The Team

Meet the MWUK Team

MIKE ROLLASON - Founder of Exercise Anywhere/ Sante Solutions

Mike has created a number of highly successful Leisure based businesses over a 27 year period. He combines his passions for sport and wellbeing with a love of business and his portfolio of enterprises includes:

Ski and Watersports retail outlets
Watersports centres in the UK and Greece
Health Clubs
Ski Chalets
A major Leisure park that included a waterski cable tow and attracted over a million visitors a year.
A Lesiure industry consultancy business

Mike was a Director of the Fitness Industry association (FIA)for over 10 years and is a member of the Vanguard group that represents the industry at Government level he was also involved in the creation of the register of Exercise professionals (REPs).

Mike recognises that the key to success is belief in your product and a professional approach to every aspect of your business from sales to delivery. He is committed to helping all Nordic Walking UK Instructors to reach their potential and to provide exceptional service to the public.

GILL STEWART - Marketing and Business Development

A Sports Therapist and former long distance and ultra runner, Gill has over 30 years experience in the fitness Industry. She has a passion for wellness and was the creator of one of the first GP referral schemes in the UK - Since then her career has involved Community leisure, Health Club management and a National sales role - she has a unique insight into all aspects of fitness delivery and understands the pressures involved.
She still leads regular Nordic walking technique courses and delivers presentations and demo sessions all over the UK
Gill believes that the way to encourage lifestyle change is to ensure programmes are inspirational and provide noticeable results - Nordic walking is the most effective yet!

MARTIN CHRISTIE - Master Trainer

Martin was one of the Founders of the original Nordic Walking trainer courses in the UK - a a qualified INWA national Coach, he developed the UK courses and he personally taught over 800 Uk Instructors including other INWA Tutors.
In 2008 he developed the improved NWUK 2 level Instructor courses in order to ensure that Nordic walking was recognised as a creditable and professional solution to wellness in the UK. In 2008 he was part of a team of Fitness Industry experts that created the CYQ accredited Nordic and Fitness Instructor course aimed at providing an entry level fitness qualification for those seeking to devlop sustainable walking programmes.

NWUK EDUCATION TEAM

EDUCATION CONSULTANT

Gill Cummings-Bell BA (Hons.) M.Sc. PGCE. MBA is an exercise and nutrition scientist who specialises in sports nutrition management for training, performance, recovery and body weight management. Gill is Fitness Professionals Education Consultant and the Director of Drummond Education leading the field of research in sports and weight management nutrition and exercise.

NWUK PROGRAMME MANAGERS
The NWUK Programme Managers are experienced NWUK Instructors who deliver our programmes and represent us regionally by providing demonstrations and mentoring new instructors on programming and business. They are on the NWUK Tutor development programme which includes CYQ Tutor and Assessor qualifications.

JASON FEAVERS
Jason first tried Nordic Walking as part his Cardiac Rehabilitation instructor training. Jason found that Nordic Walking complemented his existing running and mountain biking training, as well as being a safe and effective method of training for clients with health conditions including heart conditions, hypertension, type 2 diabetes and many orthopaedic conditions including osteoarthritis.

JOHN BRUNO
John Bruno is the owner of Cardiff's most exclusive personal training and health studio. John Bruno Total Training offers Pilates, Personal Training & Nordic Walking, Yoga & 10 Health Therapists. John has a holistic approach to Wellbeing and over 20 years experience as a personal Trainer

ALLEN WARD
Allen was originally trained in a German method of Nordic Walking but realised that in order to appeal to the UK public he would need to upgrade his qualification - he chose Nordic Walking UK and has since developed a highly successful business in the North West. Allen uses the NWUK porgrammes to great effect and has secured a number of local government and Age Concern projects in his area.

HQ OFFICE/ADMIN TEAM
LAURA JONES - Office Manager
Laura is known as Miss Moneypenny becuse she runs the whole office and provides endless support for all Instructors and Tutors. Laura is an avid Nordic Walker and a Community Instructor as well as being a Master Baker! This makes her a very popular member of the team!

HELEN INCHBALD- Accounts Manager
Helen is the sensible, organised member of the team who strives to keep tabs on the rest of us and the fast expanding enterprise that is NW HQ!

IAN PARKER - SALES MANAGER
Ian has over 20 years experience in Health Club operations and is a sought after presenter at Fitness conferences all over the World. Ian runs his own Nordic Walking business and believes it is the best concept he has ever seen - he provides advice to lifestyle businesses on how to incorporate Nordic Walking into their fitness programmes.

GRYFF the office dog!
Tester of harnesses, stealer of socks and great customer complaints dept! Gryff gets very excited every time somebody picks up a pair of poles which can be an issue in important meetings!