About Nancy Slessenger

Making the complex simple and straightforward

Nancy is a physics graduate and spent the first ten years of her career working in the electronics industry. Initially, she worked as a Manager progressing up to Director level. After eight years as an independent consultant, she got tired of book-keeping and answering phone messages, so she started Vinehouse.

Nancy has notched up over 20 years experience in the communications field. As a successful author she has written 'Difficult People Made Easy', the eZine, 'Challenging People' and has also designed the 'Difficult People Calculator'.

Nancy is an exciting and inspirational speaker guaranteed to engage and stimulate your audience. She personally coaches over 100 people every year and presents and trains groups all over the UK, as well as Europe and the US. She has the skill to take complex situations, show you what's going on, and then deliver straightforward strategies for dealing with them.

Here are some examples of reactions to a recent workshop run by Nancy: -

"Fantastic presentation by Nancy. Useful, informative and very well delivered."
Pam Underdown, Collagenics
"Superb presentation and given by a brilliant speaker."
Oliver Hughes, Invaluable
"An extremely well presented and meaningful subject, I've already planned to implement some suggestions."
John King, Gresham Computer Services

Nancy's company, Vinehouse Essential, has extensive expertise in understanding misunderstandings which has led her to work with hundreds of clients worldwide.

Vinehouse is an excuse for Nancy to indulge her great passion and interest in learning and communication. She attends between 20 and 30 days of conferences and training each year, searching for better and more effective methods of helping and empowering clients. Nancy identifies ways of applying the latest research to the problems her clients encounter. This knowledge is then shared with Vinehouse Trainers and Coaches to make clients' lives easier.

"Having known Nancy for some time she was one of the first people I thought of calling when I had a "difficult person" crisis at work. Due to changes within my department I came under the management of an American lady. She had a particularly caustic style and was a typical bully i.e. focussed on her own needs, made negative assumptions about others, jumped to conclusions, exerted control other others against their will, gave opinions as facts and left me feeling that there was nothing I could do. Things came to a head and I turned to Nancy for help. Nancy coached me on the best style to use, gave me some insights into how my manager's mind worked, things that would mean nothing to her and things that would register, and some useful phrases. I used this advice at our next meeting, and whilst we will never have the most harmonious of working relationships, on a scale of 1-10 of effectiveness, the meeting rated a 7 compared to a previous score of 1! A dramatic improvement."
Debbie Ford.

Her past clients include: Alliance & Leicester, AstraZeneca, Barclaycard, Boots, CAT, CIPD, Capita, Deutsche Bank, GSK, Inland Revenue, Lloyds TSB, Thomas Cook, Unwins, VEGA, plus many more public sector organisations, including schools and charities.