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Marie delivers exceptional people development experiences that encourage a collaborative approach to development individuals through coaching & training sessions & learning events to achieve highly skilled employees. Marie worked for 14 years in people development roles for companies such as Prudential, HBOS, & The Rugby Football Union & then established her own business & became a People Development Consultant 10 years ago. Her career included Leading teams to deliver organisational vision & strategy & delivering People development strategies to ensure organisations workforces were developed & invested in. Marie feels passionately about people being the vital resource that can shape & grow a business to success. We are all wonderfully unique & it is about harnessing those strengths in us to achieve our goals & aims. Marie’s academic background was studying Business, Finance & Law & then progressing to another of her passion’s - understanding human behavior & our ability to learn using a growth mind-set & learning the ability to adapt & change. She went on to study Well-being, Human behavior, Employee engagement, Emotional intelligence, NLP, Communication & the ability to build resilience & how we can adapt to change. Marie’s priorities are always to ensure the coaching & training she delivers motivates, inspires & enthuses people to learn, develop self-awareness & achieve the results they wish to see. Marie has been a qualified coach for 15 years & works with organisations to develop their senior teams through one-to-one coaching. This style is also evident in her training where she encourages reflection & self-awareness to encourage delegates to change to fully embrace the new skills & knowledge they have learnt.

Martin is a Professional Scrum Trainer, Professional Kanban Trainer, and Microsoft MVP: GitHub & Azure DevOps. He has been Consulting, Coaching, and Training in DevOps & Agility since 2010 and has been delivering software since 2000. Since 2008 Martin has helped many organisations and has trained 1000+ people in 37 countries around the world. He is based in Scotland & Mexico and offers Scrum training courses with certification all over the world. He trains and coaches Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Developers and organisations in their evolution towards business agility. He believes that every organisation deserves usable software on a regular cadence that delivers the highest possible value. By reducing bureaucracy and command and control management, everyone will take responsibility for achieving the organisation’s goals. On an evolution towards agility and becoming a great organisation, it is your people that will determine your success. Martin can help the entire organisation agree on methods, goals and cultural values that will enable you to adopt a product-first approach. Why Learn with Martin? He recognises the positive impact that a happy AND motivated workforce, that has a purpose, has on client experience. Martin can help change mindsets towards a people-first culture, where everyone encourages others to learn and grow. The resulting divergent thinking leads to many different ideas and opportunities for the success of the organisation. The courseware is designed to elicit conversations between participants on the hard truths of moving from traditional management practices to empirical management practices. Special attention is paid to the known and common misunderstandings of agility as well as the ideas that are usually swept away under the pressures of “how we do things here”. Finally, Martin complements formal material with practical experience & stories! He has been delivering software for 20 years, Microsoft MVP in DevOps for 13 years, and a Professional Scrum Trainer for 11 years! Core beliefs: Courage | Commitment | Focus | Respect | Openness Martin can provide private onsite training for your company anywhere in the world.

Mariella is a Microsoft Certified Trainer with several years of experience in the technology training industry as well as over twenty years experience as a Bi developer and Analyst, mainly matured in London Insurance market. She has taught and consulted for a wide range of organizations throughout UK and Europe, and has experience in traditional classroom training, virtual classroom training, and content development. Mariella holds certifications covering a broad range of Microsoft BI applications, and has vast experience teaching anything from the most traditional topics, like SQL Server, Analysis Server, Report Server and Integration Server to the latest state of art technologies such as PowerBI and Azure Machine Learning. She specializes in creating an inviting environment that allows adult learners to bring real world examples into the conversation, ask questions, co-operate in exercises and workshops. Her style is encouraging, positive, and makes difficult concepts easy to understand. Mariella can teach in English or in Italian.

Martin specialises in Business Analysis Training, empowering individuals and organisations through exceptional training and development. His passion is to make business analysis training engaging by using up-to-date materials with innovative delivery methods at a competitive price. His mission is to provide top quality training that makes a real-life impact to your team and your business Martin is an experienced consulting business analyst, BCS oral examiner, member of many BCS expert panels, and a BCS Accredited trainer. Business analysis has been his passion even before the title existed! Stakeholder management, problem-solving, improving processes, gathering requirements and conducting audits were all part of regular project work. Martin offers BCS accredited business analysis training and consultancy courses, mentoring and support at Foundation, Practitioner and Professional levels. In his training courses, accessibility is an important consideration; all course graphics have been professionally designed to work for anyone who is colour blind or dyslexic. The backdrop colour in the App can be tailored to suit any preference. Outside of work, Martin is a keen SCUBA diver and qualified as an instructor in 1995. He enjoys diving around the UK and recently dived with seals in the Bristol Channel. He also enjoys tinkering with motorbikes since childhood – his latest project has been to build a Harris Magnum IV. Riding it to the Isle of Man TT was a highlight of 2018 with the best weather seen there for decades!

Mark is the founder and CEO of TRMG (The Risk Management Group), he is also a Chartered IT Professional (CITP), a Toddington-trained Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) practitioner, trainer, and social media penetration tester. A classroom training and eLearning course developer with a background in military education and 10 years experience as a UK policing external trainer. An expert at demystifying cybercrime, blockchain risks, and digital fraud scenarios for non-technical audiences. Mark's mission is to help organisations educate their staff, their clients, and their wider audience in engaging and effective ways. His work pans across cultures and have reference clients in over 50 countries and on every continent. Mark's is an expert training instructor in the areas of: ↪ Communications fraud management ↪ Revenue assurance ↪ Cyber-security awareness ↪ Information security risk management ↪ Internet Investigations & Intelligence He delivers projects and learning materials to major corporate and government clients worldwide, and is currently contracted to develop eLearning and classroom training covering cybercrime, cryptocurrency, and cyber-fraud training for the City of London Police. Mark is also a training provider of OSINT for the UK Home Office. Mark holds Associate faculty positions at the City of London Police Economic Crime Academy, the National Communications Data Service, the International Compliance Association, Cifas, and FSTP. On a personal level, Mark is a father of four and amateur historian, keen on personal fitness, dogs, DIY and gardening projects. Also enjoys the occasional online game.

Melanie is a Change Management Specialist & Mentor. She can deliver high impact training & consulting to effect change. Melanie dedicated the last 20 years to understanding then communicating the drivers for change in organisations. This exposed her to a wide range of organisational structures and individuals from around the world and it is this experience that she builds on every day. Aside from the academic and professional qualifications, her ability to share new concepts and inspire others to embrace change and strive to improve their personal and professional performance is what she is most proud of. Melanie balances being an active practitioner with transferring knowledge to others. She believes this balance ensures her work is relevant and practical. Each training course is delivered with passion, energy and focus that only a true practising professional can offer. Incorporating latest innovations and practical techniques, clients and delegates can be confident that they will find immediate use of the knowledge shared in their operational environment. Melanie measures her success by the success stories of those whom she coaches and train. As well as regularly writing papers and host webinars on the development of the change management profession, Melanie is the author of 8 text books on project, programme and change management, including the development of an agile change approach. She supports an examination body in devising its syllabi for change management qualifications and am developing a new agile change management qualification for 2019. Melanie believes that the ability to manage ourselves successfully through constant, never-ending change is core to reducing our stress at work. She enjoys the intellectual challenge of finding solutions to problems and coming up with creative ways to explain new techniques to others. Her approach is to always start with the end in mind, often asking “what do you want to be able to do at the end of this activity that you could not do before?” Melanie's clients include: Penguin Random House; Saudi Electricity Company; Zain; National Grid US; SABIC; FIFA; Hoelscher Wasserbau; UK Parliament; United Nations; European Medicines Association; Welsh Government; British Red Cross; European Patents Office; The Stroke Association