Tracy Huntley
Training Consultant and Partner

Before becoming a full-time trainer Tracy spent 15 years in marketing, corporate and agency side, in Europe and the Asia Pacific region. Business sectors she has worked with have included automotive, fast-moving consumer goods, legal, financial, retail, petrochemical and pharmaceutical. Working with and training a diverse range of companies and organisations such as Accenture, KP Foods, Linklaters, Nestle, Pepsi-Cola, Pizza Hut, Reckitt and Colman Pharmaceuticals, RBS, Scottish Widows and The University of Cranfield to name a few.

Rather unusually for a marketer, Tracy holds a BSc Honours Degree in Chemistry. And she has used her well-developed strategic and analytical thinking skills in both her marketing and training, marrying them with a genuine interest in communication and developing others.

This interest in people (not normal for a chemist!), triggered a move to undertake a PGCE teacher-training course in 1994. However, missing the cut and thrust of business life she left the children and the classroom and returned to marketing...and very specifically copywriting. She finally found her raison d’etre by becoming a training consultant, combining her business experience and teaching skills. She says she’s never been happier and more satisfied with work...

She is passionate about good written and verbal communication in business and the importance of getting it right.

Tracy is a Partner of Fibre Training and joined the company in 2003. She is a faculty member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and an approved trainer for the IPA.

Lea Raudsepp
Training Consultant and Partner

As a sociology graduate, Lea's fascination with what makes people tick has permeated her entire career.  After cutting her teeth (and wearing out good shoes), in a corporate sales environment, she moved into the world of agency-side marketing working across a broad spectrum of B2B and B2C clients on big brand names such as; Baileys, J&B, Smirnoff , Guinness, Air Canada, John West, Campbell’s foods, Boots the Chemist, Tandy and Lavazza.

In 2001 Lea identified a huge gap in the market for a training consultancy with a difference, one with a creative approach to how new skills and behaviours were embedded in organisations. She began Fibre Training with a fresh philosophy; that understanding individuals and what motivates them is the key to offering training that works. And that training like this can produce genuine business growth and positively change the way people operate.

Seven years later with an ever-growing list of blue-chip clients, Fibre Training still rigorously pursues Lea’s initial vision of training. Always matching talent and business acumen with an empathetic approach towards communication and understanding.

Lea is a Partner of Fibre Training and founded the company in 2001. Lea is on the faculty of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and an approved trainer for the IPA.

Michael Hobbs
Training Consultant and Voice Coach

Michael’s career has been varied to say the least. After a degree in history, he started his career as an actor appearing on television and stage and then as a presenter for the BBC. He went on to write and produce factual entertainment for the BBC, Channel 4 and Five.

His career changed course after completing an MBA with Henley Management College and winning The Evening Standard Scholarship. His research on Charismatic Leadership with Professor Malcolm Higgs was published as a Henley Working Paper, which developed his interest in working on effective leadership and communication skills. In particular he works on putting passion into presentations that are frequently drained by hours of monotonous PowerPoint!

Michael’s training and experience as an actor and BBC presenter combined with his academic research and management experience, gives him a unique approach in developing vocal ability, physical relaxation and understanding and connecting with an audience. He was recently seen demonstrating these skills in Lord of the Rings at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. In terms of leadership, Michael takes an experiential approach in understanding what it is that great leaders do unconsciously that makes people follow them.

Michael is a lecturer at the Lancashire Business School, is a member of BAFTA and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Amanda Bruce
Training Designer

A business graduate and ex-marketer, Amanda has spent the last 15 years providing creativity consultancy and change-related training to a diverse range of large organisations including the BBC, Unilever, Bayer, Virgin Trains, British Airways, Nestle and B&Q.

Her role at Fibre is to deploy her creative skills and experience to develop and optimise training programmes, ensuring every single one is appropriately designed, highly stimulating and totally effective.

Amanda is an accredited NLP practitioner.

Deborah Brasier-Creagh
Training Consultant

Deborah’s experience as a trainer and consultant is founded on her career in advertising. Working her way up from the bottom, in a sink or swim culture, she became Head of Client Service at the top twenty international agency, Lintas, where she worked with a breadth of clients, such as Unilever, Nestle, Lloyds Bank, and Johnson and Johnson.

Making an unusual culture change, Deborah decided to develop her brand and business experience as MD of a start-up brand and packaging design agency. Four years later, she had worked at all levels with every sector of the market place and had helped build a strategically-led design company of 50 people. Having had to learn almost entirely by trial and error herself, she established structured and supported career paths for her own people, believing that confident and skilled individuals make happier and more successful bunnies at work!

For 10 years now, Deborah has specialised in training, coaching and mentoring. She is experienced in all areas of management skills training, from team building and performance coaching to conflict management and negotiation. She enjoys working at all levels of development, with all manner of clients, whether in group session or one-to-one.

It has to be said, that Deborah loves to engage her excellent analytical skills in problem solving – but as a trainer, her ambition is to give others the skill to solve or, better still to avoid, their own problems!

Philip Jacques
Training Consultant

Philip was once told that “all salespeople are failures!” The inference being that most men and women, now making a living in sales, had previously tried other jobs before becoming salespeople.

This is certainly true of Philip, after working as a steward on the Cunard Liner ‘Queen Elizabeth’ he ended his seagoing experience as a purser on Cunard Cruise Ships and became a salesman with Mars Ltd in the early 70s.

From Mars, Philip joined the holiday company then known as Thomson Skytours. He was an original member of the Sales and Development Team that saw the formation of the Thomson Holiday Company as we know it today.

A lot of his sales and business experience over the next 35 years or so was gained working with motor manufacturers Ford, Vauxhall, Volvo and Mercedes- Benz at all levels from Car Salesman, Sales Manager and Business Manager through to General Manager and Dealer Principal of motor dealerships.

All these positions were ‘customer facing’, demanding people skills as an essential part of the job requirement. Philip has trained sales-teams and practised in all disciplines of the sales and management mix always with a focused eye on profitability and return on investment.

Philip brings a wealth of practical knowledge and experience to the Fibre team.

Nigel Pearcy
Training Consultant

Andrew Skeen
Training Consultant

It would be fair to say that Andrew’s career path defines the phrase “portfolio career”. In addition to working as a copywriter and corporate trainer, Andrew writes both fiction and non-fiction on a variety of subjects, usually as a ghost writer.

His career as a writer and educator began lecturing in History and Asian Studies, while acting as a staff writer for a number of political candidates for the major parties.

Since leaving academia in 1997, Andrew has worked in Italy, London and Edinburgh with several large corporates, in roles related to training, writing, marketing and sales. Along the way he has developed a reputation for passion and delivering against challenging objectives. His writing and training experience covers creative advertising, marketing copy, proposals and tenders, instructional text, policies & procedures and technical authoring.

By taking a focused, research-based approach, Andrew concentrates on helping organisations to use language effectively and win more business.

Diana Poulston
Training Development Manager

Diana brings a wealth of experience in training and development to Fibre Training from the UK and the US. She has worked in a variety of industry sectors, both as a ‘hands on’ practitioner and, more latterly, as a consultant and project manager. 

Her aim is always to seek out ways of enhancing people’s performance by integrating a variety of training interventions into an organisation’s systems. She believes in developing effective ways of working which help people improve and maintain their performance – working smarter not harder! 

Diana will be helping us ensure that both individuals and organisations achieve the maximum benefit from the training we offer, as well as upgrading our own systems and procedures.