The Team

“No individual can be perfect, but a team can be!”

Dr. Meredith Belbin

Gyroscope International brings into a play a strong team with strong leadership. We use that strength to serve our international clients. Our international capability reflects diversity, professionalism and impressive track record. We bring together successful sales performance professionals from around the world. Each operates in owner-managed businesses serving their own country or region but together they provide full international coverage. The consistent focus is on hybrid sales performance development using the best of the human and the digital.

Click on the portraits below to see more about the individuals who together make up Gyroscope International’s sales performance capability.

Richard Higham

Chairman Co-Founder
United Kingdom

Richard Higham

Richard has 35 years’ experience driving sales growth. As a managing partner in a global sales performance consultancy, he has won, designed, and led projects for Big 4 firms and global banks, as well as for PE investments and mid-caps — shaping strategies, structures, systems, and skills for sustainable performance by leveraging the best of the human and digital.

Email:richard.higham@gyroscopeinternational.com

Eric Kircher

Director Co-Founder
Spain

Eric Kircher

Eric is a Commercial Effectiveness Architect. He helps CEOs turn ambition into structured commercial power by aligning focus, leadership discipline and execution. He builds robust sales systems that make growth predictable, durable and strategically controlled. Before leading sales performance businesses, his earlier expertise was in market research.

Email:eric.kircher@gyroscopeinternational.com

JP Morliére

Director Co-Founder
France

JP Morliére

Jean Pierre partners with Sales Directors and executive teams to deliver measurable performance in complex B2B environments. He blends world-class sales methodology with AI-driven behavioural development. He has built and led multiple high-performance sales teams and is the recipient of five Action Co Awards for sales training of the year

Email:jeanpierre.morliere@gyroscopeinternational.com

Ioana Pielescu

Director Co-Founder
Romania

Ioana Pielescu

Ioana is a sales and leadership coach and organisational development specialist with 20+ years’ experience across pharma, telecoms, banking, insurance, and IT. She designs bespoke training and coaching that align business goals with people development, strengthening performance, leadership capability and sales strategy.

Email:ioana.pielescu@gyroscopeinternational.com

Mark Rutjes

Director Co-Founder
The Netherlands

Mark Rutjes

Mark is a results-driven sales performance consultant with 24+ years of experience. He helps international organisations build strong commercial teams through strategy, coaching, and a “hard on task, soft on people” approach. His work with start-ups, local and international businesses as a business leader, consultant, and fractional CRO makes his contribution highly effective.

Email:mark.rutjes@gyroscopeinternational.com

Martin Allison

Co-Founder
United Kingdom

Martin Allison

Martin is a leadership coach and facilitator with a passion for sales and business growth. Through his practical counsel, he strengthens sales performance, strategic clarity and confident decision-making for ambitious leaders. His background as a senior commercial banker and corporate finance professional allows him to add significant business value.

Email:emma.fox@gyroscopeinternational.com

Andreas Folkvord

Co-Founder
Norway

Andreas Folkvord

Andreas advises, trains and coaches international organisations on sales excellence, leadership and high-performance teams. A former senior commercial and advisory leader with full P&L responsibility in the financial sector, he helps organisations strengthen revenue, sharpen execution and deliver measurable growth.

Email:emma.fox@gyroscopeinternational.com

Ferenc Makó

Co-Founder
Hungary

Ferenc Makó

Ferenc has over 30 years of experience in human performance and organisational development. He helps leaders and sales teams build SMART cultures that strengthen self-awareness, shift behaviour and deliver sustainable commercial results. His experience as a business leader in Hungarian, regional and international businesses adds real value to leaders.

Email:emma.fox@gyroscopeinternational.com

Richard Stephenson

Co-Founder
Norway

Richard Stephenson

Richard is a persuasive communication enabler with 20+ years’ experience and a compelling track-record. He designs leadership and sales programmes for global firms and Olympic and other international sports organisations, helping senior teams win bids, influence stakeholders and deliver measurable commercial impact.

Email:emma.fox@gyroscopeinternational.com

Anders Wennergren

Co-Founder
Sweden

Anders Wennergren

Anders has over 20 years of business consultancy experience working with leading Nordic and multinational players in the manufacturing, defence, engineering and other sectors. He has been a board member and led sales teams and businesses in both SMEs and multi-nationals. Focus areas are sales management, sales efficiency, KAM and Value Selling.

Email:emma.fox@gyroscopeinternational.com

Michael Adick

VP Asia
Indonesia/China

Michael Adick

Michael is an executive-level strategy and change consultant expert in organizational transformation. He is a master facilitator, trainer and coach in sales and leadership. 25+ years of experience working in and living in Asia, leading, and consulting in financial services, manufacturing, technology, and automotive. Languages German, English, Mandarin.

Email:emma.fox@gyroscopeinternational.com

Danny O'Neill

AI Lead
Ireland

Danny O'Neill

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Email:emma.fox@gyroscopeinternational.com

Steve Potiphar

Health & Life Sciences Lead
United Kingdom

Steve Potiphar

Steve is a highly experienced sales leader and director in the Health & Life Sciences sector and leads the Gyroscope HLS team. He drives measurable performance in complex, multi-stakeholder sales environments through focused, behaviour-led development. Creator of The Sales Gym Methodology™️

Email:steve.potiphar@gyroscopeinternational.com

Catalin Chites

Affiliate
Romania

Catalin Chites

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Email:emma.fox@gyroscopeinternational.com

Jason Cooper

Affiliate
Ireland

Jason Cooper

Jason helps sales teams and leaders move from reactive selling to strategic, value-led conversations. His practical approach blends psychology, neuroscience and real-world expertise to build confidence, influence and consistent performance. Background as a seller and sales leader in SAAS, Comms, Technology and Professional Services.

Email:emma.fox@gyroscopeinternational.com

Ahu Gürel

Affiliate
Turkey

Ahu Gürel

Following more than 15 years experience in sales and marketing mainly in the Animal Health industry, Ahu continues her journey coaching/training sales professionals for capability development. In addition, she has taken organisations through cultural transformation playing a key role in change management which has added valuable experience. Overall, she has trained/coached +1000 professionals across the globe and keeps walking this path with passion.

Email:emma.fox@gyroscopeinternational.com

Petra Kopp

Affiliate
Germany

Petra Kopp

Driving the "next level“ of sales performance! Petra is a high-impact market strategy enthusiast and agile change enabler. She is energizing and coaching teams for sales excellence and commitment along challenging market requirements and business transformation needs. 20+ years of senior executive leadership experience in international sales and marketing organisations of the tech industry, healthcare and IT combined with change management expertise and people development skills.

Email:emma.fox@gyroscopeinternational.com

Harri Lappi

Affiliate
Finland

Harri Lappi

Harri turns reactive order taking into a proactive growth engine. With decades of sales leadership experience, he helps companies challenge customer thinking, build accountable teams, and drive measurable, profitable growth through disciplined, insight-led sales. His own leadership experience ranges from large international organisations to owner-managed businesses.

Email:emma.fox@gyroscopeinternational.com

Marika Sokol

Affiliate
Czechia/Slovakia

Marika Sokol

Marika is a People Architect and ecosystem strategist operating across Europe and sectors from manufacturing to investment and agriculture. She combines HR and learning disciplines with a pragmatic sales approach. She designs culture-driven organisational systems that align leadership, sales excellence, talent, and execution—driving measurable, sustainable performance growth.

Email:emma.fox@gyroscopeinternational.com

Katarina Sovic

Affiliate
Croatia

Katarina Sovic

Katarina is a facilitator, trainer and certified coach specialising in team development in healthcare. With rich pharmaceutical experience, she designs and leads programmes that strengthen performance, collaboration and growth across global corporate teams. Passionate storyteller who supports teams in strengthening their personal and brand narratives.

Email:emma.fox@gyroscopeinternational.com

Roman Styll

Affiliate
Austria

Roman Styll

Roman has applied his skills as a trainer and consultant for Sales and Leadership for more than 30 years. As a Neuromental trainer, he combines commercial, neurobiological, and psychological approaches to his training. He leads a Training & Organisational Development team. His background is in theatre and communication.

Email:emma.fox@gyroscopeinternational.com

Jaro Szulc

Affiliate
Poland

Jaro Szulc

Jaro is a physician by education, turned independent consultant and trainer to the pharma sector and beyond via a career in Health & Life Sciences. He specialises in sales effectiveness, leadership and team development, helping organisations unlock performance through behavioural change, practical training and measurable growth.

Email:emma.fox@gyroscopeinternational.com

Mark Thomson

Affiliate
Australia

Mark Thomson

An Australian Defence Veteran, Mark has extensive commercial acumen and experience in leading, developing and coaching Sales and Delivery teams. Since 2003, Mark has been involved in building IT Service businesses from start-up to sale. His current business is a ‘niche’ IT Augmentation business providing services across South East QLD. Mark has a small team and spends 2 days a week working in the business allowing capacity to deliver Training and Coaching services for other customers. Mark has developed Key Sales channels with many Australasian Enterprises over a 30 year career.

Email:emma.fox@gyroscopeinternational.com

Andor Timar

Affiliate
Hungary

Andor Timar

Andor is a corporate trainer and executive coach with 20+ years’ experience improving leadership, sales performance and team effectiveness. He leads some of Gyroscope’s largest relationships, applying his multilingual and multicultural skills. President of MUS-E Hungary, supporting disadvantaged children through arts education.

Email:emma.fox@gyroscopeinternational.com

Natalie Baksheieva

Training Associate
Ukraine

Natalie Baksheieva

For over 16 years, Natalie has worked with leaders to uncover and shift the blind spots that shape decisions, relationships, and results, building their inner capacity that conventional training and coaching miss. She built several businesses from the ground up in Ukraine and now works with customer-facing people and their leaders in both B2B and B2C.

Email:emma.fox@gyroscopeinternational.com

Tamara Drljevic

Training Associate
Serbia

Tamara Drljevic

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Email:emma.fox@gyroscopeinternational.com

Andrew Egan

Training Associate
South Africa

Andrew Egan

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Email:emma.fox@gyroscopeinternational.com

Selcuk Gul

Training Associate
Turkey

Selcuk Gul

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Email:emma.fox@gyroscopeinternational.com

Marco Antonio Jimenez De la Mora

Training Associate
Mexico

Marco Antonio Jimenez De la Mora

Marco Antonio is an organisational effectiveness architect with 50 years’ experience leading sales across LatAm for major global players. He specialises in leading change management to make things happen, making change irreversible and sustainable. He creates world-class business simulations and helps leaders apply emotional intelligence.

Email:emma.fox@gyroscopeinternational.com

Ashok Mani

Training Associate
India

Ashok Mani

Chennai-based sales trainer and consultant with 22+ years in technical sales and 25+ in learning and development. Ashok designs bespoke, business-led workshops and coaching for sales teams across B2B, retail and distribution. Has trained 2,000+ professionals across India and overseas, driving measurable behaviour change.

Email:emma.fox@gyroscopeinternational.com

Tim Mcdade

Training Associate
Australia

Tim Mcdade

Here to help organisations lift commercial performance by shifting the behaviours, alignment, and execution that drive results. With deep experience in change and organisational design, Tim delivers high impact programs that build clarity, strengthen accountability, and embed new ways of working that improve performance and customer outcomes.

Email:emma.fox@gyroscopeinternational.com

Harriet Mellor

Training Associate
Australia

Harriet Mellor

Harriet is a sales enablement and business development specialist with 15+ years’ experience across complex and technical industries. They design and deliver practical training focused on prospecting, lead development, and meaningful client conversations that drive measurable pipeline growth.

Email:emma.fox@gyroscopeinternational.com

Andrzej Monastyrski

Training Associate
Poland

Andrzej Monastyrski

Andrzej is a sales transformation expert with 20+ years’ experience in CRM, pipeline management and commercial leadership. He helps organisations implement effective sales strategies and drive measurable growth across Central Europe. He works as a trainer, coach and fractional CRO. Lecturer at SGH Warsaw School of Economics.

Email:emma.fox@gyroscopeinternational.com

Earl Robertson

Training Associate
Canada

Earl Robertson

Earl has trained and coached thousands of salespeople and their leaders in effective selling. His hands-on experience as CEO, Sales Director , Sales Manager and rep informs his whole approach. he has led international expansion, designed university-accredited sales programmes, shaping professional sales standards across multiple markets.

Email:emma.fox@gyroscopeinternational.com

Daniel Sebenius

Training Associate
Denmark

Daniel Sebenius

Founder of 2nd Position, Daniel works as a Performance Architect helping organisations turn strategy into disciplined execution. He partners with leaders and teams to align direction, build capability and embed behaviours that improve operational and commercial performance.

Email:emma.fox@gyroscopeinternational.com

Giovanni Verrecchia

Training Associate
Italy

Giovanni Verrecchia

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Email:emma.fox@gyroscopeinternational.com

Hideyuki Yoshioka

Training Associate
Japan

Hideyuki Yoshioka

Hide is a professional facilitator with over 20 years of experience. He has helped global and Japanese enterprises strengthen leadership, sales and project performance specialising in cross-cultural teams, digital transformation and inclusion. Before this part of his career, he enjoyed long-term success in the recruitment industry.

Email:emma.fox@gyroscopeinternational.com

Hideyuki Yoshioka

Training Associate
Japan

Hideyuki Yoshioka

Email:emma.fox@gyroscopeinternational.com

Hideyuki Yoshioka

Training Associate
Japan

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