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	Dave Smith

Dave founded Inner Business with fellow partner Marian Moriarty in 1995. He has has strong roots in creativity, innovation and human process. His considerable experience in the softer skills is balanced by a background in the physical sciences. Dave worked in Research and Development before entering the world of consultancy. Accordingly Dave has well-developed skills in creative thinking, connecting with and motivating people coupled with an enormous capacity for dealing with complexity and rational thinking. One of Dave’s particular strengths is in creating new processes and programmes. He makes full use of his particular skills and abilities to create elegant and powerful consultancy and training solutions to meet clients’ needs. These abilities prove especially valuable during workshops and training programmes when the unexpected happens, Dave is able to reinvent the process of the workshop to meet changing requirements. History Dave has an Honours Degree in Applied Biology and has additional qualifications in Microbiology, Quantitative Biology and NLP. He is also a qualified karate instructor and scuba diving instructor. Dave worked for Unilever Research for 15 years exploring areas as diverse as human tissue culture, nuclear magnetic resonance and packaging research. Towards the end of his time at Unilever he ran a product evaluation laboratory and, finally, filled an internal consultancy role combining technical and scientific knowledge with in-depth understanding of consumers’ needs and motivations. His final role in Unilever lead Dave into the world of consulting, he ultimately left to join an established international consultancy in 1988. During that time he rose to become a member of the European Management team. Dave holds very strong beliefs about individuals’ power to have an impact on the world around them and to dictate the course of their own future. In pursuit of his own personal goals and in a spirit of walking-the-talk he set up Inner Business in 1995 since when the company has moved from strength to strength establishing an impeccable reputation with clients both in the UK and internationally. Outside of work Dave keeps fit, he swims and surfs regularly as well as being a keen scuba diver.

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