Principal Consultants

Penny Le Besque

Penny is the co-founder of Inspirations and a Director. She has 18 years of commercial experience working with blue chip companies in training, development and organisational change. She has an excellent track record of working with organisations to help them deliver innovative and cost effective learning interventions including training, the development of competency frameworks, assessment and development centre design and coaching. Penny thrives on the challenges and demands of change within organisations. She has an ability to engage with people across all levels and functions that together with her high levels of energy and determination helps to overcome obstacles that affect people's development.

Sue Nobbs

Sue is the co-founder of Inspirations and a Director. She has 18 years of Management Development experience with a track record of achievement in projects concerned with improving organisational performance and effectiveness, including training, personal development, recruitment and selection, the development of competency frameworks and coaching. Sue has excellent communication and organisational skills, which combined with her pragmatic approach and ability to influence motivates people to learn and develop. Sue achieves consistent results through influence and by building strong relationships with Senior Managers.

The rest of the Inspirations team

Lynn Harrop

Lynn is Client Liaison Manager at Inspirations. Whether arranging meetings with our consulting team or ensuring venues, timings, facilities and materials are just right, Lynn's excellent organisational skills will ensure every programme undertaken with Inspirations runs smoothly.

Mo Rye

Mo is an experienced and insightful training consultant and coach with a management & organisational background in business, health and education. As a senior manager, Mo has led large teams facing major culture changes and as a result has made managing people and their performance at work her strength and specialism. During the last 10 years, Mo has channelled these skills into the public and private sectors, large blue chip companies and small businesses and works equally effectively with both Directors and front-line staff. Mo combines a flair for developing interpersonal skills in individuals with a keen eye on achieving business objectives; she has a warm and empathic yet focused style that enables participants to have fun whilst achieving results.

Jon Walden

Jon has a wealth of experience as both a CEO and a non-executive director of public companies. Most of his executive career was spent in the automotive sector as CEO of Lex and a director of RAC. He now divides his time between non-executive positions with various companies and mentoring work with senior executives. In addition he has worked with Inspirations to deliver training on commercial development. Jon is a passionate believer in developing people and giving them the opportunity to grow.

Steve Clews

Steve is an accomplished trainer, having been a Training & Development manager for Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC) in South Africa, and has also lectured at several universities on IT and financial risk management. More recently, Steve has helped deliver management development programmes for several blue-chip organisations. Steve has a wide experience of coaching colleagues and clients, from a variety of backgrounds, in the public and private sectors, to help them to improve their performance. He is a qualified chartered accountant and PRINCE 2 project manager, with several years experience operating as a Finance Director.

Richard Pascall

Richard is an accomplished, charismatic communicator at all levels with 18 years of extensive experience in coaching in and out of the workplace. He has proven expertise in running a successful retail branch network; coaching and captaining several high-level sports teams. This has provided him with a portfolio of skills that enables the motivation to be high and the learning to be inspirational. He has worked with organisations to design and deliver recruitment and selection events, provide sales training to enhance customer experience and develop strategic thinking with key decision makers. His vast experience and pragmatic approach has created a conscientious, respected individual with a distinct determination to extend the ability of a performer.

Debbie Carey

Debbie is an experienced HR and Management Development Consultant with a practical, honest and objective approach that focuses on what clients really need to know. Her enthusiastic and interactive style maximises participation and achieves results through positive involvement. Debbie's excellent interpersonal skills enable participants to enjoy themselves whilst learning, thereby maximising benefits for both employer and employee. Debbie has a strong interest and experience in coaching and mentoring for both personal and team development. She enjoys working to achieve effective and long lasting training solutions that meet business needs and requirements and that deliver results.

Karl Cheek

Karl is a resourceful, energetic and creative professional with 10 years learning & development experience in large multi-site businesses. He has proven expertise in management and leadership development, and extensive experience in training design, delivery and facilitation. Karl's pragmatic approach to learning & development and his commitment to quality and value have earned him a reputation for being the driving force behind many people development related projects. His sense of humour and straightforward, down to earth delivery style ensures that participants learn in a stress-free, enjoyable way and in an open yet stretching environment.

Liz Taylor

Liz works as an HR consultant across various industry sectors on projects requiring a fresh, pragmatic perspective. Her expertise has been gained over 20+ years working for respected FTSE 100 companies in both HR generalist and specialist T&D roles. She is skilled in positively managing the people impact of business changes and is known for her strong interpersonal and influencing skills.

Her personal credibility is based on integrity and a strong commercial results focus, working closely with senior management in fast-moving environments. Her strengths include coaching and developing teams to realise growth potential, supporting businesses to align Vision, Values and Competencies with performance management processes and working effectively across borders.

Sally England

Sally is an experienced learning and development professional with 10 years experience working in large multi site organisations. She has experience in coaching, delivery, and training design. Her honest, down to earth approach helps her to build rapport quickly and maximise learner's potential. Sally's commitment, resourcefulness, and attention to detail means you can always count on her to deliver.

John Dyer

John is a multi award winning diversity consultant with a strong background in learning and development, gained over the number of years he was the principal consultant at the Employment Service National Training Centre, managing 30 development consultants who provided training for a target audience of 10,000 managers. He has been involved with equal opportunities and diversity for 20 years as a trainer, consultant, adviser and practitioner and has helped a wide range of companies to develop and implement equality and diversity policies, practices and procedures. This involved helping them to write their policies, undertake diversity audits, draft and structure diversity delivery plans, develop and deliver training solutions.

Mags Colman

Maggie has built a formidable reputation for the quality of her work in customer service and sales training. She has specialised in this area for over twenty years and is an expert in interpersonal communication skills. A tremendous motivator, delegates find her training inspires them to permanently change the way they work. She is passionate about great customer service and her enthusiasm is contagious. She also has a strong belief that learning, communicating and working should be fun. Maggie's high profile as a leader in her field is reflected in her role as judge of both National Sales and Customer Service Awards.

David Maylor

David is a highly experienced and committed business coach and trainer. For the last 4 years David has been designing and running completely bespoke training and coaching solutions mainly for sales professionals and managers at all levels. Through this work he has coached and trained individuals and teams in a range of business sectors including medical, IT, finance, transport, construction, agriculture and recruitment amongst others. Outside of the training arena David has operational experience within customer services, sales, junior and senior management. In training, David loves to make it real for participants so they easily integrate concepts into their work. In coaching, he thrives on his commitment and belief that individuals can achieve all that they want.

David Langdon

David has worked in both the UK and North America as a business psychologist. He has extensive experience in the design and facilitation of top team workshops and leadership programmes, as well as in coaching senior executives across a range of sectors to improve their leadership and business performance. Prior to qualifying as a psychologist, David spent 8 years in the Metropolitan Police service, where he served as a detective, specialising in fraud investigations and dealing with informants. David has both a BSc in Psychology and an MSc in Occupational Psychology. David is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and a member of the Association of Business Psychologists.