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We’re more than a training provider. We work to understand your challenges and design tailored workshops to help your students achieve their goals. Our management and administration team supports you to take the first steps.
Since taking over as Managing Director, Ben has been focused on growing the Positively You business. During that time, we have increased the number of workshops available and provided much-needed support for schools in establishing wellbeing and resilience programmes.
Ben makes sure that Positively You programmes align with past and present government initiatives, such as Engage, Careers Wales, National Challenge, Reaching Wider, Gifted & Talented, Seren and Uni Connect to help schools to meet targets and get the most out of these schemes.
With over 15 years working in the education sector, Ben understands the challenges that educators face and the power of practical intervention to create lasting change for the school community and its individual students.
Ben's favourite workshop: Exam Busters
BA PET (Hons) QTS
Jess worked as a primary school teacher for over 13 years, teaching children from Early Years Foundation to Key Stage Two. Having worked as both a special needs coordinator and maths lead, she understands the more specific and detailed demands of leading within the education field and the importance of creating motivation for students. Jessica has a Bachelor of Education (BEd) in Early Childhood Education and Teaching from the University of Chichester with QTS.
As our Events Manager, Jess combines her education and events-based experience to help schools identify their challenges and target specific workshops to address gaps in student understanding and development.
Jess' favourite workshop: Super Speed Study Skills
Karl joined the Positively You as Office Manager in 2023, bringing a wealth of experience managing both small and large teams. He likes working in a dynamic office and enjoys making sure everything is running smoothly and his team are happy.
In his spare time, Karl enjoys running and loves challenging himself by running ultra marathons where he raises money for various charities. Positivity, drive and team work are key to these challenges and these elements cross over into his work ethics.
Karl's favourite workshop: Super Speed Study Skills
Through their inspiring and dynamic delivery, our presenters inform and delight their audiences, whether that’s students, teachers or parents. By using professional performers, we provide a multisensory, interactive experience that challenges students to see the process, experience and outcomes of learning in a new light and provides that crucial motivation for students. Students are left seeing learning as a positive, enriching experience and a journey that has the power to transform their future.
For more than 18 years, Jay has travelled all over the UK delivering Positively You workshops to students as young as five right up to university age. As head trainer, Jay recruits and trains our new presenters, ensuring that each team member embodies the Positively You values and maintains our exceptionally high standards of content and delivery.
Jay is infectiously motivated and this sweeps into every student he meets. He strongly believes that creative education can help students achieve anything, and he’s proved this theory time and time again.
Jay's favourite workshop: Super Speed Study Skills
BA (Hons) Media and Performance
Kim is one of our most passionate and enthusiastic presenters, and her 24 years with Positively You has simply encouraged her natural animation to grow. With her considerable experience of delivering workshops, Kim now helps to create new courses and content, focusing on enabling students to achieve their goals and to be the very best they can be.
Kim's favourite workshop: Resilience
Over her 22-year career with Positively You, Natalie has worked with over 1,000 schools, colleges and universities. Thousands of staff and students have benefited from Natalie’s animated style and deep understanding of the Positively You programme and workshops. Natalie also helps us to recruit and train new presenters and develop new material for our most popular workshops.
Natalie's favourite workshop: Exam Busters
Dave is a showman in more ways than one. By day, he connects with students. By night, he entertains audiences as a Freddie Mercury tribute act. With a long career in public speaking, Dave knows how to engage an audience and use the right phrases to make meaningful connections that ignite the sparks of change. His practical strategies help students to prioritise their work, focus on the task at hand and boost the positivity that gets great results.
Outside of work, when he’s not singing, Dave enjoys spending time with his wife and two little girls.
Dave's favourite workshop: Resilience
Alan runs a successful entertainment and production company and has spent many years ‘MCing’ for large, live corporate and sporting events and teaching circus workshops. Following some time spent travelling the world, Alan returned to entertainment while providing much-needed support to children as a foster carer. Alan is a natural-born teacher with a passion for learning. He joined the Positively You team in 2021.
Alan's favourite workshop: Super Speed Study Skills
BA (Hons) QTS
Rohan has an abundance of experience working with young people in a variety of different educational settings. His creativity and calming nature brings about a tranquil atmosphere of learning and growth. Rohan is not only a presenter but a Spoken Word poet performing at festivals and delivering workshops for adults and young people using poetry as a muse for creativity and boosting mental health. Rohan is ecstatic to be working for Positively You and continue his journey to inspire young people in the UK to be the best they can be.
Rohan's favourite workshop: Super Speed Study Skills
Shenaz joined the Positively You team from the legal field. For over 25 years, as a qualified solicitor, Shenaz worked with adults and young people in the education sector. She speaks several languages and brings her immense experience presenting in the voluntary, community, public and private sectors to the workshops that she runs today. Shenaz continues to use her connections with the government, and local and grassroots communities to strengthen our relationships and help develop our programmes.
Shenaz's favourite workshop: Bridging the Gap
Chelsea has a vast amount of experience working with young people, teachers and parents within an educational environment. She creates a welcoming atmosphere for everybody to learn and explore. Having also worked in creative engagement for theatres for more than 10 years, Chelsea is delighted to be working for Positively You and continue her journey to inspire young people all over the UK.
Chelsea's favourite workshop: Super Speed Study Skills
Since graduating with an acting degree, Kate has been working as an actor on various projects from theatre through to screen. Kate also has lots of experience delivering workshops in schools and is looking forward to facilitating more creative learning here at Positively You.
Kate's favourite workshop: Parent Twilight sessions
Aimee is not only a presenter but also works as a dancer and choreographer. Her background in entertainment gives her an upbeat and energetic approach with the students and she is passionate about helping young people have happy and fulfilling lives. She was always encouraged to pursue her passions, and she feels that the techniques taught in these workshops give the students the tools they need to pursue theirs.
Aimee's favourite workshop: Exam Busters
A fantastic way for students to consolidate the ideas and techniques they were introduced to during a live workshop.
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