Stephen's BIOGRAPHY

Stephen James Brown’s unique method of ‘Training with films’ offers a compulsive and dynamic learning curve with challenging and dynamic sessions, proven results and happy and satisfied clients.

For Stephen, communicating and engaging with people has been the cornerstone of his professional life. His acclaimed work as a celebrant, after-dinner speaker and life-skills trainer has taken him all over the UK and abroad. Stephen Brown’s work as a civil celebrant and former Anglican priest integrates well with his work as a trainer and speaker.

His passion for and experience of communication with people from all walks of life has resulted in a successful and busy programme, not only within the commercial sector, but also spread over a wide spectrum of groups and organisations.

Stephen uses various methods to stimulate people and to get them to be creative, confident and where applicable, make them useful team players, so that they work together more successfully and enjoyably.

He endeavours to bring out the best in people and help them to progress, in career situations and in life and organisation-skills generally.

He also appears regularly on television and radio, most notably with Aled Jones on his BBC Radio 2 programme ‘Good Morning Sunday’. Stephen also writes frequently for the religious press and occasionally pens articles for the Yorkshire Post, Sight and Sound etc, as well as making appearances on local and national television.

Training with films
Training with Films has become a much sought-after method of introducing groups and individuals to a visual experience and entertaining way of becoming confident and using skills waiting to be tapped.

Stephen’s expertise in movies and television, frequently writing, broadcasting and teaching on these subjects enables me to inspire my audience to produce and develop skills which may be dormant and just waiting to be teased out.

He puts training and films together and pioneers exciting, entertaining and effective methods through which groups and individuals deepen and acquire life and organisational skills.

Feedback and repeat business indicate that presentations are popular and successful. Every endeavor is taken to ensure that presentations comply with management requests, in the case of business requirements, and all enquiries are welcome.

For example, building trust:

• How The Bourne Ultimatum can assist communication in your organisation
• Taking account of The Devil Wears Prada factor in production
• Using Pretty Woman to help improve industrial relations
• Identifying individual and corporate values through James Bond

‘When we are entertained, we are stimulated and thus predisposed to learning’.