Our Associates
Our Associates are experienced trainers with whom we have worked, or who have been referred to us as experts in their area. Between them they can offer most of the courses you are likely to need!
Click the links below to find out more about our trainers:
Alan | IT Trainer (MS Office Suite) | VBA | Sage Accounts | MS Project
Alan is a freelance training consultant with an accountancy background who specialises in a wide range of IT Applications. He has delivered bespoke and applications training for public/commercial bodies including O2 Airwave, DFID, MOD, Inland Revenue, DTI, BAA, and HMRC – including Floorwalking and support. As an Applications Training Consultant he was a Team Leader managing five other trainers. As a Product specialist, he was involved in courseware production and maintenance, course design, training delivery and client consultancy, having responsibility for Excel and Lotus, MS Project and Excel VBA.
Alan still maintains an accountancy practice and can conduct Needs Analysis; write, produce and deliver training courses to specifications; supply/install computerised accounting systems and train in their use; deliver Sage Accounts training; and train and assess to NVQ4 BTEC Accountancy.
Alan is an Associate Member of the Institute of IT Training; has an Institute of IT Training TAP Certificate; FETC City and Guilds Further and Adult Education Teachers Certificate; CompTIA IT Project + Train The Trainer Certificate.
Alan can deliver courses at all levels in all Microsoft Office Suite modules (Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Outlook and VBA for Excel) upto and including Office 2007, as well as Lotus 123, Amipro/Wordpro, MS Project, Remedy CRM and Sage Accounts.
Alex | Hospitality & Leisure | Business Management
Alex is a specialist in work based training, has an Oxford Master's in Hospitality & Leisure management and a strong operational and training background in business management.
Alex has had a successful career from unit management to that of National Brand Training, Learning & Development Manager for such brands as Beefeater, Costa Coffee, TGI Fridays, Marriott Hotels & Travel Inn. Alex has designed and implemented learning & development strategies for a broad range of management – from unit to general. She has trained senior operational management, as well as working with key individuals to identify 'talent' for organisational progression.
In-house courses and support are planned, developed and delivered that support the client’s needs and progress and develop their employees.
Courses offered include:
- Developing Appraisal
- Managing People for the First Time
- Recruitment & Selection / Interview Techniques
- Training & Coaching Skills
- Enabling Leadership, How to facilitate a group
- Briefing, Meeting & Presentation Skills
- Customer Service Skills
Anne | Human Resources | Management Coaching | Facilitator | MCIPD | MIL |
Anne is a Freelance HR and Management Development Consultant, and has recently carried out projects for Portsmouth City Council.
She is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, is qualified in the Certificate in Education (Adult Learning) and is a Member of the Institute for Learning.
Through working in senior Strategic HR roles, Anne has wide experience of people management and organisational development, structural change management projects, and managing operational Human Resources teams.
Anne has provided one to one management coaching for managers, delivered people management training and is a trained Action Learning Set facilitator for managers.
She has worked as a part time lecturer on the Certificate in Management programme at South Downs College.
Bill | Media | Management Coaching | Video Production
Bill served for 23 years in the Royal Navy as a photographer. He has a wide and varied background in photography,
video production and training. During his time in the RN he produced a number of award winning training videos and
helped to train hundreds of personnel, including key senior officers. It is fitting, therefore, that all this
experience is brought together to provide training support, simulated press coverage and corporate video production
services for a wide variety of clients, such as the Portsmouth NHS Trust and a number of military establishments.
Bill has developed, with mahl, a workshop designed to help those who have to face and deal with the media as part of
their work role. The workshop is designed to support their needs and give them hands on practise and an understanding
of how to speak and work with the media.
Brenda | Credit Manager | Lecturer
Brenda is a Vice President of the Institute of Credit Management, and a qualified trainer, providing credit training to many businesses as well as teaching on the Institute’s professional courses at South Downs College Portsmouth.
Brenda spent many years working as a credit manager, in particular in the FMCG market, and more recently has combined teaching and training with credit management projects for companies large and small.
Bridget | Well-being at Work | Lecturer | Clinical Methodologies
Bridget's experience combines working in the clinical field with business. For a number of years she worked with large pharmaceutical companies to evaluate the impact of new drugs on the health and well-being of patients participating in clinical trials. Bridget recognised the lack of reliable metrics available to organisations to help them make evidence-based decisions about the health of their people and, as a result, she now helps organisations to apply the same scientific rigour and methodologies used in clinical settings to the workplace. Specifically, she works with organisations to help them generate scientific data around employee health and well-being and mapping these to important business outcomes. She is a guest lecturer on this topic at Cranfield University and is continuing her interest in this field with a PhD.
Catherine | Coaching | Change Management Consultant
is a professional coach and management consultant, with more than two decades experience of helping people and organisations to change. As a consultant with Ernst & Young/CapGemini she sold, managed and delivered change management and organisation development consultancy to major ‘blue chip’ clients.
She combines this experience with her coaching and counselling training to provide powerful coaching to executives and senior managers in organisational or personal transition. Her career experience includes IT, finance and sales and marketing as well as HR and consulting. She supports our leadership and one-to-one coaching courses.
Chester | IT Trainer | MOS Master Instructor | Microsoft Office | Visio | Publisher
Chester has 14 years' plus training experience plus extensive corporate and public sector experience. He has a Postgraduate Certificate in Education, and is a MOS Master Instructor (Microsoft's Instructor Qualification). He is ECDL qualified. His corporate experience includes Google, Shell International, HSBC (Canary Wharf), House of Fraser, QBE Insurance Group, McDonalds, EdExcel, H&M Hennes Ltd. His public sector experience includes Brighton and Hove City College, Southdowns NHS Trust (inc PAS), British Medical Association, Shoreditch Trust, Brighton and Hove City Council, the Treasury Office and the Stationery Office.
Training can be offered in all versions of Microsoft Office including Access, Visio and Publisher, and he also offers an MS Office 2007 upgrade course. Chester can also deliver the ECDL Course, HTML/CSS Training and Dreamweaver courses.
Claire | IT Trainer | MOS Master Instructor | Microsoft Office | Access | Outlook
Claire is a MOS Master Instructor - which really means an expert in Microsoft products; such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Access. She holds a teaching diploma and is engaged in real life use of the software, as well as instruction, so you can be sure of some appropriate scenarios, advice and guidance.
David | Finance | Coaching | Management Consultant | Negotiation | Presentation skills
David is a qualified physicist with 22 years in the Aerospace and Defence sector and 10 years in the services and facilities management sector mostly at board level. He was seconded to the US, leading a multi-disciplinary team to penetrate the US defence marketplace. Upon return from the US, David took a post as the Managing Director of a newly acquired SME, dealing with the change and culture issues that characterise a new business acquisition.
Whilst in the facilities management sector, David successfully led a bid team for the privatisation of the Atomic Weapons Establishment – Aldermaston. This activity presented many political, cultural and people challenges, culminating in a successful bid.
In 2001 David qualified with a diploma in Company Direction from The Institute of Directors. In 2002, David, founded a management and training business. He became a chartered director in 2003. David works with the IoD delivering The Finance for non Financial Directors programme as part of the Certificate in Company Direction with particular emphasis upon public sector organisations. David has specialised in delivering this programme for public sector organisations and understands some of the challenges they face.
Current programmes delivered by David are:
- Finance for non financial managers and directors
- Negotiation skills
- Public speaking and presentations
- Project management principles
- Thinking for success - a general finance and management program
- Teaching for success - a management program targeted at the education sector
- Transition training - a workshop for those considering becoming self employed
In addition to management development and training, David is the chairman of the Portsmouth and South East Hampshire Chamber Of Commerce and a member of the Executive Committee and Remuneration Committee for the Portsmouth NHS Trust. David also interviews prospective candidates for the IoD Chartered Director Programme
Di | Personal Development | NLP | Life & Executive Master Coach
Di is a specialist in personal development training and has a BA degree in Management Systems. She is an NLP Master Practitioner and best selling author of ‘NLP for Business Excellence’. Di is also a fully qualified Life and Executive Master Coach. She is a member of the Institute of Management. She has worked widely in the corporate field as well as in the public sector, designing and delivering training and coaching programmes for all levels of staff. She works with individual to boost their confidence and abilities as a manager at Senior and middle management level. She is a professional public speaker and has significant experience in both radio and television work. Di is a licensed trainer of SDI® (Strengths Deployment Inventory – a personality profiling tool) and Quantum Reading® (speed reading at 30,000 wpm).
Courses offered include:
- Selling skills, Customer Care
- Business writing skills, Communication skills
- Management & Leadership Development
- Assertiveness & Influencing Skills
- Speed Reading, Quantum Reading
- Presentation skills
- Introduction to NLP
- Time & Stress Management
- Managing Change
- Coaching & Mentoring for Senior Managers
Heather | Marketing & Sales | Telemarketing | HR
Heather is the Marketing Associate for Moore Associates Hampshire Limited and has over ten years experience in telemarketing. Heather’s contribution to Moore Associates is further enhanced not only by her excellent telemarketing skills, but also her original background in Human Resources as she worked for twelve years at IBM, Portsmouth. Heather was also Project Manager for implementing the original Data Protection Act legislation in 1984 and was recognised for this pioneering work with a major award. In her role at The Manpower Society, Heather worked with many top Executives from industry, including the Police Complaints Authority, HSBC, ACAS, P&O, British Steel, Ashridge and Henley Management Colleges.
Her unique and valued experience of the world of HR make her understanding and commitment to her marketing role with Moore Associates a successful combination, as she is able to easily converse with all level of management and understands the protocol of the HR functions.
Helen B | Coaching | Leadership | Communication
(MA Oxon in French and Spanish) has international experience as an executive director of Fluidra S.A Barcelona. She is a qualified coach working in leadership, women in leadership, interpersonal relationships and enhanced communication. She is developing our leadership with values courses and is committed to working productively and effectively with leaders as part of a team or individually to support them and help develop their role within their company.
Helen P | Accounts | Payroll | Sage Software
Helen is an experienced trainer and provider of support to small and medium sized businesses. She trains users of Sage Software and helps businesses keep control of their accounts. Helen trains companies in the use of Sage and offers group or one to one training. She also offers accounting skills to those in business who have to manage budgets and have responsibilities as managers to manage accounts for their departments or company.
Hery | Mental Health Issues | NLP Training | Mentoring
Hery is a specialist in mental health issues, with qualifications in coaching and mentoring as well as NLP training.
She has provided training in these areas for health care professionals and the private sector. She has an interest in Thought Field Therapy and Cognitive Behaviour therapy. She has the understanding of the problems facing companies who wish to support their employees through illness caused by depression and stress and trains managers who have to cope with these situations as well as being able to provide mentoring and support for those returning to work.
Courses include:
- Mental Health Awareness
- How to facilitate a group
- How to be Assertive
- Managing Your Stress
- Motivating your clients – motivational interviewing
- Introducing Basic Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
- Neuro Linguistic Programming – developing yourself, setting outcomes and learning how to achieve them.
Ian | Marketing | Sales | Performance Coaching | Presentation Skills
Ian’s career includes more than 20 years experience as a sales and general manager/director in industries such as electronics, plastics, automotive, IT, security and components, after first training as an electronics engineer in the Royal Navy. He has significantly increased the sales turnover and profits for his employers and clients over this period by formulating and implementing strategic plans for their businesses.
He has a a flair for teamwork and a passion for developing people and creating environments that help them to reach their maximum potential. Ian stimulates and inspires individuals, executives and teams to identify their shadows and limiting beliefs, to transform mindsets and produce the desired results. Ian holds qualifications in individual and team coaching and is continually learning about human beings and their relationships. He also offers performance-coaching as well as marketing workshops. He works with companies to support their marketing and team building.
Ian is the former Chairman of the Business Club in the Portsmouth & South East Hampshire Chamber of Commerce and former Regional Chairman for the Institute of Sales & Marketing Managers, where he is also a Fellow.
Jim | Personnel | Human Resources | Employee Relations
has 25 years experience in human resources and consulting roles. His experience covers human resource management and training issues in telecommunications, financial services, consulting and professional services. He has wide experience in human resource issues covering strategy, recruitment, training and career development, compensation, employee relations policy and dealing with staff issues.
He has published a number of articles on training and development, recruitment and career development and has trained in both the UK and Continental Europe.
His experience includes:
- Devised and implemented HR and training strategies aligned with business needs
- Development of competencies and skills frameworks for staff
- Training audits and training needs analyses
- Management development including facilitation of strategy development sessions for senior management
- Design and leading team building programmes
- Delivered a range of training programmes, covering presentation skills, meetings, business networking, consultancy/client skills, recruitment, employment legislation and discipline, handling sensitive issues, performance management and appraisal, and career development
- Created training strategies and programmes for different groups of staff, integrating practical experience, professional qualifications and skills training
Jim has an MA in Sociology and Administration, and Diplomas in Personnel Management and Training Management. He is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. He is an accomplished public speaker and has published a number of articles on training and development and has trained in both the UK and Continental Europe.
Nick | Executive Coaching & Consultancy
Nick brings to his consultancy work a broad industrial and commercial experience that is based on real hands on business development,
whether through organisation and team building, revenue growth plans by expanding sales, new market developments, product enhancements,
or through acquisition. He has had considerable experience in acquisitions and disposals, having been involved with due diligence as both
buyer and seller.
Nick has for many years developed, built and run companies in the UK, Europe and the US. He spent twenty years
with a major division of the Sperry Corporation, starting in engineering design, before moving into progressively more senior commercial roles
in the US and Europe, eventually assuming responsibility for a pan-European Sales and Marketing organisation turning over in excess of $230 million.
He went on to spend ten years with Charles Baynes, a UK PLC, where he built a group of acquired businesses into a global leader, consistently
improving margins and productivity.
Paul | IT Training & Consultancy | MS Access | MS Office | Accountancy
Paul is a Chartered Management Accountant with 25 years experience working mainly in manufacturing industry as a Management Accountant. His expert knowledge of MS Office products has therefore been developed in real, live, business working environments to develop data analysis and management reports. He can provide specialist training in Microsoft ACCESS 2003, and its interaction with EXCEL and WORD. He can also provide businesses with general accountancy support and consultancy.
Peter | Personal Development | NLP Training | Presentation Skills | Coaching & Mentoring
Peter is a training professional specialising in People Skills for business, accelerated learning and personal development. He designs and delivers creative and effective training events with practical applications of advanced techniques.
As well as being a full member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and a NLP Master Practitioner, Peter also holds a M.Sc. (HRD) and a Diploma in Training Management.
Since 2003, Peter has been the Mind Coach at the Hampshire School of Excellence for talented young golfers.
Courses Peter can deliver include • People Skills of Customer Service • Managing Personal Energy and Stress • Presentation Skills (2 days) • High Performance Team Leaders • Thinking Correctly under Pressure • Introduction to Public Speaking and Communicating to Groups • Performance Review and Feedback Skills • Coaching and Mentoring Skills (1 or 2 days) • Introduction to NLP • Communicating Differently • Accelerating your Learning and Memory Skills • Introduction to Psychology at Work
Richard M | Media and PR specialist | Author and journalist
Richard has been a journalist, writer and broadcaster specialising in business and industry for more than 25 years. Currently he freelances for The Daily Telegraph. Richard also specialises in business media training for Press, Radio and TV. He is a principal presenter for The PR Training Centre and visiting lecturer in Journalism and PR for Buckingham University. He has presented hundreds of courses for many major corporations. He is the author of the best selling business book Bad Company, chosen by The Sunday Times as its Business Book of the Week, and used as a course text book on a number of MBA courses and also the author of the popular management handbook Do Your Own PR. Richard's course is 'Managing the Media'. He also delivers writing workshops for high level documentation and can work with companies who wish to develop their documentation writing skills.
Richard B | Environmental Issues | Sustainability | Rehabilitation Specialist
Richard's speciality is in helping businesses to manage their environmental impact. He has experience of setting up and managing a small business and is therefore, able to bring an understanding of the difficulties of running a business to his training sessions. Richard studied environmental management long before it was fashionable and then moved into other areas before coming back to it and studying for an Open University degree. He graduated in 2004 and was subsequently offered a position with the Open University teaching at undergraduate level both for the Business School and the Environment, Development and International Studies programme. When not looking after his OU students, Richard provides environmental support and advice (including training) to small and medium-sized businesses across the South. He is also an enthusiastic member of the Royal Geographical Society's Ambassador scheme where he encourages school students to study geography at 'A' level and beyond. He is currently working with the Education and Outdoor Learning department of the RGS to develop a Sustainability masterclass for 'A' level students.
Sarah-Jane | Soft Skills | Professional Performance Coach | NLP Training | Mediator
Sarah-Jane has attained a huge expanse of life experience with employment ranging from industry to retail and from the public to the voluntary sector. Sarah-Jane's credentials include Soft Skills Trainer, Advanced Professional Performance Coach, Coach Supervisor, NLP Master Practitioner, Practitioner of Hypnosis and Community and Workplace Mediator.
Sarah-Jane works on a one-to-one basis or in groups, assisting others to reach their full potential, encouraging dignity and freedom in order that they identify and exercise their own rights and personal choices and ultimately share responsibility for and become productive members of our society. She is particularly comitted to working with disadvantaged groups who are 'economically inactive' or 'hard to reach' providing a springboard to becoming either self-employed, a volunteer, training or further education, or employment
shaun | Health & Safety | Equipment Instructor | Safety Assessor | IOSH | MCMI
Shaun is a Health & Safety & Material Handling Equipment Instructor/Assessor with qualifications in all aspects of safety training and development. With a successful military logistical background, Shaun is a motivational and confidence-building trainer with extensive man-management and instructional experience both in the UK and overseas. Shaun takes up new challenges and training techniques with enthusiasm and passes on expertise and skills in a positive and effective way to enhance the company and its reputation.
He has worked with within the Dockyard Industry carrying out assessments for future training needs, and arranged and planned training for various companies such as P&O in Portsmouth and Dover; provided various types of Health and Safety training for the construction, retail, farming and leisure industries; carried out training for the CITB (Construction Industry Training Board) and has been a guest speaker on the SMSTS (Site Management Safety Training Scheme); as well as having carried out site safety audits in the UK; carried out testing after in-house training of operators; CPCS (Certificate Plant Competence Scheme) training to a very high standard; and NVQ assessments for the Construction Industry.
Shaun is a full Technical Member of IOSH and a Member of the Chartered Management Institute. He offers workshops for those wishing to learn about Health & Safety and will help them to plan their Health & Safety requirements.
Shelagh | Education | Values Education | Management Training & Consultancy | Team-building | Values-based Leadership
Shelagh has a degree that includes education and sociology and post graduate qualifications in Management and Training. She works as an interim manager supporting senior and middle managers in improving their and their team’s performance. She works in the UK and abroad with clients to introduce them to aspects of UK training in business and education management and team building. She improves team performance and promotes the well-being of the people she works with. She works with senior managers to help them plan effectively the implementation of change at work and incorporates an approach to developing values at work that will promote the well being of their staff.
She works to develop training for leadership that allows companies to foster and support their leaders both new and established.
Her courses include:
- Leadership Training
- Team building
- Developing communication skills
- Time management, Planning Your Time Productively
- Writing Skills
- Planning and Delivering Better Presentations.
She also will help companies to develop the visual and written aspects of their websites so that they achieve their purpose to sell the company!
As a published writer she is able to work with companies so that their written materials are fit for purpose.
A member of the Well-being team, Shelagh uses visualisation and relaxation to help delegates focus on achieving positive outcomes from their training workshops and courses.
As Training Director she works with companies to plan and develop their training based on their needs and their budget.
Stuart | IT Training | Excel specialist | VBA
MA Cantab in Natural Sciences, Postgraduate Diploma in Chemical Engineering. Stuart has had senior roles in the Process Industry and with International Process and Engineering Contractors, and most recently worked with companies on longer term IT projects as a Senior Technical Consultant, providing global support for Aspentech Icarus software Kbase, IPE and IPM (now Aspen Economic Evaluation suite) and Pertmaster (now Oracle) Project Risk scheduling risk products, as well as a number of in-house programs some of which he developed for the Client.
Stuart is an MS Excel applications specialist, VB and VBA programmer and specialist, spreadsheet developer and auditor, with skills in numerical risk assessment tools, web design and many IT technologies. Stuart has facilitated Risk Assessment sessions for clients including Shell, Saudi Aramco and Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd. He can support statistical data analysis, benchmarking software output, and Monte Carlo simulation applications on a Consultancy basis.
Director of Moore Associates Hampshire Limited and trainer for Excel and Visual Basic for Applications at all levels
Tracy | Sales & Recruitment | Training Consultancy | Management Development | CIPD
Tracy is an experienced sales and management trainer. She started her career in sales in 1986, working for a large business publishing house and managing a team of telephone sales executives. She then joined a start-up recruitment consultancy, with responsibilty for growing the business, both from a hands on sales perspective and from a more strategic management point of view. She moved into training in 1998 and now co-runs her own training consultancy.
She holds a training qualification through the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). Her experience combines strong training and facilitation skills with hands on experience of managing and growing a business in a highly competitive market. She specialises in Management Development, Sales and Recruitment training, through group based courses and one to one coaching.
Tracy is a member of the CPD certification service, so attending a course run by Tracy will attract CPD points to use towards your approved professional development.
Wendy | Chartered Management Accountant | Financial Skills Training | Accountancy |
Wendy specialises in delivering financial training to non financial people. She has many years experience in both accounting and training and is a Chartered Management Accountant, qualified teacher and trainer. Her accountancy career spans 15 years in senior financial management covering management buy-outs, SMEs and larger PLCs. She has trained people from a range of business sizes and types including manufacturing, farming, design, development, health, retail and leisure. In the public sector she has helped members leaving the armed forces in setting up and running new businesses and trained NHS managers with budget responsibility. Wendy understands what financial skills business owners and managers need on a day-to-day basis to successfully manage. She is experienced in developing programmes to suit the needs of individuals with financial decision making responsibility and those involved in reviewing financial performance. She is focused on giving business people a sound understanding of finance enabling them to be confident when processing financial information.
We source and provide trainers to suit your training needs and are continually developing our training provision from dealing with back pain, taking minutes, Microsoft® Excel and VBA projects, to how to protect yourself when travelling!
Contact us if you have a training need that you cannot find elsewhere, maybe we can help!
