Our Expertise
Learnership's credentials
This site is our only form of marketing other than our clients' recommendations. Why do they do this? They say it's simply because we deliver what we promise, and then something on top (we help them do this too).
No job is too big or small. We work regularly with banks growing their 70,000 people but also a local nursery growing their 25 people (and 70,000 trees...).
The Learnership Team
Each member of our Associate team brings something different and yet 100% focused on today's business issues:
- They have deep wells of research, and proven outstanding credibility with clients over time.
- All draw on extensive experience in Global Companies, PLC's and Small Businesses and have led major change initiatives personally.
- All are passionate learners - so as well as bringing value early in a project, they add more value as the relationship builds.
John Williamson - MA Leadership - Managing Director
Extensive banking & business experience in the corporate, retail, HR and OD. Since founding Learnership in 2000, has presented, consulted, and trained in the UK and internationally, in Northern Europe, Russia and South America, on leadership, culture, OD & e-learning, and knowledge flow. Qualified practitioner in Myers Briggs Step I & II, and FIRO B personality instruments.
Masters degree (2000) included four-year period of study majoring upon cultural change, leadership development, and knowledge management. Fellow of Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (FCIPD).
Brian Rowe - ACIB - Information Manager
Manager and Technical Analyst with extensive business experience in Financial Services. Advanced IT competencies in SAS programming (BASE, MACRO, SQL, HTML), AS/400 query language, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), Access & Excel, Microsoft SQL Server and SPSS Answertree. Degree in Microfocus Cobol Programming.
Caroline Williamson - Quality Assurance Manager and Company Director
Expert in Quality Control Systems and ISO9001 Quality Assurance and Audit. Wide professional experience in the Financial Services Industry at HR Management level, with specialist knowledge in HR Change Programmes, Reward and Recognition Management, Training Supplier Management and Accounting.
Nigel Barrett - MA (Cambridge) - Senior Associate
Global banking experience at Group Executive level. Specialist advisor to CEO's internationally on HR strategies and Organisational Development. Affiliate Professor at Theseus International Management Institute and a member of EQUIS - business schools' awarding body. Visiting Fellow at Cranfield and highly experienced coach.
Alan Betts - MA Human Resources - Senior Associate
Twenty years banking and HR experience. Specialist in operations management and web learning. Leading thinker in Six Sigma, capacity management and web-learning design and development. Lectures MBA and Operational Excellence Programmes at Warwick Business School. Enterprise Fellow at Warwick University. Visiting Professor at the Supply Chain Institute, University of San Diego, California, US.
Jela Webb - MBA, MSc Knowledge Management - Senior Associate
Twenty years experience in retail credit management and HR. Specialist in knowledge management and finance. Thought leader in knowledge sharing and information flows and an evaluator for European Commission. Lecturer at Brighton University.
Nigel Gazzard - MA Leadership - Senior Associate
Twenty years banking experience, four years as Head of a Customer Call Centre. Director of the Institute of Leadership and co-author of 'The Leadership Manual'. Associate of Institute of Financial Services.
Bob Barnett - BA Law - Senior Associate
Twelve years experience as a Board Director in both public and private sector companies. Specialist in strategy and communications. Member of INSEAD Value Innovation Network and a specialist in cultural change, communications and service excellence.
Charles Tanner - Aifs - Senior Associate
Pragmatic banking and HR professional in banking sector for thirty years. Associate of Institute of Financial Services.
Sue Colton - MA Human Resources - Senior Associate
Extensive experience in financial services sector. Specialist in psychology of organisations and people. Masters Degree in HR Management, registered with the British Psychological Society, and qualified in use of psychometric instruments.
Extended Network of Research
Learnership's extended network of research capability includes the University of Bath School of Management, the University of Exeter Centre for Leadership Studies, and Warwick Business School.
