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nesma has a team of highly motivated marketing professionals to help develop your marketing and communication skills. All of them dedicated to getting you through your CIM and CIPR qualifications and excited to share their knowledge and skills with you.
Whether you are an experienced marketer or looking to take your first step towards a career in marketing we offer qualifications, workshops and 1day professional skill sessions at all levels delivered by experienced practitioners.
If you don’t see what you are looking for we also prepare and deliver tailor-made marketing training bespoke to the specific needs and requirements of organisations and individuals.
Veronica Swindale
Managing Director
Veronica is the Managing Director of nesma, she specialises in all facets of strategic marketing and communications.
Paul Sutherland
Commercial Director
nesma is on a mission to ensure live expert training and quality tutor support is available to every marketing and communications professional investing in their skills. Our focus is on building strong learning partnerships at all levels. I am always happy to share our approach and discuss how we can work together.
Jen Lorimer
Client Relationship Manager
Jen is nesma's Client Relationship Manager and the go-to person at nesma for all learning and development opportunities.
Rachael Simpson
Regional Associate - Yorkshire & Humber
Marketing is a dynamic and ever-evolving discipline, and I love helping others navigate its challenges and opportunities. Therefore I'm proud to be part of a team that equips marketers with the skills and confidence they need to make a real bottom-line impact in their organisations.
Lydia Hart
Learner Relationship Manager
Lydia is nesma's Learner Relationship Manager and the go-to person at nesma for all learning and development opportunities.
Masterclass Expert
PR Smith
Masterclass Expert
Founder of SOSTAC® planning methodology voted in the World’s Top 3 Business Models by the Chartered Inst. of Marketing and now adopted by blue-chips (Linkedin and KPMG), start-ups and disruptors globally via government enterprise bodies.
Sali Midjek-Conway
Sali has 20+ years of marketing and communications experience predominantly working in education institutions across Greater Manchester and Lancashire as well as roles in finance and football.
Tutors
Kate Armstrong
Digital Marketing Specialist
Kate is Managing Director and founder of Blue Shadow Marketing, a full-service agency based in Cumbria, working strategically with clients to help their businesses to grow and flourish across various industry sectors.
Michelle Atkinson
Michelle Atkinson is a passionate professional in PR and Communications with 30 years of expertise. Michelle has many fascinating and practical examples of PR and Communications in action, achieving awards from the likes of CIPR for their endeavours. With a keen drive to help others succeed, Michelle is here to help you.
Karen Barrie
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Karen has a wealth of experience gained from a variety of marketing and communications roles over many years in a range of sectors and organisations.
David Colley
Tutor
David is currently a Senior Lecturer, specialising in branding and marketing communications, at Manchester Metropolitan University, joining the nesma team to support the Diploma qualification teaching.
Mark Davis
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Mark is passionate about marketing, education, training and developing the skills of business, he is a Chartered Marketer with a vast range of practical experiences.
Joanne Dolezal
Joanne is the lead consultant at Dolezal Consulting and works with business owners and marketers to help them make marketing work for their business. Her expertise lies in the strategic planning of integrated marketing and communications campaigns, in particular for specialist products and services for niche markets.
Scott Goodacre
Expert Tutor
Scott believes that as lot of marketing—especially online—is about trying things and seeing what works. Failure is part of learning, and the sooner you open yourself up to the idea that something might not work and that it's not the end of the world, if it does, the more quickly you'll improve. The important thing is not to repeat old mistakes and to continually strive for improvement
Anne-Marie Lacey
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I deliver CIPR Qualifications as well as bespoke training on Influencer Marketing.
Wendy Moran
Tutor
Wendy has worked in PR and Marketing for over 15 years, working both in industry and academia. Most recently she was Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for the MSc Public Relations at Manchester Metropolitan University Business School. Wendy is an accredited PR practitioner, has chaired a national committee for the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR), judged national PR awards and am co-author of ‘PR and Communication in Local Government and Public Services,’ part of the CIPR PR in practice title, published by Kogan Page in July 2013.
Steven Parker
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Steven is the owner of Casual Effect a digital consultancy agency, his experience spans many sectors including Public and Third Sectors, Educational, Insurance, Hospitality and Housing
Dr Sarah Roberts-Bowman
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Sarah is a communications and marketing professional with over 25 years of experience of providing strategic advice and implementing engagement programmes involving a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders.
Debbie Sharratt
Debbie is a Freelance Marketing & PR Professional and Blogger with over 15 years experience across the public, private and third sector.
Kris Woods
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Kris runs KWA Communications who provide help and advice on all aspects of public relations, marketing and communications.
Course Leaders
Mark Bryant
Mark Bryant is a Royal Television Society Winning Producer of TV and video content. He has been working professionally in the media for nearly 25 years, with productions broadcast on BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Sky and MTV. As Managing Director of the multi-award-winning Media Partnership and Founder of FilmHero Video Marketing Academy, Mark is a leading expert in video marketing across a multitude of broadcast, online and social channels.
Simon Clayton
Simon Clayton is a highly motivated, creative and driven educational specialist, with a proven track record in coaching, training and mentoring business leaders, entrepreneurs and in-house management teams. He is also a Senior Lecturer, Career Coach and Enterprise Mentor at Teesside University Business School, and published author ‘Marketing Masterplan – How to plan, create and implement your marketing strategies and grow a profitable business’’.
Lee Daymond
Trainer
Co-Founder of Foresight eLearning and Creative, Lee is a digital and training specialist. His experience spans from curriculum design to delivering creative projects and growing a successful agency business.
Catherine Eve
Catherine is an Executive Director for the Centre for Leadership Performance, a not for profit organisation that have been developing Cumbria’s Leaders for Today and Tomorrow for the last decade.
Andy Green
Andy Green is a leading expert on storytelling for PR, comms and marketing and has written 7 books on brand communications. He works with in-house teams and agencies around the world using real-world experience and case studies to transform their use and management of story-telling and corporate narrative.
Paul Hitchens
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Paul Hitchens is a TEDx Speaker and the author of three bestselling books on brand management published by Hodder Education: ‘Brand Management – In A Week’, ‘Successful Brand Management’ and ‘Create the Perfect Brand’. He is a Chartered Marketer with an MA in ‘Brands, Communication & Culture’ and has gained over thirty years creative industry experience working both agency and client side for household brand names.
Jacqui Jackson
Jacqueline Jackson is Partner of 5th generation Thomas Jardine & Co; Non-Executive; Ambassador for Productivity in the UK; Honorary Teaching Fellow; Entrepreneur in Residence; Leader in Residence and Expert in Family Business and Leadership Learning with a wealth of experience in Business Change; Peer Groups; Boards; Food and Coworking!