Learning Light expands its Professional Services team

Learning Light (LL) has appointed three Organisational Effectiveness Consultants. They are:
• Rich Butters: an L&D and learning technologies specialist. Rich is a Senior Consultant, Organisational Effectiveness, within LL’s Professional Services team.

With over ten years' experience in the Telecoms sector, he has worked for the world’s largest supplier of telecoms equipment and consulting services, providing operationally focused learning solutions to customers and staff across the Middle East and West Africa.

Until joining LL, Rich led national and international L&D functions and was a consultant for Mobile Telecom Networks (MTN Nigeria) and Orange (Thailand).

Rich is working with LL clients to target solutions that meet their unique business needs, paying particular attention to the context of each organisation's learning requirement and how this fits into the overall learning strategy from both the learner’s career progression and the client’s commercial stand point.

• Glynn Jung: a highly experienced Senior Consultant with over 30 years experience in the learning industry. Since 2003 he has been engaged as an independent consultant helping training organisations to develop new markets, products and services and leading strategic learning initiatives. Before that, Glynn had worked for 18 years with what was Thomson NETg as, variously, manager of field consulting, head of SAP practice and head of special projects 2003.

Focusing on learning strategy and development; business impact; managerial coaching and leadership development; project management; change management; emotional resilience; dysfunctional team repair and CPD programmes, Glynn‘s experience embraces the full learning and development (L&D) life cycle through to assessment and evaluation. He has developed or managed over 400 courses covering induction to executive leadership, principally in e-learning or blended learning formats.

Glynn has successfully driven strategic L&D programmes for clients in the UK, Europe, USA, Middle East and South Africa.

• Gillian Broadhead: now with LL as an Organisational Effectiveness Consultant having previously worked in the L&D functions of BT and Royal Mail and, lately, as a learning consultant to small and medium sized (SME) businesses. Gillian has an in-depth knowledge of designing learning paths that support the development and performance of employees, aligning learning to the operational and strategic demands of business as well as using technology and blended learning options to meet the challenges faced by organisations undergoing major change.

Mark Pittaway, LL’s CEO, commented: “The appointment of Glynn, Rich and Gillian to Learning Light’s Professional Services team will help drive the business forward. Between them, they have a wealth of experience in the learning sector and widespread sector knowledge that will prove invaluable to organisations striving to improve business performance through learning technologies and learning and development.”

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Notes for Editors

Photographs of Rich Butters, Glynn Jung and Gillian Broadhead are available on request from Bob Little Press & PR (tel 01727 860405; email bob.little@dial.pipex.com)

About Learning Light Ltd

Learning Light is a non-profit organisation that highlights and promotes best practice in the use of learning technologies. It also builds relationships between learning technology researchers, suppliers, buyers and learners providing learner-centric information to encourage the growth of learning technologies.

Sheffield-based Learning Light is supported by Yorkshire Forward, the regional development agency for Yorkshire and the Humber, and the European Regional Development Fund.

Further information from:
Mark Pittaway/ Kay Simpson, Learning Light, +44 (0)114 201 5703
Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, +44 (0)1727 860405