Meet the team

He brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to this role gained with 20 years of experience in education and skills. Prior to joining Busy Bees, Anthony started his career as an apprentice and progressed through training and assessment roles into quality, operational and wider senior roles with three large national training providers across multiple sectors and employer types.

Recently, Anthony had worked for his own consultancy business delivering effective business solutions. Anthony has a proven track record at a strategic and operational level in business transformation, funding, data, audit and programme leadership. His experience also includes being the nominee on several occasions, including a provider assessed as ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted.

She has worked across further, higher and primary education for over 20 years in 
a range of roles including administration, delivery, quality and audit, gaining an Ofsted Grade 1 as part of the apprenticeship and employer management team at Walsall College.

Liz heads up the Date and Information Systems Team who are responsible for ESFA contractual compliance, Ofsted data and compliance, apprenticeship data monitoring and management, internal and external audits, monthly funding 
claim submissions, alongside day to day processing of learner paperwork.

Liz is passionate about further education having been a learner, assessor 
and parent seeing the positive impact apprenticeships in particular can 
bring to individuals and employers.

Through 15 years of experience in the Education and Skills sector, Samantha has had a successful impact in leadership roles and departments across Operations and Quality.

In October 2020, Samantha became our Head of Operations, leading the Operations team and responsible for the delivery of education across England and Scotland.   Samantha is passionate about instilling behaviours across stakeholders to achieve success. She relentlessly utilises her leadership and teamwork skills to drive performance, innovate and deliver successful results.

Prior to joining Busy Bees Education and Training, Emma held various roles within education and training. Emma started as a Development Coach, Internal Quality Assurer, and Quality and Curriculum Manager. She utilises her passion for quality, prior experience and knowledge to support her current role as Head of Quality. As head of Quality, Emma is responsible for ensuring quality is continuously driven and integral in all we do to ensure the best outcomes for our learners.

Emma is also responsible for ensuring the welfare of staff and learners is imperative, in her role as Head of Safeguarding.

Prior to joining Busy Bees Education and Training, Richard was a consultant advising companies on strategy, funding and operations. He has proven experience of leadership and management of companies and people, bringing organisations together to achieve common goals.

At Busy Bees Education and Training, Richard oversees external partnerships, sales and marketing.