Nearly three decades of executive coaching and pitch/presentation rehearsal directing has given Deena Gornick sharp insight in to the practice of Presentation and Impact as a physical skill. Prior to this work, Deena was an actress and theatre director whose personal journey battling fear and stage fright brought her to facilitate others using their fear as an engine. In 1984 she left her native US to study classical theatre in London, where she has since continued to live, discover, learn and work.

Fascinated by her own idea that confidence is not a feeling, but a behaviour, Deena trained to be a psychotherapist at the Psychosynthesis and Education Trust in London. Gaining the psychological literacy she desired she began coaching performance before coaching became a recognised discipline. In 1995 she qualified as a Practitioner of NLP (Nuero Linguistic Programming).

What began as a passion for presentation skills and inspiring passion for performance grew to an in depth understanding for the facilitation of assertiveness, team building, leadership, and confidence building. She runs training events from one-to-one, to one-to-2,000 on these themes. Deena is an experiential and inspirational leader and coach, inspired by her deep belief in the potential of every individual.  Deena prides herself on innovative events.

Deena is a regular speaker at international speaker events, where her presentations are always of an experiential and inspirational nature. Deena believes passionately that learning should be fun and this is borne out by client feedback. Creating a challenging and

safe environment where clients are able to take risks and explore their potential, Deena’s warm style is informed by her fifteen years’ experience as an actor and theatre director.

Laughter is a massive learning tool, and she insists her participants learn through this

vital tool. She has worked with literally every level within an organisation and brings her degree of insight from a vast degree of experience into her coaching and leadership development programmes.

Within her 1;1 Executive Coaching practise she has coached top level executive to board level women and men across the corporate space working regularly with such organisations as: HSBC, Barclays, Oliver Wyman, Baringa, Redbull, Boston Consulting Group, RBS, Worldpay, M&G Investments, Bond Dickinson and Allianz. Deena has also designed and delivered several long term Mentor Development programs in the global banking sector. 

Mentoring is easily confused with therapy, counseling or coaching. It is a different, but equally wonderful skill and offering. In this highly interactive experiential event participants learn:

• The difference between the above skills 
• How to create a powerful boundaried alliance for both the mentee and mentor: contracting
• Rapport Skills
• Listening 
• Ask Tell Continuum 
• Asking Questions 
• GROW model 
• How to Mentor 

They leave with deeper awareness of the craft of mentoring. They leave with confidence in their ability to skill fully deliver mentoring. They leave with renewed self awareness. 

Deena is currently writing a book about her personal journey with confidence aiming to make the physical practice of presence achievable to its readers.

Education, Awards and Professional Affiliations

University of California at Los Angeles, BA in Theatre Arts, Los Angeles, California

Post Graduate Diploma Webber Douglas School of Drama, London

Practitioner Qualification in NLP, Pace Personal Development, London

Professional Coaching Diploma, Coaching Development, London

Recipient of National Training Award

Active Member of International Coaching Federation

Qualified Emotional Intelligence Assessor (EQi)

Qualified Team Management Assessor (TMSDI)

Client types/Levels of Engagement: CEO, FD, MD, SVP, VP, CIO, Manager, Mid-Manager