Our Trainers

Nicola Bird

Nicola is a qualified coach and trainer and holds an MSc in Organisational Psychology. Her career spans a wide range of organisations ranging from public sector organisations such as Mencap and the NHS to the large professional services firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Nicola has been delivering training and workshops for the past seven years and her coaching experience allows her to bring excellent facilitation skills to get the best from course delegates. Her upbeat approach and genuine enthusiasm for her courses is infectious and ensure an enjoyable as well as informative training event is had by all.

Kyle Burrows

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.

Maria Clews

Maria has extensive experience working in advertising sales, as well as for several major publishing groups such as Yellow Pages and Johnston Press.

It was in her role as Commercial Manager for United Provincial Newspapers managing larges sales teams at board room level that she realised the dramatic impact training and coaching have on business performance.

As such Maria can take clients through the journey from basic sales training right through to corporate and strategic performance management.

Her courses are always delivered creatively and pragmatically with a dramatic impact upon performance.

Sean Grant

Sean has spent the last fifteen years launching, growing and turning around businesses in many different countries around the world. He has foundations in sales, marketing and product development.

As a successful business manager, Sean valued his people above all else and has dedicated thousands of hours to training and developing them.

Sean offers expertise in sales, sales management, management, leadership, business planning and strategy.

His delegates find him knowledgeable and inspiring.

Paul Kenny

Paul began his career in 1986 in advertising sales with one of Europe’s largest business-to-business publishers. Here he rose to become group sales manager with responsibility for over 10 millions pounds of annual revenue. He has more than 12 years experience developing people in a diverse range of industries including the media, IT, finance and manufacturing.

Paul has worked with a portfolio of courses covering various areas but focuses on leadership and personal development.

As a trainer he is hugely experienced, entertaining and inspiring.

Philippa Saint

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.

Clara Seeger

Over the past five years Clara has pioneered corporate coaching, coach training and personal development workshops within numerous organisations across Europe including Morgan Stanley, CSFB, Ikea, Hilton and several others. Prior to her learning and development career Clara was an Associate Director at UBS Warburg.

Clara practises goal-driven and results-focused coaching and training that empowers and stretches individuals to fulfil their potential and improve their performance.

She uses a structured process to facilitate positive change and obtain measurable results while leaving enough scope for individuals to gain insights and grow.