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Lola Zao-Sanders has been practising mindfulness and meditation for over 12 years. She is a qualified Yoga Therapist with the British Council for Yoga Therapy, a member of the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council and a registered yoga instructor (RYT200) and teaches prenatal yoga to pregnant women. She is also the creator of Yoga Therapy Space.

Professor Clare Morris has more than 30 years of experience of teaching maths and statistics to business students in some of the UK’s leading business schools, including Warwick Business School and the Cardiff University Business School. Clare holds an MA degree from the University of Oxford, and MSc and PhD from the University of Bristol. She is a Chartered Statistician and Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, and has worked as a statistical consultant for major companies including Hewlett-Packard and Land Rover, as well as for a number of UK Government departments.

Harold Graycar, who created the Business Analysis course, has been a “power user” and developer of Excel applications since the product was launched, and has developed a number of Excel modelling tools for financial applications, workforce planning, HR profile analysis and transaction logging. His focus is always on how to increase productivity with better hands-on numerate and information presentation skills.

Communication, Influence & Teams and Business Writing are authored by Andreas Loizou. As Leader in Residence at Leeds University Business School, he has a history of working with MBA students, and he is a widely published author who has done research for BNP Paribas and Goldman Sachs, and was Director of Training at the Financial Times.

Cathy Presland is a former economist and advisor to Governments internationally. She has designed and led global anti-poverty initiatives and negotiated EU regulations on behalf of the UK government. She now trains and mentors other experts who want to share their experience and ideas, particularly those who want to write and publish ‘how-to’ books.

Chris Littlewood's first experience of Microsoft applications was as a PhD student, conducting particle physics experiments in Geneva. Since then he's worked in strategy and rail industry financial planning. From corporates to the public sector, he's found the same simple skills to be key to the presentation of research and analysis. Chris is a co-founder at Excel with Business.

ILM specialises in formal leadership qualifications. They offer a range of apprenticeships from an introductory level all the way up to senior management. As part of the City & Guilds Group, their training and qualifications are synonymous with quality and integrity, while they constantly adapt and improve their qualifications to meet the needs of the modern workforce.

Brett Topham, co-author of Project Management has over 15 years of experience in contract and project management, and has been a Project Management Professional (PMP®) since 2004. Mr. Topham served as the Deputy Account Lead with responsibility for a +$70M annual portfolio of U.S. Federal contracts, capturing and reporting financial data from all operations and projects; reviewing and approving proposals and change requests; presenting financial performance reports for senior management.

Project Management's second co-author, Don A. Cox has been a Project Management Professional (PMP®) since 1999, and has more than thirty years experience in successful integration and implementation of large scale IT systems in both the public and private sectors. Mr. Cox has successfully managed multi-year programs and projects ranging from $70M to more than $650M.