Viv Nelson Email & Phone Number

I started Nelson Training in 2001. Nelson Training was conceived to eliminate all the major turn-off’s on a training course by using comedy and drama rather than PowerPoints and role playing..Since we started we have had bags of fun, learned shed loads, and made lots of mistakes but my vision remains to for it to be the best quality and best value drama based training company in the UK. I came to drama-based training after spending many years in teaching and training. I had always wanted to be a teacher but got rejected from 8 teacher training colleges when I was 18 so I abandoned that plan and studied instead for an HND in Business Studies in Flintshire College of Technology. On my first day I met a chemistry student called Jon Mortimer and got married 3 years later! 43 years later here we are running Nelson Training together. Following the HND, I read social science at University College Cardiff gaining a 2:1 and not content with spending taxpayers’ money to study, went straight to Warwick University and got my first masters degree in industrial relations. Following 3 years working for the (then) Central Electricity Generating Board, I began working as a lecturer. Solihull College was where I was to spend the next 18 years … lecturer, head of department and training consultant. Along the way, I picked up two more masters degrees:M.Sc in Training from Leicester University and then a M.Ed from the Open University. I’ve recently completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Performance Studies at Worcester University, since I have been harnessing it for training purposes since 1998! My quest is to make training fun; to make it stick, and to make it pay for itself!

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