John has over 10 years’ experience working in nuclear and energy markets ‘improving peoples’ lives’ by unlocking their potential. This was initially in executive search, before expanding services to include commercial research. He has recently moved into his current specialism of social value and helps Costain and other customers unlock the power of local communities through the development / discovery of social value created as part of their business activities.

John is an experienced trainer who uses intelligent questions to encourage critical thinking from participants. This is supported by the latest technology and a variety of media and ensures delegates engage with the content and achieve their learning objectives.

The focus of the training is to enable delegates to understand how to maximise social value through their professional roles and to understand the role digital can play in this. Delegates will gain an understanding of how to shape the social value in their organisations, including the latest policy drivers, how they can unlock the maximum social value for their stakeholders, and how to capture data and analyse impact.

John will draw on his experience in the sector and on case studies from multiple sectors and customers including Sellafield and HS2. He will reference and signpost best practice approaches including Social Value UK.

John is an Assured Social Value Practitioner with Social Value UK (SVUK) and has an MA Social Policy with Distinction from Liverpool Hope University and LLB Law with Politics from the University of Chester. John’s research interests are in the maximisation of social value on major infrastructure projects, and he is a member of Social Value UK, the Social Policy Association, and the Social Research Association.

Jeremy has over 30 years’ experience of working in the infrastructure sector ‘improving people lives’ initially in engineering and project management, then a career in HR before moving into his current specialism of Digital Social Value including delivering legacy commitments on the Tideway project and helping customers maximise their social value across multiple sectors.

Jeremy is an experienced facilitator and trainer, and his courses are interactive and engaging using the latest technology, and a variety of media, to enable delegates to engage with the content and achieve their learning objectives.

The focus of the training is to enable delegates to understand how to maximise social value through their professional roles and to understand the role digital can play in that maximisation. Delegates will gain an understanding of how to shape the social value in their organisations, including the latest policy drivers, how they can unlock the maximum social value for their stakeholders, and how to capture data and analyse impact.

Jeremy will draw on his 30 years of experience in the sector and on case studies from multiple sectors and customers including Tideway and HS2. He will reference and signpost best practice approaches including Social Value UK.

Jeremy is an Associate Practitioner with Social Value International and has an MSc with Distinction in Business Innovation and International Technology Management from the University of London, Birkbeck College. Jeremy is a Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Personnel and Development, a Chartered Engineer and Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Jeremy has Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) accredited qualifications in mentoring and Leadership and Management. Jeremy’s research interests are in the maximisation of social value on major infrastructure projects and he is a member of Social Value International (SVI) research group and the Birkbeck Centre for Innovation Management Research.

Personal Statement

I believe that for people to learn and develop, creating a positive, open and supportive learning space is the key to success.

My passion is helping people learn and develop to improve their performance. I specialise in Leadership and Management Development because I know first-hand how important it is to have great managers and leaders that build successful teams and organisations.

I am very experienced in facilitating practical and memorable learning experiences using interactive tools, activities and application.

Relevant Experience

• 20 years as a Learning and Development consultant designing and delivering blended learning programmes for many different types of organisations.
• A specialist in Leadership and Management Development.
• 5 years as an Operational Manager in food retail, logistics and manufacturing.
• MCIPD qualified.
• CMI Level 3 and 5 tutor and assessor.
• Qualified in behavioural psychometric tools including Myers Briggs, Insights Discovery and Communication Styles.
• Volunteer Career Enterprise Advisor to Saddleworth School.

Expertise and Specialist Skills Clients

• Leadership and Management Development.
• Personal Effectiveness skills training.
• Team Building and group facilitation.
• Career Development coaching.
• Training needs analysis, design, development and measurement.
• Behavioural psychometrics/profiling as part of a learning experience.
  
• NLP Principles integrated into learning experiences.
  
• Virtual learning design and delivery.
• Retail The Co-op
• Morrisons
• Travel Diversity Travel
• East Coast Mainline Railway
• Education Manchester Open Learning
• Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
• Manufacturing Jaguar Land Rover
• Construction Costain Engineering
• Housing
• Public Sector Riverside Group
• Plymouth City Council
• The Civil Service
  

Client Feedback

“Claire’s key skill lies in her ability to quickly understand what her client needs and translate that into a learning experience. She consistently delivers high quality, memorable learning events that have received great feedback from both learners and the client.” Graham David, Managing Director, Blue Beetle Productions.

“Claire is a talented and passionate leadership professional with sound experience in a variety of organisations. She works hard to get to know the business she is partnering with to design and deliver a bespoke, high impact programme. A strong facilitator, Claire brings out the best in her delegates and is able to engage people at all levels.” Steph Oerton, Head of HRD East Coast Mainline Railway.

Culture, Diversity & Inclusion Consultant and Trainer

Email: gabbywgl5@gmail.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabrielaweglowska/
Category: Diversity & Inclusion, Intercultural Business Communication, Personal Effectiveness, Leadership, Coaching

Gabriela Weglowska has over twelve years of experience working in diverse environments, including six years in corporate training. As a learning & development consultant and trainer, she specialises in topics of intercultural communication, diversity and inclusion.

Gabriela worked in various HR roles, including Diversity & Inclusion departments – for example, as D&I project Lead at British Council and D&I Officer at King’s College London – where she organised and facilitated various learning interventions on a range of D&I topics. In her latest role as L&D Consultant at Learnlight, she designed a series of digital, blended learning courses on Diversity & Inclusion in the Workplace. She has experience of working in an international environment, the private sector, non-governmental organisations and higher education institutions. Gabriela’s key skills are in designing and delivering face-to-face and virtual training sessions for corporate, “modern learners”. Her programs are current, practical and engaging.

As a life-long learner, Gabriela has an MA in Intercultural Business Communication, followed by professional qualifications in learning & development, coaching and training facilitation. She currently works with several training companies, training or coaching employees from many well-known national and international brands.

In addition, Gabriela serves as a Board Member & Communications Director at the UK’s Society for Intercultural Education, Training & Research (SIETAR). She is also an associate lecturer at the University of Surrey where she teaches an MA-level module on Intercultural Business Communication.

Past participants’ feedback:

• Thanks! Really interesting and thought provoking training session. Making me consider what I think of as my own culture and how that relates to others.
• I found it to be more interesting than I thought. I imagined I would switch off as I would be looking at a screen all day, however because the course was interesting and the trainer very vocal and involved, I haven’t switched off and have really enjoyed it.
• Very interesting course that has increased my knowledge a lot and I now feel more confident in how I will work going forward. I found talking through case studies really helpful and thinking about how to put concepts into practise.
• It was definitely one of the better virtual trainings I have been on. It was interactive and involving as opposed to a lecture style. Good mix of activity and information. I really appreciated the effort on making it participatory. And I appreciated the opportunity to hear everyone’s voice as it felt inclusive and considered.

Kevin McKee BSc (Hons), DipArb, FRICS, FInstCES, APA

Qualifications
Honours Degree in Building Economics and Measurement, Diploma in Arbitration, Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Fellow Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors.

Profile
Kevin McKee has extensive experience in the Construction Industry and has worked on a wide cross-section of projects in the building, civil engineering, water and rail sectors.

Kevin has worked as a contract and commercial manager for contractors, local government and as a Partner in a leading professional practice.

He has been heavily involved in developing collaborative working arrangements and associated project controls with clients such as Thames Water, London Underground and Railtrack. His project experience encompasses major airport terminal developments, tunnelling, treatment plants and railway infrastructure works.

During Kevin’s career he has managed major programmes of work in the engineering sector. As Project Services Manager on one such programme he managed a range of professional disciplines including engineering assurance, quality, safety, commercial, procurement, planning and project controls.

He has significant experience in developing innovative procurement strategies, and sat as a member of a Contracts Review Group responsible for approving individual contract strategies on a £5.4 billion programme of work. He has extensive experienceof partneringand collaberative working and is a member of the Association of Partnering Advisers.

In addition to his specialist Quantity Surveying background he also has experience of managing and resolving major disputes.

Kevin is an accredited mediators, a committee member of the Thames Valley Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is also a member of the Confederation of Construction Specialists Panel of Adjudicators, an Adjudicator Nominating Body (ANB) for the purposes of the Construction Act.

Feedback

I write to thank you for a fantastic course that was pitched at just the right level and covered the subject perfectly. It was good that you spent some time reviewing our onerous amendments and I learnt some things I was unaware of regarding these! The feedback from the team was good and everyone felt the course was worthwhile. I hope you found the interaction OK from us. Very informative

As always Kevin was focussed and clearly engaged in the subject matter

Kevin has a though knowledge of contracts and made the subject understandable

Very good use of examples and good to have detailed notes

Well explained, took questions at all times

Thorough summary of NEC3 delivered in a manner that was easy to understand

Lots of detailed info. Good amicable speaker, gave good briefing along with notes and further information on how to implement contracts

The course was personalised to individual problems / expanses on their job

Nigel Clayton, DipArb, FCIArb, FInstCES, FRICS, MAPM

Nigel joined BrunswickIS which is part of the Alway Group of companies in March 2003 as a Senior Consultant and has subsequently been made a Director. His workload has included commercial management for sub contractors, main contractors, developers and Local Authority Employer. He has also represented parties in adjudications. He is also fulfilling project management duties on a variety of projects and is currently deployed as Employers Agent on a large new build project having advised the employer through all stages of the project.

He is also a regular speaker for Construction Study Centre as well as providing open breakfast seminars and in-house full day seminars in a variety of construction related topics. His delegates have included local and regional contractors, sub contractors, developers and specialist trades as well as construction professionals such as architects, surveyors and engineers.

Prior to his appointment with BrunswickIS, Nigel was Group Commercial Manager of the Thyssen (Great Britain) Ltd group of companies and was appointed Director responsible for establishing an office and workload in Ireland. Thyssen worked mainly in the infrastructure sector undertaking water, rail, road, civil engineering and tunnelling projects. During this time Nigel, along with the personnel organised and developed the Human Resources of the management delivering regular training to staff and supply chain partners on topics including, management techniques, partnering, forms of contract, commercial awareness, commercial quantity surveying and company procedures.

Nigel has had significant success commercially managing projects and teams in the infrastructure sector. He has good communication, presentation and is strong in both commercial and project management skills.

Feedback

Just a quick note to thank you very much for the seminar yesterday. It was one of the best I have attended – ticked every box for me. The day flew and I found it informative, interesting and exceedingly useful

Trainer very knowledgeable, shared real experience.

Very thorough delivery & very informative. Nigel was excellent !

Very good, interactive and easily followed. Hit our audience well – could develop for others in company

Nigel was careful to tailor the contract to our requirements/experience

Very well presented, kept you interested and alert, good examples & analogies

Sonya specialises in Presentation, Public Speaking and Influence.

She holds a C&G Adult Education Teaching Certificate that qualifies her to train within Further Education. In 1997, she was instrumental in setting up the NVQ Cabin Crew programme at South Trafford College and has also lectured in other areas within their Travel & Tourism department.

Being a member of the Professional Speaker’s Association for many years, Sonya uses that knowledge to deliver empathetic and encouraging presentation workshops and undertakes public speaking programmes for business groups.

Sonya delivers individual coaching to those who want to be more confident and competent when speaking in public. These are friendly, practical sessions, bespoke to each client, delivered either at Stratus’ office, online or at the client’s venue.

She has produced and run multi-cultural courses throughout Europe, delivering to delegates speaking business English. She is also an accredited TOTALSDI® (Strength Deployment Inventory) facilitator helping organisations to look at leadership, teamwork and individual communication styles.

Her aviation, banking and retail background make her an ideal facilitator of Interpersonal and Soft Skills. She has delivered to a variety of delegates from senior managers to front line staff.

Sonya uses her hands-on experience of training delivery to help organisations in the design and implementation of customised training solutions for both public and private sectors. She encourages people to communicate more effectively at all levels by listening to what her clients need, so she can discover flexible and innovative solutions that match their expectations.

Her facilitation skills reflect reality using a gently humorous and common-sense approach with plenty of opportunity for discussion, interaction and accelerated learning experiences.

Professional Qualifications:

•  Introduction to PRISM Brain Mapping, July 2015
• Practitioner for Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI) – updated to include new HANC Conflict Session
• CIPD Associate Trainer for Certificate in Training Practice
• Accreditation for Ken & Kate Back Assertiveness Programme
• ILM72 Management Profile
• Accreditation Certificates for American Express in Customer Care, Coaching and Feedback
• City & Guilds (7307) Further/Adult Education Teaching Certificate
• City & Guilds Instructor’s Certificate – General

Areas of Personal Delivery Expertise:

Presentation Skills | Coaching | Facilitation | Train the Trainer
Managing Customer Care | General Customer Care | Call Centre Customer Care
Assertiveness | Negotiation | Influencing and Persuasion | Leadership
General Communication Skills | Effective Interaction | Conflict Management
Inter-personal Skills | Team Building (using SDI)