Stuart McFarlane

Role Summary:
Passionate about creating engaging and effective learning experiences that truly make a difference. I thrive on working with teams and individuals to turn business challenges into impactful learning solutions that build skills for today and the future. With a keen eye on industry trends and a true skill for stakeholder management and collaboration, I ensure learning strategies align with business goals while keeping people and learning experience at the heart of everything I do.

Key Skills and Accountabilities:

• Turning business challenges into meaningful learning experiences
• Lead and collaborated on multiple industry leading management development and sales programs to leaders of leaders, leaders and frontline staff.
• Responsible for the training output and standards for 8 outsource Partnering companies training teams.
• Very Stakeholder management and relationship building.
• Identified growth opportunities to expand business reach.
• Led cross-functional teams, fostered collaboration and productivity.
• Building strong relationships and influencing stakeholders
• Designing learning that’s both engaging and results-driven
• Making data-backed decisions to measure impact
• Keeping learning fresh with the latest trends and insights
• Managing projects with efficiency and attention to detail
• Driving a culture of learning and continuous improvement
• Enhanced company-wide productivity by leading and delivering effective training solutions.
• Ensured compliance with industry standards whilst developing course content.
• Evaluated effectiveness of courses delivered, ensuring highest levels of quality are maintained.
• Created engaging course materials to enhance knowledge retention.
• Collaborated with subject matter experts for creating relevant content.
• Leadership development, through sessions or delivering programs that can increase leadership capability.
• People Leader and Thought Leader

• Maintained compliance standards during all training activities.
• Provided constructive feedback to trainers, driving continuous improvement and best in class facilitation results.
• Adapted learning strategies based on individual learning styles.
• Promoted a positive learning culture and adult learning environment within organisation.
• Management Development delivery, delivered industry leading management development programs for various levels of leaders and leaders of leaders
• Responsible for training standards of training delivery team.
• TNA and PIR for all projects.
• Train the Trainer responsibilities.
• Implemented customised training solutions, addressing unique learning needs.
• Tracked employee performance post-training to ensure information absorption.
• Facilitated practical sessions for real-world application.
• Facilitated high-quality workshops, meetings and demonstrations online and offline.

Full role profile available on request