Trainer Profiles

About Learning Waves Trainers....

The following gives a brief insight into the Learning Waves Trainers, for further details please click on the link beside the text for each trainer. 

Ellen Gunning, Irish Academy of Public Relations

Ellen Gunning MA, MIAPR, FPRII, NUJ, is a director of the Irish Academy of Public Relations and has been involved in the education field for over 20 years.

Ellen formed Elton Communications, the PR consultancy, in 1987, and formed a separate educational body, the Irish Academy of Public Relations in 1993.  She lectures to students of the Academy’s courses from Introductory to Post-Graduate level.  Ellen gives specialised in-company training courses for senior business executives in Ireland and Eastern Europe. More about Ellen...........

Cillian Fennell, Stillwater Communications

Cilian is an award winning television producer who has been involved in communications for the past 15 years. His best known recent project is Rip-Off Republic with Eddie Hobbs which broke all audience records for RTE. Other television projects include Test the Nation, The Late Late Show with Gay Byrne and The Dunphy Show for TV3. He also served 3 years as Head of Programmes for TG4 during which time the station doubled its audience.

Cilian is now one of the country's most sought after media coaches and also trains extensively within the television and radio industry.

Natasha Fennell, Stillwater Communications

Natasha has over 10 years experience in Communications, Coaching and Career Consulting. She started her career with Carr Communications, then worked with RTE as a researcher and reporter. She is a regular contributor on many current affairs and arts shows. She left RTE in 2000 and was appointed Director of Fundraising for Fianna Fáil, a position she held until 2003.

ERIC DIXON - Eric Dixon Media Ltd

Eric Dixon has almost twenty years experience as a journalist, presenter, voiceover artist and media trainer. More about Eric......

Steve Jones, BBC Training

Steve Jones joined the BBC in Cardiff as an Audio Assistant and has worked across all areas of sound production in radio, television and outside broadcasts...... More about Steve

Eddie Startup - Creative Training

Eddie started in Broadcasting in 1968 as Programme Controller with BFBS in Sharja Middle East.... More about Eddie..

Andrea Martin - Media Law Consultancy & Training

Andrea Martin is a practising solicitor specialising in Media Law, in particular the provision of pre-transmission clearance advice for radio and television programmes....   More about Andrea

Jonathan Earl, B2B Communications

Jonathan worked in WLR FM from 1994-2004, starting off as a Sales Executive and ended as Sales Director.....More about Jonathan

Mark Donovan - New Oceans Consulting

Mark Donovan and his Associates are full time professional training consultants, specializing in train the trainer, management /supervisory development, coaching and personal effectiveness....  More about Mark

Gerry Rooney, MSc, CIPD, IITD - Polaris HR

Gerry is Managing Director of Polaris HR.
Before setting up Polaris HR Ltd, Gerry was Human Resource Officer with the Local Government Management Services Board for 3 years....... More about Gerry...

Derek Carter, IITD, CIPD - Polaris HR

Derek began his training career in America Online (AOL), Dublin, in 1999. Having been selected and trained as a staff coach in the sales department, he quickly qualified as a trainer and designed and delivered sales and customer service courses,.....  More about Derek...

James Healy, Producer/Journalist, TV3

James has over 15 years experience in radio and television presentation, production and programme management and currently works as a TV Producer and Journalist with TV3.....More about James