Derek Draper is a leadership consultant, business psychologist and executive coach. He is the CEO of CDP Leadership Consultants and prior to founding CDP was a Managing Consultant and Head of Business Development for the UK and Europe at the global consultancy YSC. He has assessed and developed senior business people in twenty FTSE 100 companies and in some of the largest privately held companies in the world. James is an award-winning actor who has performed on stages and screens throughout Australia, Europe and the Americas. His work in film and TV includes Animal Kingdom, The Turning, Offspring, Winners and Losers, The Doctor Blake Mysteries and Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. James has also worked across radio documentary and drama, spanning 17 years and counting.
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