society President Tony Girling (as part of his foreword to Practical Pricing, Paddy Gormley's practice guide for solicitors):

“Paddy Gormley’s examination of [pricing] issues takes our thinking a long way forward. He sets out a vision of the future which is at once alarming and alarmingly credible, not least since it is set in a rigorous analytical framework and based on trends that are already clearly discernible.”

Paddy Gormley's teaching in the field of creativity began in the late 1990s. Current work includes Words in Action, a weekly creative writing and performance class for Crisis UK and the Creative Thinking course for undergraduate students at Farnborough College. 

Paddy Gormley’s teaching work is underpinned by his sustained, prolific output of both analytical and creative writing since the early 1990s.

• He has self-published two major independent research studies (into large companies’ views of legal services) and two practice guides for solicitors.
• Paddy Gormley has written about 150 articles including three published in the Financial Times, dozens in the legal press and nearly a hundred concert and music reviews in Music and Musicians magazine.
• He has also produced countless consultancy reports for clients and built about sixty websites reflecting the principles that underpin his teaching.
• His latest book, Language with Altitude, is a major primer on the crafts of thinking and writing based on a decade-long process of research and development. 

He is a skilled analyst of numerical data, often using accessible graphical information to communicate crucial points to less numerate readers.

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