Dean is a speaker, presenter and top level Business Alignment Consultant. Since setting up and establishing his highly successful financial services business, Dean has developed a separate consulting company enabling his colleagues and himself to share with other individuals and with businesses of all sizes, the secrets of their success.
In 2007 Dean teamed up with the World Snooker Champion Shaun Murphy, adding the power of sports psychology in creating success for businesses of every size. This resulted in the launch of ‘Breaking the Frame (Smashing Paradigms)’.
Dean is author of the audio book ‘Defining Your Own Success’, has appeared on radio and regularly contributes to magazines and newspapers. Dean is fast becoming a well respected adviser, presenter and is also a certified practitioner of NLP.
Dean's newly published book 'The Sixty Day Success Blog' is a practical coaching book for people from all walks of life who intend to achieve their personal goals and dreams. It draws upon successes of the Business Alignment Programme, change management principles and the latest neuro-linguistic techniques to provide sixty steps to your desired achievements.
Charles James Consulting is one facet of the 'Charles James Group' which caters for all types of people from all walks of life, offering financial planning advice, help with accounting, business alignment, insurance requirements, trustee roles and specialist tax advice.
Dean began his career at Scottish Amicable (now part of Prudential). From there, Dean joined his father’s insurance brokerage before going into business himself in 1999. Since then it, and he, has gone from strength to strength. As well as being an Executive Director of Charles James Financial Planning, he also holds special permission with the Financial Services Authority for technical pensions work and regularly receives enquiries for assistance from other advisers in the industry who value his knowledge and expertise. He thrives on the diversity of his daily work combining consulting and financial planning with so much more!