About Us

Managing Director, Mitre Group Ltd

Jennie is an experienced managing director with a demonstrated history of working in the professional education and training industry. With particular specialisms in the sports, leisure and community education sectors, Jennie has a reputation for developing trusted partnerships and identifying innovative training and development solutions in both the public and private sectors.

Clients and partners include some of the world’s largest sports clubs including Manchester City FC, Tottenham Hotspur FC, The League Managers Association; renowned charities such as The Princes Trust, Kick it Out and many football rugby and cricket Trusts and Foundations; Government Departments including the Education and Skills Funding Agency; and associated expert bodies such as the Sports Ground Safety Authority.

In 2016, Jennie lead her business, Mitre Group, through a management buyout, and subsequently in 2018 into the Enigma Holdings Group Ltd, an investment company driving growth through energised and ambitious management teams within Health, Wellbeing, Sport and Learning. As an advocate of learning and with a passion for education, management and sports, Jennie has an Executive Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Bath and an MSc in Sports Science from Loughborough University.

Chairman, Ergomed plc

Experienced CEO, Chairman and Business Owner with a demonstrated history of working in public and private businesses and management consulting. Skilled in Business Planning, Pharma, Medical Devices, Oncology, Biotechnology, and Management. Strong entrepreneurship professional with an Executive MBA focused in Business Administration and Management from Northwestern University – Kellogg School of Management. Peter has a strong track record in growing successful international pharmaceutical and healthcare businesses. He is most renowned for his achievements as CEO of Clinigen Group plc, the FTSE AIM global pharmaceutical and services company, which he founded in 2010 and grew into close to a £1bn market cap company has acquired several businesses and expanded its international footprint. Peter now serves as Chairman of Ergomed plc, the AIM-listed provider of clinical research, drug development and safety services internationally. He is also an Entrepreneur in Residence at Oxford Science Innovations. Prior to Clinigen, he held a number of senior roles in the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors including Chief Executive Officer of Penn

Victoria has had an outstanding career to date with many achievements, including being the Chief Executive Officer for Invictus Games 2016 in Orlando and the Military Project Lead for the first Invictus Games (London 2014), inspiring 14 nations and over 400 athletes to compete. She has completed 21 years’ service within the Royal Air Force culminating with the prestigious rank of Group Captain.

Victoria has served on numerous deployments around the world and prior to the inaugural Invictus Games, she was the Base Support Commander for a Support Helicopter Base of 2000 personnel, which provided support to Operation Herrick, Afghanistan. Victoria is a passionate sportswoman and dedicates most of her spare time promoting sport across various sectors.

She is Chief Executive for GB Snowsport; Custodian for the Rugby Centurions, responsible for creating Social Impact on a global platform through the rollout of the Centurions Future Leaders Course for children aged between 11 and 18; Invictus Games Strategic Advisor for the UK Delegation Board; and she is a Board Director and Head of Social Impact for a flourishing FinTech Business with a mission to provide solutions at scale, for those who are underserved, overcharged or excluded by mainstream financial services. In addition, Victoria is a Newspaper Reviewer for the BBC; a motivational speaker for Inspiring Women; a Senior Military Advisor/Ambassador for the Jockey Club and Sage Global.

Victoria also recently made a critically acclaimed West End debut as the Narrator in the musical Girlfriends, which is set on an RAF Bomber Command base during World War 2.

Victoria was appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2004 following her deployment on Operations and for her commitment to RAF Waddington, and she was also subsequently appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2014 for her commitment to RAF Benson and to adaptive sports. She is a mother of 3 young children and enjoys cross-fit, triathlon, playing tennis and spending time with her family.

Managing Director, Sage Blue

Sue is an award-winning businesswoman, senior executive mentor, leadership strategist and chairs a number of senior business leadership forums. In addition, she has a portfolio of Non-Executive board directorships and NHS public appointments and is a Deputy Lieutenant for Lincolnshire.

Following a career in the NHS, British Army, and in Director roles in the Charitable, Public and Commercial Sectors, Sue established Sage Blue a human capital innovation & transformation consultancy. Delivering services across a range of sectors for some of the world’s leading companies, Sue influences thinking at the highest levels. Her purpose is to have a profound impact on the way the world does business.

Sue operates at the intersection of where an organisation is now and where it needs to be. Supporting leaders to rethink what they know today in order to influence, shape and future proof their organisations for tomorrow. Sue was recognised for her work in the New Year’s Honours in 2016 and awarded an MBE for her services to Business, Charity and Voluntary Organisations.

Lorraine is a freelance copywriter, communication skills trainer and published playwright. She has worked on all sides of the ‘words’ business, including journalism, public relations, advertising and creative writing. She is a member of and an accredited trainer for both the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and the Public Relations and Communications Association, and is a member of ProCopywriters, the alliance of commercial copywriters. Clients she has recently delivered training to include the Metropolitan Police, Interpol, and Cheshire West and Chester Council.

Alistair is the Senior Social Media Coordinator at The University of Manchester, where he oversees the strategic direction of corporate channels and leads a hub of social media professionals across campus.

He is an experienced digital marketing and communications specialist with over ten years’ experience in public and private sector roles, including agency and in-house. Alistair has spent the last five years working in Higher Education and is a regular conference presenter and trainer. CIM-certified, he is a member of the Hootsuite Higher Education Customer Advisory Board.

Alison has been writing bids for over 25 years and has a background in training, technical writing, marketing and copywriting.  Her clients span several business sectors including IT, Commercial Cleaning, Security, Manufacturing, NHS and Social Care and are made up of a variety of clients including large multi-nationals, SMEs, family businesses and Charities. She also helps clients win funding and grant applications.

Alison has long been passionate about supporting organisations to write their own bids and has run 100s of training courses over the last 15 years.  She also helps her clients to build effective bid libraries and content.

Kate is a former journalist, who now specialises in crisis media management. She is an associate trainer at the Cabinet Office Emergency Planning College and for the Chartered Institute of Public Relations. Her journalistic experience includes working in newspapers, for the BBC and for commercial television. Kate is a BBC-trained video-journalist and has made features for BBC Radio 4. She has also taught print and broadcast journalism at the University of Sheffield and is the director of an award-winning PR agency.

After 35 years as a nurse and senior manager in the NHS and the private sector Helen is now the clinical director for Checked Ltd and the Caldicott Guardian for a children’s domiciliary care provider. Helen joined the UK Caldicott Guardian Council in 2015 and was a contributor to the UKCGC Manual for Caldicott Guardians. Helen now chairs the Northern Regional Network of the UK Council of Caldicott Guardians and is passionate about sharing information appropriately.

Helen Pettifer is a Customer Service consultant and trainer, specialising in consumer vulnerability since early 2018.

Helen has built up a strong brand reputation for her work in raising awareness and understanding within organisations on how they can best support vulnerable customers.

This work has been delivered across all sectors, however predominantly within the financial and public sector.
Helen is regularly invited to speak at conferences, forums and on webinars and podcasts. At the end of 2019 Helen launched her own podcast entitled ‘Unlocking Vulnerability’.

Lee Jackson is an award-winning professional speaker with over 25 years’ experience speaking in challenging situations including prisons, secure units, corporate/public sector conferences and schools. In 2017 Lee was the national President of the Professional Speaking Association and in 2019 was awarded the Professional Speaking Award of Excellence, the highest award in the speaking industry given to only 26 people in the UK & Ireland.

Pinky brings wisdom to the workplace. She has 16 years of expertise in human development and has trained with some of the world’s experts including Dr Gabor Maté and Dr John Demartini. In 2016 she was selected by Hay House Publishers and Psychologies Magazine as one of the UK’s top 5 New Voices in self-help and is a writer for The Positive Psychology People. Pinky also understands the challenges of the modern workplace with over 10 years of experience working in management consulting and professional services delivering multiple successful change and transformation programmes. Her public sector clients include the NHS, Department of International Trade, UK Space Agency, Ministry of Defence, Yorkshire Ambulance and St John Ambulance Western Australia. She’s also worked with various big brands in logistics and supply chain including Sainsbury’s, Sky and Waterstones.

Nicola is an experienced and passionate Learning & Development professional, specialising in Management and Leadership Development.  She has worked in the Learning and Development field for over twenty years with a variety of organisations and was an operational manager before that, enabling her to truly understand what it takes to be a great manager – and how tough it can be!  Her focus is helping managers to prepare for, transition into and excel in their management roles.  Enabling them to understand themselves, their roles and their impact on others.

Nicola is driven by making a difference to others, helping them to be the best they can be.  She is practical and realistic and works to make training concepts relevant and accessible to everyone.  She is a creative training designer, always looking for new and exciting ways to engage learners in training content in both the classroom and virtual learning environments.  She has a strong belief that the most effective learning is experiential, flexible, challenging, memorable and fun.  Nicola is a qualified coach and experienced mentor and uses these skills everyday to help learners have the best possible outcomes and experience