Mason trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and has worked extensively over the last twenty-five years as an actor, facilitator and coach in theatre (National Theatre, West End), television (BBC, ITV, Fox, Channel4) and the corporate arena. He also works as a writer.
With corporate experience ranging from running bespoke practice sessions with senior executives at major financial institutions, to forum theatres with engineers at nuclear power stations, Mason is a big believer in affording people the opportunity to practise their skills and try out different communication methods in a safe but challenging environment, utilising feedback, influencing, negotiation and coaching models to assist the learning.
His corporate work involves Presentation Skills, Influencing Skills, Performance Management, Coaching, Assertiveness and Managing Conflict, Interview Skills, Leadership Development, Appraisal Skills, Personal Impact and Challenging Conversations. As well as either facilitating or participating in these sessions as an actor/coach, Mason is often involved in the design of the programs and the writing of the interactive briefs and scripts.
Current projects include facilitating a major rollout of Presentations Skills classes in a worldwide program aimed at Sales Executives for a global Energy Company – interactive sessions designed to allow the participants to explore theories of communication and then practice them in order to embed them into their own personal presentation styles. Another current project is designing and running a series of Personal Impact classes with the leadership teams of a Manufacturer in their factory sites across the USA. Both of these projects involve a dynamic approach to learning in order for people to ‘see, feel and do’ and to play around with a variety of approaches and techniques in an engaging and practical manner.
Other notable recent work has included a Global programme with a Sportswear company across 12 countries in three months, a series of Influencing workshops for an IT company in Hyderabad, a Global Diversity and Inclusion program for a global Energy Provider, and an Influencing workshop for a global Law firm both in London and Chicago.
Business schools worked with include: Said Business School and Warwick Business School.
Other recent clients include: Vodafone, Astra Zeneca, Nationwide, Barclays, HSBC, BG Group, Environment Agency, Network Rail, Park Plaza Hotels, Skanska, Slaughter & May.
Mason is also a certified SDI Practitioner.