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The Team
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Northport consultants
bring to their work the understanding that comes from extensive
experience of managing and delivering activity in their specific
fields of expertise.
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Managing Director, founded Northport Consulting
in 2000. He has advised on the development and management of key
services, including adult and community learning, workforce development
and skills brokerage systems. Clients have included LLSC offices,
Business Links, education and training providers and Local Education
Authorities. He was formerly responsible for the management of Adult
Education and subsequently Business Development within a large FE
college. Here he established a division which delivered over 6,000
work-based NVQs in a five-year period as well as commercial training
programmes and initiatives in the use of online learning. |
| He has also delivered
workshops for national audiences on the use of funding methodologies
to stimulate workforce development programmes. |
| Simon is Chair of Governors
at Westbury
Park Primary School, Bristol. |
| Originally a Classics
graduate, he worked for several years in teaching and training environments
before turning to management. His MBA dissertation focused on approaches
to Service Quality in education. |
Simon is responsible
for initial contract discussions and high-level contact with clients
as well as for the delivery of specific contracts, particularly
where a strategic approach is required and/or where the focus is
on workforce development or adult learning.
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joined the team from the Connexions service
in October 2004. Annie has previous experience of the delivery and
organisation of guidance services for adults and for young people
and has also managed lifelong learning delivery within the college/provider
sector. As Northport’s Projects Coordinator she will take
responsibility for rolling out specific initiatives, notably the
BASIS signposter support service. |
Annie is also a
skilled assessor/verifier on NVQ Advice and Guidance programmes
at level 3 and 4.
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Lynne Bell is a Director of Business Developers
Ltd. as well as one of Northport's principal Associate Consultants.
Lynne's experience of delivering programmes such as IiP, SFI and
Leadership and Management for Business Links has given her a thorough
understanding of the employers' requirements of workforce training
and development programmes. |
| After a successful career
in the commercial sector, Lynne joined a Training and Enterprise
Council where she helped to develop a range of initiatives aimed
at engaging employers in learning and development. |
Since 2001 she has worked
as a consultant to clients such as Business Links, the Early Years
Development and Childcare Partnership and private training providers.
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Peter is a media and communications specialist
with extensive experience at senior management level. He was previously
Head of Public Relations for RAC Motoring Services, having also
worked as a broadcast journalist. |
He has since 2002
worked independently in providing business and media services to
the education sector. He recently acted as a communications advisor
and spokesman for parents and teachers during the closure of secondary
school in Bristol and has advised a network of special school heads.
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Sandra is an experienced manager and consultant
with extensive experience of managing the delivery of work-based
learning and of liaison with external stakeholders, notably the
Learning and Skills Council and employers. |
Previously she
worked in systems engineering and was responsible for the design,
commissioning and delivery of training programmes and for defining
and re-designing processes and information flows.
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Sarah has been a senior strategic planner
and researcher for over 10 years. |
| Previously Sarah
was Client Services Director for Brann (now EHS Brann) and more
recently she was a Board Director of WWAV Rapp Collins West where
she was responsible for the strategic planning & research of major
clients such as British Red Cross. |
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is now a consultant providing qualitative market research and strategic
planning for clients such as The National Trust and Friends of the
Earth. Recent qualitative research work has included brand extension,
NPD, loyalty, and customer satisfaction. It has involved groups,
workshops and depths. |
She is on the management
committee of two charities, Bristol SANDS and Bristol Care & Repair
providing help and advice in marketing and fundraising and emotional
support. She is a member of the Association of Qualitative Research
(AQR).
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is an Adult and Community Learning specialist
with extensive experience of ACL in the FE and voluntary/community
sector. She most recently served as Head of Adult and Community
Education in a college of further education. Here she led the development
of a number of schemes, including ESF-funded initiatives, specifically
designed to encourage more learners to participate. She has also
worked extensively on the development of adult and community learning
programmes within voluntary sector organisations. |
Kath is highly
skilled as a teacher trainer on FAETC programmes and has advised
providers on quality improvements in the field of teaching and learning.
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Chris Pilditch
Chris has considerable experience in the management
and development of Adult and Community Learning, with a nationally-recognised
expertise in areas such as quality assurance and staff development.
He is also an ALI Associate Inspector, specialising in Adult and
Community Learning in the areas of Quality Assurance, Leadership
and Management, Foundation programmes, English, Language and Communications.
He has managed and delivered education and training programmes within
LEA ACL provision, FE, HE and the voluntary and community sector.
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Alison is an experienced project and research
manager, particularly in the fields of equality, diversity, social
inclusion and regeneration. Alison has been instrumental in developing
a ‘Welfare to Work’ Partnership and in the strategic development
and management of a recruitment service to support disabled people
back into the labour market. |
| Alison
has significant experience of working with disadvantaged young people,
young offenders, refugees, asylum seekers and disabled people through
evaluations of learning training and employment programmes; strategic
mapping of provision; and, research and development projects. |
Alison is skilled
in a wide-range of research techniques using both quantitative and
qualitative research and analysis methods such as focus groups,
depth interviews, desk research, literature searchers and reviews,
and case studies.
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