Tom Venning
Leadership Trainer, Moderator & Coach for Human-Centered Change
Tom Venning
Leadership Trainer, Moderator & Coach for Human-Centered Change
Leadership - My Vision
I believe in leadership ...
A Leaders Purpose in Society
A Leaders Purpose in Society
I believe strongly in leadership because it is one of the most important competencies for creating a more humane world and a healthy environment. Everything I do as a leadership trainer, moderator and coach is designed for that purpose.
A Leaders Purpose in Society
A Leaders Purpose in Society
A Leaders Purpose in Society
I strongly believe that leadership in businesses sets a precedent and acts as a role model. Good leaders positively influence the lives of the people around them. They raise employees’ standards and expectations about what's normal business behaviour. In turn, employees carry those expectations and role models back into their communities and families. I believe this network effect has a broad, positive impact on society.
Leaders Serve Followers
A Leaders Purpose in Society
Leaders Shape Organisations
Supportive leaders are excellent listeners, communicators and coaches. They help people to understand themselves, develop mastery, and be fulfilled and inspired when working towards great ideas. Leaders help people see their contribution to the bigger picture and gain more from being part of a healthy community. They develop individual and systemic resilience to help everyone feel comfortable and empowered in challenging environments.
Leaders Shape Organisations
Leaders Shape Organisations
Leaders Shape Organisations
Leaders shape organisations with purpose, values and vision. They nurture organisational agility, ambidexterity and learning by enabling fluid collaboration, experimentation and empowerment. Leaders create systems that are fast, effective, resilient and successful in a rapidly evolving, complex and unpredictable world.
Leadership Competencies
Leaders Shape Organisations
Leadership Competencies
I believe that good leaders are driven by curiosity and the desire to shape things larger than themselves. To do so they are self-reflective, authentic and honest. They thrive on self-development through open feedback, experimentation and an adaptive mindset.
My Role
Leaders Shape Organisations
Leadership Competencies
I'm a very small part of a very large system. I'm very happy and honoured to play my role in enabling leaders, at all hierarchical levels, to work towards their full potential and contribute to more effective and humane world.
Work Experience
Specialised in
International Experience
International Experience
I am a business trainer, meeting moderator and coach specialized in B2B Sales, Leadership and Change. This special experience comes from over 30 years of working globally with technology driven multinationals. My major clients have included IBM, Astellas, Henkel, BASF, Kuehne+Nagel, TGW, Miba, Rosenbauer, Fronius, etc.
International Experience
International Experience
International Experience
My international business experience and interest in different cultures started from birth and developed as I moved around the world, living in eight countries and traveling & working extensively on five continents and sailing many seas.
Industry Experience
International Experience
Industry Experience
I've worked main in Information Technology, Pharmaceuticals, Consumer goods, Industrial machinery and Logistics.
My major clients have included IBM, Astellas, Henkel, BASF, Kuehne+Nagel, TGW, Miba, Rosenbauer, Fronius, etc.
Working Style
Outside of Business
Industry Experience
My working style is energetic, enthusiastic, entertaining and very active. While being an excellent presenter, my interventions into sales teams and leadership cultures are never frontal lectures. Instead they are based strongly on group involvement, rich visual and holistic experiences, actionable results and a lot of fun.
Languages I speak
Outside of Business
Outside of Business
I'm a native English speaker who has always lived and worked with non-native English speakers ... so my English is clear and easy to understand. I'm also fluent in German... so I know what it is like to live and work in a foreign language.
Outside of Business
Outside of Business
Outside of Business
Outside of business, I once had an art career exhibiting across Europe and USA … now I’m an artist, a dedicated family man, active in sport, a sailor (I’ve built my own yacht) and always ready for travel and adventure.
Since 2014
Since 2014
Since 2014
Leadership and Leading Change. Leading oneself, teams and organisations. Leading in times of uncertainty, complexity & rapid change. Coaching senior leaders, middle management and teams. Moderating & Coaching Change initiatives and meetings.
Since 1999
Since 2014
Since 2014
B2B sales, sales management & sales leadership, soft skills, managing complex sales, account & opportunity planning, saving a lost sale / client. Managing & leading sales teams.
Facilitating large complex meetings & change processes. Sales planning, strategic planning & implementation, change management, digital transformation, teaming.
Since 1996
Since 2014
Since 1996
Sales Coaching. Coaching sales people and teams, Key Account Managers, Sales Managers and Senior Leaders. Soft skill training - Presentations, negotiations, communication.
Visually Rich
My training, facilitation and coaching is special because its visual, business focused and pragmatic. Visualisation helps people get an overview of complex problems. This helps them see connections, challenge their own perspective, plan and lead more effectively.
I spent 15 years as an artist, specialising in graphically correct ink paintings of humans and other animals. This practice sharpened my observation skills, attention to detail, as part of the big picture, and the ability to construct and work with complex images in my mind, before transferring them to paper. I deliberately applied this thinking style to business in order to communicate more effectively, and to benefit individuals and teams by helping them develop and use the same skill.
