MARK DANDO is an author, a mentor, coach and trainer. He works with a small team of highly talented developers: Doug Richardson, Alison Rogers, Andrew Manuel and Luke Thomas. He co-founded what became Coloured Square Limited with Doug in 2000. Their provocative and powerful structured common-sense system of learning and development continues to receive rave reviews from individuals and organisations who want help to improve their management, leadership, sales, influence, presenting - in short anything which requires more skill in communication. Their favourite brief is to help organisations change their approach to the business of learning and development itself - improving speed to competence and engagement. They've been changing gears for 20 years. Mark has been an author since 2013. This is his fifth personal development book. His first three were about attitudes to Time, attitudes to Presenting, and the attitudes and activities required to improve personal well-being and resilience. His fourth, Coach-Sell-Teach-Tell (TM) published in May 2020, was a plea for managers and developers to increase the amount and effectiveness of development they provide their people by making better choices about the attitudes and approaches they use. He has published two children's books: The Boy Who Yawned, and The Boy Who Kidnapped Father Christmas. In 2019 Mark became a poet. He can be seen and heard performing at spoken word events in Bristol and Bath on a regular basis. When he's not writing, developing people or performing poetry, he continues to learn guitar (very slowly), practises Tai Chi, and indulges in games of all kinds. He lives in Bristol. To find out more visit the Coloured Square website at www.colouredsquare.com
