My Last week as an employee and first week as a free man

After 28 years of working for some great blue chip companies in the UK, Harrods, The AA, NCR, Centrica, I decided to call it a day and spend the rest of my life working for myself.

This is my last week at my current company Centrica plc. Despite the obvious sadness of leaving such a great company, fantastic colleagues and wonderful memories, I feel a sense of joy and freedom having made the decision to go it alone in business.

Having Worked in the IT Industry for all those years within all of its aspects; programming, project management, technical support and buying & Selling, I gained a good experience especially in the Art and science of negotiations and strategy that I now wish to share.

4 years ago, I started to present at sales conferences and various gathering. I loved the job of speaking and coaching others in negotiations.

Now, it is my intentions to become independent speaker and consultant in the art and science of negotiations to advise, coach and energise sales force and procurement people in all sorts of organisation to achieve stunning results, simply by understanding the negotiating strategies that works.

My move is being received warmly by my colleagues and business contacts. The idea of starting to take full control of my life is also paying dividends and giving me great joy.

This is how I looked at things when I made my decision and took the jump into the wide open world; I though, well I am now 51 years old, dreaming all my life of being independent and of becoming a public speaker and a coach. After 28 years of hard work, I accumulated a modest amount of security and reached a good position within my current company.

One thing I couldn’t live with is the thought that when I am 70 years old to look back at my life and regret not having followed my dreams when I had the opportunity, relative security and strength to do so. A thought I couldn’t bear to live with any more.

So here I am, free at last, full of hope and joy and going it alone.

I am also starting this blog to meet people, update my friends of my progress "or lack of it" and share thoughts and ideas about succcess in life in general and the art and science of negotiations & strategy in particular.

So...Welcome to my Blog my friends and lets exchange our views and see what happens!!!

I am sure it will all be good fun in the end.

Osama El-Kadi