Meet Your Expert Course Leader

Anne McDougall
Director
Innovate Training, UK

Anne McDougall is an international training and change consultant with over 20 years’ executive training experience in the UK, Europe and the Middle East. Anne empowers people and organisations to become creative positive thinkers committed to achieving their companies’ business plans

Anne has a proven track record in creating organisational change and improvement through her design and delivery of training programmes. She is frequently commissioned to assist executive teams to resolve conflict and to coach senior executives to optimise their leadership and management capabilities.

Anne holds a Masters Degree in Training and Development from the University of Sheffield. She is a member of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) and is a published author. Anne is a skilled, imaginative trainer who, as well as being able to transfer skills, offers new insight into management issues. Anne has developed writing skills training programmes for large multinational organisations throughout Europe and for organisations in the Middle East.

As a member of the IABC, Anne has exposure to all the latest techniques and best practice in communication, both written and verbal. She uses a very practical approach to help people improve their writing and, as a writer herself, knows how to avoid the pitfalls and stay motivated.

Anne writes all her own training material and her courses have been accredited by the IABC for ease of understanding and clarity.

All of the guidelines Anne uses in the writing skills courses have been developed and tested for the past 20 years by the Plain English Society.