Trainers
Our Trainers
Senior Consultant
Vinnie Aggarwal is Professor in the Department of Political Science, Affiliated Professor of Business and Public Policy in the Haas School of Business, and Director of the Berkeley Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center (BASC) at the University of California at Berkeley. From 1991-1994, he was Chairman of the Political Economy of Industrial Societies Program. He is also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Business and Politics. Prof. Aggarwal received his B.A. in political science and psychology from the University of Michigan and his M.A. and Ph.D. in international political economy from Stanford University.
Senior Consultant
James’s unique background places him in a powerful position to help people in organisations to change effectively, and to support a client’s growth and value creation. He achieves this by employing creative and innovative strategies to facilitate change, whilst using psychological insights and frameworks to identify potential areas where success and development may be impeded.
Peter Barden MA MSc MBA FIEMA C.Env
Senior Consultant
Based in the UK and working internationally, Peter is a Principal with Future Perfect Ltd providing advisory, assurance and training services in relation to Sustainable Development. His responsibilities include client relationship management, generation and development of projects with clients in both the public and private sector, and the design and delivery of training courses. Qualified as a Chartered Environmentalist and Principal Environmental Auditor, Peter has been working in the field of environmental sustainability for over 25 years, having originally trained as a agricultural scientist and forester.
Training Consultant
Angela has over 18 years experience in both the commercial and personal financial services sectors. She is a highly motivated professional training manager, with a track record in delivery of courses which motivate individuals to achieve results in their sales roles. Angela has delivered a wide range of courses to a mixed audience ranging from senior managers to front-line sales staff. She has significantly helped the development of sales managers and their teams.
Training Consultant
Nik is a highly motivated sales trainer, with over 18 years experience in both the commercial and personal financial services sectors. Nik has excellent sales, communication, interpersonal and sales management skills. A first class track record in financial services in both achieving results, motivating staff to achieve targets and training. Nik has delivered a wide range of skills courses with an audience ranging from senior executives to front-line sales staff. Nik has helped sales managers and their teams consistently achieve high level resul
Senior Consultant
Located in the UK and is responsible for a team of course design, development and implementation specialists. His responsibilities include the overall management of individual projects, liaison with clients and quality assurance of deliverables. In the consultancy role, he advises clients on issues relating to Instructional Systems Design. Mr. Brophy is a qualified engineer who has been involved in training design, development and implementation relating to a variety of different industries over a 30-year period.
Senior Consultant
An experienced leadership development professional having worked in a range of industry sectors at operational and strategic levels during times of considerable change and uncertainty.
I bring a strong commitment to developing people using experiential learning and reflection, to develop individuals and teams in line with business needs.
Senior Consultant
Engaging delegates at many levels, Amanda offers a stimulating training style, high on energy and content. Challenging participants to expand their thinking and bring their own experience into new contexts, she brings the concept of lifelong learning to the workplace. Her broad range of experience means that she can relate theory with practical examples and application.
Senior Consultant
Having been a training professional for 12 years, Michael has 30 years of corporate experience to draw on, combined with a youthful and enthusiastic approach to learning. Michael runs courses around the world, with groups ranging from new starters to Directors. His training is characterised by his energy and enthusiasm, which generate high impact and high emotion. He believes that for learning to remain in the long-term memory it is vital to engage all the senses. He will confidently go into “unchartered water” and his facilitative style helps people at all levels to be open with their feedback and honest with themselves. He has remarkable skill in engaging quickly with a group, however resistant, and developing a high receptiveness to learning.
Manager, Training and Development
For over 18 years, Chuck has developed and implemented customized, equipment-specific training programs, conducted large-scale Job and Task Analyses and Training Needs Analyses (JTA/TNA), and created detailed maintenance training plans for US organizations. He has developed complete electrical technician apprenticeship course curriculums, and managed project teams of training developers and instructors.
Lucy Candlin, MSc, FIEMA, C.Env
Principal
Based in the UK and working internationally, Lucy is a Principal with Future Perfect Ltd providing advisory, assurance and training services in relation to Sustainabile Development. Her responsibilities include client relationship management, generation and development of projects with clients in both the public and private sector, and quality control of client deliverables and training materials. Qualified as a Chartered Environmentalist, Lucy has been working in the field of environmental sustainability for over 25 years.
Training Consultants
Nicky Chambers is a graduate in Environmental Science and holds a MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College, London. She has over 20 years experience in the business sustainability field having worked for the CBI and the World Travel and Tourism Council.
Practice Leader
Based in the UK and operating internationally, David is one of the world’s leading authorities on coaching, mentoring and top team and Board development. He has trained tens of thousands of people in these areas over the 30 past years in more than 40 countries. He leads an international team specialising in the design and implementation of programmes to help companies build sustainable capability in coaching and mentoring. He works with top teams to help them focus on processes and behaviours, which enhance their collective performance.
Senior Consultant
Tony is a highly skilled trainer of sales people, business people and trainers. He is particularly well known for his training in negotiation and personal effectiveness and he is very adept at enabling delegates to develop higher levels of self belief, ambition and drive - which is often particularly useful for senior sales executives who feel that training has nothing to offer them.
Training Consultant
Paul Cooper has an MSc in Environmental Decision Making from the Open University, an MBA from Warwick University and a BSc in Chemical Engineering from Bath University. Paul is Managing Director at Best Foot Forward as well as leading many projects with BFF’s analyst team.
Senior Consultant
Kathryn is an experienced Coach, Therapist and Business Trainer, a peak performance specialist who helps individuals and organisations consistently achieve extraordinary results.
With over 14 years’ experience of high-pressure sales and management roles in the telecoms industry with organisations such as BT and Orange, Kathryn understands the dynamics of team-building, change management, employee motivation and organisational productivity.
Senior Consultant
Jeff brings a practical and holistic approach to learning and development with organisations and individuals, providing a radical transformation to the lives of those participating. With over 15 years experience, he delivers high quality facilitation, consultancy and coaching events aimed at promoting growth, clarity, change and empowerment. His facilitative style is transformational, participative and experiential with models, ideas and theories being offered in response to group needs and objectives.
“Participants experience a radical transformation”…
Senior Consultant
Paul Edmunds is an experienced and professional coach and trainer with a passion for supporting people in reaching their potential, removing limiting beliefs and enabling people to make a connection between what is meaningful for them and what delivers results for organisations.
Training Consultant
Tara Gilmore is a freelance graphic and website designer based in the West Midlands. Tara also specialises in teaching Adobe Photoshop to private and corporate clients.
Training Cnosultant
Sue is a senior facilitator with Clutterbuck Associates and has over 20 years’ experience in the training and development field gained in a variety of roles while working with leading global document services provider Xerox and as an independent consultant.
IT Trainer
Paul Hughes is a self-employed IT tutor based in the West Midlands. Paul specialises in teaching all aspects of the Microsoft Office Suite and Digital Camera: Theory, Processing and Manipulation.
Training Consultants
Chris has over 30 years Financial Services experience gained in Customer Service, Sales, Management and Learning & Development. With a proven track record of success in developing managers, financial advisers and customer service staff, she has utilised her practical experience to achieve considerable success with businesses in delivering measurable improvements in results.
Training Consultants
Steve's relaxed, natural approach to sales, training and management has seen him achieve considerable success during his 30 years in the Financial Services Industry.
Senior Consultant
As a professional and well respected trainer Nicky has many years experience of working in the Financial Services Industry. She has worked in Regulated Sales, Compliance and Training and Development.
Training Consultants
Kevin Lewis has a BSc in Ecology from the University of East Anglia. He is the Senior Researcher for Best Foot Forward and has been with the company since 1999. He is a principal specialist in Ecological Footprint methodology and has applied the concept to a wide variety of applications.
Director, Program and Policy
I am an accomplished senior manager with over 20 years of experience directing regulatory compliance programs from development through implementation.
Senior Consultant
I am a practicing CPA in the State of Delaware. My experiences include working in public accounting in the auditing and tax departments, as well as working for a governmental entity in their internal auditing department. My background is atypical of most CPAs.
Senior Consultant
Having left KPMG in 2003 Mark became a founding Director of Future Perfect, a sustainability advisory business. The business is now a leading provider of verification services for Kyoto based schemes and full integrated management systems, based upon Information Governance principles.
Training Consultant
Simon Miller has an MSc in Environmental Sustainability from University of Edinburgh, and a BSc in Biology from the University of Bristol. Simon is principal consultant at Best Foot Forward as well as project manager and team leader for BFF’s analyst team.
Training Consultant
Mr Moore is a highly experienced consultant and trainer who specialises in inter-personal skills, team building, leadership, emotional intelligence, stress management, psychometric assessment, and management development. He has been successfully delivering consultancy, coaching and training throughout the UK, Europe and the Gulf States since 1993. Previous positions include HR & Training Director of Chantrey Vellacott, financial services (offices in UK and throughout Eastern Europe) and senior consultant in Rand Training BV, Netherlands. Other professional experience includes several years as a visiting lecturer on post-graduate courses for several UK universities and one European university.
Training Consultant
A dedicated and articulate individual, with a unique mix of experience in analysing needs and identifying solutions to meet client requirements. Who is able to develop successful long-term, profitable business relationships.
Senior Training Consultant
Tom has worked with both new and experienced project and line managers to help them nurture their skills and knowledge, enabling them to build a strong foundation in their professional abilities. His experience in learning and development extends to the research, design, development and delivery of organisational capability through effective change strategies, and the uplift of team and individual personal competencies.
Training Consultant
Gregor Pecnik is an analyst at BFF and is an experienced developer of online carbon and ecological footprint calculators.
Training Consultant
Darragh is an experienced consultant working internationally in the sustainability and training and development fields. As part of Future Perfect Darragh has experience of verification and consultancy in relation to Greenhouse Gas Emissions reports as they apply to the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and Climate Change Agreement (UK). Darragh has trained verifiers for the California Air Resources Board Regulatory Greenhouse Gas reporting and verification program. Darragh has expertise in non-financial assurance, and data accounting, and he is also qualified financial adviser (Ireland). He has a background in training and development and has extensive experience internationally in training program design and delivery for regulation and compliance training, systems training and management training. A certified technical trainer (CTT+) Darragh has also lectured in Dublin City University, conducted social science research, and worked in the financial services and insurance sectors, where he gained experience of a wide variety of quality management programs including a number of Lean Six Sigma projects. He is a certified HBDI practitioner for individuals and teams.
Training Consultant
Richard Sheane is a consultant at Best Foot Forward and has a wide range of footprinting experience – including work on a food industry PAS2050 pilot project.
Training Consultant
Craig is co-founder of Best Foot Forward and is an internationally recognised expert in the field of environmental accounting.
Senior Consultant
Kelvin is a highly motivated Business Manager / Coach / Trainer, with first class interpersonal, presentation and management skills. An excellent track record in motivating staff to achieve targets, training and coaching. Has designed and delivered a wide range of skills courses for both executives, line managers & sales staff. Designed a number of end to end sales processes for leading organisations.
Senior Consultant
Seth is a highly personable and experienced consultant who brings impact, passion and cutting-edge knowledge to the learning experience. He has worked extensively with global blue-chip organisations, facilitating successful management development and interpersonal skills programs. His particular specialism’s are in the development of professional relationships, communication and presentation skills, sales and customer service skills, influencing skills and emotional intelligence.
Seth has earned a first-class reputation at all levels, from designing and delivering organisational learning programs to the 1-to-1 coaching of senior executives. He has written several magazine articles and been a conference key-note speaker within the International Wealth Management Industry.
Seth has taken his passion for driving individual, team and business success across Europe, India, Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
Managing Director
Wilhelm has over 25 years of experience in environmental, occupational health and safety compliance and management system implementation in various commercial and industrial organizations. Wilhelm holds numerous professional certifications and lead auditor credentials on quality, environmental, health, safety, and Responsible Care® and ChemStewards® management systems is a qualified lead verifier for greenhouse gas emission assertion and corporate sustainability reporting assurance.
Managing Director
Lesley Wells FCCA, PTLLS, is the director of 1st For Training Limited an independent training company based in Rugeley, Staffordshire.
Lesley worked in the national training department of a large accountancy firm in the late 80’s.
Training Consultant
Errol’s sessions are simple, challenging, entertaining, reliable and applicable to the world in which we live and work. He uses tried, tested and proven methods that you can apply immediately. Errol brings a host of knowledge, understanding and skills to every session. For over 22 years Errol has diagnosed and analysed individuals, teams and organisations needs, designed learning and development programmes, interact effectively and evaluated the training effectiveness. He is one of the UK’s foremost authorities on the psychology of personal and interpersonal development, the challenge of leadership, professional and organisational development.
Senior Consultant
Philip is a well respected business consultant with over 10 years experience providing highly rated communications skills training for leading companies in attitude change, innovation, motivation and influential communication.
He draws on a broad background of careers as both a barrister and professional actor, having worked in theatre, television and the criminal courts as well as an international advertising agency. Together they provide him with a rich variety of skills to share with his clients on all forms of individual development
Senior Consultant
Razz’s courses and approaches are both challenging and rewarding with quick wins. He ensures that all participants push themselves to the absolute limit and enhance their individual skills whilst uncovering real and tangible learning, ensuring Participants are hungry to bring this value to their work environment. The course culture is highly interactive and with the encouragement from Razz, he places the emphasis upon “self discovery”. Being a very articulate communicator, he ensures he meets the expectations of even the most difficult of learning styles.
