Emma Armytage
Recognised as ‘a brilliant, commercially focused HR professional’, Emma is a passionate and pragmatic expert with a unique ability to demystify the complexities of HR. With over 20 years’ experience in the HR world, Emma’s enthusiasm for her work remains undimmed, consistently bringing a clarity that many seek in today’s ever changing work environment.
Having worked in numerous HR roles, from large HR teams to spearheading standalone HR functions in multiple businesses, Emma provides advisory and training services to management teams across a wide range of sectors including construction, manufacturing, and warehousing. Emma has honed a skillset adaptable to the challenges of fast-paced industries with ever-shifting targets, as well as industries resistant to change. This versatility is further underlined by their proven ability to navigate the pressures of heavily unionised environments.
What truly sets Emma apart is an inherent ability to connect with learners, ensuring sessions are not only enlightening but also enjoyable. By adeptly breaking down intricate topics into easily digestible content and enriching discussions with narratives from past experiences, Emma ensures that every session is memorable, ensuring lasting impact and facilitating real change.
With a Master’s degree in Employment Law and membership of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (CIPD), Emma’s expertise is rooted in both academic rigor and professional excellence. This gives a blend of expertise with an authenticity that remains unmatched.
Dave Rees
As a highly experienced facilitator, coach, author and moderator, Dave is an exceptionally articulate and skilled communicator, and he has helped many clients achieve their goals through influencing positive behavioural change and leadership skills at junior, middle and senior management levels.
He facilitates learning and development in a way that focuses on getting both the inputs and outputs right. His talent for observation and highly perceptive feedback enables people to examine their behaviour and learn from their experiences. He focuses on ensuring that learners make specific links to their own environment.
He has worked extensively in the UK and Europe with a diverse range of public and private sector organisations, from niche companies to well-known global brands.
His work is extremely diverse. As well as management and leadership development, Dave is a communications and influencing specialist. He delivers and assesses professional management qualifications from junior to senior level and helps managers attain the prestigious ‘Chartered Manager’ status, for which he moderates on behalf of the Chartered Management Institute. He also delivers workshops and lectures to disabled employees and their managers on how to manage disability positively, which are backed up by the published book, “Why are you pretending to be normal?” (co-written with Phil Friend).
Joanne Lever
Jo brings a wealth of experience having worked in learning and development and organisational development for more than 20 years in a career that has spanned across both the public and private sector. With a focus on leadership development Jo has worked with aspiring, experienced and senior leaders developing and coaching them in their careers across many sectors.
As a highly qualified learning and development professional, Jo is a member of CIPD with Chartered status, has a Level 7 Executive Coaching qualification, and is a qualified Investors in People Practitioner.
Jo is a passionate coach with a ‘down to earth’ style, which learners really value and engage with. Her success is firmly rooted in her belief that everyone has the ability to improve their resilience, performance capability and results through broadening their knowledge and experience and understanding themselves in a different way.
She puts the learner at the centre of everything she does, helping them to develop competence and confidence to learn, adapt and overcome problems to become the best possible version of themselves.
Her approach is collaborative and she pays great attention to the details, cleverly combining analytical skills, influencing and questioning to challenge, encourage, develop and engage individuals to enable them to achieve, grow and drive the results that matter most.
Mark Corder
Following successful senior leadership roles in the public, private and third sector, Mark has brought his experience to the Learning & Development arena. During the past 10 years, he has delivered leadership & management training and facilitation, coaching & mentoring and also provided consultancy services to a range of organisations. As an experienced training consultant and coach, Mark specialises in Leadership & Management, Emotional Intelligence, and a wide range of organisational soft skills development. Mark has worked with individuals and teams across 12 international countries, in locations such as North America, the Middle East and throughout Europe, as well as the length and breadth of the UK.
As well as providing leadership in UK government roles and departments, including the Ministry of Defence and Home Office, Mark has also led the UK’s Immigration Transportation team as well as planned and delivered a number of significant operations for the MoD. In the private sector, he has worked with and provided support to a number of medium to large organisations and enterprise and sat on the board of companies to provide advice and guidance. Mark was also a Chairman of Crimestoppers in 2013 as well as holding a senior position at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.
Very much a ‘people person,’ Mark is personable and highly perceptive to the needs of others. Others’ value his calm and well-considered approach, particularly as they are often working in challenging, high-pressure situations. He is quickly able to help others make sense of things and find workable solutions when faced with what often appear to be complex issues. He is an active advocate of life-long learning, and his passion for people development ensures that his learning and insights help others succeed.