Aylesbury: ATG Training welcomes new CEO

Jonathan Adams has started in his role as the new CEO of Aylesbury-based training provider ATG Training, bringing a wealth of experience in the employment sector and in management roles.

After graduating from the University of Cambridge, Adams started his career as an employment adviser and he has always been passionate about bringing positive change to the lives of the clients he has worked with.

He said: “Delivering services to help long-term unemployed people into work, building relationships with clients and making a difference to their lives were a huge privilege for me. As my career progressed I worked in business development, leading a team that secured contracts worth more than £750 million for a company that became the largest provider of welfare to work services in the UK.”

More recently, Adams gained further leadership and strategy skills mobilising and managing a contact centre that provided information and guidance to separated parents on making the best maintenance arrangements for them and their children.

Commenting on his new role and the future of the company, he said: “ATG Training aspires to be outstanding in everything it does. We are recognised as the leading provider of cycle maintenance and training in the country and a long-established and respected partner of engineering and manufacturing businesses in the Thames Valley.

"Our challenge is to increase our customer base and broaden the range of services we offer so that more employers and learners can benefit from our expertise.

“It is an exciting and challenging time to be in the work-based learning sector. The widespread recognition that apprenticeships must be a key part of government and employer strategies, to increase productivity and grow the economy, gives us the opportunity to demonstrate that ATG Training is very well positioned to play a significant role in those strategies.”

ATG Training’s apprenticeships cover traditional engineering, electronics and maintenance as well as service-based occupations such as customer service, logistics, business and management administration.

It also provides a wide range of management development programmes, including social media and six-sigma.