Martin Thompson has spent most of his working life enabling businesses’ and organisations to improve performance by developing them and their people. Martin was educated as an Experimental Psychologist: he has BA hons. and MA degrees from Cambridge University and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. His early career job as a graduate trainee with Cadbury Schweppes provided experience in production, industrial engineering, training and sales.



In 1982 he became a self employed facilitator of people development. Once independent he began developing his own experiential approach to learning that could be used indoors. As the founder and CEO of MTa International, Martin is best known for designing and developing practical training packages that are used in over 100 countries. Martin now spends much of his time supporting facilitators who are using MTa’s materials, working as an OD consultant and speaking at conferences.”

Ralph is a graduate mechanical engineer who became enthused by computer systems for stock control, material planning and production scheduling, becoming an independent consultant project manager for MRP and ERP implementations. Ralph’s ‘Lean Expertise’ enabled us to develop KanDo Lean.

Ralph works with client teams in many organisations, drawing on his personal expertise and knowledge of software, lean thinking and experiential training to introduce change and sustainable business improvement.