Adrian was hired by JCB to help them deliver and develop their CornerStone training programme which is centred around learning in a sales role for JCB staff. He treats his trainees as ‘elite athletes’ of their specific work discipline and is always looking for ways to strengthen his content and delivery. He’s had a widespread impact with his work at JCB. Participants have become coaches to their colleagues and have gone on to more senior roles within 18 months. It also has had organisational benefit in terms of improvements in sales and efficiencies, a measured impact of £50,000 per person. This programme went on to be Awards is a Princess Royal Training Award.

Our assessors noted Adrian’s exceptional skills as a trainer and facilitator shaped by his athletic background and professional experiences. Adrian’s collaboration with JCB created a successful sales leadership programme which showcases his ability to drive impactful change in individuals and teams. His personalised approach has led to significant professional growth and success for candidates. The programme’s longevity and high return on investment underscore Adrian’s effectiveness and dedication.

St Giles Trust helps people facing sever disadvantage to find jobs, homes and the right support they need; helping them to become positive contributors to local communities and wider society. Alison brought a lifetime experience of supporting and empowering disadvantaged people especially women in prison with her to St Giles as well as a plethora of qualifications.

Our assessors noted that Alison has continually developed her practice, ensuring she keeps ahead of the latest trends and has supported not only her colleagues but changes the lives of her trainees – 7 of who are now employed by St Giles.

Learning Curve Group in Durham are a national training and education specialist supporting learners, employers and FE providers to achieve success through a range of impactful training programmes. Colin’s career journey began in retail and sales account management, but he quickly discovered his true calling in IT and training, leading him to undertake a huge range of IT qualifications from organisations like Cisco and NLP. At learning curve, Colin plans and delivers the apprenticeship, facilitates the teaching of functional skills qualifications and provides next step advice for learners as they set personal goals for career progression.

Our assessors note Colin as a passionate and inventive teacher, achieving well over the national average results for the Data Analysis apprenticeship. He has won an internal award, the Golden Apple Pin, and is recognised as an expert dedicated to his work by his peers. He leads on a contract with visually impaired learners and has had eight of his apprentices put forward for the British Computer Society Awards, with five winning alongside a BAME award as well.

David began his career an apprentice machinist to then travel the world as a maintenance engineer to learn global engineering practises and cultural adaptability. He then returned to the UK and took on various leadership roles and transitioned eventually into education holding many qualifications in both Engineering and Teaching.

Our assessors noted David’s deep commitment to student success, often going beyond his role to mentor new teachers, advocate for mental health, and foster an inclusive environment. His efforts have led to increased diversity among students, high regard from local employees, and the establishment of meaningful initiatives like the William Cooke Award.

Mitchells and Butlers runs most well-known restaurant/pub brands across the UK including All Bar One, Toby Carvery and Harvester and Browns. They have 15 brands across 1592 businesses. Gary is 45 years in the hospitality industry, and a City and Guilds of London Institute Fellow, he has dedicated his career to culinary excellence. He started as an apprentice and worked across hotels, contract catering, then into River Cottage and finally into education. He now runs the Chefs’ Academy apprenticeship at Mitchells and Butlers. This programme won the Princess Royal Training Award.

Our assessors noted Gary’s influence and positive evidence of his ability, personality, drive, ambition and personnel development as a result of his teaching and culinary leadership. They also noted how rare it is to see such consistent and high praise of an individual whereby learners have been made to make profound changes in their culinary careers but additionally to the way they see food, cooking and the importance of long term culinary management within the industry and at home.

Right at Home UK, based in Liverpool, is an organisation that provides homecare services across the UK. Heather came into this role with teaching and assessment qualifications and has almost completed her Level 5 Associate Diploma in Organisational Learning & Development. She supports 83 franchise to oversee the mandatory training of around 3,000 staff.

Our assessors commented on Heather’s achievements having had a solid career as a trainer and assessor. Her training has had the impact of reducing staff attrition most notably. Heather now shares her experience at a national level as part of a sector group for the Department of Education to help change the perception of careers in the care sector.

James joined Resurgo Trust to coach young people (16-24 yr olds) daily in the mindset and skills they need to both get into work and thrive once they get there. He rose through the ranks to now coaching and mentoring the other coaches in the organisation and leading on internal development and working with C-Suite Executives on complex and difficult organisational and leadership issues.

Our assessors note that James is undoubtedly a passionate, dedicated and highly skilled coach who is held in high esteem by his colleagues and those he coaches. With numerous anecdotal examples of impact of individuals facing barriers and difficult life challenges, a high-profile C-Suite commercial clientele and a current role which is influential in the development of rising coaches in Resurgo, this nomination has significant merit.

Malachi is a tutor and assessor running the newly established state of the art construction centre at Belmont Park Special School in East London. This school caters students with Social, Emotional and/or Mental Health issues that are between 10-18 years old. Malachi was initially a painter/decorator who had his own journey of struggle with education and society. This brought valuable industry experience and also an ability to foster trust quickly with the young people though his experience and story. He also managed a City & Guilds Construction centre previously and worked with vulnerable young people through a youth club and the centre.

Our Assessors noted that EQAs and Ofsted have cited nominee’s training and teaching as ‘Outstanding’. Malachi stands out giving at risk learners opportunity to progress when at risk of potentially entering a life of crime. He’s initiated partnerships with Colleges, the Youth Justice System and many more in the community with projects for his learners – all to better their learning and positive role and place in the community. He also demonstrably increased the standard of training in the construction department and the outcomes since he started 5 years ago, embedding City & Guilds qualifications into the broader curriculum to enhance the opportunities for learners. He also improved the experience of the learners who are at-risk and many of whom have additional needs by tailoring every lesson to meet their needs resulting in some of the highest outcomes and participation rates in the school.

MCFT are an international company specialising in the maintenance of commercial catering and refrigeration equipment. Michael came to the company as an experienced commercial catering engineer in 2018. He entered the industry 10 years earlier as an apprentice. In his current role. He’s responsible for all the internal training programmes for their apprentice engineers in the fields of catering and refrigeration.

Our assessors noted Michael’s extraordinary commitment, with high personal standards, undertaking CPD in his own time and making regular improvements in delivery and using a ‘coach to coach’ approach. Start. He is playing a major part of the growth in the company and is a likely role model for the wider community and sector as a whole.

Fifty Shades Greener, based in Co Clare, Ireland, collaborates with other agencies and organisations around the world to provide environmental, societal and governance training programmes for schools, FET, Third Level and Industries through online and in person training. Since founding the company, Raquel has gone from being a one-woman show to running a team of people in Ireland and the UK and also acting as an advisor for the Irish government this year to develop the sustainable tourism policy to 2030.

Our assessors noted whilst Raquel does not hold any formal qualifications in education or training her drive to motivate change through action has evolved from setting sustainability targets and showing individuals how to achieve them, to developing powerful training programmes support by the Irish government across all sectors of Irish society and achieving global reach. This has not held her back from having a profound impact through her sustainability training. She also now sits on COP and influencing education, industry and policy makers.