Liz Barclay is a highly experienced consultant who has many years’ experience training senior management teams in presenting complex issues to the media. Liz hosts several communications skills courses which include Media Training, Presentation Training, Crisis Media Training and Message Building.
Liz is one of the country’s leading experts on consumer finance and small business. She is a Financial Inclusion Commissioner, Chair of the BSI Consumer Forum and the Fair By Design anti-poverty campaign, a non-executive on the Lending Standards Board and CCA Global, and adviser to several charities and small businesses. She combines these roles with journalism, broadcasting and coaching. She remains one of the most recognised voices on British radio with her common-sense approach to money and finance having presented ‘You and Yours’ on BBC Radio 4 for ten years. She is also a regular writer for business and finance publications and a successful published author of five books.
Liz Barclay Sector Experience
Liz has expertise in training clients from the following sectors: Financial, Economic, Banking, Pensions, Consumer Affairs, Small Business, Education, Governance, Charities, Outsourcing, Employee Engagement and Customer Service.
Liz Barclay Journalism Experience
- BBC Radio 4 ‘You & Yours’ and ‘Pick of the Week’ presenter
- BBC2′ Pound for Pound’ personal finance programme presenter
- BBC2 ‘The Small Business Programme’ presenter and editor
- BBC2′ The Business Hour’ presenter
- Discovery Europe ‘Talking Heads’ personal issues series presenter
- After Midnight 5Live editor and presenter
- Independent production company radio department editor
- News of the World, Express, Mail on Sunday, Independent on Sunday and Family Circle Magazine columnist
- Small business magazine personal finance writer
- ‘Small Businesses Employment Law For Dummies’ / ‘UK Law and Your Rights For Dummies’ / ‘Green Living for Dummies’ author
Liz Barclay Testimonials
Thank you so much for the Presentation Training session. I did another run through with my colleague and she was a million times better. It made such a noticeable difference. My colleague was very grateful, found it immensely useful and afterwards came across in a much more confident and engaging way. If only I could get Liz Barclay to do that across the whole business.
I worked with Liz in launching my first book. Liz helped me think through how I could use my experience and build on it without ever letting me become complacent! She has a great knack of being able to be both immersed in the subject and yet retain a critical distance from it. Her experience is such that we were able to build a bespoke session as we went, and I never felt that I was being put through a process. I would love to work with Liz again and would recommend her highly for Media Training.
Overall very useful and positive, very well built and very constructive on-the-spot feedback. Liz provided very good theory and very good exercises to practise Media Training.
Great experience and totally worthwhile. Would not have wanted to do an interview without Liz’s training.
We have worked with The Media Coach for a number of years because we trust the team. Liz Barclay has the most remarkable way of giving quite difficult feedback to an individual without compromising their confidence. By the end of the training session, they leave the room feeling positive, prepared, free of jargon and with a real understanding of what a journalist needs from them.