About us - Margaret and Associates

Why choose Margaret & Associates?

Our team of highly skilled learning and development professionals has decades of experience in defining and implementing plans, processes and technologies to transform training interventions. By optimising the business impact of learning, we have created measurable value for the some of the world’s most successful corporations as well as many smaller businesses.

Meet the founder

Margaret Gardner

Margaret is a seasoned operations and learning and development professional, with over 30 years’ experience. She is passionate about making a positive impact on people’s lives through learning and helping them succeed. She is skilled at managing remote teams and the delivery of training programmes, both in the UK and internationally.

Margaret is the founding president of The Rotary Club of Reading Thames, a club set up during the Covid-19 pandemic with the aim of providing support to charities and communities struggling as a result of lockdown. She is also an active director of Ethical Reading, a social enterprise whose mission is to embed ethics into the way people live and work in Reading.

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Testimonials

“She’s a fabulous colleague and co-worker with outstanding results orientation, superb dedication to customer satisfaction and excellent team collaboration skills. I always appreciated her high level of accountability and attitude of transformation and leading change.”

“Margaret is a first class consultant who is dedicated and focused. It is a pleasure to work with such a professional.”

“Margaret has the ability to combine two important skills: building relationships and project/program management. I have had the pleasure of working with Margaret for a new worldwide initiative of a global technology company. Margaret, with grace I will add, managed the complexities and ambiguity of the launch of a worldwide program with numerous moving parts and dozens of external facilitators with ease.”

“Since 2010 I have had the huge pleasure of working with Margaret in various capacities within the Microsoft L&D space. Margaret brings a wealth of project management experience, professionalism and problem solving to this highly complex organisation. From managing client relationships and ensuring I have the right information, to problem solving on the fly, Margaret is the full package.”

“Margaret has been able to support me in the scheduling, billing and preparation of complex training proposals and events. She is extremely organised, reliable, and self-working, able to adapt and provide solutions to any problems.”

Meet the team

Our team is made up of energetic communicators who apply their wealth of training experience to help customers empower their staff to be the best possible version of themselves.

Our extensive commercial experience and varied backgrounds in retail, sales, HR, marketing and management, as well as training, gives us a rare combination of professional qualities. This enables us to address complex learning and development challenges with effective targeted solutions.

Find out about the values that underpin what we do

Our associates pool includes:

Marc (UK)

Marc has been training and developing people for over 30 years through roles in workplace counselling, stress management, coaching, training and teaching.

His interest is in supporting individuals and organisations to:

make the most of themselves
present the best version of themselves
be who they are, or who they want to be

He is passionate about maximising potential through promoting wellbeing and resilience and preventing and managing stress.

Rachel (UK)

Rachel works with professionals to help them develop a confident personal brand, so they can communicate their own value with greater confidence and make more impact personally and professionally.

Rachel has a vision of a world where women and the feminine style of management become more significant and more highly valued alongside the more results-driven masculine style.

Gerald (Singapore)

Gerald is an leadership facilitator and coach with over 30 years of experience applying his skills in various aspects of organisational and human resource development.

He is highly regarded for his creative, practical approach and extremely versatile, being skilled in the adoption of different learning methodologies across a variety of industries and cultures. His key focus is on transfer of learning to real-life applications in the workplace, resulting in optimal learning and ongoing change.

Gerald is bilingual in English and Mandarin and speaks fluent Cantonese.

Dorothy (South Africa)

Dorothy is an experienced HR consultant who has worked for customers in sectors including hospitality, financial, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and printing.

She has worked on projects involving organisation design, performance management, diversity awareness and reward management.

Dorothy is also a seasoned facilitator and trainer and is certified in psychometric testing.

Maryam (UK)

As a behavioural neuroscientist, Maryam helps professionals and businesses put tools into practice that improve leadership and team performance, promote productivity and build resilience to stress.

She applies the latest findings in brain science and its impact on our lives and work to help people improve their behaviour through understanding.

Anton (Netherlands)

Anton is a certified MMS (Motivation Management Service) coach. He partners with his clients to help them cope with transitions, stress, health issues and work and relationships challenges. He helps them to discover the ‘why’ and move on from there, to reach their desired outcomes and objectives.

Living in the Netherlands, he speaks fluent English and Dutch. He is internationally orientated and loves working with people across the globe with different backgrounds and cultures.

Jessica (Netherlands)

Jessica is an experienced coach and leadership development facilitator. She has decades of business experience, spanning multiple sectors, focused on supporting individuals, leaders, and teams to thrive with head, heart and humour.

Jessica is licensed to administer and interpret the full Hogan Leadership Suite, the Hogan 360° feedback tool, Intercultural Readiness Check (IRC) and Behavioural Style Profile assessment. She is also a certified to administer Marshall Goldsmith’s Stakeholder Centred Feedforward process.

Kim (UK)

A certified NLP practitioner, Kim has spent the past two decades tapping into powerful techniques to help busy professionals take control of their lives.

By helping them let go of old emotional baggage and gain insights into the hidden aspects of themselves, she helps clients unlock their lives to become happier, healthier and more effective.

Martin (Ireland)

Martin has more than 30 years’ experience in providing management development and consultancy services to private and public sector organisations.

He specialises in helping individuals, teams and organisations clarify what they want and focus on achieving it.

Storywallahs (India)

Storywallahs’ facilitators and story coaches help organisations and individuals leverage storytelling techniques and frameworks to communicate their ideas, goals, values, culture and concepts better than ever before.

They believe everyone has a story to tell, and as long as it’s anchored in truth, it can be told well. They use advanced yet simple frameworks to enable professionals to become confident business storytellers so they can express their work, product, service or personal stories with authenticity.