
Steve Drake believes that “When your biggest asset is your people, it pays to investigate what factors make them the best.”
Steve is now based in Dubai for and has taken a wealth of sophisticated employment techniques to a region that has 70 different nationalities in the workforce. He knows that if you want to be successful in business you need to surround yourself with successful people, and discovering who they are is vital to any business. He is a specialist in assessing and motivating staff, and this can start as early as the interview.
“A behavioral assessment can play an important role in confirming an interviewer’s instinct and providing detailed information as to a person’s strength and weakness,” he says.
Delivered with authority and humour, his direct style of say what you mean, and mean what you say served him very well in over 20 years in the entertainment management business.
His own journey has seen him collecting many national awards for his work, as well as appearing on local radio and T.V. and contributing to industry press and publications. He now shares this success through public speaking at management conferences and industry seminars and exhibitions.
Steve also has a Martial arts background. While he admits his quest in Karate was more about winning tournaments than learning the art and discipline, his drive still led him to join the Professional Karate Association as a successful instructor, while training with the National Squad.
Today his recent workshops have helped many individuals, like you, realize
The confidence and potential they didn't know they had using martial arts
disciplines with a spectrum of exercises on Fear, Transformation Linguistics, Nero
Linguistic Programming and SPM (Statistical Parametric Mapping).