Derek Jones

Rehabilitation Engineer - Creator - Grower of Healthy Ideas, Medical Device Entrepreneur and Speaker

Derek is a master innovator and grower of good ideas - especially focused on healthcare and rehabilitation. He has advised business, government and private research agencies at national and international level in a career that has spanned research, academia and business.

From his early career his awards included a Rotary Foundation Fellowship, British Council Research Fellowship, Roche Research Foundation Award and a Visiting Professorship at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, USA.

Derek created his first medical device business after completing his MBA at Strathclyde Graduate Business School. This was not an easy transition. Derek felt that his MBA did not really equip him for entrepreneurship - although great fun, it taught him hundreds of ways that businesses could fail. Becoming interested in the mindset of the entrepreneur and in personal development concepts was his natural response to a problem of how to eliminate hesitation and fear of failure.
Derek loves coaching interventions with companies that understand that massive impact can be created by enhancing individual awareness of mindset and expanding tools that people have to manage their own state. Derek is also a Master Business Practitioner of NLP - licensed by the Society of Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

Derek spends his time as a Director of Anatomical Concepts (UK) Ltd and as an independent consultant in his areas of expertise