Our Training Consultants

Kim Larkins, founder of KSL Training, has over twenty years experience as a training and development specialist, including a HR generalist background gained within a wide variety of disciplines and levels, from operational skills to senior management development within multi-site operations. Her extensive experience has been developed in a range of industries including Hospitality, Retail and Pharmaceuticals.

Steve Larkins, co-founder of KSL Consulting Ltd, is an experienced SEO specialist offering professional SEO training courses and SEO consultancy. He helps sole traders, SME companies and large corporations develop an effective and ethical SEO strategy to improve online sales and organic search engine ranking.

Jacqueline Harris is a specialist in sales training. Jacqueline has 16 years experience in a variety of senior management positions relating to people, sales, service delivery and operations. Over the last nine years Jacqueline has been working as a sales training consultant, coach and trainer helping businesses to maximise their potential.

John Fusco is a training consultant and trainer specialising in business and people development, based in York, North Yorkshire. He's spent over 20 years in the banking profession holding a variety of senior leadership positions with responsibilities including people, sales, service delivery and operations.

Sandra Cashell BSc (Hons) MIH Assoc. CIPD is a talented and highly skilled learning and development professional based in Duxford, Cambridgeshire. She has 9 years experience in the hospitality profession, holding a variety of management positions before progressing in to pure learning and development roles and then specialising in Train the Trainer.

Mel Owers is a Bromley, Kent based HR consultant with fifteen years of practical experience in the fields of project management, coaching and the implementation of assessment centres involving psychometric ability testing for large scale recruitment projects. He also specialises in competency framework design and the implementation of talent management programmes.

Lee Deacon, Licentiate CIPD member (based near Northampton) has 20 years experience in the finance industry holding a variety of training and development and managerial roles. Lee specialises in management training, leadership and strategic development as well as psychometric profiling, performance management and outplacement including executive and employee redundancy support.

Amanda Bickerton is a business and people development consultant, trainer and coach based in Stone, Staffordshire. Amanda initially spent 7 years in the NHS progressing to Senior Technician specialising in paediatrics, then spent 21 years in the Pharmaceutical industry before becoming an independent training consultant. Her clients have included Gaymer Cider Company, Novartis, GSK, DHL and Friends Provident.

Simon Priestley is a Bradford, West Yorkshire based training consultant, specialising in leadership and people development training. He has over twenty years experience in managing and leading people in a major high street bank. Simon has spent the last seven years in training, developing the leadership and management skills of people at all levels, from supervisory to senior management.

Sarah Cooney is a Berkshire based training consultant who specialises in providing coaching and learning solutions and has considerable experience working within blue-chip organizations. In the last year she has worked with Boehringer Ingelheim, DSDA, Eli Lilly & Co. Ltd., Game, Givaudan, Nexen, Patheon, Scott Wilson, Skandia and Virgin Mobile.

Linda Pearce has extensive experience designing and delivering a large range of training programmes specialising in the following areas: time management, stress management, appraisal skills, leadership and management, coaching skills, assertiveness, performance management, customer service and selling skills.

David Skinner is an independent freelance trainer, specialising in business communication skills and management development. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and holds an Open University Advanced Diploma in Educational Management.

Catherine Storer is an experienced training and development specialist, specialising in building the leadership skills of managers and in creating strong, effective teams. She has 20 years broad experience of management and HR across multiple sectors, including finance, retail, legal services, housing associations and manufacturing.

Janet George is an experienced training consultant who focuses on enhancing business performance in changing organisations. She provides one to one coaching as well as development workshops for team leaders, managers and teams at all levels of business. She has extensive experience in a range of industries from Finance, IT and Healthcare and has worked with leading organisations such as IBM and Bayer.

Bob Bevil is a professional training consultant based in Barnet, Hertfordshire. Bob has recently worked with a number of clients including Abbott Laboratories, East Kent Mental Health Authority, Lundbeck, Bayer Schering Pharma, Roche, Eisai, Meda, Ipsen, Janssen-Cilag, Nycomed, Kyowa-Hakkko and Oxoid.

Tracy Mcleod has 10 years of experience in learning and development including senior HR roles. She has worked with people at all levels across a variety of organisations including Deutsche Bank, Asda, River Island Clothing and the NHS Manager's Development Network. Tracy designs and delivers performance management programmes.

Virginia Donovan is a London based diversity consultant. She has 20 years experience of successfully designing and implementing company diversity and equality solutions. Virginia has worked as a senior HR manager in the public sector and in a consultancy role as a government adviser and as a consultant in both the public and private sector.

Peter Atkinson, Chartered Fellow CIPD, is a professionally qualified trainer and coach who has led and facilitated financial management and business skills training programmes in the UK, Germany, France, Holland, South Africa, Angola, the Czech Republic, New Zealand, Ireland and Cyprus.

Richard Riley is a Chartered Certified Accountant with 30 years experience in both large and SME companies both in the UK and overseas. Richard develops and delivers training programmes to large and small audiences, moderating at conferences and mentoring individuals through particular tasks required for career progression.

Sarah Helm is a freelance training consultant based in Maidenhead, Berkshire with experience in the Telecommunication, Retail and Pharmaceutical Industries. Her background is as a generalist in Human Resources with experience in employment law, recruitment and Learning & Development. Sarah specialises in customer service, sales training, custom designed team building events, customer satisfaction programmes and soft skills including time management, presentation skills, and employee induction programmes.

Tessa McEwan is an assessment and development consultant, specialising in helping UK companies to identify new talent to meet their current and future business objectives. She specialises in making recruitment processes more effective and in identifying the best candidates, in a more cost efficient way.

Carol Muter, Chartered MCIPD is a training and development professional based in Davenport, Stockport near Manchester covering the North West. She has an HR background gained in both the public and private sectors.

Katherine Martin, Associate Member CIPD, is a learning and educational consultant based in the North East of the UK. Over the past 10 years Katherine has has assumed a number of successful roles from management to mentoring, as well as coaching to training. Initially trained as a teacher and youth worker, Katherine has experience working with a variety of clients from a range of backgrounds including the public, private and voluntary sectors.

Alex Garcez is an experienced training consultant based in London, specialising in information handling and retention. He has developed a new methodology of speed reading and trains individuals to become more productive at work by utilising new time and information management tools.

Sam Dawes, Affiliate member of the CIPD is a project management training consultant based in Reading, Berkshire with extensive experience managing complex projects in and remote project teams the UK and overseas. Sam's background is primarily in the public and not-for-profit sectors in partnership with private companies and charitable trusts.

Angela Sheen, Chartered Licentiate CIPD, is a business and people development consultant, coach and trainer based near Basingstoke, Hampshire. She is a highly experienced in human resources and recruitment and has worked as a Training Manager in the UK Retail Sector, then becoming Senior Manager Organisational Change where she acted as the internal HR Consultant to a major business process re-design initiative.

Craig Wardman is an executive coach and accredited trainer based in Scotland specialising in business and people development. His background is in financial services, having held positions in relationship management, sales leadership and learning & development. He has experience in executive coaching, sales, strategic sales and account management as well as service delivery and operations support.