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Purser Trainer
Natalie McLean-Reid
Natalie’s background is in leadership, business operations, training and development. After working as a media and entertainment PR in London, she travelled around the world, then joined the workforce as an Account Manager at an integrated marketing agency. She worked her way up to Managing Director for over 10yrs of a 20M turnover business. She developed a mentoring and training programme working with businesses and guest lecturing at local universities. After moving to the South of France Natalie is bringing a wealth of financial and business acumen to crew training.
Service and Interior Trainer
Sarah Diggle-Whitlock
Sarah has 10 years’ experience on yachts as a Chief Stewardess on both sail and motor yachts up to 100m. She has done 7 Atlantic crossings and has circumnavigated a 50m sail yacht. Since moving ashore she has worked as a yacht broker, manager and as a yacht recruiter, while also keeping busy with side projects such as implementing, writing and teaching Interior courses since 2010; both in France and UK. She loves the opportunity to be able to work with and train crew in the yachting industry and enjoys helping crew reach their full potential.
Service and Interior Trainer
Sarah Weston
Sarah spent 12 yrs working on and managing prestigious yacht interiors around the globe from 50m–90m. She spent her first 3 yrs as a stewardess, and 9yrs in Chief Stew/Purser roles. Sarah is driven to share her knowl- edge, and love for creating a successful guest experience and happy in- terior team. Prior to yachting, she studied French and Business at university and worked in hospitality Front of House’ positions for a large hotel chain in central London. She extensively trained new staff, and thor- oughly enjoyed working with a mix of cultures. Originally from Ireland, Sarah experienced living in different countries (Jordan and the UK) before settling with her family France post seafaring.
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