Pictured above: John Edmonds

The Derby Conference Centre has been selected as a new training venue for learning and development company pearcemayfield. The company, which already uses training venues in Oxfordshire and London, was keen to widen its offering to existing and new clients in the Derbyshire and wider East Midlands region.

Burton on Trent based training consultant, John Edmonds, who is Head of Training and Innovation at pearcemayfield says: "In the current business climate of cutbacks and budget decreases, we want to make life as easy as possible for our customers by taking our service to them."

Pearcemayfield selected the Conference Centre, which is situated on the outskirts of Derby, not just for its excellent facilities but for its tranquil surroundings, which are ideal to help delegates both concentrate and relax in equal measures. John Edmonds explains: "From December, we will be offering our acclaimed PRINCE2 project management Practitioner training course at the Derby Conference Centre, which takes place over five days. There's a lot of information for delegates to retain in a short space on time, so it's important that the learning atmosphere is right."

John Edmonds is the only training professional in the country who helped to author the latest version of PRINCE2.