Our Trainers

At Propeller we take great pride in the quality and substance of our trainers. Each of them has extensive business experience in a relevant field in addition to their years of training; and brings to the training room an understanding, flexible and pragmatic approach that only true practitioners have.

In order to ensure that our training content is kept up to date and that our trainers remain fresh and energised we limit each trainer’s delivery to a maximum of three days per week. As far as we know we are the only training company in the UK to do this and our clients truly appreciate this quality over quantity approach to our training delivery.

• Philippa

  

  Philippa began her career within the HR department at Accenture where she managed teams of HR professionals delivering HR Services to groups of up to 1000 employees. More recently, Philippa became the HR Director of a medium sized consultancy firm with offices in 5 European capitals. Working with the CEO she founded an HR strategy which built a coherent culture in a company formed through merger.

  At Propeller, Philippa specialises in developing bespoke training for line managers and HR professionals.

  Philippa is a highly sought after trainer due to her engaging and energetic style of helping people to apply their new found knowledge.

• Kyle

  

  Kyle has a strong background with the DMGT group where his roles included Managing Director for international acquisitions. This involved delivering boardroom presentations and setting up businesses worldwide.

  As Propeller’s Director of Sales, Kyle has up to date experience in the issues addressed in his courses.

  He is dedicated to providing the highest standard of training to all delegates at all levels with passion, energy and enthusiasm. His courses are always popular and in great demand with previous attendees.

• Cathy

  

  Cathy is an Accredited Professional Coach (IIC & M) and Master Practitioner of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) specialising in the SME sector. With over 15 years’ experience of managing and coaching both individuals and teams, Cathy has a natural talent for getting the most out of people; increasing their performance, motivation and effectiveness by helping them expand their awareness, think for themselves and focus on their primary goals.

  Cathy’s professional background involved working for and with SME’s and as such she has a unique insight into the challenges faced by leaders and managers, as well as understanding how to get the best out of teams in this environment. By combining her practical knowledge and experience with incredibly effective coaching techniques, Cathy is able to facilitate amazing and lasting results in a short space of time.

• Karen

  

  Karen is a Business Coach, Trainer, Facilitator and Consultant with over 20 years experience working with organisations at all levels, in the UK, Europe and USA. Skilled in creating behavioural change in individuals and teams, she has worked with executive teams through to first-line team leaders. She has a real passion for developing dynamic leadership capability and positive, coaching-centred Performance Management - where the accent is on results and achievement. She is an Advanced Coach in Thomas International Psychometrics and an NLP Practitioner.

• Ted

  

  Ted specialises in Commercial Skills training; the practical application of financial thinking to the operational and strategic challenges faced by clients. His courses are practical and aim to be as relevant as possible to each company; by using their accounts, the accounts of their competitors, clients and suppliers where necessary.

  He also covers Management and Leadership, Negotiation and Influencing and Business Communication Skills training.

  Ted started his career with Ernst & Young where, during his six years there, he qualified as a Chartered Accountant (ACA), working as an Audit Manager in the Financial Services sector.

  Ted then joined J.P. Morgan where he spent three years in two financial roles - Group Financial Controller and then Senior Business Analyst before being promoted to VP of the European Internet Marketing Team. The next three years were then spent developing the organisation's online presence and completing a company sponsored MBA, from which he graduated top of his class.

• Robin

  

  Robin has been developing and facilitating leadership and management developemnt for over twenty years. His breadth of experience with clients in all sectors gives him an excellent background for developing innovative, powerful and effective training. he specialises in client-centred solutions that achieve practical results.

  A captivating speaker and trainer. His interpersonal and natural communication skills induce a relaxed and productive atmosphere in his programmes

• Monica

  

  With over 15 years experience as a Learning & Development consultant, Monica enjoys the whole training process from analysing client needs, to designing/delivering the solutions, to evaluating the levels of success, to providing post-training support. She readily adapts materials and her style to different audiences from any industry or sector. As an ever-energetic course facilitator, Monica challenges people to think differently and uses imaginative ways of encouraging course delegates to link the learning to their business objectives. She provides substantial course content in an interactive, enjoyable format.

  She earned a Master’s Degree in Organisational Learning from a Boston university and is constantly networking and researching to stay on top of the latest learning trends.

  With her keen interest in cultural differences and Italian/French ancestry, she moved from the New York & Boston areas of the US to London over 5 years ago. Monica’s expertise covers a wide array of management/leadership topics, particularly emotional intelligence and managing remote teams. Recently, she has concentrated her efforts on emerging-to-middle managers who face pressures from above and below. However, she has also helped senior executives communicate their new strategies or realise their companies’ new brands. In addition, she offers a full range of general professional skills for any level such as creativity and innovation and communicating effectively upwards, downwards and sideways.

• Hilary

  

  Hilary’s passions are continuous learning, inspiring leadership, motivational management, great communication and high performance team-work.

  He is a Member of the Chartered Management Institute, holds an Executive MBA from London Business School, an MA (cantab) from Cambridge, and is certified in: Coaching & Mentoring, NLP, Belbin, DISC Facilitation and 360–degree survey design. His approach is tailored, down-to-earth, pragmatic and solution-focused.

  Hilary works with clients at all levels from senior executives to front-line staff in private, public and not-for-profit organisations.

  Clients include Capital One, The Financial Times, Condé-Nast, Lloyds-TSB, Central & Local Government Organisations, Harvey-Nichols, various professional services firms (law, accountancy, management consultancies), care services, higher education bodies, various not-for profit, public and private sector organisations.

  Hilary also works as an Executive Coach at The London Business School.

• Zak

  

  Zak Khan is a leadership and communication skills trainer with over 11 years of commercial delivery experience.

  Prior to specialising as a learning and development consultant, Zak worked in the telecoms industry in a management role and then as a full time trainer. During that time, he was instrumental in successfully designing and delivering a complete training portfolio of management, personal development and product training courses.

  Zak is passionate about training facilitation and learning and, as a result, is a dynamic, enthusiastic and versatile trainer. His approach to client training is highly focused on providing a quality service whilst giving delegates an experience which is exceptional. His training style is both entertaining and interactive, designed to make training events highly participative and enjoyable.

  Zak is an approved trainer for both The Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) and The Chartered Management Institute (CMI).