The Training Team > Tutor Profiles > Michael Lorrigan

An experienced trainer and management consultant, Michael began his career in education, working in the UK and Kuwait. He taught over eighty nationalities in a multi-cultural independent institution in Kuwait for eight years, rising to Senior Management level.

Michael returned to the UK to set up his own successful company, which was eventually bought out by the multi-national corporation, Mattel. After the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, he was commissioned to set up a company in Hungary to handle the affairs of a number of British export companies. He returned to the UK to develop a successful career in PR and media relations, working with British national newspapers and the BBC. He specialised in delivering training courses on PR & the media.

After joining Spearhead, Michael was appointed General Manager for Spearhead Gulf LLC in 1998 and Managing Director in 1999. He is a regular contributor to Gulf News and Gulf Marketing Review as a writer on management issues.

Michael is very interested in developing training courses suited to the needs of Gulf Nationals and in November 1999 spoke on this issue at the Gitex Conference, Dubai. More recently he has spoken on this issue and other subjects at a number of events over the past two years, including the International Business Women’s Group Abu Dhabi and the Australian Business in The Gulf Group, Dubai.

To date, Michael’s greatest achievement is setting up the Free Kuwait Campaign in London on 4th August 1990 – two days after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. With a number of his ex-Kuwaiti students and other volunteers, he co-ordinated the campaign’s activities until the liberation of Kuwait in February 1991.

He is an active member of the Dubai Natural History Group and has a great interest in preserving the ancient cultural heritage and the wildlife of the Gulf region.

If particular expertise is required for a course, and the training cannot be delivered by our UAE based staff, we can arrange for a tutor to come from the Spearhead Offices in the UK, where we have a team of highly qualified specialist tutors.

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