Christopher Croft

Chris Croft is one of the UK’s leading trainers and provides a wide variety of courses designed to involve, inspire and motivate people of all levels. To date Chris has trained some 87 000 people and enjoys a 94% rate of repeat business. Chris is also a successful author, with his first book ‘Time Management’ was published in 1996 to wide acclaim and has since been followed by fourteen others. His tip of the month email goes out regularly to over 10,000 people. Recently he has also been making videos - there are more than 80 on his YouTube channel which has 2000 subscribers and half a million views, and he is featured on www.lynda.com, the world’s largest and probably best management training video site. He has also created his own on-line project management course. Self-employed trainer since 1997. Designed and presented training courses for 4 years as a Senior Lecturer at Bournemouth University Business School. Chris has worked with organizations like Lotus Cars, Sunseeker, EBAC, Baxi, Naim Audio, Modus Workspace, Lakesmere, Slingco, Go-Ahead group, ISS, Vistage International, Bournemouth, Wiltshire, Harrow, Bristol, Bath, Stoke, Salisbury, Ealing, Southampton, 4-Sight, Lineartron, The Technology Partnership, Roke (Chemring), Civil Aviation Authority, Ecclesiastical Insurance, Winchester & Poole Hospitals, Dorset Healthcare Trust, The GMC, Aster Housing, Sounth Downs NPA. In year 2000 Chris designed a Best Value communication pack and presented at a national conference organized by the I.D.E.A. on Best Value. He designed and ran a series of Development Centres for London Borough of Harrow in order to assess the commercial skills of their senior managers, with custom-built exercises to test the competencies that they have identified as important. In 2001 Chris started presenting sessions for Vistage International (or TEC as it was known back then) - Vistage is a CEO development organization, very high quality, only using the best speakers in the world. In 2003 Chris began running Certificate in Management (CMS) and Diploma in Management Studies (DMS) courses validated by Edexcel. He wrote and published pocket books on Sales, Project Management, and Time Management. In 2004 Chris ran the first Diploma program for ISS, the world’s best outsourcing company - 500,000 employees. In 2011 Chris was awarded the “Exceptional Value” Award by Vistage - for ten years of consistently-valued training of groups of managing directors and chief executives in Project Management, Time Management, and Negotiation Skills. im.