Pictured above: Martin Wright (centre) has joined Cheryl
Peto (left) and Gemma Cripwell (right) on the Strategic Management
Team at Positive Outcomes
Employee learning and development specialist Martin Wright has
joined the Strategic Management Team of national recruitment and
training organisation Positive Outcomes, in the company's latest
step to fulfil ambitious growth plans for the business.
Martin joins the Strategic Management Team and company as Head
of Training, Development & Quality, and joins existing Team
members Cheryl Peto, Head of HR & Support Services, and Gemma
Cripwell, Head of Finance.
Based at the company's head office just off Junction 28 of the
M1, the role extends to managing Positive Outcome's
government-funded training team that operates across the UK,
overseeing its dedicated regional training managers and their
development teams, and fifty training and learning advisers.
Martin is also spearheading the creation of a commercial
training portfolio that will launch later this year to offer a
suite of Management and Leadership, Business Skills and Compliance
courses and training packages.
Previously Organisational Development Consultant at Telecom New
Zealand, based in Auckland, New Zealand's main provider of
telecommunication products and infrastructure, Martin's career has
focussed on employee learning and development from operational to
executive development. He has also spent two years as Learning
& Development Manager at PlaceMakers in Auckland, one of the
leading building supplies merchants in New Zealand, prior to which
he worked at ANZ National Bank in New Zealand, and Lorien plc in
London, where he was Training & Quality Systems Manager for
five years.
Positive Outcomes' Strategic Management Team reports into Chris
Longmate, Managing Director of Positive Outcomes' group of
companies, who explains:
"The Strategic Management Team is tasked with implementing
Positive Outcomes' plans for rapid growth and expansion, to take
the company from a plus-£9million turnover business and add
to our regional network of offices in Nottingham, Birmingham,
Edinburgh, Manchester, Bristol and London, through organic growth,
acquisition and service development.
"The company is focussed on a highly ambitious strategy for
business improvement and sustainable growth at all levels, both
nationally and locally in the East Midlands, and the Strategic
Management Team is pivotal to realising this objective, working
with the group's Board of Directors to devise and implement the
strategy and tactics to achieve it."
He adds: "With the addition of Martin in the new role of Head of
Training, Development & Quality, the Strategic Management Team
now comprises a strong combination of high calibre, qualified
professionals with complementary skills, experience and
specialisms, which we consider essential to achieving our business
goals."
Ranked as one of the Top 10 of independent providers of
government-funded training in the UK*. Positive Outcomes recently
signed Preferred Supplier Agreements with top retail brands Iceland
and Thorntons, the UK's leading children's charity, Barnardo's, and
the UK's largest privately-owned outsourced services provider
Prolog, to deliver tailored work-based training to thousands of
employees nationwide.
Positive Outcomes has its head office just off Junction 28 of
the MI, near Nottingham and Derby, and is a plus-£9M turnover
specialist recruitment and training organisation, which has offices
across the UK and operates nationwide for public and private sector
organisations.
* Positive Outcomes is ranked as one of the Top 10 of
independent providers of government-funded training in the UK,
calculated on the company's success rates for learners completing
their awards based on data taken from the Skills Funding Agency
(SFA) national averages for providers in England.