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Adele
Learning and Development Consultant, Facilitator and Learning Designer
Adele is a collaborative and dynamic learning and development consultant who specialises in designing and facilitating bespoke, energetic and participative professional development workshops. She brings more than 17 years of consulting and facilitation experience, supported by a career background in human resources, learning and development, organisational psychology and DiSC profiling.
Adele creates engaging, enjoyable and interactive learning experiences tailored to participant needs and practical application at work. Her program design and facilitation receive consistently strong participant feedback and support ongoing client relationships by connecting development with strategic and operational business requirements.
An experienced instructional designer, Adele tailors content to organisational needs and strategy. She facilitates both face-to-face and virtual workshops, adapting her approach to the people in the room and the outcomes they need to achieve.
With a Master of Applied (Organisational) Psychology specialising in transfer of learning, Adele places particular emphasis on what happens after a workshop. She works with HR teams and senior leaders before and after training to help participants apply and embed their learning in the workplace.
Qualifications and accreditations
- Master of Applied (Organisational) Psychology, specialising in Transfer of Learning
- Accredited in DiSC profiling
- Accredited in Emotional Intelligence
Areas of expertise
- Human resources: recruitment and selection, performance management and development, onboarding and employee engagement
- Leadership and management: building trust, emotional intelligence, leading change, and managing and developing performance
- Communication and interpersonal skills: difficult conversations, feedback, assertiveness, active listening and effective email
- Cross-cultural and cross-generational communication, and overcoming workplace communication barriers
- Negotiating, influencing and conflict resolution
- DiSC behavioural profiling for sales, team building, communication and leadership
- Work fundamentals: personal effectiveness, effective work goals and performance measures
- Instructional design and bespoke learning content aligned with organisational strategy
- Participative face-to-face and virtual workshop facilitation
- Pre- and post-training collaboration with HR and senior leaders to embed learning