Ian has spent the last fifteen years in the field of Training and Development. He has worked in a number of industries: transport, computer manufacturing and financial services. He has covered a range of experience before embarking on training: sales, management, marketing, customer support and project management.

Over the years, he has enjoyed close contact with many types and shapes of organisation. This ranges from large multi-national companies to public institutions; from small start up enterprises to dealing with the general public. All this gives him a wide perspective on business and human behaviour in particular.

In 1994 Ian was one of the founders of Creative Management Development Limited. He has been personally involved in running many of our successful courses for bus industry personnel since then, as well as carrying out effective in-company focused training for managers, supervisors and drivers.

Ian is a graduate of Cambridge University.

Brian Evans

Brian has spent his working life in the Bus and Coach Industry. He started in the operations side of the business but transferred into the training discipline in 1975. He has held a number of training posts including Company Training Officer, Training Development Manager in the erstwhile National Bus Company before privatisation, and Managing Director of a company specialising in the provision of training services to the industry.

Now working as a freelance trainer/consultant, he is an examiner with OCR for Certificate of Professional Competence examinations in PSV National and International Operations, an NVQ adviser to companies setting up in-house facilities for the Driver Qualification, and a disability awareness trainer.

On several occasions Brian has been a guest speaker at the Australian Bus and Coach Association Annual Conference and once at the New Zealand equivalent. In 1999 he became a founding DIrector of the Barbados-based Caribbean Academy of Driving Excellence, a company delivering defensive driving and related training in Barbados and on other Caribbean islands.

Brian is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, the Institute of Transport Administration and an Associate Member of the Institute of Personnel Development. He is a founder Director of CMD Limited.

John Owen

John is Managing Director of Thamesdown Transport Limited, the Swindon-based local authority owned bus company. In 1990/91 he served as President of the Bus and Coach Council (now CPT), the Trade Association representing companies operating over 90% of the buses operating in the United Kingdom, and is still a member of its Board.

John has many years of experience within the industry beginning, in the mid-1960's, as a Management Trainee with Southampton City Transport which included periods of bus driving and conducting. He has held his current position since 1986.

He is a Fellow of The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport. He is also a Member of The Chartered Management Institute.

John was also a leading member of the group that arranged the well-known "Bournemouth Courses" for managers and supervisors prior to deregulation and privatisation of the bus industry. He is also a founder Director of Creative Management Development Limited.

 
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