About our trainers
Our trainers
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- Caroline Broad
Caroline gained her twenty years of experience facilitating teams and delivering skills training with a focus on developing the skills of career researchers and University staff in STEM. Caroline loves working with people with a depth of knowledge and a passion for their work. She starts with the assumption that everyone is naturally resourceful and capable and delivers value by developing an individual's self-awareness, alongside an introduction to tools and theories that are directly applicable to their roles.
Before running her own business, Caroline worked in the commercial sector in Hi-Tech and Bioscience and for Vitae, the career researcher development non-profit. Caroline is a certified practitioner in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Belbin Team Roles and is a Mental Health First Aider, C-Me profiling and Resilience Tools consultant. Caroline facilitates an Action for Happiness Happy Café in her town and delivers the Exploring What Matters course focusing on wellbeing and resilience.
- Caroline Broad
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- George Callaghan
George Callaghan graduated from the University of Strathclyde before completing a PhD in Economics from the University of the West of England. He has edited and contributed to a popular undergraduate textbook Personal Finance and is a qualified coach with the International Coaching Federation and the Institute of Leadership and Management. George’s vision is to empower employees and individual clients to better understand the emotional and practical issues around money. By combining education around money with an understanding of money emotions, people can transform themselves and contribute more to their employer, family, and wider society.
- Matthew Critchlow
Matthew Critchlow, PhD, is Managing Director at Kirros Consulting Ltd and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Westminster. He has over 15 years experience designing and running programmes to enhance individual and organisational performance. He offers expertise in coaching, facilitation, psychometric profiling and people strategy design. Matthew previously worked in the pharmaceutical industry for twelve years, mostly at Eli Lilly & Company. He held positions in sales management, marketing and management consultancy.
- George Callaghan
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- Dr Emma Donaldson-Feilder,
Dr Emma Donaldson-Feilder, a Registered Occupational Psychologist, Chartered Coaching Psychologist, Coach Supervisor and Relational Mindfulness Teacher. For more information, see the Affinity website.
- Dr Emma Donaldson-Feilder,
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- Dr Charlotte Paton
"I studied medicine at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, qualifying in 2011. Following my Foundation Training, I obtained a training post in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. After a couple of years in this training post, I decided to transfer to General Practice training. This has enabled me to provide women's health and sexual health care to patients in the community, which is my passion. Whilst living in the North East and practising as a GP, I worked as a speciality doctor in sexual health at New Croft sexual health clinic in Newcastle. I relocated to Cornwall in September 2021 to be nearer to my family. I work in three different job roles, which include as an NHS GP focusing on women's health, a GP working in a cancer diagnosis service at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth and my women's health role at St. Erme Medical.
I have several postgraduate qualifications in women's health, including the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health diploma, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' diploma, certificates in contraceptive implant and coil fitting, and postgraduate training and qualifications in menopause care. I have also gained clinical experience caring for transgender patients in the Northern Gender Dysphoria Service. I have conducted numerous educational sessions with health professionals and lay people in Cornwall, Devon and the North East."
- Dr Charlotte Paton
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- Laura Rigden
Laura is an Australian-born specialist Wellbeing Consultant with an academic background in Neuroscience (second major in Anatomy & Human Biology) and PostGraduate Psychology.
She draws on a wealth of international experience in workplace health to bring the science of wellbeing to life with humour, honesty and insights into lived experience.
Currently, Laura works with clients from small start-ups to FTSE 100 companies providing Mental Health First Aid training, wellbeing workshops and consultancy to help their people and businesses thrive.
- Laura Rigden
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- Amanda Super
Amanda Super is a values driven Chartered Occupational Psychologist specialising in the development of self-compassion in the workplace and leadership development.
- Andrew Scott
Andrew has run a Training Consultancy for over thirty years, working with blue-chip commercial organisations. For the last 20 years, he has been mainly in demand in the HE sector, working with academics and professional service staff from more than 25 universities across the UK. He works in various ways to generate effective learning that has practical applications.
This includes working with individuals on a one-to-one basis through coaching or perhaps a day's walking in the Lake District and working with teams or groups through specifically designed team events, training workshops on specific skills, interventions to address conflict, or facilitating meetings at a strategic level. Andrew's work is informed by Nancy Kline's Thinking Environment and my own Shifting Stories approach, as well as a substantial body of research-informed tools, models and theories.
- Amanda Super