Elizabeth Kuhnke

Founder, Managing Director & 'Diamond Polisher'

Elizabeth Kuhnke sees herself as a “diamond polisher”.  She works with talented individuals who, with a bit of smoothing, sharpening, and shaping reveal their true brilliance. Her three-pronged approach to client development is based on demonstrating respect, establishing rapport, and producing results.  An international conference speaker, best-selling author, and qualified coach, Elizabeth believes that dogged determination, combined with a healthy dose of fun, is vital for success.

For over twenty years, Elizabeth has nourished a steady stream of FTSE 100 companies, professional services, and charities, providing one-to-one and group coaching in key areas relating to interpersonal communication, personal impact, and executive presence. Whether international sports stars, CEOs of global corporations, or graduates on the career path, her clients’ concerns are around connecting with their audience and presenting themselves clearly, confidently, and credibly. Elizabeth’s combination of advanced degrees, a career in the performing arts, expertise in administering psychometric instruments and a passion for personal best are some of the reasons clients turn to her for support.

She’s been compared to an Olympic athlete who never gives up, equated to a pit bull because she never lets go, and likened to a radiator because she generates warmth.  She is often quoted in the media addressing issues concerning confidence, image, voice, body language, and public speaking skills.

Her international best-selling book, Body Language for Dummies, is available at bookstores and Amazon. It is currently published in the USA, UK, Australia, Germany, Poland, Bulgaria and The Netherlands and is going into a second edition. Elizabeth's second book,Persuasion and Influence For Dummies, is due for publication on 21st October 2011.

Katie Morris

Finance Department, Online Marketing Manager

Katie joined Kuhnke Communication in June 2010 having completed her BA in Modern History and International Politics. Katie holds an MA in European Politics which she applies with reasonable success to navigating office politics. As our in-house ESFJ Katie is happiest in the land of detail and completion. When not immersed in research, Katie looks after her miniature shetlands, fancies herself as Nigella Lawson and dreams of holidays in far-flung places

Charlotte Moberly

Personal Assistant

Charlotte joined Kuhnke Communication in November 2010 as PA to Elizabeth and has quickly developed a reputation as the 'Office IT Queen'.  Charlotte manages the on-line email campaigns and office administration. This is her first job since graduating from Oxford Media and Business school in July 2010, having travelled to India and Thailand in her Gap Year after leaving school. Loves getting involved in charity events and regularly helps out the Henley NSPCC and the Chiltern Centre.

Tom Bradford

Financial Director

Tom is the head of the finance department at Kuhnke Communication. He is a chartered accountant and was for twenty years a partner in a London firm of practitioners. Despite controlling the purse strings for a team of enthusiastic ladies, he still has a full head of hair!

Karl Kuhnke

Technical Support

Karl is a German national, a mechanical engineer by trade who has lived in England for 40 years and now divides his time between the Henley on Thames Rotary Club, his pride and joy [a Renault 4cv], sailing, and catering to the technical whims of a team of very demanding ladies!

Dexter Moscow

Over the last 40 years Dexter has gained substantial expertise working and coaching at the highest level in the Property, advertising, sales, and entertainment industries. 

His work with Reed International, the Dale Carnegie organisation and his live appearances, presenting and selling £millions worth of products for major organisations on QVC The Shopping Channel, informs his unique approach to corporate communication, selling ideas and influencing skills. 

As a keynote speaker and business coach, those working 1-2-1 with him and attending his presentations and sales courses have gained heightened communication abilities, new insights and increased confidence in ‘selling’, themselves and their business proposition.

 As a TV personality he specialises in coaching people to achieve communication excellence and conducts influencing excellence and master influencing excellence seminars.

Utilising and coaching innovative and empowering processes such as Tony Buzan’s Mind Mapping system, visualisation Memory Stacks and Mnemonic methods he motivates his delegates to think outside the box, develop original ideas and have the confidence to implement them.

These interactive workshops focus on consultative and ‘Personal Sales’ skills in all aspects of that term and ‘How to sell to an invisible audience’ using a unique system The 7 keys to P.E.R.F.E.C.T. communication, a process to win more business.

Graduates of these courses are empowered to persuade, engage and develop instant rapport with a diverse audience resulting in effective communication, ‘buy in’ from colleagues, more sales and greater brand recognition.

Working with major organisations, individuals and teams he has positively impacted turnover and profitability and an individual’s ability to positively influence others.

Claire Snowdon

Claire’s specialty is in the support and training of expats and their families on behalf of Corporates. Claire specialises in cross-cultural training and the delivery of programs for individuals and their families going to live and work abroad in China, Hong Kong, India, Sri Lanka, Israel, Portugal or coming into the UK – S. England/Oxfordshire.

Claire is a British National and has extensive expat experience; having lived and worked in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Far East over a period of 20 years, and from her eventual repatriation to Oxfordshire in the UK in 2008.

During her time overseas she worked as a senior executive managing change programmes and culturally diverse groups and has also trained, placed and supported cross-functional teams across China, Egypt, Jordan, India, Indonesia, Madagascar, Maldives, Pakistan and Swaziland.

As well as her overseas business experience and professional degree, Claire is an experienced coach and mentor. She holds a certificate in cross-cultural training and is also a certified trainer on Argonaut™, an online intercultural assessment tool and uses this assessment tool for virtual team training.

Claire developed her high-level business and management experience working in both the U.K and U.S retail sector. She has worked on multi-million dollar programmes for a Fortune 500 company in Portugal, Israel, Sri Lanka and as a Group Director based in Hong Kong, where she led a large team of associates, located in Hong Kong, South China and Sri Lanka.

Claire has a passion for travel and diverse cultures and continues to follow her life-long ambition, to visit all the Wonders of the World - ancient, modern, forgotten and natural.

Simon North

Simon is an experienced businessman, coach and career guide.

His focus is on guiding individuals through a process that he developed some years ago to enable a full consideration of one’s talent and experience and how to ensure that it is utilised effectively ad happily into our elder years. Having developed the approach and framework, Simon now leads other professionals to work with increasing numbers of individuals from many different professional spheres. Simon is responsible for creating the capability and capacity and also maintaining the standards of the guides and coaches with Position Ignition.

Simon’s 30 year career started in HR and has encompassed sales and marketing, operational and general management, consulting and more independent working as director of start-ups and as a non-executive director. He has worked for Rolls-Royce, Shell International, Price Waterhouse, KPMG and IBM, and a range of smaller businesses. Throughout he has developed increasingly effective processes for leading and guiding individuals through their career options and aspirations

Simon’s leader roles include HR Directorships, Operations Directorships, Managing and Group Managing Directorships as well as founder director of 3 companies. He has held Non-Executive Director positions and also chaired a school’s governing body. He has also worked in interim management and in recent years has worked as a coach, mentor and advisor to both large and small businesses.

Simon’s real interest in helping individuals with their transitions started when as a young professional starting out in HR. His own career choices were opened up for him early and he realised the importance of being in control of your own working life, His work in the late 1980s explored the relationship between an individual and their organisational environment and the impact of individual’s working in teams.  Consistently personal issues impacted on individual performance at work leading to a series of challenges; all of which were manageable in the right context.

Patrick Bird

Patrick is an executive coach with a difference.  His unique background includes extensive coaching experience and qualifications, a successful corporate career in Finance and Projects at board level and a postgraduate acting qualification.

Patrick understands the complex role of senior managers and Directors and is confident in his ability to adapt his approach according to their needs. This background is a credible starting point for meeting and working with high achievers in multifaceted organisations.  

He works with major organisations and professional firms both in the UK and internationally using one to one coaching, bespoke skills workshops, simulation  and facilitated group thinking around business challenges. His training as a professional actor brings in another dimension and adds to his corporate and coaching experience with creativity and a natural rapport building style.

Patrick is passionate that in a very competitive and changing business environment excellent technical skills must be complimented by excellent leadership, personal and communication skills to ensure improved performance and satisfaction of the individual and the organisation.  He shares this passion by speaking and presenting at conferences and events around these topics.

Haider Imam

With over $75,000,000 return on investment amassed for clients solely over the last two years, UK Sales Trainer of the Year 2007 Haider 'Hedda' Imam is fast becoming the UK's 'go-to expert' in the field of ethical influence, from global enterprises to the person on-the-street.

Whether it's through his high-energy experiential keynotes, workshops or realtime coaching, his clients have far too much fun learning cutting-edge, practical skills and strategies that boost their sales, negotiation and leadership results, rapidly and measurably (very often with more than 500% increases reported in just one week). As a celebrated innovator in brain friendly sales & negotiation training, Haider brings a leading-edge array of research, materials & styles to play including Social Psychology, NLP, Behavioural Economics and Neuroscience as well as material from some of the world's best business schools and minds.

Haider's career in sales & negotiation has seen him working at various levels of seniority in industries ranging from technology to real estate, from consulting to leisure and tourism in both B2B and B2C contexts. Haider's is the author of '47 Moments of Inspiration - a field-book for Leaders, Facilitators and Coaches' now available on Amazon and receiving rave reviews from decision-makers in organisations. His hotly anticipated second book, 'Asking for Stuff' is due for release in 2011'.

Jacqueline Harris

Jacqueline is an international business and people development consultant, coach, facilitator and trainer.  She specialises in growing organisations by growing the people within the business.

All of her training and coaching is bespoke and she offers indoor experiential workshops along with a unique outdoor 'Breath of Fresh Air' approach.

Jaqueline initially spent sixteen years in the banking profession before joining a training company where she became Head of Business Development Training and then setting up her own business eight years ago. When not working, Jaqueline loves to grow plants as well as people and is her element in her garden or out walking through the countryside.  She dances through life - having met her husband at dance classes, enjoys cooking and practices yoga for her mind and her body.





Kate Burton

Kate is an Executive Coach and writer who is passionate about people working in a sustainable way, a topic explored in her popular book 'Live Life. Love Work'.

Following a career in corporate advertising and marketing in Hewlett-Packard, Kate established her own communications company in the 1980s.  She has onsulted with and coached within organisations across industries and cultures – orporations suh as Microsoft, KPMG, GlaxoSmithKline, SwisRe, Cardinal Health, Fidelity, DeutschePost, PWC, TNT Post and Waitrose, as well as leaders in the public sector, Government, small and medium enterprises and private entrepreneurs.

She is a master NLP oach, accreditited to PCC level with the International Coach Federation. She delivers custom-built leadership workshops.  Key areas range from personal effectiveness, goal setting, influening, presentations, dynamic business writing and motivation to coaching skills and self confidence. Kate has written five books in personal development and areer management published by John Wiley including; 'Live Life. Love Work', 'Coaching with NLP for Dummies', 'Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) for Dummies', 'Building Self Confidence for Dummies', 'Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Workbook for Dummies'. She likes to coach executives out of their offices and leads creative retreats in the UK, Italy and Cyprus which combine writing, coaching and yoga.

Jack Milner

Jack's unique approach delivers success every time. His focus is about taking away the stuff that gets in the way of you presenting at your best, creating modern, confident, natural communicators and lasting business success

His workshops will inspire you, have lasting impact and are more fun than is reasonable to expect on any training course!

Jack was once known as the UK’s top comedy coach. He ran workshops for the Ambassadors Theatre Group, The National Theatre, Channel 4 and ITV amongst many others. He reckons to have run over 1,200 comedy and stand up workshops and seen an assortment of over 15,000 comedians, wannabe comedians and even don’t wannabe comedians

Annie Richardson

Annie has been a coach and facilitator for the past 12 years. She has extensive experience in both the public and private sectors and a strong practical business orientation.

Annie’s passion for people drives her real desire to help them achieve their full potential and her exceptional listening skills make her a very effective coach, incisive and direct, driving to the heart of issues. Annie is renowned for connecting quickly with people and forming transformational coaching interventions, she has the ability to combine challenge with warmth and focus with sensitivity. She has lots of energy and establishes powerful partnerships that support her clients to achieve outstanding results. Her coaching profile is best described as executive coaching to improve performance, developing a client’s awareness and personal skills alongside business expertise to improve boardroom and management relationships.

Annie has over 25 year’s business experience. She has held the positions of regional Director of Housing for a major UK Housing Association, Senior Principle Consultant for the UK’s largest IT Services Company and two board positions. She has both coached and designed development workshops around Europe and the USA, frequently working with organizations with global presence. She enjoys both working with individuals and groups and has supported organisations’ initiatives to adopt coaching cultures.

Judy Apps

Judy Apps is an international voice specialist, experienced coach, author and conference speaker.

She has spent many years unravelling the secrets of how great leaders inspire and coaches people from all walks of life – from leaders of major international corporations to politicians, media people, coaches and all who want to speak and communicate with more influence. She’s passionate about voice, knowing that developing your voice you grow in confidence and miracles begin to happen in your life. She combines a thorough vocal knowledge with a whole mind-body approach that’s fascinating and highly effective.

Judy is the author of Voice of Influence – How to get people to love to listen to you -  “a fascinating mind-body approach to finding your authentic voice and expressing yourself with integrity, presence and passion.” Her second book Butterflies and Sweaty Palms - How to Speak and Present with Confidence gives you 25 sure-fire ways to overcome performance anxiety and is available on Amazon from autumn 2011.

Judy’s energy and humour are infectious, and her dynamic techniques and highly intuitive way of connecting with people’s inner potential have enabled hundreds to achieve easily great leaps in their speaking, charisma and above all confidence.

Graham Oddey

Graham has over 25 years’ experience of leading organisational performance transformations, both as a line manager and as a consultant.

He has worked for over 65 organisations across multiple sectors. He specialises in:

Change Leadership - His unique approach integrates core disciplines (stakeholder engagement, communication, training, organisation design/development, transition management and benefits realisation) with leadership development, practical culture alignment, talent management and succession planning, which are critical to achieve sustainability

Leadership Development - He is the only UK consultant offering the decision making approach developed at Yale School of Management by Professor Victor Vroom, which has been shown to double decision making effectiveness. His design and implementation of Management Control Frameworks turn strategy into daily action, measure and report results and correct variances. Through coaching and mentoring.

Business Performance Improvement through his uniquely flexible and economical approach, structured methods (including Lean Six Sigma), and creating and facilitating high performance teams

Graham lives in the Cotswolds where he enjoys exercising his dogs and indulging his passions for mountain biking, watching motor sport and eating good food.

Working With Kuhnke

At Kuhnke Communication we are committed to providing the right person for each and every customer project. Very often this is our own staff. However, if our customer requires a specific skill which is outside of our capacity, or our in-house staff are unavailable, then we look to our network of associates to provide the additional skills.

Our aim is to develop and invest in a network of associates who have skills and experiences that complement our work, a proven track record of delivering high quality results, with whom we have a professional working relationship. We are keen to establish and develop relationships with our associates; we need to be able to work effectively together and guarantee quality and reliability to our customers.
Our aim is to become the preferred supplier of choice to our customers in all manner of training and development. All associates will be engaged under the Kuhnke Communication brand and programme content and style of delivery will be overseen by Kuhnke Communication.

The type of people that we engage as associates are, broadly:

Training & Coaching professionals: able to provide skills and experiences which support our core work in one or more of our programmes. These professionals will generally work alongside our in-house staff and bring skills in technical areas such as:

• Leadership Skills

• Presentation Skills

• Diversity Programmes

• Confidence & Credibility

• Executive Alignment

• Team Development including virtual teams

• Change Management

Programme specialists: who we engage to work independently on specific projects, under the Kuhnke Communication brand. From time to time, customers will request specific programmes from Kuhnke Communication which are specific and only require the needs of one trainer. This work will be assigned to an associate with the relevant skills and experience to support this requirement.

If you feel that your skills and experience would complement our business, then we want to hear from you. Please email Elizabeth Kuhnke at elk@kuhnkecommunication for further information.