Ned Potter
I am a specialist trainer who has run over 300 workshops across four continents for libraries, museums, archives, and universities. My focus is on providing supportive and inspiring training in three core areas: Strategic Marketing, Social Media, and Presentation Skills. Clients include the NHS, the Bodleian Libraries, the British Library, Jisc, and the Welsh Government. You’ll find testimonials and a full client list below.
If you’d like to book a bespoke workshop for your organisation, or if you’d like me to talk at your event, please get in touch.
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PREVIOUS AND CURRENT CLIENTS
I’ve worked with over 100 clients across Europe, North America, Africa, Australisia and Asia. Below are some the organisations for whom I’ve run training; I’m proud to have on-going relationships with several of these.
Feedback
I try really, really hard to make the training I do genuinely impactful, as well as supportive and fun. Here is a small selection of the positive feedback I’ve had for the workshops I’ve run.
“Excellent! Engaging, informative and full of useful hints and tips. Ned is a relaxed and personable presenter who really knows his stuff. A thoroughly enjoyable day from start to finish. ”
“One of the most useful training sessions I have attended - everything targeted to the audience, professional, knowledgeable facilitator”
“Very well delivered and paced. Ned was really engaging and the workshop was definitely useful and thought provoking. Really enjoyable session, I left with a lot of respect for Ned’s attitude and advice on communications and felt that it was really helpful to hear from someone who actually understands libraries and how librarians work!”
“Really interesting and useful, very helpful to have this training from an actual librarian – increases relevance. Trainer supportive of those who were slow doing task, but not condescending. Brilliant speaker, easy to hear and interesting, inspiring presentation.”
“Fantastic day again with Ned Potter. Lots of ideas, really knows his stuff. Really helps you choose what will work best for your library.”
“Ned was a fab tutor, very engaging, interesting and the time to do the tasks was good as it gave you a chance to really get into it. It was a brilliant course and would be interested to attend others of his”
“Comprehensive and useful, at a level that is readily understandable. Lots of useful tools to take away. Really, really valuable. Great presentation style. Relaxed and informative, lots of practical examples and visuals.”
“Very useful - well paced, felt the presenter had a real handle on the subjects but could also relate to individual issues that arise from being a library set within a large institution. Pitched at a good level too - not dumbed down but not over my head either. Thank you for coming out to us!”
“Excellent speaker, great to hear from someone on marketing who is a librarian! So many ‘marketing experts’ just suggest things we cannot do in libraries because they don’t understand the restrictions we work under.”
“Very informative, with a good mix of theory and practical exercises. Great facilitator.”
“I loved the content. It made sense, it was practical, and gave me lots and lots to think about. Best thing: we’ll DO something with it!”
“Ned Potter is extremely knowledgeable and a fantastic presenter - best webinar I have ever attended!”
“Make the speaker come more often for different subjects. Ned Potter was super!””
“Really good, enough talking and demonstrating then having a go yourself. Presenter had obviously done research about what we use and what is missing which we might want to investigate”
“My thanks for your wonderful workshop – it was more than useful, it made me think very hard about some of the preconceived ideas I didn’t even realise I had about Library marketing! ”
“Ned is an expert and an engaging speaker. Very supportive atmosphere for learning. I’ve looked at Ned’s material online but it was great to have him explain it. Very, very relevant and a big help in my day-to-day work. Thank you Ned!”
“It has actually made me look forward to practicing the skills I learned, and doing presentations. The instructor was excellent and his advice was spot on!”
“Lots of useful information presented in a fun and clear away. I came away with my head buzzing with ideas for things I wanted to do, learn more about, or information I wanted to pass on to colleagues.”
“I found the day extremely informative, Ned delivered the content very well and in a jargon-free way, he instantly made one feel comfortable about speaking up. First thing on Monday morning I made a Sway of our library!”
“Superb course, presenter and slides. Really helpful + practical session.”
“Totally awesome. Would recommend the training to anyone.”
“Wide range of useful applications given with practical tips on how to use them. Time flew by and was really productive.”