By Sarah Dale
7 May 2024
CEO Gary Mond on how Redcliffe Training went global
When Gary Mond first started his training business, he would use an overhead projector and acetates for learners.
Communication with customers would be via letter or phone call.
Marketing would be via postal flyers.
And he would think nothing of jumping on a plane to travel abroad to deliver a training course where learners would sit and scribble notes using paper and pens.
Fast-forward more than 30 years and Redcliffe Training is a global company employing 14 members of staff and between 40 and 50 trainers.
Training is predominantly online with both trainers and learners meeting virtually.
There are still, of course, many learners who use the good old notebook and pen to jot down notes, but more and more laptops are seen in class and most learners join a course remotely.
“Every course was face-to-face originally; this was before the internet,” said Gary, from London.
“Now we are finessing the final details of a new AI course in mergers and acquisitions which we will be launching soon.”
Gary, who started his career in banking, left employment in the summer of 1992 and hasn’t had a boss since.
He set up as a freelance trainer in corporate finance and discovered he had found a niche in the market.
By the late 1990s, his clientele had grown so he launched Redcliffe Training and by 2001 he had started running regular courses.
“Leaving employment and setting up my own business was the best decision I ever made,” said the 64-year-old.
“I’m delighted that I took that decision; it was the right thing to do.”
With courses being delivered face-to-face exclusively originally, Gary would travel to wherever his customers were based whether it be Frankfurt in Germany, St Petersburg in Russia, Poland or Bahrain.
“When I started, I was in my thirties and would travel to wherever the customer was; I loved the travelling,” he said.
“In 2014, I retired from being a trainer myself but my last course was in Marbella. The training room was right on the beach. That has to be the most unusual place I’ve delivered a course!”
Redcliffe Training now has an all-female senior leadership team which works across Europe leading a global team of trainers. The team of trainers is aged predominantly between 50 and 65; they are experienced practitioners who have held senior positions in banks and financial companies.
Redcliffe Training offers a range of courses including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buy-outs, debt and corporate restructuring, accounting, compliance, corporate tax, commercial property tax, financial modelling, drafting legal documents, investment banking, real estate, SME corporate finance, sustainable finance, report writing, soft skills and many more.
“There are some courses which are always popular such as mergers & acquisitions, or tax-related courses, but in the past two or three years, we have seen a rise in ESG (environmental, social & governance) courses,” he added.
Find out more at https://redcliffetraining.com
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