Meet the Team

Renée Wallen BSc (Hons) MA Ed PGCpsE DipELS CertSS CertHm
Social media consultant and trainer | Plain English business trainer

Renée started the business in 1998, diversifying from previous career paths in recruitment and fashion buying. Her consultancy expertise covers a broad field with a specialism in staff training and development; in particular, she loves training in effective communication skills and social media marketing strategies.

Renée is a published author and poet and has won an Inspirational Woman award. She was named as London CEO of the Year (2017) by Corporate Vision and awarded UK Independent Business Honours for Excellence in Training, Coaching and Instruction.

She’s a qualified life coach and works hard to raise awareness of childhood stroke. In her free time she bakes blueberry muffins, plays with her crazy cat and draws naked people.

A published author and poet, Renée’s first year’s collection of blog posts is available from Amazon and Smashwords.

Michael Shaw

Bio coming soon…

Gordon A Hobbs
Business trainer, poet and artist

Gordon spent many successful years in retail management, specialising in both sales and customer service, with a strong leaning towards staff training. Leaving the corporate world to reinvent his career to suit his artistic flair, he now provides a variety of bespoke services to the local community. This includes creative writing in its various forms – anything from speeches to stand-up comedy, with numerous pieces published in the national press. Always creative, always artistic – Gordon designed our Weekend Witch logo – witches hat, cupcakes and all!

Renée is an amazing writer who is the author of some fantastic blogs… very informal and conversational, she talks TO the reader rather than at them. She uses a lot of humour, she doesn't take herself too seriously and isn't scared to laugh at herself; a bit of naughtiness included too for added spice(!)… I asked Renee to help me understand SEO and how to improve my site. We had a one to one session in which she explained in detail everything I needed to know. Her explanation was clear and fully understandable, which was great for me as I had no previous knowledge of SEO or social marketing. I left our meeting confident of what I needed to do in order to boost my site, which is exactly what I wanted to gain from the session... Renée is the most friendly and professional person I have ever worked with. She is an asset to any company and brings a new insight into training. I would strongly recommend Renée to any company wishing to grow and to improve staff performance… Renee is the ultimate networker and is happy to share her contacts for the benefit of others. She is very knowledgeable and has a great network of contacts... Renée creates fantastic web content and writes our twice-weekly blog. Being results-driven, she has succeeded in increasing traffic referrals to our website and raising us swiftly through Google rankings. She also runs our social media marketing campaigns effectively and handles all related staff training in a relaxed and lively manner. She’s great to work with and bakes nice cakes!... I have received great compliments about Renée from those attending the Mildmay Job Clubs... Renée has made valued contributions to our key School Policies (such as The Equality and Diversity policy and The Learning and Teaching policy). She is extremely professional, she has a great eye for detail and can empathise with the target audience. She ensures what is written is a true reflection of what is going to happen or what needs to be said whilst encompassing all stakeholders in the process... Renée’s writing is clear and concise and we have used this in our accountancy practice to produce professional letters to our clients that they can understand. All our team are unanimous when we say Renee is a pleasure to work with and we are looking forward to continuing our strong relationship... A professional and well organised outfit that exceeded expectations. Excellent feedback from the client group who asked for more of the same... Renée has a very good reputation among learners and staff. Her learners benefitted from her expertise. She has a very good outcome from her learners. We are very happy to have Renée as part of our team at Redbridge Institute of Adult Education... Renée has a very relaxed style and is able to get on with colleagues at all levels. She is able to engage very diverse audiences when training, which she delivers in a very user-friendly way. I am more than happy to talk to any potential clients…Personable, expert, high integrity... Delegates came away from the training sessions with vital new skills and a better understanding of how they could communicate more clearly… Renée was able to run these sessions in such a way as to make them both informative and enjoyable. I was remarkably impressed with Renee’s professionalism and expertise and can honestly say that she helped us achieve 100% of the targets we had set ourselves. I would have no hesitation in recommending her… Renée demonstrates outstanding oral presentation skills and has an enthusiastic approach to the subject which promotes motivation and participation between learners... Highly effective identification of individuals' learning needs, excellent support provided as appropriate: one-to-one or as a group...
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