Our Team
Staff
Kevin Holt - Managing Director
Kevin is an experienced trainer and assessor of leadership and management development programmes, including quality management, change management and behavioural profiling using DiSC.
He is an enthusiastic trainer who believes in accelerated learning techniques and engages in practical development activities whenever he can. Kevin enjoys developing new team leaders as much as experienced managers, on accredited or unaccredited programmes.
Michaela Cozens - Operations Director
Michaela manages a wide range of programmes so each day brings variety to her job. Michaela's role includes meeting businesses to discuss their staff learning and development needs; managing in-house training; coordinating higher education programmes, contract management and promotion of funded training.
Outside of work, she is a keen supporter of Wildlife, belonging to WWT, GWT & RSPB to name a few.
Rebecca Brinton - Office Manager
Rebecca is our Office Manager. Previously she worked with Early Years Settings for over 20 yrs both as an Early Years Practitioner and in management. She is also a Bristol Standards Quality Assurance Assessor, NVQ Assessor and Internal Verifier.
Spare time is limited due to managing her family’s two businesses but she enjoys reading, music, Ballroom and Latin American dancing, so is an avid Strictly viewer!
Trainers & Assessors
Barbara Smith
Barbara is an experienced Trainer and Coach who has held senior positions in HR and Training in both the private and public sector.
She has spent the last 22 years working with a variety of organisations, providing them with the appropriate training and coaching solutions to meet their learning and development requirements. She specialises in HR topics, communication skills, soft skills and business coaching skills. FCIPD, Cert Ed (Adult Education)
Greg Montgomery
Greg has worked in the professional consultancy and training sector for over a decade, including as MD of a leading training and consulting business, where he led the growth of the business to double in size. Greg has delivered many training courses to literally thousands of participants, receiving excellent feedback and many comments about his authentic delivery, enthusiasm and his use of real-life stories to bring theoretical content to life.
He is passionate about developing people to create opportunities, improving business performance to achieve sustainable success and collaborative working to develop mutually beneficial long-term partnerships.
Grant Cozens
Grant enjoyed a long and successful career in Banking in London, Bristol & Gloucestershire spending over twenty years as a Corporate Manager. He has a strong financial background and having run his own businesses, he is able to provide comprehensive advice and support at all levels to businesses of all sizes throughout their life cycles.
His style is open, friendly, pragmatic & informal to ensure delegates derive maximum benefit.
Keith Jones
Keith Jones is an IT consultant and accredited trainer with many years of experience across a wide range of business sectors. As the New Technologies manager for a multinational corporation, he led international teams to develop world class manufacturing solutions.
Keith applies his consultancy expertise to his training sessions to keep them relevant and evergreen to his delegates. He describes his training style as objective-based, fun and totally focussed on the needs of the attendees
Kevin Holt - Managing Director
Kevin is an experienced trainer and assessor of leadership and management development programmes, including quality management, change management and behavioural profiling using DiSC.
He is an enthusiastic trainer who believes in accelerated learning techniques and engages in practical development activities whenever he can. Kevin enjoys developing new team leaders as much as experienced managers, on accredited or unaccredited programmes.
Mark Sansome
Mark has over 25 years' experience as a trainer, speaker and facilitator. He delivers a range of our leadership & management courses with a strong focus on personal development, communication and emotional intelligence courses.
He is an engaging, confident and articulate trainer who delivers practical training sessions which learners find motivating and are enthused to reach for higher goals. His easy and personable style means that learners find it easy to understand and enjoyable.
Mike Robinson
Mike is our Internal Verifier for our ILM Qualifications.
An extremely experienced senior manager with a track record of success in both a “blue chip” and privately owned regional company. His expertise covers several key areas in the customer-driven arena, with a particular slant towards Human Resources. His skills lie in leadership & management, strategic/organisational development with excellent communication which means he is the perfect fit for supporting delegates in the workplace while they attend our training courses.
Nigel Bromley
Nigel has been working in the H&S arena now for over 30 years, coming from a civil engineering background and acted as District Safety Adviser for all levels of management with British Telecom, moving to Manager, Safety Policy & Strategy in London. He worked closely with senior managers and board members to integrate safety into the business bloodstream and facilitate synergies wherever possible.
Paul Archer
Paul Archer is a speaker and training consultant, specialising in sales, coaching and customer care. His style is energetic and inspiring and all of his workshops and events are packed full of practical sales ideas that can be used the very next day.
In addition, Paul has been working with businesses, large and small over the past 20 years to help them increase sales revenue, expand their business and move into the new marketing era. He is the author of 6 e-books and many sales articles within his industry.
Peter Blake
Peter is a Chartered Accountant and Business Coach. He has his own practice where he helps clients with their accountancy and taxation needs together with helping them develop their businesses. Peter is a registered Hypnotherapist, Master Practitioner of NLP and qualified Life Coach.
Peter Blake
Master Practitioner of NLP, Member ANLP, GHR, CNHC