Geoff Deehan is an award-winning television producer and director who also has extensive experience in coaching and training for a range of private and public-sector organisations, including the National Film and Television School and Royal Holloway University of London. He was nomntaed for a BAFTA award for his production 'The Plane Crash' for Channel 4, Discovery, and ProSieben. The special attracted an audience of over 4 million in the UK alone.
He spent 15 years working for the BBC as a television and radio producer and Head of Science Programmes during which time he developed such strands as Science Now and Medicine Now. In his role as Head of Factual Programmes with Union Pictures, which he joined in 1990, he produced an impressive string of successful television documentaries for Horizon and Equinox at the BBC and Channel Four respectively. His most recent production, a four-part series on the exotic people, places and animals of the Indonesian Archipelago was aired last year on Sky.
Geoff is a former ‘Science Writer of the Year’ and a Sony Award winner for his BBC programme, Medicine Now. As Executive Producer, he also won a Royal Television Society Award for his documentary, ‘Losing it’ about the effect of mental attitude upon sports performance.
Geoff is the successful author of two books, ‘The Descent of Mind’ and ‘The Keys to Creativity,’ considered by many to be the seminal publication on the subject.