James Bishop
Our Games Master and Experiential Learning Expert
A dynamic facilitator and learning experience designer, James brings with him over 25 years of experience and insights in managing and leading projects in a variety of industries, countries and cultures.
Over the last 8 years (2008-2016) James has designed and delivered over 550 days of programs in 17 countries to more than 18,000 people from over 135 companies.
More specifically, James is a master at the Gamification of the workshop, conference and event experience.
James is also one of the Founders of Brains-on-the-Beach (https://www.linkedin.com/groups/Brains-on-Beach- 4423938/about), a Public Benefit Company (PBC), bringing together the best coaches, trainers, facilitators and business experts to develop workplace solutions for corporate and NGO clients around the world.
James is a native of New Zealand and long term resident of Hong Kong, though has also lived in the UK and Australia.
James has come a long way from his early years working in the rainforests of New Zealand’s national parks to the urban jungles of Asia. Corner him with a good espresso and he’ll share a few tales.
Projects:
Gamification – Change management process as expressed through changing behaviours and corporate cultures in this relatively new field.
Leadership – Helping leadership teams reconnect, refocus and re- energise. Crafting workshops that heal toxic teams as well as increasing the effectiveness of performing, intact teams.
Strategic Planning – Any change to a business strategy creates a little uncertainty in an organisation. Clarifying organizational objectives and how this cascades through an organisation, using a variety of structured, facilitated processes that are easy to understand and to implement.
Vision Mission Values (VMV) – Know where you are heading to, acknowledge where you have come from, map your future based on an agreed set of values. Take your VMV out of your employees manual and make it a living document, using it to make decisions and guide actions is a powerful exercise.
Conference Development – Curing Death-by-PowerPoint. Creative content that links to the conference themes. Get them engaged and talking about this conference for months to come.
Branding – Working with project teams of new hospitality, luxury retail and service brands in AsiaPac. This has included facilitating workshops to unearth the brand DNA, as well as how the brand is expressed in the hiring process, employee and guest interactions, leadership and communication strategies.