Andy Harrison

“I love it when role plays morph into real plays. It quickly becomes a process that reaches those parts of us few other methods can touch. We home in on what’s happening at the deepest level – be it for a junior manager or a CEO. It takes us to the heart of the matter.”

Andy has extensive experience as a film, TV and stage actor and voice over artist and has worked for more than 20 years for corporates as well as charities, Government and the Army to support their training and coaching projects. He is also an experienced presenter in all media and has had commissions writing for radio, theatre and the corporate sector.

Training & Experience

Andy has been involved in management training programmes working with clients across all hierarchy levels. He has a track record of immersing himself in often highly complex contexts and subject matters ranging from accounting through to policy making, from sales techniques to trauma support. He has led seminars, workshops and one-on-one sessions in presence and impact development, client management and leadership training.

Credientials

While maintaining a successful career as an actor, Andy began working with the corporate sector in 1997. His first engagement was as compère to NAPP Pharmaceuticals’ International Conference in Rome and for The Motivation Business before moving into sales and marketing training for NAPP. In the last 20 years he has supported the roll-out of a comprehensive learning programme with PwC both for the UK and the East European Market and has worked on numerous other training projects including Mercer, BBC, Oracle, Adullam Housing, FCA (formerly Office of Fair Trading), Saga, Sahara Chemicals and Cancer Research UK. Andy also writes and performs bespoke entertainment material with a cutting edge pertinent to the specific challenges of the client.

Examples of recent work

Andy has an ongoing contract with The Army training in pastoral and listening skills as well as leadership training. He is currently working with Waverley Learning in training sessions for Mercer Investment and continues in his career as actor, writer, presenter and voice over artist. He has completed four tours to 29 colleges in the USA of his solo show “Mr Darwin’s Tree” by Murray Watts, and will soon embark on a second tour there of their new show: “Fire from Heaving – Michael Faraday and the dawn of the electrical age.

Waverley Learning are very vested in what they’re doing, very committed. They’re dynamic individually and collectively, they are 100% invested to the learners when they go into a program, it really is a sense of ownership of the experience that I don’t necessarily always see with every other vendor or learning partner that we use.

Lisa Smisek - Director of Learning, Kearney

There’s a credibility and a humility that you just sense when you’re engaging with Waverley Learning. I’m personally very drawn to that.

Karen Brown - Director of People and Talent, Tearfund

It is the extent to which Waverley Learning understood all the requirements, the innovation that they brought, the talent they brought. Their whole style takes the frantic pace at which we work out of the equation, the messages comes through really clearly. They’ve tuned into the challenges of our organization and made observations that have given us added value. It’s always based on our needs.

Alison Maher - Head of Learning, GWR

Their Developing Skills course consistently gets the best feedback of any standard developmental course that we offer. They’re clearly doing something right in terms of engagement, for those individuals to realise their own development within that situation. Waverley Learning listen to what’s going on, the chats that they’re having with my colleagues. They’re able to play that back, this is what’s going on in your business. As an organization, they provide great insight into to us.

John Probert - Director, Mercer

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Andy Harrison

Andy Harrison

Background

Training & Experience

Credientials

Examples of recent work