The single most important asset for a training and consulting company is its professional staff. At LTS, we have an outstanding team of training consultants, with excellent qualifications and experience. Most of them have worked for LTS for many years, which means that their experience is fed into future courses and consulting projects. The LTS trainers have worked in many different parts of the world and in many different training situations. Their current experience covers one-to-one and group training for specific needs in business, professional and technical fields, as well as training in skills such as giving presentations, negotiating, report writing and effective intercultural communication. Several of the LTS team are also well known trainer trainers and writers of training material and often give presentations and workshops at professional conferences throughout Europe, the US and the Far East.   Adrian Pilbeam Joint founder of LTS in 1980 (with Mark Ellis) and Director. He has a BA Hons (English Language and Literature) from the University of Oxford, and a Postgraduate Certificate in TEFL and Education from the University of London. Has conducted courses for business and professional people worldwide, and is an experienced trainer trainer. He is also a specialist in intercultural training. Has lived and worked in France, Belgium and Portugal. Author and co-author of many business English books including Professional English, Negotiating, Meetings and Discussions and International Management (Pearson Education), and Big City (Oxford University Press). Founder and editor of Language and Intercultural Training journal. He is also a co-author of www.market-leader.net Premier Subscription Website. He specialises in courses on human resources, international management and intercultural communication.   Sara Helm Training consultant at LTS since 2001. She has a BA Hons degree in European Business Studies (Finance and Accounting with French), a Diploma in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (DELTA), a Certificate in Teaching International English for Business (Cert TIEB), and a Certificate in Intercultural Training Skills. She also has several years experience in a variety of industries, both in the UK and abroad. With 14 years in English language training, Sara capitalises on her previous business and foreign experience to provide dynamic hands-on training and coaching for LTS clients. She regularly provides training for finance and HR managers. More recently, Sara has been incorporating her interest and qualification in Improving Personal Effectiveness at Work into her training. Clients can expect to benefit from a range of accelerated learning, personal communication and goal orientation techniques which will add value to both their professional lives and language development. Specific in-company projects include coaching clients through their conversion to SAP in English or preparation for best practice benchmarking competition due to cross-border mergers, in which intercultural communication plays an integral part. Rebecca Utteridge Training consultant at LTS since April 2004.  She has a BA Hons in Design, a Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA), a Certificate in Teaching International English for Business (Cert TIEB) and a Certificate in Intercultural Training Skills. Rebecca has lived and worked as a business English trainer in Mexico and the Czech Republic, where most recently she was the in-company Business English Consultant for Ernst & Young.  She has a particular interest in courses on report writing and on human resources. She also has a stong interest in developing training materials for the wide range of clients who come to LTS. She is currently writing material for Best Practice (Thomson) to be published in 2007.     Neville Knight Associate training consultant at LTS since 1996. He has Teachers Certificate from Wellington, New Zealand, a Diploma in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (DELTA) and a Certificate of Management. Neville has lived and worked in Spain and Italy, where he set up his own schools. He has also worked in Finland, Norway, France and Germany, where he coached European business managers, helping them to improve their skills when participating in international meetings, developing their negotiating skills, preparing and delivering effective presentations and understanding intercultural differences. Now based in the UK, he provides training on a variety of business language programmes.     Jacqueline Turner Associate training consultant at LTS since July 2003.  She has a Certificate of Education, a Diploma in Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Adults (DTEFLA), and has extensive experience across the whole spectrum of English language training. Her career has particular emphasis on business English, training foreign teachers of English and foreign military officers.  Jacqueline has lived and worked in both Spain and Australia and is currently a Trinity College London global examiner for spoken English.  She is also an examiner for the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) at Bristol University.     Trudi Atherfold Associate training consultant at LTS since the middle of 2005, after returning to the UK from Germany. She has a Trinity Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (Dip.TESOL), the Trinity Certificate in TESOL and a Certificate in Teaching International English for Business (Cert TIEB). Trudi has lived and worked in several countries, most recently Germany, where she worked for Audi Akademie, providing professional English training to Audi employees, as well as writing training materials and running teacher training sessions. She is co-author of Audi Akademie’s internal publication English for the Automotive Industry. She has a particular interest in materials development and specialises in courses for automotive industry professionals.

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