Our Team

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Sue Cole

Business focused Learning & Development Consultant, specialising in designing and delivering programmes and events that underpin business performance, focusing on enhancing management and leadership performance.

Sue’s focus is the leadership and management portfolio for Mdina, with responsibility for client engagement, research, design, delivery and measurement of our programmes. These programmes target three key levels of responsibility in organisational talent; senior, middle and junior management, and are designed to meet the needs of the participants and also reflect the culture, challenges and goals of the client organisation.

Sue is also involved in executive coaching, conference speaking and corporate facilitation for discrete groups and projects. Service sector, Not for Profit, Financial Services, Built Environment, Publishing and Media.

Lisa Griffiths

Lisa’s main focus is to improve customer experience and therefore a company’s reputation by developing the skills of the customer facing employees. Her specific areas of interest are sales team development, customer care training and presentation skills.

She has worked in a range of industries and market sectors including, Property management, PR & Advertising, Manufacturing, Education, Retailing and Energy supply.

Lisa is passionate about training, all her programmes are a carefully blended mix of knowledge coupled with enjoyment and learning that can be used in the real world.

Steve O'Halloran

Steve O’Halloran is a Business Development Manager for Mdina, primarily promoting and supporting the Adaptex diagnostic and measurement tool. Working with companies such as McDonalds and Playmobil, Steve works well with all levels within our client organisations.

Steve has had extensive experience in the financial and telecommunications sector promoting software tools and services.

Mark Jacobs

Mark has been delivering the Mdina programmes since 1999, developing teams and individuals from board level to operational personnel across a range of industries and market sectors including, Industrial, Process Automation, House Building, Telecoms, Manufacturing and Legal.

Passionate about training and development, Mark believes that the programmes (where appropriate) need to be conducted in an open, lively environment that blends enjoyment and the learning to enhance the overall development.

Steve Tarr

Following an engineering apprenticeship Steve progressed into the sales arena and by the age of 24 was a Sales Director of a large blue chip company. While in this position he identified the need for a bespoke training programme for his staff but at that time was unable to find a company who provided this type of service. So Steve decided to invest heavily in his own development to fill the gap in the market place and subsequently went on to form his own training and development company in 1980.

Since then Steve has successfully delivered bespoke training programmes and has developed people at all levels, across a wide range of industries in the UK and abroad, currently enjoying an average tenure of seven years with each client.

Steve’s development sessions are lively (as applicable), interesting and participative and whilst achieving the objectives for the client, delegates are surprised how enjoyable training can be!

Sue Catchpole

Sue Catchpole started her career in banking and progressed through the finance world in lending, financial services, sales, sales management, marketing, training and development to national training management. From board level to operational personnel, Sue has been carrying out consultancy and delivering training and development for 15 years.

Sue has covered a wide range of industries and marketing sectors including, New Home Developers, Banking and Financial Services, Education, Building Societies, Manufacturing, Retail, Music, and Insurance.

Sue’s passion and enthusiasm for her work is directed towards helping people to develop and grow, assisting companies or organisations to achieve their objectives. The content of the programmes and her style of delivery ensure that people understand how to apply the learning back in the “real world”.

Thomas Menze

Thomas is the MD of our Germany operation in Dortmund, Germany.

Thomas graduated from Dortmund University as Dipl.-Ing in electrical engineering and business administration. He has progressed through process industry from international sales to be 11 years managing director of Anglo-American Company.

Thomas has been delivering the Mdina programmes since 2007, developing teams and individuals from board level to operational personnel across a range of industries and market sectors including:

Industrial

Process Automation

Manufacturing

Distribution

Engineering

Passionate about training and development, Thomas believes that the programmes (where appropriate) need to be conducted in an open, lively environment that blends enjoyment and the learning to enhance the overall success.

Joseph Farrugia

After completing his first working experience as an apprentice in mechanical engineering, Joseph started developing his career as a draughtsman and production engineering designer. Upon achieving a Silver Award in Mechanical Engineering from the City and Guilds of London Institute, in 1995 he moved to manufacturing for 9 years where he lead teams and was directly involved in various projects including Reliability-centred Maintenance (RCM), Demand Flow Technology (DFT), Training and Development, restructuring and relocation programmes.

Joseph believes in the value of people and the huge impact employees can have on their organisation so Joseph also graduated in Management at the University of Malta and completed a Masters Degree in Training and Performance Management with the University of Leicester with distinction.

In 2004 Joseph moved to Human Resource Management within a Group of Companies and was an instrumental player in supporting the merger of a number of companies and setting up streamlined new practices and procedures. He also introduced new approaches to performance management and set up a Training Department. Joseph had the opportunity to work very closely with various international Trainers on several projects both locally and abroad. This included participating in various international conferences and attaining training accreditations from renowned leading Car Manufacturers.

In 2008 Joseph moved to another organisation as a Human Resource and Dealer Standards Manager. In this position Joseph had the opportunity to set up the company’s HR department and related structures, policies and procedures and to place the HR function as an integral part of the Company’s strategic operation also at board level. Joseph and his dedicated team managed to implement various notable deliverables including a strategically devised performance management systems linked to performance related pay principles (PRP), increasing employees’ participation and involvement, defining and supporting new organizational values and strategies, re-structuring, collective bargaining and other important milestones.

During his career to date Joseph was also instrumental in the attainment of two national HR Awards in respective organisations - Excellence in Training and Development (2006) and Excellent HR Initiative Award (2009). On both occasions these were coupled with the attainment of the best overall award.

Joseph has been recently elected as a director of the Foundation for Human Resource Development and has now joined Mdina Partnership as an associate HR consultant and trainer. His aim is to help organizations to better utilise, re-align, develop and sustain their most powerful resource – the human element.

Joseph values honesty, transparency and fairness. In his free time he enjoys reading, cooking and running.

Alex Galea

After graduating with a BSc in Engineering from The University of Malta, Alex joined an electronic manufacturing company as a Research & Development engineer.

Within three years, Alex progressed through industry into sales starting as a Sales Area Manager running the marketing activities in Asia for a European engineering based company. Following 2 years of regular travelling to several Asian counties to promote the company’s products and procure new sales, Alex was approached by an international associates company in the automotive industry to be their Account Manager controlling the sales and marketing of their components in Europe.

Before joining Mdina Partnership, following 5 years working successfully in sales and sales management, Alex advanced into Project Management and was responsible for managing a team of project managers who lead cross functional teams from various departments including design, operations, purchasing, logistics, sales and quality.

Since then Alex has successfully delivered bespoke training programmes that mix theory with practical experience, meeting the needs of both the organisations and the individuals involved. He has also provided on the job project management consultancy and assisted organisations to improve their project management capability, through training and development of their own project managers.

Alex believes that the sessions can be more interesting and participative by creating a welcoming and lively environment (where appropriate), and whilst achieving the objectives of the client, training becomes a memorable experience for all the delegates.

Cor Pont

PontConsult (Mdina strategic partner)

Cor has 24 years experience as a Managing Director with a focus on both strategic development and day to day management skills. Previously, Cor has established a number of affiliates in Benelux countries with full P&L esponsibility and has extensive experience in International project pursuit in the process industry.

Result driven with an eye for detail, Cor is passionate about helping individuals and organisations with the following:-

Specialties

· High level selling and relationship building

· Implementing Key Account and Regional Account Management

· Project management of major projects

· Leadership and management development

· Risk Management

· Change Management,

· Introduction of sales models and processes

· HR knowledge

· Interim management

· Technical training

· ISO 9001 accreditation support