Team ted Learning

At ted Learning, our expert team is passionate about creating engaging, drama-based experiential learning experiences that make a real impact and improve your business and team performance.

We have a wealth of knowledge in learning and development, and each team member brings unique skills and experience to help organisations foster inclusive, high-performing workplaces.

Diverse Specialisations

Our team includes specialists in equity, diversity & inclusion, leadership, communication, conflict, presentation skills & digital learning, ensuring comprehensive training solutions.

Diverse Backgrounds

As part of our commitment to better reflect the organisations and communities we work with, our delivery team come from a diverse background. They can bring their own lived experiences to life whether that is in the training room, through drama or through scripts and case studies.

Drama-Based Learning

All of our team are experts in using immersive, drama-based learning to bring real workplace challenges to life, making learning memorable and impactful.

Delivery Flexibility

Our team is highly skilled in delivering flexible solutions that meet your team’s needs, whether face-to-face, virtually, or through digital learning.

Justin Smith-Essex

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Justin, the CEO & founder of ted Learning is responsible for managing our client account relationships, sales & marketing.
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Vinyl, dogs and anything made my apple
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Bananas and tinned tuna!

Roxy Hooton

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Roxy is the other Board Director of ted Learning and responsible for overseeing the design & delivery of all our products, and everything to do with our people.
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Yoga, walking & growing Flowers
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Cold weather, Earl Grey tea & Spiders

Jane Taylor

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Jane is responsible for booking dates with our delivery team, liaises with our clients and provides learner feedback.
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Bovril and Soup
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Family, DIY, Bananas and Eggs

Michelle Boardman

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Michelle is responsible for creating all of our digital courses and ensuring everything we do is accessible to our learners.
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Metal touching teeth and lumpy gravy.
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Lego and Roller Coasters!

Laurence Davies

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Laurence is responsible for all things creative at ted Learning, & creates all our materials for social media, proposals and course brochures.
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Oysters, negronis, travel and indie music
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Being late, latin dancing and rudeness.

Ben Sammon

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Ben is responsible for overseeing all our video and podcast production, editing our video content and supporting with digital course production
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Crowded trains
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Making music and the colour purple.

Louisa Castledine

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Louisa leads on our programmes and apprenticeship delivery and design so is an expert in this field knowing the content inside and out.
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Glitter, tea and a dippy egg
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Queuing

Johanna Malicad

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Johanna is based in our Philippines office and looks after invoicing, accounting and all things finance.
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Creepy crawlies, durian fruit, slow internet!
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Spicy good, reading, arts and history

Joy Aluning

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Joy is based in our Philippines office & keeps our client info in check and sends out our monthly newsletters with flair!
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Big beetles, traffic and drama!
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Travel, surf & turf and coffee

Erwin Taborda

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Erwin is based in our Philippines office and works behind the scenes to design and create our e-learning digital courses.
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Cultural documentaries and crocheting for his furbabies
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Rudeness and bitterness

Riza Letrago

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Riza is based in our Philippines office & creates our video and animation content for our digital courses, marketing and social media.
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K Pop, Metal and Rock Bands, & Cats
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Traffic Jams

Jonathan Stokes

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Jon is one of our expert lead trainers focusing on brave conversations, conflict, coaching and our personality tools.
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Selfishness, Wasps
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Food (cooking, eating, talking about), Sunshine, Family

Josette Simon OBE

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Josette is one of our amazing actors, known for her distinguished career in TV, film and theatre. She appears in several ted Learning films.
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Travelling, reading, theatre
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Dishonesty and Cruelty

Trev Neo

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Trev is one of our amazing ted Learning actors, originally from Singapore, but now based in Manchester and with 17 years experience.
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Cute animals
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Unkind people

Nigel Betts

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Nigel is one of our amazing ted Learning actors, with an extensive career in TV, film and theatre, appearing in several of our films aswell as live delivery.
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Arrogance, privilege and celery!
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History, gin and wolves!

Wendy Garrett

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Wendy is one of our trainers who specialises in Mental Health First Aid and is MHFA England qualified, she personally trained all the ted Learning team.
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Peppers! Coriander, mean people!
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Travel, holidays, never doing the same thing twice, dogs, great company, great food.

Tiran Aakel 

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Tiran is one of our amazing ted Learning actors, with over 30 years of acting behind him and has supported on our EDI courses.
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Guiness, spurs and travelling
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Wasps, jellied eels, the central line (tube)

Tiiu Kulli 

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Tiiu is one of our expert trainers who specialises in leadership development and wider human skills
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Mushrooms and passport controls
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Chocolate, animals and learning

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