Gary Edwards

Prior to his career at Primeast, Gary spent three years at Operation Raleigh, a worldwide expedition charity that supports young people, as the UK selection and training team manager. In his downtime he enjoys a passion for adventure and the great outdoors and is lucky enough to have the Yorkshire countryside on his doorstep to explore.

Beth Williams

Beth works with leadership teams globally and locally, working at the individual and organizational levels. She is passionate about the human spirit's ability to change and grow. Believing it all starts with the small voice inside each of us! She has experience working at all levels in the organization to foster development.

Warwick Abbott

Warwick has travelled the world delivering learning and development with locations as far-reaching as Costa rica, Papua New Guinea and Cameroon. He is particularly experienced in delivery and facilitation in the oil, gas and pharma sectors.

Russell Evans

Based in the UK, Russell works globally, designing and delivering leadership and development programmes. He supports senior leaders and leadership teams, helping them to develop their leadership effectiveness to improve not just their own performance and that of their teams but also to deliver significant business growth.

Simon Tarver

Simon focuses on leadership and management of personal & team development training and assessment programmes in the commercial, public and charity sectors. Using tools such as the Leadership Circle Profile and Barrett Values Culture tool focuses on the growth of individuals and businesses. When he is not doing that you'll find him walking and cycling the hills and dales of Yorkshire.

Martin Carver

Martin plays an active role in regional coaching forums and is always happy to advocate the impact of coaching in learning and development. He has worked in a range of sectors in particular pharmaceutical and technology and is passionate about developing the greatest impact for his clients.

Sarah Cave

Sarah is an accredited coach, Leadership Circle practitioner, and is accredited to deliver a broad spectrum of diagnostics. She builds strong relationships with clients, working in agile and adaptive ways to deliver real results. Sarah is also a part time lecturer at York Business School and a keen cyclist.

Emma Heaps

Always calm, whatever the challenges, Emma can be relied on get the job done. Her experience and expertise in learning an development has influenced the way we design learning experiences to be truly engaging and meaningful for all participants at all levels.

Sarah Morgan

As a former participant of a Primeast programme Sarah is passionate, as a result of her own personal experience, about the transformative impact of outstanding learning and development.

Owen Wibberley

Returning to the UK after a stint working in learning and development in the far east, it hasn't taken Owen long to settle back into his passion for cricket, quickly signing up to play in his local cricket team.

Joy Medos

In an organisation of over 60,000 employees, Joy was the only woman in 100 years of company history to go from entry level to CEO and part of the Top 100 employees, in less than 6 years. Her phenomenal experience informs her approach to learning and development, facilitation and coaching.

Sting Lu

Sting was formerly HR Director of AstraZeneca. He was the Head of AZ Business Institute and Business Partner for R & D for AZ. To date, Sting has spent his career in sales and marketing, training, OD and HR management positions working client side for more than 23 years before moving into learning and development.

Sujata Iyer

Sujata is extremely energetic and translates that energy into the training room. She is committed to a democratic approachable style of facilitation. Her workshops are conducted in an ambience of open learning and sharing and are aimed at meeting the desired objective in an engaging and holistic manner.

Michael Bieder

Michael works with individuals and organisations providing executive coaching, talent and leadership development and organisational development. He believes in the power of purpose-driven working and living and has more than 20 years experience working internationally in the logistics, supply chain and pharmaceutical industries.

Judith Evans

Judith has a deep understanding of balance between strategic and operational tensions. She has extensive experience working with leaders from around the world, helping them develop approaches and behaviours that enable them to hold these tensions in balance.

David Levine

Dave has developed his expertise over the last 20 years, working with National agencies, education systems, local authorities, retail and commercial organisations and the sports industry. He has worked across Europe, designing and delivering leadership and organisation development programmes for senior and middle managers.

Echo Yu

Echo has been involved in large scale organisational development work and within a global and regional (Asia Pacific) context such as building the world’s largest chemical plant in Singapore. She has worked on the transformation of an organisation of 5,000 employees with strategy formation, market re-orientation, structure/work processes optimisation, intact team growth, cross functional collaboration.

Margaret Maat

Margaret is a superb programme designer and is highly focused on the client context which ensures her delivery is completely on point and directly relates to the learner workplace. She has implemented training, leadership and organisational development programmes in a variety of organisations to drive change in response to the changing business environment.

Rich McLaughlin

As a TQM Education Manager, Rich developed his instructional design and change management skills. Since then he has worked in organisational effectiveness delivering several engagement projects. He has written 'Rules of Engagement: A Story About How Leaders Can More Effectively Engage Employees' and co-authored additional titles exploring experience-based learning.

Teresa Haggerty

Teresa has merged two career paths into the change management arena. As an insurance professional, she jump-started new ventures within financial institutions and real estate firms. Her passion for personal development has been influenced by her training as a minister and yoga teacher.

Sam Ellis

Sam is passionate about nurturing growth and wellbeing, facilitating transformational healthy high performance for individuals, teams and organisations. She has worked collaboratively with Primeast in the development of the innovative 'Moved to Lead' programme.

Beena Kavalam

Beena’s dual careers in management consulting and in brand management enable her to pivot in the moment from executive coach to corporate sounding board and strategic advisor and clients view this as a key factor in ensuring an engaging and highly focused learning experience.

Michelle Ong

For 10 years, Michelle worked for several Fortune 500, global brands and government agencies. She spearheaded business development initiatives, multiple strategic marketing communications strategies and numerous pitches were won under her leadership. She then progressed to management roles which involved the development of talent within organisations.

Sammy Njoroge

Sammy is in the process of building a community of coaches, practitioners, internal and external consultants to raise the conscious practice of leadership and serve clients through hosting and facilitating Leadership Circle Certification. He also serves as an external consultant and trusted advisor to business and market leaders in East Africa especially in Nairobi.

Jan Brause

Jan combines many years’ experience of working with groups and individuals from a range of backgrounds and cultures with first-hand experience of corporate change. Her personal style and values are rooted in a collaborative approach to develop high performance cultures and maximise personal and organisational potential.

Gerry Gomez

Gerry's expertise is in business orientation and people development with a commercial background that saw him working in senior roles across EMEA. Currently working as consultant, facilitator and coach in integral transformation projects.

Sarie Leroy

Besides having many years of international experience in project and change management, Sarie is also a facilitator of interactive, experiential workshops in a wide range of management domains, including change, strategy, leadership, influence and communication.

Darren Carrington

A keen ultra-distance desert runner with a driving focus around mindset, Darren is experienced and accredited in an array of tools and assessments including DiSC, Situational Leadership and is also an NLP Master Practitioner.

He has the ability to engage his audience so they relate his training content to their bespoke business concepts in the most simplistic, yet effective manner.

Ted Dass

Ted cut his cloth as a pivotal executive of the corporate-HR division of India’s largest power company, NTPC Ltd. Later at the University of Cincinnati (UC), USA, he served on the faculty and taught Master’s-level courses in HRM. He also co-directed UC’s MHR programme and was a Faculty Fellow at UC’s Centre for Organisational Leadership.

Ting-Ting Lin

19 years living in China as a business executive at Philips Electronics, Ting-Ting has a unique blend of skills in developing both individuals, leaders and organisations in the competitive environment. Following a 10 year tenure as Professor at University of California she now blends academic rigour to commercial and personal development.

Amanda Harrison

Amanda has designed and delivered programmes for senior and board level staff through to ‘shop floor’ level staff, including selection and assessment, psychometric assessment, coaching, training and development, and broader change management programmes.

Clive Wilson

Clive has spoken at conferences and facilitated workshops in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas, the Middle East and Australia. He has worked across all sectors, with significant support to the energy, pharmaceutical, technology, and manufacturing industries as well as improving the effectiveness of social entrepreneurs in the developing world.

Kim McConnell

Kim has helped a range of organisations from large corporates to entrepreneurial businesses run more efficiently, vitalise and engage their business’s culture and improve their business performance. Her warm style engages learners at all levels and she encourages and inspires learners to make a difference.

Nita Shah-Evans

Nita’s focus is on aiding leaders to be the best they can be with an approach which empowers others to maximise themselves and others who they work with. She is described as being professional yet approachable, challenging yet supportive and she brings genuine enthusiasm to work with people to support them to grow and develop.

Scott Cooksey

Scott began his career in banking and financial services, where he has 13 years’ experience holding a variety of business development and advisory roles. Since shifting his focus to developing top management skills in others, Scott’s work has taken him across North America, the Caribbean, Australia and the Middle East.

Mark Flamendorf

Mark has over 20 years of experience in financial services, healthcare, consumer products and legal. His expertise gives him the ability to work with large to small entrepreneurial companies to help them run more efficiently and leverage employee skills and talent in more productive ways.

Joni Goodman

Joni’s background is in bio science research and development in a global pharmaceutical business where she then moved into sales and later sales management followed by sales training. She then moved into a consultancy role in customised learning and development which included the use of learning technologies to optimise business performance and increase productivity.

Joanna Mason

Jo takes great care to listen and understand her clients needs and works with the client partners and consultants to provide a smooth and efficient process during programme delivery.