Meet The Team
The team at The Training Experts are passionate about the importance of continually developing a business through its most important asset - The People in it! Working with your people our team of highly qualified & respected training professionals have the skills to help identify effective solutions to your key business issues and make a positive difference to the continued success of your business.
Our Management Team
Chris Barnard
Managing Director
Chris and Lisa Barnard set up and incorporated The Training Experts.co.uk in April 2009 as an additional trading arm of P-tek Development Solutions Ltd, which was incorporated in April 2003. The Training Experts ethos...
Lisa Barnard
Director
Lisa Barnard graduated in 1996 with a BA (Honours) degree in European Business and French. She then spent six years working for J. Sainsbury’s plc, where she managed a variety of departments, resulting in her running the customer service team...
Peter Biggs
Director
Peter had a distinguished 28 year career in the Royal Navy, attending to his first fire in an aircraft carrier when just 17 years old. Prior to leaving the service Peter was responsible for preparing and delivering briefings to senior military staff...
Our Associate Team
Martyn & Jeanette Rouse
Jeanette and Martyn Rouse have over 30 years experience of successfully managing teams, tasks and individuals in small and large customer driven organisations - from small tasks through to complex projects…
Sue Parsons (Assoc CIPD)
Sue is an experienced trainer specialising in team and management development. She has 15 years experience...
Christine Guy-Clarke
Christine has over 20 years experience working with business owners who understand that to succeed they need to be one step ahead...
Stewart Beamont
With 20 years’ experience under his belt, Stewart has an impressive track record in both the public and private sectors as a development professional…
Mike Wilkinson
Mike works with organisations of all sizes helping them to maximise the effectiveness of their sales efforts, both in terms of sales process and skills...
Katherine Saltmarsh
Katherine's training delivery portfolio is extensive with qualifications in the design and delivery of Train the Trainer, Sales Process, Skills and technical induction training...
Sree Kumar
Sree is a qualified IT professional with a Masters in computing and has 14 years of experience in IT in varied capacities - Programmer, Teacher, Corporate trainer, Project coordinator, Training centre head, Business Analyst and Entrepreneur...
Elene Marsden
Elene Marsden started her own company after several years experience teaching in secondary, tertiary and adult education. For eight years, she has been training companies and their staff in IT office skills as well as working as a virtual coach and assessor for an online learning centre...
View Full Profile Elene is the designer and presenter of an ACT! training CD, which can be purchased from Amazon.co.uk
Robbie Spencer
Robbie is the founder of 'Disarm From Within'. He is a qualified anger and conflict management facilitator and also works as a counsellor...
Eleanor Goodison
Eleanor is an independent trainer, consultant and coach. She has over 30 years’ senior level experience in central government, anchored around but not restricted to HR management...
Alison Darrington
Alison has over 15 years experience in Retail Management and Sales environments and is adept in training managers and sales staff...
Matt Fitzgerald
Matt Fitzgerald delivers quality training for workers specialising in the Food Industry...
Rachel Sloane
Rachel Sloane is an award winning broadcaster who has presented every type of programme and phone-in...
Graeme Borrill
Graeme has designed and delivered over 1,000 training days in a wide variety of management and soft skills training programmes...
Jackie Clifford
Jackie has been working in the field of learning and development since 1990, prior to which she also worked in recruitment consultancy and generalist HR...
View Full Profile Jackie is the co-author of 3 books, which can be purchased from Amazon.co.uk:
The Coaching Handbook Dear Trainer Workplace Learning & Development
Ivan & Jan Goulding
Ivan and Jan provide both IT Training and software development services with almost 60 years combined experience in the IT industry..
Ewan Stickley
As a member of the British Psychological Society and the Institute of Leadership and Management, Ewan has over 20 years management experience..
Lyn King
Lyn King has over 25 years experience in the field of Learning and Development in both the private and public sectors..
Samantha Blackburn FCIPD
All too often keeping on top of employment legislation and managing the ever changing procedures and documentation required can prove both challenging and very time consuming...
Carolyn Wood
Carolyn became a freelance trainer at the beginning of 2010, after spending almost 6 years working for the Institute of Customer Service as a Professional Development Manager...
Jane Steer
Jane is a well motivated, flexible, effective and adaptable trainer with a strong proven record of improving quality, managing change, delivering excellent customer service and of managing innovative training programmes leading to achievement of professional standards...
Jim Darrah
Jim joined the Army in 1982 as an Infantry Soldier and quickly learnt that his road of expertise was in training...