Our Facilitators
The people who make it all work
The facilitator in the room is what turns a good plan into a great day. Meet the qualified, experienced team behind every Jambar event.
The Jambar team has qualified facilitators with outstanding knowledge and experience to make sure your event is a great success. Our experienced trainers and facilitators work in collaboration with your organisation to improve rapport and break communication barriers building trust and collaboration between your teams. Our facilitators are trained not only to engage participants with fun activities, but also to deliver whatever outcomes you require: innovation, collaboration, work productivity, improving trust across the organisation, or change management, to name just a few.
Our expert facilitators & founders who built Jambar
Co-founders James and Barbara have personally facilitated hundreds of events over more than a decade and set the standard every Jambar facilitator is trained to meet.
James Mclauchlan
Co-Founder & Expert Facilitator
NLP Certified Trainer
NLP Master Practitioner
NLP Coach
Conversational Hypnosis
Advanced Hypnosis
Belbin Profile Trainer
DISC Profile Trainer
James has been changing lives through facilitating events, public speaking and leading programs in Singapore since 2010. After graduating in 2005 with a Master’s degree in Engineering and French, he lived and worked in Malaysia, France, Sweden and Singapore.
His ability to easily relate to groups and individuals has made him a sought-after facilitator both in Singapore and worldwide. In 2012 he left his corporate job and co-founded Jambar with his partner Barbara.
Some of his highlights
Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming with the Worldwide Institute of NLP
Facilitates emotional intelligence (EQ) courses through tools such as Belbin and DISC
Speaker at the Singapore Achievers Congress, with 3,000+ attendees
Coordinated and delivered 300+ corporate team building and training events in Singapore, from 10 to 1,000 people
Worked with renowned companies including Google, Singtel, eBay, BHP, Keppel Land and Microsoft
What clients say about James
Anna Pak Burdin, VP, GM, Discovery Networks SEA
James is very inspirational. He is a great story teller and I was really impressed how he put the values together and delivered them to the team through the story.
Francesca Leighton, Sales Director, Nike SEA & India
He always brings in some great examples that makes things real versus textbook. I think that’s pretty good and builds a lot of credibility so people will listen to him.
Jonathan Rake, CEO, Swiss Re Corporate Solutions APAC
James brings a natural approach to it. He knows how to interact with the group pretty well. He was quite flexible with the mood and went with how we wanted to go. He is sort of an adaptive facilitator I would say. We really enjoyed his company.
Barbara Maneschi
Co-Founder & Expert Facilitator
NLP Master Practitioner
NLP Coach & Therapist
Conversational Hypnosis
Advanced Hypnosis
Belbin Profile Trainer
DISC Profile Trainer
MBTI Profile Trainer
Visual Facilitation Trainer
The Art of Storytelling
Barbara is a certified MBTI, DiSC and Belbin trainer, and has been facilitating team building events, corporate training and coaching programs in Singapore since 2010. Before becoming a full-time trainer and business owner, she worked for 11 years in Private Banking and lived in Switzerland, New York, Taiwan and Singapore.
Barbara speaks four languages fluently, and her international exposure gave her a natural ability to relate to multicultural groups and individuals. In 2012 she co-founded Jambar with her partner James; together they grew an excellent team and won the Best Promising SME 500 award in Singapore in both 2014 and 2016.
From market and product presentations in her banking career to facilitating hundreds of team building events and corporate training programs at Jambar, Barbara is well known for her uplifting, energetic personality and her outstanding ability to engage and motivate teams and individuals.
What clients say about Barbara
Bee Yang, Senior Manager, Singapore Press Holdings
Barbara was very prompt and she was very fast to respond to the questions we pose to her. She was very steady on stage. She was able to connect with the participants very well and everything was also done within the given time frame. I think Jambar has done a very professional job in the entire planning and the execution of the program.
Kevin Treadwell, Senior Director Distribution, Thermo Fisher Scientific
Barbara’s a good facilitator. She keeps things going and she is very confident in what she says and organises things very well.
Daimler
Barbara is really a great facilitator and I really enjoyed working with her. Jambar team did a wonderful job leading our team building event. They brought a lot of energy, humour and passion to all of us.
