George Smith
Managing Director

• Retired Police Officer, 23 years experience
• Grade 1 Advanced Driver
• Tachograph trained
• ROSPA advanced driving examiner 20 years
• Member of CIPD
• Cert.Ed. in Adult and Further Education
• City and Guilds 7307 in Training and Development
• D32 and D33 Assessors qualification
• Health and Safety/Risk assessment trained
• Manual handling instructor
• Member of FDTA
• Member of AIRSO
• NVQ Level 4 Training and Development

George is the principal, and founder, of Minding Driving Ltd, a company formed in 1999 after George left the Police Force. George served in the force for 23 years, carrying out duties that included the Traffic division, Motorway Traffic Patrol, Air Support and Training.

George has been a Grade 1 ROSPA advanced driving examiner for over 18 years and assessed the Flintshire County Council Driver Improvement and Development Scheme. A friendly and approachable training consultant, George has a passion to make the roads of Great Britain a safer place for all concerned. His ability to transfer his skills and experience for the benefit of the private and commercial sector is demonstrated by his services which have proved really do change performance!

George has developed and delivered training for a variety of blue-chip companies, and provided driver assessment programmes to national organisations with large driver fleets.

Jayne Smith
Marketing Manager

• Health and safety trained
• Tele-sales and marketing trained

Jayne has worked in tele-sales for several large blue chip companies over the last few years. She has been responsible for co-ordinating new processes within these companies and has a proven track record. She is currently studying for an Open University Degree and has been trained to a high standard to enable her to progress her previous career in Community Health Care.

John Milne
Psychologist

• BA(Hons) Psychology and Sociology(1st Class Honours)
• Graduate Member of British Psychological Society
• City and Guilds 730 Further Education Teachers Certificate
• Institute of Industrial safety Officers
• A DI since 1979
• ROSPA 1983

John has carried out much research into driver behaviour and this has included working with disabled people. He has been involved in the rehabilitation of drivers following trauma/accident, retraining traffic offenders for both Merseyside and Cheshire Constabulary using cognitive training and psychological assessments. For a long time he has also been involved in risk management and defensive driving courses for fleet drivers.

Laurie Thompson
Operations Manager

Laurie is a highly experienced consultant with an excellent track record of success both in supporting new growth business and providing consultancy services to various SME businesses.

He has over 25 years management experience gained in the manufacturing sector and formed his consultancy practice in 1989.

Giuliana Christmas
Occupational Health Advisor

RGN, BSc Nursing, Diploma Management Studies, DipHE Occupational Health, NEBOSH cert., ENB 998 Teaching and Assessing.

17 years NHS experience in both clinical and managerial roles. Specialist interests in Health Education, Clinical Audit, Research and Professional Education.

9 years experience in Occupational Health across both public and private sectors. Active in service development especially to SMEs.

Currently studying for a work based Masters degree.

We have over 30 trainers that are all specialises in their own field with many years experience both in driving and all types of development programmes.