Meet The Team
The team at P-tek are passionate about the importance of continually developing a business through its most important asset - The People in it! Working with your people our team of highly qualified & respected training professionals have the skills to help identify effective solutions to your key business issues and make a positive difference to the continued success of your business.
Our Management Team
Chris Barnard
Managing Director
Chris and Lisa Barnard set up P-tek Development Solutions Ltd in April 2003. P-tek’s ethos is to provide innovative, high-impact, high-quality training solutions to help enable organisations to develop the full potential of their people...
Lisa Barnard
Director
Lisa Barnard graduated in 1996 with a BA (Honours) degree in European Business and French. She then spent six years working for J. Sainsbury’s plc, where she managed a variety of departments, resulting in her running the customer service team...
Abbie Cullingford
Operations Manager
Abbie is one of the newest members to P-tek and joins us as a result of previously working in partnership with Chris and the team for nearly four years…
Our Associate Team
Martin & Jeanette Rouse
Jeanette and Martyn Rouse have over 30 years experience of successfully managing teams, tasks and individuals in small and large customer driven organisations - from small tasks through to complex projects…
Stewart Beamont
With 20 years’ experience under his belt, Stewart has an impressive track record in both the public and private sectors as a development professional…
Katherine Saltmarsh
Katherine's training delivery portfolio is extensive with qualifications in the design and delivery of Train the Trainer, Sales Process, Skills and technical induction training...
Elene Marsden
Elene Marsden started her own company after several years experience teaching in secondary, tertiary and adult education. For eight years, she has been training companies and their staff in IT office skills as well as working as a virtual coach and assessor for an online learning centre...
View Full Profile Elene is the designer and presenter of an ACT! training CD, which can be purchased from Amazon.co.uk
Robbie Spencer
Robbie is the founder of 'Disarm From Within'. He is a qualified anger and conflict management facilitator and also works as a counsellor...
Alison Darrington
Alison has over 15 years experience in Retail Management and Sales environments and is adept in training managers and sales staff...
Matt Fitzgerald
Matt Fitzgerald delivers quality training for workers specialising in the Food Industry...
Rachel Sloane
Rachel Sloane is an award winning broadcaster who has presented every type of programme and phone-in...
Graeme Borrill
Graeme has designed and delivered over 1,000 training days in a wide variety of management and soft skills training programmes...
Jackie Clifford
Jackie has been working in the field of learning and development since 1990, prior to which she also worked in recruitment consultancy and generalist HR...
View Full Profile Jackie is the co-author of 3 books, which can be purchased from Amazon.co.uk:
The Coaching Handbook Dear Trainer Workplace Learning & Development
Clair Starr
For the last 10 years, Clair has been a full time Therapist - Reflexologist, Physco-therapist, Counsellor, and Masseuse & Reiki Master...
Lyn King
Lyn King has over 25 years experience in the field of Learning and Development in both the private and public sectors..
Jane Steer
Jane is a well motivated, flexible, effective and adaptable trainer with a strong proven record of improving quality, managing change, delivering excellent customer service and of managing innovative training programmes leading to achievement of professional standards...
Lorenzo Hall
Lorenzo has over ten years' experience as an HRD consultant in a variety of industries, including insurance, telecoms, IT, travel and local government...
Jim Darrah
Jim joined the Army in 1982 as an Infantry Soldier and quickly learnt that his road of expertise was in training...
Nick Athorne
Nick has established himself as a credible and respected business facilitator with a strong reputation amongst the business community of Suffolk and Essex, and elsewhere...