Profiles of the Impart
Skills team
These profiles of some
of our trainers, facilitators and consultants represent a snapshot of our
varied and experienced team. Please contact
us for
full profiles or CVs.
Phil Shorten
Volker Latus
Colin Sharp
Fran Scarlett
Louella Hodge
Gregg Barclay
Phil Shorten
Phil is a Business Moderator and
Training Consultant. He has been consulting to meet public and private
sector client needs for the past 19 years, including 5 years with Training
Services Australia in Sydney
. For the past 14 years has been the Managing Partner of Impart
Skills Pty Ltd.
Phil has helped over 5,000
people in Australia
and Asia
since 1984 develop skills in Training, Facilitation and Leadership skills.
As a consultant, Phil has extensive experience advising clients in the
areas of organisational learning, and in areas of workplace culture and
change management. As a facilitator, Phil has particular experience and
interest in business improvement using PinPlan as a method of
working and learning. As Managing Partner he has been responsible for the
business achieving status as a Registered Training provider in Australia
, as well as being the number one provider of Trainer Training in Malaysia
. Phil is also developing nationally recognised
programs, building strategic partner relationships with clients and other
training providers and manages both local and international projects.
Phil is also the author of a 9 session self-paced Train the Trainer video
produced in association with Network Ten, "Helping People to
Learn". Phil was also a subject matter expert on the CBT Systems CD
Rom program, Leading a Team, which won a Gold in the UK Training Design
awards 1999.
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Volker Latus
Volker Latus is a Trainer
and business facilitator with more than 15 years experience in Europe, Asia
and Australia. His speciality is the "Moderation Method", the
basis of our PinPlan Visual Discussion System. Volker’s experience includes
process consulting work with major private companies and public
institutions in organisational and cultural change and planning. You also
benefit from him as an excellent facilitator in participative and active
group work processes. Volker has also extensive experience and strength in
the design and delivery of customised training workshops and active
learning processes including moderation/ facilitation and presentation
skills, leading people, managing conflicts in the workplace, team
management, train-the-trainer, consulting skills, business-networking and
intercultural communication. Volker is tertiary qualified with a Masters
Degree in Business Administration at the German University
of Göttingen. He holds the Australian Certificate IV in Assessment and
Workplace Training and is accredited as Trainer for Leadership and
Management Skills by the European Commission in Brussels.
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Colin Sharp
Colin is partner with
Impart Skills and the strategic process and systems consultant. He has
worked in both the military and private enterprise in Australia, England
and China.
His experiences ranges from maintenance, projects and operations management
in manufacturing environments to strategic plan development for small and
large corporations.
Colin brings rigorous thinking processes and models to assist clients
develop their own management systems to improve organisational control in
increasingly complex environments.
Colin is skilled in the use of the PinPlan visual discussion methodology,
employed exclusively by Impart Skills in their work. This benefits his work
by more fully exploiting the intellectual capacity of the group so that
more rational decisions are made faster, saving time and money.
Qualifications and
Associations
- Bachelor of Engineering
(Mechanical)
- Certificate IV in
Assessment and Workplace Training
- Executive MBA, Australian Graduate School
of Management
- Member- Australian
Institute of Management
Colin also lectures in
Strategic Management program at the undergraduate level in Sydney
and has previously lectured the Entrepreneurial Management course at the University of Western Sydney.
Fran Scarlett
Fran is
a qualified educator, including a Diploma in Training and Assessment
Systems, with extensive senior and executive management experience Fran was
the founding CEO of FutureStaff Limited, a specialist company operating
nationally and providing employment, training and human resource support
services to the Financial Services industry. Prior to joining the finance
industry Fran had a broad ranging background at executive level in the
N.S.W. Department of Education and in key representative roles across many
areas of community and local government.
In
particular, Fran has specialised skills in implementing a competency
framework in the financial services industry including the implementation
of ASIC policy 146 on the training and supervision of authorized
representatives required under Financial Services Reform Bill (FSRB)
legislation. She was elected Chair of the National Finance Industry
Training Advisory Body and a member of the ASIC steering committee to
oversee the development of personal competencies for principals and
advisors providing financial advisory services.
Louella Hodge
Louella is a specialist
trainer of trainers with extensive experience and qualifications. Louella’s
corporate experience includes Team Leader and Training Manager for a
business unit of DEET, also as a Training Consultant for Training Services
Australia, a national Trainer training consultancy. For the past five
years, Louella has been developing the competencies of Trainers around Australia
with Impart Skills. Louella is a nationally recognised Workplace Trainer
(Cert IV).
Louella has covered the
full range of Operator, Supervisor and Management training. Her current
focus is designing and delivering tailored programs for clients based on
the Certificate IV in Training and Assessment. She particularly enjoys
designing interactive learning and assessment interventions. Using games
and drama to build team skills. She blends her facilitative style with a
determination to achieve meaningful results for the client.
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Gregg Barclay
Gregg is a training and
organisation design consultant based in Canberra. He has been providing service
to government and private industry organisations for the past 13 years.
Gregg has designed and
delivered courses to develop and qualify trainers, assessors, managers and
organisational consultants. They include intensive workshops in presentation
techniques and group facilitation skills; training needs assessment and
course design; management skills and change management consulting skills.
Gregg has participated
in developing competencies and standards for NTB, industry and enterprise
requirements for various groups including the Waterfront, Fire Services and
the Australian Public Service.
Gregg has a Diploma of
Teaching in Adult Education, a Graduate Diploma in Human Resource
Management from the University
of Canberra and is
currently completing a Diploma in Training and Assessment.
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