Martin Francis is a Leadership Development expert, with 25 years of experience crafting the minds, values and attitudes of diverse audiences, ranging from secondary school students to leaders of multinational corporations. His unique skill set has been built and refined through the vast array of roles he has held in local, regional and international spheres. These extend beyond human development and include areas such as Sales and Marketing, Information Technology, Operations and Strategy… Show more Martin Francis is a Leadership Development expert, with 25 years of experience crafting the minds, values and attitudes of diverse audiences, ranging from secondary school students to leaders of multinational corporations. His unique skill set has been built and refined through the vast array of roles he has held in local, regional and international spheres. These extend beyond human development and include areas such as Sales and Marketing, Information Technology, Operations and Strategy. Martin is the Managing Director of ReBIT Limited, a company focused on culture change in organisations, which he co-founded in the year 2000. Here he has been able to impact both the Public and Private Sectors through his customized coaching and development. He is privileged to have served small and medium enterprises as well as major corporations in a diverse cross-section of sectors, including Finance, Energy, Telecommunications, Marketing and Advertising, Legal, Beverage, Utility, Marine, Human Resources and Graphic Communications.With his tenacious spirit and being an entrepreneur at heart, Martin thrives on new challenges, and is energised by environments that require renewal. He has a passion for ensuring that organisations are able to keep pace with the changing world around them, and that the people within them are developed holistically.As a motivational speaker and executive coach, Martin is the recipient of several World, Caribbean and National Awards from Leadership Management International, considered to be one of the top companies in the area of Leadership Development, with a presence in 85 countries worldwide. His awards comprise several in the “World” category, seeing him excel in competition against 85 nations, including the US, China and India.Martin holds a Bachelor of Science Degree (Hons) in Computer Science and Mathematics and was awarded a scholarship by the Canadian International Development Agency to pursue his Masters Degree completed in 1992. Show less

Main Responsibilities:1. Re-Tooling the organization towards a Services focus as opposed to a Hardware 2. Increasing Gross margin position to greater than 50%3. Hiring professional Services personnel4. Reducing Operational Costs by 20%

Consultancy Capacity:1. Attracting Fotune 100 and 500 companies to Trinidad and Tobago2. Increasing our seat Capacity to support multiple program verticals

1. Technical facilitation of Voice over IP training for CISCO Engineers and CISCO partners worldwide2. Lab design for Voice over Data and Quality of Service testing for Integrated Networks3. Course development for Voice over IP Integration to Central Office Equipment and Telephone Switches

Training Cisco Engineers and partners on the Integration of Cisco Routers and Switches with Telephone and Central Office Switches

Responsible for Consultancy and Support services for the design and Implementation of Voice and Data Networks

Pre-Sales, Network Design and Implementation of Voice/Data networks over Wireless and Lease Line Infrastructure

Responsible for Maintenance, Upgrade, troubleshooting and Helpdesk operations of the Data Communications (Voice and Data) Infrastructure for 34 Royal Bank Branches in Trinidad and Tobago;

Lecturing in the area of Computer Science and Programming to First year students in the faculties of Natural Sciences and Engineering