Janet leads the training team at New Links Training Solutions and is passionate about quality assurance and the development of quality training solutions for our clients. She is responsible for setting up all internal Quality Assurance and learning management systems, with her work and the standards within the business commended by Quality & Qualifications Ireland (QQI). Janet has been instrumental in assisting companies to create their Training Department functions from the ground up, including the development of policies, procedures, quality assurance, online training, content development, administration, assessment, and evaluation. She holds professional qualifications in EQI Assessment, Social Studies, Coaching, Facilitation, RPL Mentoring, and Training & Development. ​ She also serves as an expert panel member and chair on QQI’s re-engagement and validation panels.  Janet is an avid crafter with a love for all things creative, but she loves papercraft and projects that require precision. At the weekends you are likely to meet her cycling on one of the South East’s beautiful greenways.  greenway.  Janet has served as a voluntary Board Member of the Solas Cancer Support Centre, Waterford and regularly supports fundraising events and local activities.

Jim’s professional experience, project management and strategy development have supported the growth of New Links Training from a sole proprietorship to its current status as a successful company employing 3 full-time staff and up to 10 associate trainers. Jim’s expertise in the field of IT has driven the development of our blended learning, CRM and LMS systems ensuring efficient and effective management and evaluation of the clients training experience. Jim ensures that our clients receive a professional, personalised service from the introductory phone call or email through to service delivery. Jim project manages our contracted projects including the Momentum programme (2012 – 2017) which catered for several hundred learners in multiple centres across the South East. Jim engages with clients, trainees and employers to ensure that optimum benefit and progression opportunities are achieved through work-based training projects. In the retail industry, Jim was a frontrunner in the implementation of retail IT systems in the late ’90s and the introduction of new systems and processes to more than 600 retailers nationally in Musgrave group. Jim introduced enhanced reporting and process improvements in the Caulfield Group. Jim has held the roles of commercial manager, business analyst, project manager and group IT manager for Musgrave Group and Caulfield’s Supervalu. Jim’s professional qualifications include Commercial Computing, Diploma in telecommunications management, Kepner Tregoe project management & decision making, recruitment, mediation, conflict management, time management. In his spare time, Jim enjoys a good round of golf and is a member of Rosslare Golf Club.

Kieran is a graduate of Law and English from University College Cork. He also holds a QQI level 6 certificate in Training and Development. Kieran’s talent for accuracy in developing policies and procedures has helped the business to grow and develop as the landscape of training at National level continues to change. Kieran worked on the migration of former FETAC awards to the new QQI common awards system (CAS). Kieran, an experienced recruitment business owner, currently acts as an external advisor to the business in the areas of governance, content development and contracting. In his spare time, In his spare time Kieran is a gifted chess player and is an accomplished Jujitsu martial artist.  He is highly competitive and has successfully completed several half-Iron Man competitions and local triathlons across Ireland.