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Our faculty members are dedicated professionals with a flair and passion for teaching and coaching, with a deep understanding of business and extensive practical experience. We take great care in ‘casting’ trainers who will match our clients’ style, culture and business environment.
Below, you will find a list of our internal and associate faculty team members together with a detailed biography for each.
We are always on the look out for outstanding new facilitators to join our team. If you are experienced sales, marketing or leadership trainer with strong business skills and/or an accomplished coach and would like to discuss becoming an Imparta Associate, please visit our careers pages.
Having previously worked as Faculty for Imparta, Abi has just joined the Imparta team as Development Project Leader.
Akihiko has over 15 year experience in sales and marketing and the ability to achieve results through leadership, teamwork, and meeting client expectation.
Allison Gutteridge has over eighteen years of successful sales management and sales experience with Fortune 500 companies and over eight years in sales performance consulting.
Andrew Williamson joined Imparta as Head of Sales Content after spending 10-years working for GE in a variety of senior Learning Leader roles.
Anna has delivered numerous sales, leadership and personal development workshops in Europe and North America. She has worked with audiences that widely differ according to their business challenges, organisational seniority, cultural differences and industry perspectives.
Anna has an extensive personal background in Learning and Development as well as in National Account Management.
Barbara Rock works with Imparta as a multicultural executive coach specialising in sales, management and leadership, as well as customer service and facilitation skills.
Barbara Steel has trained thousands of sales professionals as well as mid and senior level managers in the areas of consultative selling, sales strategy, negotiations, and sales coaching.
Brian Borowsky is Imparta's Managing Director of Asia Pacific, based in Melbourne Australia. He has spent the last 10 years building the capabilities of client organisations, including creating and implementing workshops, creating computer-based simulations, and conceiving and designing online learning environments.
Dan Kleinman joined Imparta in November 2005 as a Development Project Leader. He has 6 years experience in designing and delivering learning solutions within corporate and commercial environments.
Daniel Stane has over 10 years of experience in learning and development, specialising in leadership, management and team performance.
Don Whyte is a practised trainer and consultant in strategic marketing, marketing management and related areas including customer focus, pricing, branding, risk and financial management.
Duncan Campbell has over 15 years experience of training and business consultancy having worked previously at Accenture and the BBC.
Ed Konrad has over thirty years experience in sales leadership, facilitation of sales training programs, coaching, team building, and change management.
Gitte Ravn has a solid background from the consultancy industry, working as a senior management consultant developing strategic sales within B2B organisations, management development programmes and building strategic skills within management groups.
Gordon Whewell is an experienced senior leader with a proven track record working for leading blue chip companies, majoring in Sales and Marketing within the ‘Business to Business’ and ‘FMCG’ markets.
Graeme Harper is a Development Project Leader at Imparta. Graeme has over 25 years experience of sales, sales management and marketing.
Graham Filmer is an expert in communication skills, where he puts his experience to work in a range of disciplines, including public relations, presentation skills and dialogue selling with a particular emphasis on telemarketing skills.
Ian Howell has a strong background in sales training and as a “performance developer” having led consultancy teams within both Abbey National and Lloyds.
Ian Thomas is a Management Consultant, Trainer and Developer, with specialisation in business strategy, business development, marketing and sales issues.
Formerly the Vice President, US Operations for Imparta Ltd, Jamie Rondeau continues to manage Imparta’s relationship with Pratt & Whitney as well as provide consulting services to other Imparta clients
Jeff Wolfin has 21 years experience in sales, customer service, marketing, consulting and training. He specialises in the delivery of sales and customer service training and coaching programmes.
Jianfeng Chai is Chief Executive of Knowledge Bridge Ltd, a partner organisation of Imparta, which was founded by INSEAD professors and Mr. Chai.
John Capel joined Imparta as Head of Workshop Development after spending the last 15 years working in a variety of Senior Learning Leader roles.
Julia Ray has spent over twenty five years in the sales arena, and specialises in all aspects of sales consultancy and training.
Kristi Johnson has extensive experience and expertise in creating and delivering training programs focused on sales performance, leadership development and change initiatives.
Leslie de Chernatony is Professor of Brand Marketing and Director of the Centre for Research in Brand Marketing at the Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham.
Linda Bardol has over 20 years experience in sales, customer service, team building, management training and driving performance improvement.
Madeleine Halliwell is an experienced certified trainer with the Institute of Personnel & Development, an Accredited Performance Coach with Strathclyde University and Neuro-Linguistic Practitioner.
Mandy is a Change Consultant and helps organisations create environments where people are passionate about their work, and both individuals and organisations flourish to achieve their full potential.
Mark McDermott joined Imparta in 2006 as a Lead Consultant & Academy Director. Mark has over 19 years experience of sales, sales management and learning and development.
Mark Simmonds has 13 years experience working in the area of marketing learning. In the early part of his career, Mark spent 5 years working in both Brand Management and National Account Management for Birds Eye Wall’s.
Michael Kelly is a career sales professional with 20 years of senior management experience. This includes 15 years of dealing at up to board level with blue-chip FMCG key accounts.
Mike has been teaching strategy programmes full time since 2003 and now designs and delivers learning programmes for a wide variety of clients including: O2, WPP, the Institute of Actuaries, KPMG, IBM, EDS, the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising, and Standard & Poors’.
Minoru has over 9 years of B2B Sales, Management and Training experience nationwide in Japan, Guam and Micronesia area.
Noel Woodgate runs his own Sales and Marketing Consultancy providing companies with all the skills and knowledge required to grow their revenues.
Paul Hudson-Oldnall has 20 years of sales and management experience ranging from his early days with Prudential to corporate sales at Time System International where he managed the highly successful UK corporate sales team
Paul Menichelli has extensive experience in sales, marketing and sales management. For more than twelve years, Paul has been helping sales teams and individuals improve their performance throughout the sales process to maximize their companies’ business objectives.
Quinton Van Graan has spent over 20 years in Business Development, with more than half his career devoted to selling and sales improvement.
Richard Barkey is the founder and Chief Executive of Imparta. Prior to founding Imparta in 1998, Richard worked at McKinsey & Co., where he was involved in planning and implementing large-scale change management projects.
Richard Finan has over 16 years of sales and senior management experience within a wide variety of companies reaching across numerous industries.
Sarah Brummitt is the former Head of Client Impact at Imparta. She has over 18 years of sales, sales management and training experience.
Shani Sparkes has more than 20 years broad business experience and is a highly professional Consultant, Facilitator and Coach. She has worked in Senior Sales and Management positions within U.S. companies including Oracle, Data General (EMC2) and startup software companies.
Stephanie Melnick is an expert in technology, learning and organizational development. She works with Imparta clients to identify solutions that meet the specific needs of their learners and has advised clients on issues of implementation, integration and learning culture.
Steve Minshull has run workshops across the globe for large blue chip corporate organisations like Barclays, Ericsson and Unilever. Steve is multi-lingual and can train and coach in English, Dutch, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.
Tony works with clients to design and facilitate collaborative change efforts and to transfer the skills needed to overcome organisational challenges.
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