Our people

We have a dedicated, experienced and friendly team of professionals ready to assist you in achieving your business goals. Please contact James Dunne on +44 7735 336 389 or email him to discuss your needs.

Our key people: Directors

Dean van Leeuwen

Founder of TomorrowToday (UK & Europe)
International Expert on the Future of Work
Presenter, Consultant and Intellectual adventurer

Dean van Leeuwen – is an intellectual adventurer, scholar of the new world of work and customer experience alchemist. He has an insatiable appetite for exploring how businesses can become more successful and increasingly contribute to society. His real gift is an ability to take complex information and identify creative, innovative and practical ideas. A sought after speaker and consultant, Dean challenges conventional wisdom revealing striking new realities and his approachable style quickly engages audiences leaving them wanting more. Dean enjoys mountain biking, scuba diving, strong coffee and good wines.

Dean is an expert on the future of work and business innovation. He has over 17 years experience working in marketing, project innovations and strategy departments for leading companies such as HBOS, AXA and Mckinsey. Because Dean intimately understands corporate and entrepreneurial life he relates to you and your delegates business needs and is able to tailor his approach to meet them.

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Dr Graeme Codrington

Co-Founder of TomorrowToday
International Expert on the New World of Work
Presenter, Author and Consultant

Dr Graeme Codrington is an internationally recognised expert on the new world of work, a well-respected futurist, author of a number of best-selling books published by Penguin, a strategist and professional speaker. Having worked for KPMG and in the IT industry in the 1990s, Graeme discovered he had a passion for understanding how companies connected with people from different ages. This resulted in an award winning study on Generations and forming the business consultancy, TomorrowToday.

He works in a wide range of industries as a consultant and presenter and presents to over 100,000 people a year, sharing the platform with the likes of Edward de Bono, Allan Pease, Sir Ken Robinson, Jonas Ridderstrale and Neil Armstrong. He has a passion for helping people understand why things are changing, and what to do about it, in their personal and professional lives. When he isn’t trying to change the world of work, he can found enjoying time with his wife and three daughters, playing the trumpet (he spent two years as a professional musician, becoming lead trumpeter of the SA Air Force NSM orchestra) or watching cricket.

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Catherine Garland

Catherine Garland is a market research professional with 20 years experience and has held numerous leadership roles, most recently as Managing Director of GfK NOP Research Panels. Embracing the new world of work in true X-er stye, in 2010 she left full-time corporate employment to find a more flexible and fulfilling way of working. Now heading up TomorrowToday’s Innovation and Futures Research Lab, Catherine brings her friendly nature and incredible expertise into overseeing our global research strategy plus the day-to-day operations of our research and insights projects. Catherine lives in Surrey with her family and enjoys bootcamping, watching her kids play sport and fundraising for community projects.

Other key people

James Dunne

James is an accomplished manager and business development professional with experience as MD of a number of businesses, including most recently a printing company and a green startup company providing sustainability solutions. James has a passion for helping his clients find solutions that make a real difference to their bottom line. He is married with two children and lives in SW London.

John Sweeney

John has over 40 years’ experience in market research and marketing, working for an impressive array of companies including Nielsen and GfK where he was General Manager. For the past nine years John has worked as a consultant using his wide range of experience  for organisations such as the BBC and Talksport, developing GfK’s presence in the Irish market and setting up internet panels for measuring telecoms. John is married and lives in Stratford upon Avon, where he is sometimes seen at the golf course or the theatre.

“Thank you sincerely for a first class presentation. In 16 years of running events for our members, this was the best presentation on future trends we’ve ever had. Many of our members have requested your details and I am sure you’ll be back in Ireland soon.”
David Fitzsimons, Chief Executive Officer, Retail Excellence Ireland

International Speakers

Keith Coats

As our leadership specialist, Keith’s skills lie in his ability to deliver appropriate leadership solutions. Keith has been at the heart of the global leadership conversation for over 15 years in an array of settings, including academic, corporate, charity and government. Keith is a highly regarded presenter and has consulted, presented and taught in countries including China, Russia, the United States, Sweden, Austria, Vietnam, the United Kingdom and Namibia. Keith, at the request of HM The King of Sweden presented at the Values Based Leadership Forum at the Royal Palace, Stockholm in 2008. Keith is on the International Advisory Board of the Global Leaders Conference; has been involved in the Asia Pacific Leadership Program at the East West Center, Hawaii for nearly a decade and is a member of the Salzburg Seminars having attended two sessions on leadership.

The depth of Keith’s knowledge and experience in various leadership contexts is a valued treasure in TomorrowToday and has enabled us to craft highly successful, effective and compelling processes for leadership at various levels within organisations. Keith is a leading world expert on leadership and leading diversity.

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Mike Saunders

An internet strategy consultant by day, and blogger by night, Mike is the guru on all things digital and provides training, presentations, and consulting on marketing strategy, social media, social business and networking, blogging, internet and email marketing, new media and technologies, and the new world of work.

His vision for social media in the marketplace is to see organisations effectively using digital media to communicate online – increasing their reach, influence and productivity. He fulfills this vision in his consulting role, as well as in his capacity as a speaker, where he shares his expertise in the fields of internet marketing and social media. Mike helps organisations build digital campaigns, engaging people online and building communities around brands.

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Partners and associates

See also our partners and associates here, and specifically those companies we have a specialist consulting partnership with.