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COPE’s consultants come with a wealth of experience, knowledge and credibility in their respective fields. They guarantee a highly professional and efficient service with positive outcomes. Below is a brief profile of COPE’s Principal Consultants and Associates. |
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Creating Opportunity Promoting Equality |
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Alva Davis |
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Alva is an experienced management consultant, personal development trainer and mentor, having worked and trained in the not-for-profit and public sectors; using diagnostic and assessment tools to support organisations to build their capacity, train employees, and improve service delivery.
Alva is currently engaged in facilitating workshops with directors to develop strategies and action plans, and implement mentoring programmes. She also trains teachers to ‘embed equality and diversity in the classroom,’ and provides one-to-one mentoring to support career changers.
She uses active methods, discovery learning, and innovative and tested tools and activities to help learners gain the skills and confidence to move forward in their lives and careers.
Recently Alva provided positive action training to Black and minority ethnic employees raising their confidence, skills, and aspirations, empowering them to take on more responsibility, undertake management training courses, and volunteer responsibilities supporting their communities.
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Edwina Hughes |
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Jon is an experienced International Trainer of Soft/Business Communication skills, Business English, Cross-Cultural Awareness and IT Application Software, with significant IT Consultancy and teaching.
He returned to the UK in 2003 after living in Japan for six years, being based in Canada for the prior fourteen, and has also worked with clients across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, USA, Mexico, Australia, Nepal and Papua New Guinea.
Jon has worked with numerous public, private and third sector global organisations, involved in an extensive range of applications and industries, including: education, IT, languages, census, international aid, finance /banking / accounting / insurance, HR / personnel, call centre / CRM / customer service, retail sales / consumer products, transport, medical / health / pharmaceutical
In addition to English, he speaks Japanese (basic), French (conversational) and Spanish (basic).
Jon currently lives in London with his Japanese wife and ten year-old son, maintaining a global perspective with cultural sensitivity. |
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Graeme has had a successful career in management training and development and consultancy for the past 18 years. Previously he was Director of Strategic People Management Consultants and Director of an international publishing company.
He operates at all levels from the Board to first-line managers and integrates individual learning, organisational development and the achievement of key performance outcomes. His particular areas of expertise are in leadership and management development, coaching, organisation culture change, performance management, 360º competence assessment, training needs analysis, career planning and equality and diversity.
Graeme has worked for a broad range of organisations in many sectors including Manufacturing, Engineering, Construction, Insurance, Housing, Telecommunications, Publishing, Aerospace, Recruitment, Government Departments and Agencies, NHS Trusts and Local Authorities. |
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Graeme Sutherland |
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Jon Gilbert |
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Edwina specialises in strategic development and implementation, marketing, customer service and communication skills. She has developed and delivered a wide range of training and mentoring programmes encompassing soft skills, trainer the trainer, management techniques, leadership and business English.
The diversity of her client base – individuals, SMEs, private companies, multinationals, public sector bodies, educational establishments, charities – reflects her ability to relate to and work with people of all ages, nationalities and cultural backgrounds.
Edwina began her facilitation and training work in 1991 after a corporate career in oil and television. Whilst being an inspirer and motivator, she also appreciates the bigger corporate picture ensuring that the development of the individual dovetails with the needs of the organisation. Feedback from her clients confirms that Edwina has a “lively and can-do approach” that gets results.
Her mantra is that business and personal development are NOT mutually exclusive. |