Alison has over 15 years’ experience in management and professional roles within Further/Higher Education and private sector training organisations. This includes several years of managing employer engagement contracts and workplace learning across a wide variety of industry sectors.

Liaising with a multitude of private and public sector organisations, Alison became adept at tuning into each industry’s unique challenges, developmental needs and culture in order to support the delivery of training needs analyses and responsive training programmes.

Having led teams through restructures, evolving strategic aims and shifting government priorities, Alison has a keen insight into how we emotionally respond to change and uncertainty in the working environment. She has great experience in problem solving and leading the introduction and development of new systems.

Originally qualified as a trainer/assessor for disadvantaged young people and adults, Alison has also worked in recruitment, specialising in headhunting sales executives and managers within the IT and reprographic industry.

With a degree in Educational Research, Alison is an associate of MatchFit® who focuses on undertaking one-to-one qualitative interviews and feedback for the CLIMB 360 Analysis process.