Lecturers
Here is a sample selection of Croft Management Centre Associates.
| Jeremy Hamilton. |
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| MA, MBA, DipM, MCIM |
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Marketing, Strategy |
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DMS |
A former European head of marketing at an international broadband data services company, and director of client strategy at a
leading New Media Agency, Jeremy specialises in marketing and business strategy
| Chris Croft. |
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| MA C.Eng MBA |
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| Modules: |
Operations, Managing Information |
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CMS DMS |
A chartered engineer and former university lecturer, after 10 years in management, Chris has run his own
successful training business since 1995 prior to setting up the Croft Management Centre in 2003
| Ola Steadman. |
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| Admin Manager |
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Ola has extensive computer and management skills, and we are delighted that she working with us coordinating the customers, the lecturers, the assignment marking, and the venues.
| Cliff Allen. |
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| MA BEd |
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| Modules: |
Managing Change, Influencing |
| Courses: |
CMS DMS |
Cliff has more than ten years experience in education as a trained teacher and lecturer and is an assessor and verifier for
management standards. He has won a number of national awards for best practice in human resource management.
| Peter Collins. |
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| BSc |
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Teams, Empowerment |
| Courses: |
CMS |
With both public and private sector experience as an Engineer and HR professional, Peter is a seasoned management development
trainer who specialises in teams and empowerment.
| Claudine Peet. |
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| BSc |
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| Modules: |
IT, Project Management and MS Project |
| Courses: |
CMS and DMS |
Claudine runs her own IT training business and has experience in setting up and
running creative departments in the IT Sector, including graphic design and marketing.
Her IT knowledge includes Claris, Filemaker Pro, Sage, Access, FrontPage, Publisher,
WordPerfect and Microsoft Project, as well as the usual MS Office and PowerPoint.
| Rob Wilmot. |
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| MBA |
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| Modules: |
Performance Management, Customer Service |
| Courses: |
CMS and DMS |
Originally a Law graduate, Rob has a background of 20 years in HR management, in both the public and private sectors.
| Joan Bailey. |
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| MCIPD |
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| Modules: |
All HR modules |
| Courses: |
CMS and DMS |
With extensive operational experience with BT as a finance manager, a call centre consultant and key account manager, Joan has
also worked internationally, including a two-year training contract in Brazil.
| Mary Bevan. |
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| MBA |
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Interpersonal Skills |
| Courses: |
CMS |
Mary runs her own consultancy which provides training in Business Communication Skills and Cross-Cultural Communication both in
the UK and abroad. She is a visiting lecturer at Riga Stradins University, Latvia.
| Sarah Daykin. |
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| MBA, DipM, MCIM |
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| Modules: |
Marketing |
| Courses: |
CMS |
With an International Marketing background, encompassing both marketing strategy and marcomms, Sarah has worked at a senior
level in both the IT and print and publishing industries and is now an independent business consultant and lecturer.
| Peter Baylis. |
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| BSc |
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| Modules: |
Quality |
| Courses: |
DMS |
Quality Director with extensive experience in two major aerospace companies. Experienced in the implementation of Continuous
Improvement and the Six Sigma methodology
| Nicki Cozens. |
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| BSc |
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| Modules: |
Personal and Team Effectiveness |
| Courses: |
CMS |
Nicki is an experienced trainer and consultant having spent a number of years in Financial Services and the public sector. She
specialises in team development.
| John Andrewes. |
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| MBA |
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| Modules: |
Managing Change, Managing Your Enterprise |
| Courses: |
CMS and DMS |
John is an experienced trainer - he studied for his first degree in Social Sciences at London University, specialising in Industrial Psychology. He has worked for Honeywell Controls, the Business School at Bournemouth University, and has run his own audio-visual products business. He is currently visiting lecturer at Perpignan, Helsinki, and Turkmenistan.
| Malcolm Smith. |
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| Modules: |
Leadership and Culture |
| Courses: |
CMS and DMS |
Malcolm Smith has worked at director, divisional and board level for Dow Chemical, Low & Bonar, Courtaulds, Rexam and Inmos. His European experience is extensive, having made acquisitions in Denmark, Germany, France, Holland, Spain and Italy and having managed large and complex multi-national Groups. Malcolm is currently non-executive Chairman of five companies.
| Matt Garvey. |
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| Modules: |
Marketing |
| Courses: |
CMS |
Matt Garvey is the lead tutor in Berkshire's Sales & Marketing Academy. Matt is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and the Institute of Sales & Marketing Management.
| Margaret Corridan. |
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| ACMA |
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| Modules: |
Finance |
| Courses: |
DMS |
Margaret Corridan is a Qualified Chartered Management Accountant with thirteen years commercial management experience. She is also Treasurer of the East Berkshire Branch of The Federation of Small Businesses and a Member of the Institute of Personnel and Development.
| Phil Ingle. |
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| MBA, MITOL, ACIB |
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| Modules: |
Finance and Strategy |
| Courses: |
CMS DMS |
Phil has 20 years management and training experience from a wide variety of organisations. He is an NLP Master Practitioner and has an MBA from Cranfield.
| Beverley Hamilton. |
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| B.Ed MinstSMM |
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Action Learning and Coaching |
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Beverley has 20 years experience as a teacher, Royal Air Force Officer and Learning and Development specialist. She now runs her own coaching and facilitation business supporting senior sales executives and business leaders to improve their personal and team effectiveness.
| Linda Sykes. |
Communication skills, |
| MNLP, INLPTA |
personal effectiveness and |
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team effectiveness, understanding and influencing people. |
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Linda specialises in personal development training and coaching, covering all types of communication skills. She is an accredited NLP Trainer.
| Martin Orridge. |
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| Modules: |
Managing Change |
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CMS DMS |
Martin is a member of CIM, AMED and IMS, and has written papers, books and articles on a broad range of business subjects; with his training and development books being published throughout the world.
| Judith Stewart. |
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| MA BEd |
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| Modules: |
People Skills, Change, Self Development and Assertiveness |
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Judith Stewart, a former careers officer, started her training career in 1980. She is an NLP master practitioner and is the author of "Well No One's Ever Complained Before" (see Amazon).
| Julia Fieldhouse. |
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Finance |
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Julia has perhaps the best financial grounding one could imagine; she spent ten years as one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Taxes. She originally studied Politics at Exeter University.
| Bob Havard. |
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| MA MPhil, FCIPD |
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| Modules: |
Leadership, Culture, and Management Effectiveness |
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Bob has worked in leadership/management and organisation development since the 1970’s as a trainer and consultant. He began his career in the finance section of a local authority, worked in the HR functions of EMI, and as Training Manager for Philips Electronics before taking up lecturing posts at the now University of Central England and the University of Westminster.
| Kevin Farrow. |
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| CMCIPD |
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Recruitment, Performance Management, and Equal Opportunities
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An ex RAF Technician, Technical Instructor and experienced management trainer, Kevin is a Chartered Member of the CIPD and has designed and delivered programmes for the National Assembly for Wales, the DVLA, DEFRA, the Highways Agency and the MOD.
Simon specialises in developing relationships by telephone, and he helps us find potential clients and identify how we can help them. He also runs training sessions on Customer Relationship Development.
| Maggie Gray. |
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| BA MBA |
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Strategy |
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Maggie is a freelance management consultant who has previously worked at PA Consulting, and as a researcher at Cranfield School of Management. She specialises in areas where strategy, information and culture combine.
| Andrew Holm. |
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| Modules: |
Creativity, Culture, Leadership.
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| Julian Wilson. |
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| Modules: |
Creativity, Culture, Leadership.
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Julian runs James Wilson Limited with Andrew Holm - the two of them have pioneered a unique approach to empowerment through a mixture of radical thinking and in-depth research. They also train others in their methods, because they enjoy it.
| Tom Saxlund. |
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| Modules: |
Leadership, Managing Change
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Founder and director of award winning New Generation ski & snowboard school, based in the three valleys in France. Bachelor of education (outdoor ed). Diploma in Business Administration (Manchester Business School. Graduate of CEO NCR Post Graduate Certificate Coaching programme. Certified NLP Business Practitioner. Also, like many great people, Tom is half Norwegian.
| Kate Taylor. |
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HR and general management.
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Previously Head of HR for Amerada Hess, Kate has MAs in Personal & Organisational Development and in Human Resource Management. She is also accredited for NLP, MBTI, by The Career Counselling Services and by The School of Coaching.
| Laura Keyte. |
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Culture, and Interpersonal Skills
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Laura has an MA in Management and Organisational Learning, and is a qualified Psychotherapist. She has worked as a Tutor and Examiner for the Open University and also Bath Spa University.
| Amanda Beech. |
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| Chartered Member of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (C.I.P.D.) B.A.(Hons)
Postgraduate Certificate in Education |
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People skills, Action Learning Sets
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Amanda has been a training professional for 20 years, having held management positions in both the public and private sectors since 1978, and is now a director of Learning 2XL.
| Maggie Rees. |
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| Bsc,CMCIPD |
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| Modules: |
HR and Organisational Change
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Still with a great sense of humour after years of senior management in Local Government, Maggie has recently been Head of Organisational Development at a London Borough before running her own consultancy business.
