Caitlin Walker
Caitlin graduated in Linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies and did four years post graduate research in ‘Strategies for Lexical access’ including fieldwork in Ghana. She began modelling teaching while at SOAS, volunteering intermediary classes to translate information presented at lectures into different learning styles for the students.
She went on to set up literacy clubs in King’s Cross, where children could come to learn to spell. From 1996 – 1999 Caitlin was an Education tutor with the Dalston Youth Project, a Home Office run experiment to offer accelerated learning to at-risk students, alongside mentoring, to keep them in school. She ran these sessions as NLP modelling workshops and achieved excellent results with the students. The project won the Crime Prevention and Community Safety award for Great Britain. Her work is available on the Open University MBA program and she has recently developed the practical exercises for a 10 week modular course on Practical Thinking for the OU.
She has since developed her modelling skills in business and education and designs modeling projects across a wide range of clients.Caitlin specialises in applying systemic thinking to professional development. Combining the modeling processes developed in Neuro-linguistic Programming with the discipline of 'Clean Questions' and the common sense of coaching, she has developed processes that result in whole system sustainable change.
She designs and delivers tailor made learning and development programs for addressing diversity, conflict, leadership, managing mergers and creating 'learning organizations'.
Caitlin practices in a variety of contexts. Clients include Pharmacia, South Yorkshire Police Service, Bexley Care Trust, New Information Paradigms, Work Directions UK, Crime Concern, BT, Police National Search Centre, Celerent Consultancy, Carbon Partners, Ealing LEA, and Working Links. She has trained a number of in-house trainers to carry on and develop the work without creating dependency on her expertise.
She has systematically tested and developed her ideas in challenging arenas and her robust ideas have become a sought after product.
Caitlin is managing director of Training Attention Ltd, a certified NLP Trainer, has a BA Hons in Linguistics and 3 years post-graduate research in 'strategies for lexical access' at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.