Andrea Cordell
Andrea is the managing director of Cordie Ltd, a leading sales, procurement and supply-chain training organisation. While she is well known for her enthusiastic and interactive public speaking style, her specialist subject is the human dynamics and hypnotic language surrounding commercial relationships and, in particular, subliminal linguistics.
Andrea has an MBA from Henley Business School and is an NLP Master, as well as a licenced MBTI® Assessor and a registered EQ Tester. She is a fellow of both the Institute of Sales Management and CIPS.
Ian Thompson
Ian is one of the directors and cofounders of Cordie Ltd, as well as a fellow of both the Institute of Leadership and Management and CIPS. He currently leads commercial training programmes on a worldwide basis, where his specialist subjects include category management, strategic sourcing and public procurement regulation.
Prior to establishing Cordie, Ian led sourcing teams in several large blue-chip organisations and before that worked as a chartered engineer on major infrastructure projects.
Ian has written three procurement textbooks and has an MBA from the University of Birmingham. He has set up five successful CIPS study centres and helped Cordie twice win the United Kingdom’s national training awards for ‘outstanding training delivery’.
Other books by Andrea and Ian include: