Shele
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Home of the Agency Leadership Program®
The Shele House® Team
Nick Alford
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Nick began his career as a young account man at one of London's top privately owned agencies. He then moved to Saatchi & Saatchi, working on a mix of domestic and international clients before moving to FCB.
As a Business Director he has led business across Europe, the Middle East, APAC and the Indian sub continent. His clients have included British Airways, Honda, PepsiCo Tropicana, BP, Fujitsu, Siemens and SC Johnson. In addition to his client responsibilities, Nick was managing partner and head of account management at FCB in London.
There he created and implemented a range of developmental and mentoring solutions and tutored across the communications industry, including the British IPA. Nick assumed ownership of The Agency Leadership Simulation® and all things related to the program in January 2026 from Ed Baron.
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Lizzie Palmer
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Lizzie started her career as an acount handler at Ogilvy in London. She then moved to BBH, LSDC and finally Still Price Court Twivy D’Souza Lintas.
She switched sides and moved to Capital Radio to head up their marketing and events. She then had a stint as senior VP of consumer marketing at Discovery Channel.
Later she became director of worldwide brand strategy, development and communications at mobile phone network Orange. There she implemented global B2B and B2C campaigns.
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Her joy is in helping brands, businesses and individuals to really flourish. Apart from her involvement in Shele House she runs her own facilitation, training and coaching business and is a tutor in brand and marketing at the National Film and Television School.
Jim Montanus
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Jim has been a software engineer for 4 decades, developing applications for training, industrial process simulation, adventure gaming, classroom management, and real-time transaction processing.
He has been an integral part of the Shele House development team for many years and also doubles up, when required, as one of our skilled team facilitators in the Agency Leadership Program®.
The Shele House® user experience is the result of Jim's work to develop and combine the numerous financial models, case studies, and personnel interactive behavior, bringing the simulated agency to life.
Jim is the associated concert master of the Canyon County Symphony Orchestra and he is a recovering high school mathematics teacher.