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Philip Carmedy-Pye (left),
Diane Shakespeare and Dave Hall have
joined forces to create Optimum Skills
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Newly-launched Optimum Skills has joined
forces with Sampson Hall to provide
organisational development, change solutions
and implementation of training strategies to
grow business capability.
From its new premises in St Cuthbert’s
House, the new partnership is aiming to
make a difference for business through
utilising their collective experience to
deliver quality results. This includes capacity
building, skills development, succession
planning and sustainability by preparing
businesses for future challenges.
The partnership is headed up by Philip
Carmedy-Pye and Diane Shakespeare both
directors of Optimum Skills and Dave Hall
director of Sampson Hall.
Philip said: “Our focus is to align business
resources to meet an organisations
objectives and goals with minimum
disruption and maximum impact. Our clients
can be assured they are working with a high
quality partnership.
”
The new partnership is well placed to provide
a vast array of solutions to companies in the
North East and throughout the UK.
By Rachel Wright
A strong partnership has been formed to
provide a new and innovative approach to
business transformation and sustainability
on Aycliffe Business Park.
Dave said: “It is all about people that’s what
matters to us; and we will go that extra
mile to get the right outcome for whatever
company we are working with.
“Between us, we provide bespoke solutions
to suit the needs of any company, large or
small. We specialise in developing leadership
capability at all levels, from executive levels
through to first line management and onto
the direct workforce, we can create a
package to suit the needs of the business
and what they want to achieve.
”
Diane added: “Initially we want to meet the
rising growth and increasing requirement
within the engineering and manufacturing
sector which is our speciality, but we will
work with businesses from any back ground
and deliver the right solutions for them,
and we are able to get young people aged
between 16 and 23 work ready by supporting
them into modern apprenticeships.
”
The new partnership pride themselves on
the ability to deliver quality through their
collective wealth of experience in the
industry. They’ll ensure that all their people
have the relevant industry background, and
will work with the company to understand
their products and processes so that the
right solutions can be delivered to them.
Philip added: “There are a lot of great
companies on the park that we would love
to work with; it is a great place to be at the
moment. There is a real buzz about the place,
the park is growing from strength to strength
and this is definitely something we want to
be part of and grow with it too.
”
Dave added: “Geographically as a location,
it is absolutely ideal for serving the whole of
the UK due to its exceptional infrastructure,
and literally we feel that Aycliffe Business
Park is located in the centre of the UK – a
great location to get to anywhere.
“From our premises in St Cuthbert’s House,
we have a range of professional training
rooms that are available for local