About Lorna
THE LEGEND THAT IS
CELEBRATING
35 YEARS
running my business
Working in
29 COUNTRIES
TRAINING/COACHING
OVER 100 000 PEOPLE
1991
2026
Introduction to
LORNA D. SHELDON
A.L.A.M., F.I.T.C., lct.,
Lorna’s career path has been exciting, challenging and rewarding. Her early career saw her taking over and running an engineering company in crisis, taking it from the brink of disaster to a successful and profitable company. Joining the charity world Lorna first achieved £2 million in 12 months for Sense. This was followed by the Foundation for Conductive Education as their National Funding Director where a further initial £1.5million was raised in the first 12 months. Lorna also achieved the largest amount ever given by BBC Children in Need for a capital project – not once but twice!
Invited to take up the position of first Chief Executive at Birmingham Forward, Lorna worked with a team of people to take the early development of this organisation towards greater and wider acknowledgement of the professional and financial service firms in Birmingham; the challenge was to promote Birmingham U.K. both nationally and throughout Europe.
Lorna left Birmingham Forward to set up her own company in 1991. Lorna’s company offers high-level professional training/coaching programmes to all business sectors. These programmes come under the heading of COMMUNICATION SKILLS and include Presentation Skills, Effective Communication, Public Speaking, Media Television and Radio Interviews and preparation.
Clients in the UK include Coutts, BT, Lloyds TSB, 3M UK, Mitsui & Co UK, E. ON, Barclays Bank plc, W H Smith, Glaxo SmithKline, Deloitte, The DVLA, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Pizza Hut, Halfords, The Home Office, Oxford University MBA’s and many more well-known names. Overseas clients include The Henkel Group, E-ON, Yum Europe and Coca-Cola.
Lorna has now worked in 29 countries including South Africa, Canada, the Bahamas, Germany, France, Ireland, Holland, America, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Dubai, Bahrain, Malawi,, Singapore and worked with people from Saudi Arabia to name a few, enhancing communication on a global basis. Lorna has coached/trained well over 100 000 people in the 35 years since setting up her business. She stopped counting in 2010!!
First Female Fellow of the Institute of Directors in the Midlands, a Member of the Westminster Club, a Member of the Institute of Marketing, a Council Member of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce and Industry, an International Licensed Corporate Trainer for International Training in Communication and Founder of the Birmingham UK and Lichfield UK Speaking Clubs together with being a Founder Member of The Professional Speakers’ Association UK. And a previous Director and Trustee of Abbots Bromley School.
Lorna is a qualified public speaker with over 35 years’ experience both in speaking herself and in the development of others. She won a Midlands Excellence in Marketing Award, was runner up in the UK National Businesswoman of the Year contest and voted Network Midlands Businesswoman of Achievement. She was also a Winner of the GB Region International Speech Contest. Writing is also added to her list of interests. Lorna has written monthly for a U.K. magazine for 5 years and has written for The Institute of Chartered Accountants journal. She is currently completing her first book, starting a second book and has attempted to set up a business for ex-prisoners in South Africa.
Following the success of heading up and developing an award scheme and writing the training programmes for top trainers in thirty-five countries Lorna was invited to become the first Fellow of International Training in Communication.
OUR
Clients
Client Testimonial
Dear Lorna, On behalf of the Redrow Board and the whole sales team I would like to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you for your excellent contribution at our sales conference. Everyone found your session very informative and relevant and it will help us to establish a truly Redrow way of selling. Please keep in contact and there may be opportunities to incorporate some of your work into our sales consultant training programme.
Dave Bexton
Group Sales & Marketing Director
Redrow Homes Limited
Lorna D Sheldon
Global Communication Expert
When you’re in business, having the ability to communicate in an outstanding way is a skill, it’s something that takes practice, something you keep working on to become the best. When you shine because of this, you achieve results that make a fundamental difference to your business and life. This is the basis of Lorna’s philosophy.
For the last 35 years Lorna D Sheldon has been doing exactly that, she has been training and consulting with the blue chip companies of the world and teaching them how to be outstanding, and how to outshine their competition. She is bringing this opportunity to all, to engage in the same skills, techniques and development.
Lorna has worked with the who’s who of blue chip clients. Her clients include Coca Cola, Coutts, BT, Lloyds, 3M, Zurich and The Henkel Group to name a few.
She is the corporate worlds best kept secret and has been helping her clients win business and be the best for over 35 years.
As a previous CEO herself, she understands what it takes to lead and to lead by example. Lorna has helped her clients win business deals worth millions by making simple and measurable changes in the way they communicate.
Having trained/coached over 100,000+ people Lorna can take anyone and help them to become outstanding. And all of Lorna’s business globally has come via word of mouth. She has trained/coached in 29 countries over the last 35 years.
Lorna is one of the world’s leading authorities in her field, she coaches, trains, consults and speaks on all things in the personal communication skills arena.
Communicate with Gravitas
Learn the effective and demonstrable skills and techniques from a global leader in communication and presentation. Over 100,000 people have excelled in communication as a result of training/coaching with Lorna. You could be one of those people today
