Hugh is an author with experience in business, market research, psychotherapy, academia and performance.
In 1999 Hugh co-founded Corr Willbourn Research and Development, a qualitative market research business which gained an excellent reputation for solving challenging projects and developing innovative research methods. The client list included Virgin, Shell, Diageo, Novartis and many different UK Government departments including the Home Office, the Foreign Office, the Department of Health and The Department for Education.
For links to CWR&D work in the public domain click here.
He is the author of:
The Bug in our Thinking and the way to fix it 2023
I can mend your broken heart, (with Paul McKenna) Bantam, London 2003
Agree to Win, Essential Steps to negotiate in your work and Life, BBC Books, London, 2004
He is the collaborator and editor with Paul McKenna of best-selling series of self-help books in UK and USA including:
I can make you Sleep 2009
I can make you Happy 2011
The Hypnotic Gastric Band 2013
Freedom from Emotional Eating 2014
Instant Influence and Charisma 2015
The Seven Things that Make or Break a Relationship, 2020.
2005 to 2014 Artistic Director, Playback South Theatre, London
Commercial and Therapeutic sectors:
Workshops in Negotiation, Presentation, Authentic Storytelling and Qualitative Research.
Multiple courses psychotherapy, hypnosis and personal development.
Academia:
University of Lincoln , San Francisco at HuTech University, HCMC, Business Ethics for MBA students,
Humanities for MBA students
RMIT 2022 Exploring Asian Popular Culture
2024 onwards Full time Lecturer in School of Professional Communication and Design, RMIT
Heideggerian Phenomenology
Orality, Literacy and Cognition
Abstraction and Contextuality