Dale Morgan – Chief Executive Officer

Dale is an entrepreneur with vision and the commitment, drive and determination to excel in demanding roles.

He has a history of successful sales, marketing and financial management, coupled with excellent business acumen and commercial awareness. Dale ran his own businesses for 27 years before joining the London East Training and Enterprise Council in 1997 as a Business Adviser.

As a result of his strong networking abilities, experience and wealth of business contacts Dale was promoted to Head of the Small Business Service before leaving in 2001 and moving on to create a similar team for Reed in Partnership PLC.

Dale set up The Consultancy Home Counties Ltd (TCHC) after he won a contract to deliver the Employer Training Pilot in 2003 as an Embedded Broker. Because of his "hands on" knowledge he has subsequently won and delivered three other contracts for the LSC prior to being awarded the Train to Gain contract in the East of England.

Rose Lavin – Managing Director

Rose began her career in teaching and moved into training in the late 70s where she managed adult and youth provision in east London. Since then she has gained a wealth of experience in employer engagement and workforce development.

She has run her own training company specifically developing bespoke training for businesses and delivered these successful programmes nationally including Liverpool and London Docklands development corporations.

Within the LSC Rose developed, implemented and project managed the London Employer Training Pilot, Profit from Learning, 1 of 18 ETP pilots in the country, on behalf of the LSC. Rose has successfully worked with brokers, providers and partners to deliver qualifications for 1,800 employers and 18,000 learners.

Rose has been a well-known advocate for Train to Gain sharing ETP best practice nationally at conferences and with Ministers as well as supporting the development of Train to Gain processes and practices within the LSC.

Barbara Morgan – HR Director

Barbara has extensive experience across a wide range of roles from sales and marketing to psychotherapy and counselling.

Her early commercial background includes setting up and running a promotional, marketing company that she successfully developed and later sold in the early 1990’s.

Barbara trained for 5 years at the Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy (CCPE) in London and is a qualified psychotherapist specialising in treatment for stress and anxiety.

Success in this field led to Barbara practising in Harley Street, one of the most famous streets in London with a world-wide reputation as a centre of private medical excellence. During her time there she became involved with vital projects such as the Cardiac Rehabilitation Programme, helping victims of cardiac arrest in their recovery.

For the past 7 years Barbara has worked for the NHS at Watford General Hospital whilst running a small private practice in the area.

Helping people has been a big part of Barbara’s career and she bought this passion to TCHC initially as Development Director and now as HR Director, ensuring that all TCHC staff received the support they need to grow within the company and achieve their personal development goals.

Community work is also an important part of Barbara’s life. She has been a Governor at a local school in Watford, chairing the Marketing and Community Committee.

Dave Cooper – Commercial Director

Dave started his first business at 19. He has owned and managed companies in the printing and hospitality sectors, from a one-man-band print farming venture to heading up operations for a plc launching a new franchised pub brand, having learnt the ropes as commercial manager of the Wishing Well group with 13 outlets.

For many years Dave delivered support projects to new and existing small and medium sized businesses, facilitated through a variety of leading partners such as local Enterprise and Developments Agencies.

Dave believes he has been privileged to work in areas of severe deprivation within North and East London, providing support to a wide variety of companies and delivering business start-up advice to unemployed individuals with talent, ideas, passion and little else.

In 2004 he was nominated for a Queens Award in Enterprise Promotion for his involvement with the above mentioned projects and other enterprise projects in Tower Hamlets.

Over the past couple of years his focus has switched to workforce development and delivering brokerage for a number of exciting LSC funded projects in the East of England including the Employer Training Pilots (ETP) and now Train to Gain.

Dave is a Fellow of the Institute of Sales and Marketing Management and Member of the British Institute of Innkeeping.

Nicky Margolis - Director of Finance

Nicky studied for his ACA degree in Accountancy while he was articled to a firm of Chartered Accountants in London. On the day his articles expired he handed in his notice and went to work for a Turf Accountant. He was there for 4 years and for the same period of time he also performed with the Variety Club of Great Britain. A huge change for Nicky, he then decided to become a professional actor, obtained his Equity card and went to RADA where he obtained a post graduate degree in Drama.

When Nicky embarked on a family he realised that treading the boards was not enough to keep him and his family so he returned to his other skill, accountancy, and worked in a Financial advertising agency, assisting the then FD. While acting bit parts he also worked his way up in the agency to the position of Financial Controller. Then, after 13 years with the company, he was headhunted to become part of an American start-up company working in Healthcare PR that was starting an office in the UK. He worked with them for 5 years and then left to become a peripatetic accountant for various clients in a variety of sectors such as fashion, design, retailing and PR. For the last 5 years he has been working solely with a specialist firm of architects in the fields of private health, education and sport.

Nicky joined TCHC in the winter of 2008. TCHC is Nicky‘s first foray into the Public Sector and he is enjoying the topicality and relevance of the work.

Mark Anthony Williams – Head of Gateway and Facilities

Mark is from Liverpool where he has worked in education for the past 10 years. He started out as a teacher in Further Education on a wide variety of IT based courses including DTP and Graphic Design. He moved on to be the course coordinator for a new multimedia department within a local FE College and subsequently moved in to HE.

Mark was instrumental in setting up a Learndirect Centre in 2000 and creating an Outreach division to engage with hard to reach clients. He was instrumental in winning several bids to employ specialist outreach workers and won further bids to equip them with laptops.

Mark has moved around setting up other Learndirect centres in the public/voluntary sectors as well as commercially and established the first ELLIS (English Language Learning and Instruction System) provision on Merseyside.

As Gateway Manager Mark ensured the smooth and efficient running of the Information and CRS systems, developing procedures to ensure all of TCHC's advisers are strategically and appropriately appointed to clients. Now as Head of Gateway and Facilities Mark is also responsible for Data and Quality Management as well as IT Support.

Lorraine Gimson - Head of Redundancy Support Services

Lorraine is a business professional with a background in Further Education out of which grew a passion for Employer Engagement and workforce development.

She has since worked in commercial training and has experience brokering a full and flexible range of scheduled and customised full cost training solutions. Through this experience Lorraine has developed good communication and customer service skills and strives for the highest standards.

Her expertise is in Work based Learning, Apprenticeship training, NVQ assessing and participation in a Skills for Life brokerage service pilot. She enjoys working with the Trades Union Learner Reps and has participated in endorsing the Lifelong Learning strategy.

In recognition of the high standards she has set Lorraine was promoted to Head of TCHC's specialist brokerage service for large businesses in 2009 as part of the Integrated Brokerage contract. Lorraine is now Head of TCHC's Redundancy Support Services.