Alison Lewis

Alison has trained and developed managers for nearly 20 years. Her career spans experience in a wide range of sectors – after starting out in the public sector with HM Customs and Excise, she moved to management education and development consultancy with Roffey Park Management Institute, followed by trainer development for Europe, Middle East and Africa with PricewaterhouseCoopers, and latterly the overseas development aid and voluntary sector with Oxfam GB. Between 2000 and 2004 Alison split her time between leading learning and development for Oxfam and working as a freelance consultant in management and organisational development. Alison left Oxfam in the spring of 2004 and now provides individual, team, and organisational development consultancy to the voluntary as well as public and private sectors.

Alison’s work has taken her to Thailand, the Philippines, Japan, Bahrain, Poland, Romania, Greece, Hungary, Russia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and the US and Canada as well as Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and France and around the UK.

A member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), the Chartered Management Institute and the Association for Management Education and Development (AMED), Alison is Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), has an MA in Management Learning from Lancaster University and has worked on Masters level qualification programmes with Roffey Park/University of Salford and London Guildhall University.

Special interests

Alison’s main specialisms are trainer skills development from presentation skills through to advanced facilitation skills, creative and strategic thinking skills development, and communication skills development. She works with individuals, small groups such as learning sets, large groups and whole organisations.