Mark established Corporate Drama in 1999. Since then he has developed and managed his business roleplay team in hundreds of development and assessment programmes. His value of delivery excellence combined with his operational experience, professional actor background, passion for people development and vast knowledge of experiential learning methodologies makes Mark a true hybrid...

Mark Huggins is that rare mix, a professional actor with an extensive business career. After gaining his OND in business studies Mark embarked on a twelve-year business career that started in Retail Management and moved on to creating and developing his own highly successful Sales and Marketing Consultancy. The result was Mark developed a wide range of key management and business skills, listening to customers' and suppliers' needs whilst developing and communicating a sound business strategy.

In 1990, Mark dissolved his consultancy and fulfilled a lifetime's ambition, to train as a professional actor. Three years later Mark graduated from London's Mountview Theatre School. Since then his career has taken him from London's West End playing the lead role of Jean Valjean in Les Miserables, to leading roles in National Tours of Blood Brothers, Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol and many other productions. He's also worked in productions in Sweden, Ireland & Israel. Numerous TV roles and commercials have given Mark a varied and challenging acting career to date.

It was during the late 1990s that Mark realised that his combination of corporate knowledge and business experience, mixed with his acting ability, made him a highly skilled role-player. Since then Mark has worked extensively in developmental and assessment-based training. The passions Mark felt for the business world and people development has resulted in the creation of Corporate Drama, a specialist team of highly skilled business actors offering dynamic, innovative and creative development solutions.

Corporate Drama has developed strong client partnerships with several leading training organisations and "in-house" L&D teams. Mark's skills of scripting, casting and managing the delivery of bespoke actor-based experiential solutions has been highly valued. The result is that the Corporate Drama team has worked throughout the UK, Europe, Africa, North America and South-East Asia, with many top-performing UK and Global organisations.

As well as managing Corporate Drama, since 2005 Mark has been developing his career as a trainer, facilitator and coach. Programmes delivered have included: Business Development, Personal Brand & Personal Impact, Influencing in the workplace, Customer Service, Impactful Presentations and Communication, Selling Skills and Performance Management. Mark's business and personal coaching consultancy can be found at www.markhugginscoaching.com.

Mark has been awarded the Certificate of Training Practice (Merit) and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personal Development (CIPD). Mark is qualified as an accredited practitioner of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, SDI (Strength Deployment Inventory) and SPIN Selling methodology. He is also a Coaches Training Institute trained coach and a member of the ICF (International Coaching Federation)