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Gerry (Gerard) Murray

BA Hons, MBA, DipM, MCIM, FCB, Certified Trainer of NLP

Managing Director

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1000 Brussels
Belgium

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Personal information

Wants

Organisations going through change or about to go through a merger and acquisition, anyone who is interested in harnessing the power of communication to: build relationships, grow business, solve problems, enable change, engage employees, improve understanding of key issues and strategy, build commitment, work in teams, achieve excellence.
Haves

A strong team of associates, interesting and challenging projects, strong communication skills, global business experience
Interests

Mergers & Acquisitions, NLP, Communicating, Learning, Change, Sales, Marketing, People Development, Performing Arts, Irish Music, Cooking, Social Media, being the best you can be...
Organizations

IABC International Association of Business Communicators: Past President, Belgian Chapter, former Communications Director, Europe Middle East region, former Chair IABC Excel Award Committee, Chartered Institute of Marketing (Chartered Marketer), Fellow of Institute of Internal Communications (UK), Association of NLP (ANLP), American Board of NLP (ABNLP)
Groups

Professional experience (18 years, 5 months)

Jun 2003 - present
(9 years)

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Jun 1993 - Oct 2002
(9 years, 5 months)

Various

DHL

Industry: Logistics & Supply Chain

Employment status

Entrepreneur

Educational background

2008 - 2008

ABNLP/Performance Partnership
NLP, Certified Trainer of NLP
1993 - 1993

Chartered Institute of Marketing
Marketing, Diploma in Marketing
Sep 1991 - Jun 1993

Manchester Business School
Business Administration, MBA
Oct 1982 - Aug 1986

University College Dublin
French & Linguistics, BA Honours

Languages

English, French

About me

Began my career in Ireland as a teacher so I would have lots of free time to play music. Then gave that up so I would have lots of time to earn a living!

Spent several years in sales & marketing roles before taking two years out to do an MBA at Manchester Business School in the UK. I joined DHL as a convenient way to travel the world and along the way served my time in marketing, finance, strategic planning, change management, investor relations and internal communications.

I founded Wide Circle in 2003 as a strategic communications consultancy and we have been doing a lot of projects in the past few years with organisations going through the joys of a Merger or Acquisition. Today we work with CEOs and senior managers who believe that better results can be obtained by improving the way their organization communicates with its stakeholders. I'm also very active in IABC.

In my other life, which I invented before Second Life, I had the great privilege to perform Irish music in some of Europe's biggest theatre venues. We made a couple of albums, one of which entered the Celtic music play charts in the US at number 2 and stayed in the top 10 for six months. I mainly play for pleasure now, except when people pay me, and have found this experience great for enhancing my presentation and speaking skills. It also helps me produce audio and video podcasts.

I'm curious about how most things work, especially people! I enjoy my life and believe that each of us is responsible for our own happiness!

Oh, and I have a sense of humor!