Learning2Live Coaches

Alan Gillies (Director of Learning2Live)


Alan Gillies is the founder and Managing Director of Learning2Live. Alan has over 20 years experience in a number of Blue Chip organisations spanning Banking to Pharmaceuticals. His roles have included Sales & Marketing, Senior Management, Account Management, Business Development as well as Training and Coaching He has worked internationally as well as in the UK.
Alan has extensive experience across a wide range of business disciplines including Coaching and Mentoring, Change Management, Sales Force Effectiveness, Project Management and development of Competency based Monitoring and Measurement Systems.
His management experience includes National and International roles where he has had in excess of 200 staff as well as full P&L responsibility for his Business. He has worked in many countries across Europe including but not limited to Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, France, Germany, Portugal and Belgium.

In his younger days a successful career as an athlete led to Scottish titles in athletics. This passion remains today and manifests itself in his interest in the field of improving Sports Performance where he uses the latest tools and techniques familiar to top Olympic and International athletes to ensure that the mind is as well trained as the body.
Techniques such as NLP and Hypnosis are becomingly increasingly utilised in top level sportsmen and women to ensure that the physical and technical abilities are not limited by their psyche.
Alan's other passion is in the area of Investing, Trading and Wealth Creation. The dimension most neglected by Investors and traders alike is the Psychology of Investing. As an active Investor and Trader himself Alan not only understands the technical side of this field but also the importance that Psychology plays in being a successful trader and ensuring that you have the appropriate mindset that allows you to succeed.
Alan is dedicated to bringing the highest standard of service to all clients and companies he works with. He is passionate about ensuring that the input you receive gets the outcomes that you need. His commitment and energy combined with a down to earth and fun approach ensures that your time will be productive, fun and will help you get the results you need.

Alan is based in Central Scotland but is able to work with personal clients across the UK and Internationally for Corporate clients.




Jacquie Forde

Jacquie is a qualified nurse, midwife , life coach and Master Practitioner of NLP , a helluva fun person, larger than life and with a huge warm personality. Behind all this lies an incredibly broad and deep background in Training Sales and communication with over 25 years experience in Blue Chip Organizations .

Jacquie has undertaken Senior Roles in Business Management, International Training , Team Leadership , Consultancy and a whole pile of people based activities in support of serious business objectives in both the public and private sector. She loves to present and has represented large blue chip organisations Internationally to inspire and motivate their staff .

Impossible you might think , for just one person , but this is the one package in a real human being , incredible business skills and a way of getting through to people that is just extraordinary .

Communication , business coaching , life coaching , aquiring new skills , developing and improving selling skills , finding your focus , life changing experiences ; Jacquie makes them accessible and fun for all those who want to make more and then even more from their lives . This can be on a personal dimension ,family , friends ,leisure and business ; at all levels in an organisation from the tip (CEO) to the foundations .

Jacquie is a Master Practitioner and Licensed NLP Trainer . She trained with it's creator, Dr Richard Bandler , John La Valle (President of the Society of NLP) and with Paul McKenna, Europe's leading hypnotherapist. Jacquie is a certified member of the Society of Neuro-Linguistic Programming set up as a quality control measure by Dr Richard Bandler, the creator of NLP.

She is also a certified member of the British Institute of Hypnotherapy/Psychotherpay (BIH), - one of the longest established associations of hypnotherapists/psychotherapists and NLP Practitioners, committed to the highest standards of ethical practice and professional competence, available for inspection at the consultation. The BIH is a member of the General Hypnotherapy Standards Council, also a member of the UK Confederation of Hypnotherapy Organisations (UKCHO), a national umbrella confederation.

This eclectic mix of healthcare experience and business skills enable Jacquie to offer a professional well-rounded programme that is unique and fast-working.