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Leading British e-learning guru Professor Steve Molyneux to work closely with Rhema on global strategies for technologies in L&D

Revered as one of the nation’s leading experts in the use of ICT (information and communication technology) in education and training, Professor Steve Molyneux is acknowledged to be one of the fathers of e-learning in the UK and is currently Director of the Learning Lab.

Professor Molyneux will now link with the Rhema team as Senior e-learning Advisor and Strategist. He will ally his enormous knowledge and experience in this field to Rhema’s development of e-learning as an increasingly important element of blended learning and development solutions. As a renowned guru on all aspects of e-learning and development he understands the growing market for this. He has already worked successfully with Rhema on high level strategic assignments, and his remit will be global, contributing to the company’s strength and future potential.

A very brief biography

Professor Molyneux’ personal consultancy roles include Special Advisor to the Deputy Chief of Defence Staff within the MoD on training and education. He was a member the Learning and Skills Council’s UK Distributed Electronic Learning Group; the Digital Content Group of the DTI; the DFES Post-16 e-learning task force and was a founder member of the Broadband Stakeholder Group Executive with responsibility for the Education and Training sector. He has also advised the British Government on broadband strategies for the UK and Northern Ireland and the Scottish Parliament on meeting the needs of the Scottish digital economy.

He is consultant to a number of UK and international public and private sector organisations on the strategic use of ICT and broadband infrastructure.

About a million students currently benefit from the virtual learning environment,– which he developed in 1995.

Throughout the 90s his vision and his work propelled development in many aspects of e-learning and web-based knowledge management and information sharing. He founded The Learning Lab in 1999, a recognised centre of excellence dedicated to the promotion and use of IT in education, training and employment.

Since 2000, when he won the bid to provide the DFES’ ICT Research Centre (a collaboration between The Learning Lab and the University of Wolverhampton,) his intense schedule of innovation and development in his ever-broadening field has continued at an impressive pace. Just one highlight project was a tripartite video conference on human rights between children in the UK, USA and Iraq.

His public sector clients have included local and national Government in the UK, the Royal Navy, the Victoria and Albert Museum; and in the private sector - Deutsche Telekom, AEG and Siemens in Germany and Microsoft, Creative Labs and HSBC in the UK.

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Highly respected leadership coach adds further strength and experience to the Rhema Group team

A long-standing interest in coaching and mentoring led Paul Anderson Walsh to settle on a vocation of seeing people discover their full potential by overcoming their “life-shaped” obstacles, and this led to his specialisation in training and coaching leaders and managers. He has joined Rhema Group from his own practice, The Anderson-Walsh Consultancy. In the past 10 years he has worked with a wide variety of companies from the iconic Walt Disney Corporation to Sir Robert McAlpine, Franklin Andrews & Cundalls, Scott Wilson and Legal & General.

He has already been closely involved with Rhema on a major leadership training and development programme for global vendor leasing company De Lage Landen, which he delivered in both Europe and the USA.

He has also worked with numerous high profile professional football players, professional actors and musicians, lawyers, engineers, bankers, architects, and homemakers, and he has extensive experience of providing life counselling for very many people, from married couples to young offenders. Over the last 20 years the number of coaching, mentoring and counselling hours that he has facilitated runs into literally thousands.

Paul began his career in the financial services industry with Schroder Financial Management. During his time in the FS business he received many quality awards, and was appointed Financial Advisor to both the Downs Syndrome Association and to SCAR (Sickle Cell Anaemia Relief) of which he is now Vice Chairman.

More recently Paul’s emphasis has been on synthesising a combination of life coaching, mentoring and counselling into a process that he calls Life Coaxing. He has employed this method to great effect with groups and in one-to-one coaching for managers who are being asked to assume higher levels of people management responsibility in their career development.

In early 2000 Paul founded The Grace Project, a registered charity dedicated to empowering individuals to overcome life issues such as low self-esteem and poor self-image and identify their life purpose and fully embrace life’s opportunities while confronting its challenges. He has authored several articles on the subject and lectures extensively on contemporary issues such as “burnout.” He is in increasing demand as a public speaker at numerous conferences around the world and is mentoring identity coaches in both South & North America as well as in the UK.

Paul is currently engaged in writing his first book on realising your potential, entitled The Bonsai Conspiracy, which is expected to be ready for English publication by the autumn of 2006. He is also currently involved in researching new programmes in The Management of Virtual Teams and Leading To Win - developing the leader/ manager through Emotional Intelligence. He is also completing a Masters Degree dissertation on “value based leadership.”

Jeremy Francis, Rhema Group MD, welcomes Paul’s fuller involvement in the Rhema team: “We have already seen the impressive quality of Paul’s work with one of our major clients, who have come to value his personal strengths as much as we do. We also have abundant evidence of how highly he is always regarded by the managers with whom he works.”

Marlon Lorde

Marlon recently joined Rhema as Sales Consultant, with a focus on the sales and marketing of Rhema’s range of tried and tested Profiles online psychometric assessment tests.

Selected to become a member of the core Rhema team because of his extensive account management experience, looking after some of the UK’s largest companies such as Kimberley-Clark, PWC and Fujitsu. He adds to Rhema’s strengths more than seven years experience of business-to-business sales and account management in the technology and marketing sectors

Marlon will work closely with clients, identifying their needs and providing solutions to assist them in finding new talent, providing coaching for existing employees, and optimising succession planning. His primary goal is to partner his clients in achieving the very best “Total Person” assessments which only the Profiles suite of online tools delivers.

Committed to his own personal development and the development of his team, Marlon is currently studying for a Science and IT Degree, to be followed by a Psychology Degree.