List of Trainers
Debbie Thrift
Debbie Thrift has more than 20 years in the UK recruitment industry; starting her career with Drake International in London and becoming the UK's top performing consultant. She has worked in reputable organisations such as Robert Walters Associates, Gordon Yates, Ritz Recruitment and Recruit Plc.
In 1997 she joined Adecco UK as Permanent Services Development Manager with the responsibility of driving increased permanent revenue nationally, a role in which she stayed for 10 years. She is an experienced trainer and recruiter, who has a vast experience of training individuals and staff within corporate organisations. Debbie has won many awards to include outstanding contribution to the business and Adecco Super Star the highest award of its kind within the organisation.
Debbie is the Founder and Director of People Connect Recruitment Solutions.
Tracey Ford
Tracey Ford helps individuals to secure high street mortgages following divorce, separation or death of a loved one. She embarked on this journey due to personal life circumstances. Tracey originally enrolled on an Anatomy and Physiology Diploma Course in massage therapy and started StressXpress, an on-site chair massage company. She had ambitions of building a team of corporate chair massage therapists until the crash of the dot.com era when a rapid reduction in her work led to a sudden end.
In 2006, she re-trained as a Mortgage Advisor and created Money Buddies, finance for women by women, which enables her to provide impartial, independent and easy to understand financial solutions to enable women to plan for their financial success - with empathy and understanding! Her specialties' include *Finance coaching and mentoring, * Knowledge of wealth management strategies *, * Access to specialist and affordable mortgage, protection and general insurance products * Creating and marketing successful business networking meetings and events for women to build connections and grow personally and professionally.
Jane Woods
Whether you are looking to improve your career, your business, or your whole life, Jane has something to help you be the best that you can be!
Jane, a women's personal development specialist has spent a lifetime working with people of all ages, class, status, income and profession to achieve to their full potential. Her experience is extensive, literally from birth to older age beginning with young mothers building up confidence in their parenting skills, helping children cope with loss and trauma, running groups for offenders looking at their destructive behaviour (and importantly learning how to change it), work in psychiatric care, to individual one to one coaching with chief executives of major organizations.
She is the author of "When Work Isn't Working" - A handbag guide to a great work life.
Sharon Knight
Sharon Knight is an energetic and inspirational life coach, expert communicator and master practitioner of linguistics who has helped many professionals and teams improve their performance, win pitches, and steer project meetings more effectively. She has worked (and still works) with many major corporations within the City. Specific examples include: working with and training under-performing sales teams for a major IT security company which helped them to secure new large accounts. She was also a key player within a multi-million dollar project for Citigroup’s Global Strategic Workplace Services Group; training project managers across Europe to communicate with more power, presence and effectiveness.
