Ann Pemberton, Managing Director
Expertise
Mental Health First Aid, Workplace Wellbeing, Leadership and Team Development, Behavioural Assessment, Performance Management, Coaching and Mentoring.
Ann’s wealth of experience in the learning consultancy, training design and delivery arena stems from a training background gained in both the financial services and construction industries. Her ethos is all about building excellent and long term relationships with her clients, really understanding their business needs and helping her learning audience to be enthusiastic and committed to developing their skills and abilities and to lead healthy and fulfilling lives.
She is a Mental Health First Aid Instructor for MHFA England, a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), she is accredited to use a range of psychometric instruments including MBTI (Steps I and 2), SDI, Thomas International PPA (formerly known as DISC), OPQ and is a Member of the British Psychological Society. This gives her unparalleled access to a wide range of assessment and development tools and instruments.
Experience
Since creating Open Road Learning in 2004, Ann has worked predominantly in the construction, and oil and gas sectors, building up a wealth of knowledge within these particular industries. This has since progressed into the engineering, manufacturing and logistics sectors, together with pockets of voluntary work within the charitable sector.
Style
Ann adopts an upbeat, enthusiastic and facilitative approach to her training. She’s not afraid to question and challenge as she believes this can help people explore options and help them make informed choices about the behaviours and styles they choose to adopt. She is very supportive and always promotes a ‘risk-free’ training environment in which participants can trial and practice new ideas, as well as enjoy the learning experience.
What our Mental Health First Aid clients are saying about Ann:
Ann was a fabulous trainer and facilitator and I would have no hesitation in joining one of her sessions in the future
Ann is a consummate professional and knows this topic extremely well. I am really pleased I was able to attend the course
Absolutely loved this course. Very insightful. I will be recommending this course to HR at the organisation I work for. I have participated in mental health training in the past and none has been as good as this. Ann was an excellent instructor especially under the current circumstances and delivering this training online.
A huge thank you to Ann for delivering the course so amazingly. She managed to create a safe virtual space which not only allowed us to discuss the sometimes difficult course content in depth, but to also share our own experiences with each other with ease
Ann was brilliant, a great mentor/instructor and I will definitely be looking into other courses which I could attend with her
Interesting facts about Ann
Ann is a great animal lover. She supports many animal charities and is very passionate about equine and canine welfare. She is the proud owner of a retired greyhound named Megan. She also enjoys the occasional glass of wine or gin and has an eclectic taste in music, her first passion being Gary Barlow! Just in case you were wondering where the company name came from, Gary’s first album is called ‘Openroad’.