Hutchinson
Training & Development Ltd
Inspirational People Development
Who Are We?
Hutchinson Training and Development Ltd was founded in 2006 by Dr. Steve Hutchinson primarily to help research institutions to develop their early career researchers.
Building on the success of this venture, we subsequently expanded and now work very successfully in a range of sectors, and with a hugely diverse range of participants and needs.
Using a network of associates, but with the founder carrying out much of the delivery work personally we have an enormous wealth of knowledge and experience in understanding what an organisation might need and what individual participants want.
However, at core, we stay to true to the principles that we had on day one - a desire to provide truly inspirational development for people.
Dr. Steve Hutchinson
After doing his PhD in Behavioural Ecology and working in academia, Steve moved to the area of training and development. Over the last 9 years he has been an academic and research-sector skills trainer and has designed and managed acclaimed courses for a huge range of institutions.
Prior to setting up the company he led researcher development programmes at the Universities of York and Leeds and was the UKGRAD hub coordinator for Yorkshire and the Northeast.
A skilled facilitator and trainer, he is both a UK GRAD course director and tutor (both locally and nationally), and an associate and programme director for the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education. In addition, he is a qualified as both a coach and practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. He
writes articles and book chapters on a range of topics from creativity to motivation and has recently published his first
edited book.
Dr. Helen Lawrence (Key Associate)
Helen
did a PhD in Sociolinguistic Variation then completed a three year research
contract, publishing and lecturing on the way. Following her skills as a
facilitator and her passion for realizing potential, she then moved into
training and development. For five years she has worked at the University of
York, taking a lead role in developing and delivering the researcher training
programmes for postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers as well as contributing
to development opportunities for staff across the university.
She has designed and delivered training for individuals and professional teams;
she is a local and national UK GRADschool tutor; she is an accredited Myers
Briggs Type Indicator practitioner (2005) and a trained and qualified Coactive
Coach (2006).
Helen is actively involved in publishing on the PhD
experience and transferable skills and is interested in how people can tap their
own resources in order to maximize their professional effectiveness.
Dr Dave Filipović-Carter (Associate)
Dave runs Education-Training Ltd, his own HE training company which delivers
training courses for researchers and academics across the UK, Western Europe,
and with a particular focus on Eastern Europe. His experience in this area
extends back over 12 years, covering areas such as team development and group
dynamics, inter-cultural communication and collaboration, managing professional
relationships, developing a research career, and the PhD / research process; as
well as course/curriculum design and teaching methodologies, with a particular
interest in educational simulations. He is also a qualified MBTi practitioner.
Previously, Dave spent a number of years living variously in Bulgaria, Hungary,
Macedonia and Serbia, working in the education-NGO sector, and has published on
issues relating to Bologna implementation and training in south-east Europe.
Working for Vitae/CRAC, Dave has Directed and Tutored on numerous local and
national GRADschools since 2001; has coordinated the national roll-out of 'How
to be an Effective Researcher for Postgraduate Researchers' and co-authored 'How
to be an Effective Researcher' and 'Broadening Horizons', both courses for
research staff.
Dr Caron King (Associate)
Caron runs Kingswood Plus, a Performance consultancy that works with the public
private and academic sectors. She is an experienced trainer and facilitator as
well as being a qualified coach and NLP Practitioner and is a Director for the
Vitae national grad school programmes.
As a change consultant and business coach who specialises in practical,
measurable methods of improving individual, team and business performance she
has an impressive track record of delivering major change programmes in both SME
and corporate organisations in the oil and gas, pharmaceutical, retail,
transport/logistics and engineering service industries.
After starting her career with a scientific degree, a PhD and post-doctoral
posts within academia, Caron joined the Pharmaceutical industry and now brings
private sector experience and combines it with academic credibility making her a
great addition to our pool of quality associates.
If we can help you develop your research communities in any way, please contact us.
Legal and Financial Information
Hutchinson Training & Development is a limited company registered in England and Wales (Company reg 6074482) and VAT registered (VAT reg 926 4065 24)
For full details of fees, terms, conditions, cancellations and intellectual property protection, please contact us.
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