Apprenticeships Discover the power of collaboration

Alison Charles, Managing Director of Real Resilience, is a seasoned expert in individual, team, and organizational development. With a career spanning commercial, public, and military sectors, Alison specializes in leadership programs, resilience coaching, and cultural transformation.

Her extensive experience includes developing global solutions for Learning and Development, Corporate Well-being, and HR at prestigious institutions like Hambros Bank and Shell International UK. Alison's core strengths lie in Programme Management, Change Management, and Organizational Development.

Driven by a passion for building Real Resilience, Alison is dedicated to uniting communities to address systemic challenges and foster lasting change.

Ges works with business teams to build their Speak Performance confidence, skills & flair, based on a forty-year apprenticeship in commercial roles, whilst immersed in the theatre of Speak Performance, delivering workshop experiences, MC’ing, authoring ‘Speak Performance’, also creating vodcasts, podcasts, even dark audio tales based on Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales that spill over into the virtual Ges-a-Verse.

Add into the mix a personal passion for choral singing (2nd Bass voice if you are interested, but only ask him about singing in Carnegie Hall, New York if you have time for the answer…). Ges delivers for you an effective mix of voice techniques, delivery & performance skills to equip you and your team with the confidence to speak, present & perform for your business,

With other hats on Ges is Trustee & Chairman of the Leith Hill Music Festival, a renowned competitive choral singing festival delivering stellar performances since 1905 – Ges thinks he remembers the 1st one – also Trustee of the New Surrey Performing Arts Library, rescuing this priceless resource from nearly being dumped in a skip in council cuts five years ago.

Louise is a Commissioner for Skills Development at Essex County, she has been in this role for 2 years with a focus on the creation of apprenticeships supporting young people and businesses to make them happen across Essex. In addition to this she also lead on a youth movement called We Rise, which supports young people in removing barriers and challenges they face in finding employment, education and training. Previous roles have included supporting businesses and young people through the last government’s Kickstart scheme and supporting unemployed young people.

Richard Hagen is Managing Director of mPowr Publishing and Immersive Publishing. Richard and co-founder Martyn Pentecost work personally with speakers, coaches, trainers, consultants and entrepreneurs to create unique intellectual property and then develop and publish online courses and books rooted in this IP.

Richard previously spent twenty years as a member of a Catholic Religious Order of preachers, teachers and storytellers where he cut his teeth in the world of publishing in the UK’s largest Catholic publishing house. He has also been a primary school teacher in South London for seven years and brings this unique combination of experience to every project.