Webinar Facilitators

Paul Warner, Webinar Chair

Director of Policy and Strategy, Association of Employment and Learning Providers  

Having been a specialist recruitment consultant to the defence industry for six years, Paul started in the post-16 sector in 1993 working on Training for Work contracts for TBG Learning. He subsequently took on a variety of related operational and senior management roles, culminating in a successful tenure as Director of Business Development. On leaving TBG he worked as a consultant for a time, including a spell managing WBL delivery at Barking College in East London, before joining AELP in September 2003 where he now oversees all aspects of operational and policy delivery, particularly concentrating on the alignment of the skills and employability agendas. Paul holds a First Class Honours degree in International Relations from the University of Keele, and an MA in Post-Compulsory Education and Training from the University of Sheffield. He is a Director of the Institute of Employability Professionals and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Married with one daughter, hailing from the New Forest but living in Essex, he lists his hobbies as rock music, amateur dramatics and karate.
 

Liz Sewell, Guest Speaker

Director of the Institute of Employability Professionals

Liz and has focused the organisation on developing support for frontline staff. In 2007 She established her own employability organisation, Belina, that specialises in using behavioural insights in employability and developed the GRoW programme that supports lone parents in to work. She is a former chief executive of Gingerbread.

Kath Wood, Webinar Facilitator  

Employee Benefit Trust Trustee/Employment Consultant, Remploy

Kath has over 7 years’ experience with Remploy supporting people with disabilities and health conditions into work, most recently as an Employment Consultant involved in skills development coaching and training. Kath is now focussing on developing disability awareness material for internal and external customers.