Nina was encouraged into a training and development role by Virginia Barlow at Sarova Hotels.  Virginia identified Nina’s energetic and motivational training style and started her training career off by getting her to train Duty Managers to carry out persuasive hotel showrounds.  Nina has never looked back.  Through her various senior sales and marketing roles Nina continued to develop her training style and experience.  Prior to setting up her own business, Marigold Consulting UK Ltd, in 2003, Nina held senior sales and marketing positions with: Conde Nast Johansens, The Eton Town House Group and Sarova Hotels.  Nina also worked in a part time marketing role for IBM’s healthcare and life sciences division and provided freelance marketing support to specialist agency Number 20 Ltd in London.

Graduating from Oxford Brookes University with an honours degree in Hotel and Catering Management, Nina was awarded a Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing by the Chartered Institute of Marketing in 2003.  In 2006 Nina was awarded a license to deliver Welcome Host training from Tourism South East.  In 2009 Nina became a licensed practitioner for Insights Discovery ™.

Nina’s passion is for developing the selling skills of both professional sales people and non sales professionals.  She enjoys the process of building skills and confidence and enjoys sharing her enthusiasm for the sales process.

The icing on the cake for Nina is being able to use Insights Discovery to add value to her sales training programmes.

Nina is actively involved in a number of different networking groups including Insights Discovery South West Mentoring Group, Business over Breakfast in Devizes and the Chartered Institute of Marketing.  She has recently run break out sessions at The Hotel Booking Agents Association Annual Conference and for the Best Western Hotel Annual Sales Conference.