About — Whitehorn Consulting

David White is a passionate educator with decades of experience teaching management and communication skills to professionals and students across the world.

David lives, works and blogs from a traditional Georgian terrace near the River Thames in London, where he lives with his wife Luisa and their two cats, Rofles and Ernesto.

When not at home, he’s often seen riding around London on his Brompton or occasionally rents a classic car as a treat.

He is a skilled educator, with decades of experience working in university education and providing corporate training courses all over the world.

He is available to travel for speaking engagements and also provides expert teaching via video-conferencing.

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Whitehorn Consulting is based in The Colonnade near Greenwich. The former officer’s quarters of the Royal Victoria Victualling Yard. From this location, the British navy was supplied with the rations that enabled it to circumnavigate the globe. Whitehorn Consulting has delivered training in more than 20 counties - from North America to Australia, from Paris to Hong Kong, from Krakow to Tokyo. And today, our training also travels the modern world via the internet.

HQ is carefully guarded and kept covered in hair by Rofles and Ernesto, continuing the grand tradition of naval cats. They may not have traveled as far as Ernest Shackleton’s cat, Mrs Chippy, but are very fine felines nonetheless.

Experience

David White focuses on management training and development. His background is varied and unusual.

Following university, he went into sales and marketing and worked in the automotive, food and chemical industries. In the early 1980s he was a founder manager of BT’s pioneering venture into telemarketing, before becoming a director of a direct and database marketing agency in London. It was at this point that he began to get involved in the financial services industry, working with Barclays Bank, CGU and RAC Insurance Services.

He moved into management development consulting work in the early 1990s with the setting up of Whitehorn Consulting. He developed ongoing projects with the Institute of Direct Marketing and the School of Management of Royal Holloway, University of London. The latter activity involved developing a marketing strategy for the university, which included changing the corporate identity, the development of external income generating teaching and research services.

He remains a Visiting Academic at the University of London and teaches management communication skills at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

For what is now JPMorgan Asset Management he developed a ground-breaking 2-year graduate programme leading to a diploma. This concept was developed further in the mid 90s into an in company MBA programme for the JPM asset management business. He also co-developed an award winning certificate programme for Reed Employment.

In addition to conventional training he has developed and appeared in podcasts and is an elearning tutor for the University of London external programme.

His principle areas of interest from a training and development perspective are in management and communication. His Sales & Marketing background gives him a strong interest in customer relationship management too.

His work includes traditional training programmes, executive coaching and working directly with teams of people in a consulting/training role to develop them and their work. He is a frequent speaker at conferences.

He works with a range of L&D providers including FTS Global, Speak-first, GA Training and Emphasis.