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Our Learning and Development Consultants

Employed exclusively by Hemsley Fraser, our learning and development team have proven experience and expertise in their specialist subject areas.

Continuous improvement and innovation are key focuses for the team. Over 40% of their time is spent on research and development to ensure programmes deliver relevant knowledge, skills and behaviours, to enhance people's performance in the workplace.

Hemsley Fraser is committed to the TAP® Learning System, the UK's emerging de facto standard for training skills certification administered by The Training Foundation.

Below is a selection of our consultant profiles.

Steven Braid - Learning Consultant

 
Steven Braid
Steven Braid

Steven is an experienced management development professional with almost ten years experience in both managing and developing people within international and blue chip companies. He has experience in designing and delivering a range of training programmes, one to-one coaching and in the facilitation of major events and workshops.

Steven favours an outgoing, participative and consultative training and coaching style, which gives the delegates the opportunity to experiment through exercises, discussions and other activities, as well as providing practical work-based examples on a whole range of HR related subjects. By adopting a facilitative role, Steven challenges participants and encourages them to think for themselves and to formulate feasible work-based action planning throughout his training sessions.

With a true passion for leadership development and coaching, Steven is committed to delivering high-value and high impact development programmes for participants at different levels and backgrounds.

Steven's areas of specialisation include leadership, interpersonal and communication skills, coaching, managing performance, employee involvement initiatives, employee relations, talent management and consultancy skills. He has run company wide projects on employee involvement, group-wide induction programmes, diversity and disability and HR policies and procedures.

As a result of his extensive experience, Steven has been called upon to work with some well-known clients. These include Royal Bank of Scotland, Airbus, Shell, Total, Schlumberger, Avon Cosmetics, Norwich Union, and for smaller successful and high-profile organisations. He has consulted on, designed and delivered courses for USA, Europe and Asia-Pacific regions.

In his spare time, Steven enjoys golf, socialising, traveling and spinning the wheels of steel as a DJ.

Malcolm Caudren - Learning Consultant

Malcolm joined Hemsley Fraser in 2006 after twenty-two years of service in the Royal Air Force. During this time he delivered training in specialist skills, teambuilding and communication to all ranks and also served three tours training initial recruits, for whom he was also responsible for the health, safety and well-being of up to seventy five recruits on an intake. His expertise and dedication in this area was rewarded in 2001 when he was awarded the Air Officer Commanding Training Group's Commendation for meritorious service in the New Years Honours List. On leaving the Service, Malcolm ran his own first aid training business, providing in-house training to a variety of business clients and working as an associate to deliver health and safety training.

Malcolm is a strong believer in team working and support networks, qualities that he finds in abundance at Hemsley Fraser. His approach to training is relaxed and motivational. Malcolm is a strong believer in making the learning experience both fun and interactive and enjoys building a strong rapport with delegates. This enables them to absorb the information at a deeper level and make subsequent changes to their behaviour and practices in the workplace.

He believes in learning as a continual process, having in recent years completed a Post Graduate Certificate in Education, the CIPD Certificate in Training Practice and maintains an interest in relevant courses with the Open University. Malcolm is also qualified in Health and Safety Management, Risk Assessing and Manual Handling with the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health and is a HSE registered First Aid Trainer.

Outside of work, Malcolm is a keen sports follower. Despite his playing days being behind him he is an avid rugby fan, regularly watching Saracens and becoming ever more frustrated overcoming his inadequacies on the golf course.

Alison Cowper - Learning Consultant

Alison Cowper
Alison Cowper

Alisons expertise is in personal and business communication including time management, presentation skills, teamworking and assertiveness. Her courses role model these subjects. Everyone is encouraged to contribute, to practice and to find solutions which will work with them in their individual situations.

Her recent clients include Royal bank of Scotland, Bank of England, British Telecommunications Plc, NHS Executive, Public Guardianship Office, Zurich Financial Services, Orange, Unilever, Visa and Daimlar Chrysler.

Alison has worked for a number of years in business before qualifying as a teacher of adults. She is accredited for Belbin and Thomas International and she holds a Diploma in Business Coaching.

Dave Hardwick - Head of Associates

 
Dave Hardwick
Dave Hardwick

A senior consultant with over 20 year's experience in training, Dave joined Hemsley Fraser in 2001. Dave's background in sales and management shines through in his results orientated approach to training with everything focussed on ensuring what you learn in the training room directly improves performance and is fully transferable to the workplace.

Dave's delivery style is highly interactive and flexible, ensuring that training is an experience that delegates enjoy and can learn from as a result. As a trainer Dave prides himself in being able to learn from the delegates.

During his many years management experience Dave has always been interested in developing others and when the opportunity came to move into full-time training he jumped at it and has never looked back. In his time at Hemsley Fraser Dave has been responsible for the successful implementation of company wide training projects in Change Management, Teambuilding, Leadership, Management and Performance Review workshops, and has worked for a number of clients in the UK, Europe and America. Recent clients include Airbus, Kodak, Sony UK Ltd, RBS, T-Mobile and GlaxoSmithKline.

Dave loves to combine his passions for photography and travel whenever possible the digital revolution has been a godsend as he has recently been able to throw out his photo-albums and re-discover his spare room!

Graham Kerr - Senior Learning Consultant

Graham Kerr
Graham Kerr

With industry experience gained mainly from a fast track management career within HSBC, Graham has held a wide variety of roles, including personal responsibility for over 250 financial services managers and staff. He has also delivered a high profile staff culture change programme for over 350 line managers. Graham is an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers and brings a wealth of experience in the financial services sector to Hemsley Fraser.

Graham has designed and delivered management, sales and project management courses to both SME and blue chip sectors. He holds the Association for Project Management Professional (APMP) and PRINCE2 Practitioner qualifications and since joining Hemsley Fraser has worked with a wide range of clients including Visa International, Kodak, Halifax, RBS, The Law Society, Philips and British American Tobacco.

Graham Lennox - Senior Learning Consultant

Graham Lennox
Graham Lennox

Graham joined Hemsley Fraser in 1998, bringing with him extensive training and development experience gained through a variety of roles held in the public and private sectors. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development, Certified Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming, NLPtCA Accredited Psychotherapist and is registered with the UK Council for Psychotherapists.

Graham believes that learning and development has become a life skill in today's ever-changing work environment and is key to personal and business success. He favours a participative and consultative training style which gives the delegates the opportunity to experiment with skills and techniques through exercises, discussions and other creative activities. By adopting a coaching and facilitative style, Graham creates a collaborative and challenging learning environment. Delegates are encouraged through guidance to develop their own solutions to work based problems.

In his personal life Graham enjoys walking, gardening and working for a local charity as a counsellor. He enjoys one to one coaching and time with family and friends.

Emma-Jayne Vessey - Senior Learning Consultant

Emma-Jayne Vessey
Emma-Jayne Vessey

Emma-Jayne joined Hemsley Fraser 3 years ago as a Senior Consultant specializing in influencing and communication skills, customer service, coaching and performance management.

A chartered member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and an associate of the Chartered Management Institute, Emma-Jayne has gained extensive training and facilitation experience through a variety of training and development roles held in a diverse range of private and public sector organisations including Training Specialist with QVC The Shopping Channel.

Emma-Jayne is currently Faculty Manager for Visa Europe and British American Tobacco, which enables her to develop a close relationship with these organisations, understand how they function and ensure that they are provided with the best solution possible. Other organisations she has worked with include Royal Bank of Scotland, Norwich Union, T-Mobile, Bank of England, ICI, Price Waterhouse Cooper, The Health and Safety Executive, Royal Mail and Deloitte and Touche.

Owing to her experience with international clients, her fluency in Spanish and passion for travel and different cultures, Emma-Jayne has worked on various Hemsley Fraser international projects, including recent work in Belgium, Italy and Hungary. Most recently she worked as lead design and faculty manager with United Electronics (eXtra) Saudi Arabia, leading the project from initial design and detailed material development, through to train the trainer delivery in Bahrain, and 1-1 feedback coaching for eXtra facilitators to roll out the programme.

Emma-Jayne continues her passion for travel and learning outside of work too, and is in her element trekking through jungle, scuba diving or sampling new gastronomic experiences.

Moyra Wright - Learning Consultant

Moyra Wright
Moyra Wright

Moyra's extensive experience as a project manager in both the public sector with the NHS and private sector means that she has first hand experience of the practical issues facing project managers.

She has provided project management services and training to several blue chip clients such as Ford Motor Company and acted as the European Programme Manager for the Year 2000 project in both the UK and USA.

Her recent clients include BAE Systems, National Audit Office, The Teacher Training Agency, Freeserve, The Cabinet Office, First Choice, Woodland Trust, Harvey Nichols, Newham Council and De Montford University.

Moyra favours a participative and consultative training style, which gives delegates the opportunity to experiment through practical exercises and discussions. She challenges delegates and encourages them to think for themselves in an atmosphere that is as relaxed and informal as possible.

Moyra is a registered PRINCE2™ Practitioner and an accredited PRINCE2™ trainer. She has also gained accreditations from Belbin Associates and is MOUS accredited in Microsoft Project 2000. She holds a Masters in Business Administration, Diploma in Management Studies and a Certificate in Project Management.

In her personal life Moyra enjoys reading, keeping her mind active and challenged, going to the gym and spending time with her family.

For further information on our learning and development specialists please contact us.