Training Team
Meet our training team and sustainability experts
Louise Cartwright
Training Manager
Louise is our training manager working to develop Cynnal Cymru’s training offer, managing our dynamic training team to achieve the highest standards of professionalism, and leading on our continuous improvement culture. Dedicated to working with, and empowering the dynamic Cynnal Cymru training team, to research and develop our multifaceted training offer.
Louise specialises in land-based training, local food production and regenerative agriculture systems.
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Tom Kirton
Training and Communications Officer
Tom provides customer support across our whole training programme. Responding to customer queries, booking enquiries and providing technical support to both clients and the training team.
Outside of work Tom has been a Town councillor in Monmouthshire for 15 years and during this time he has been Mayor of Chepstow for three consecutive years where he has championed sustainable and environmental projects for Chepstow Town Council.
Sylvia Davies
Senior Sustainability Trainer
Sylvia is our lead trainer on Carbon Literacy in English and Welsh. She also delivers Nabod Natur – Nature Wise.
Sylvia loves being a Sustainability Trainer because she gets the privilege of seeing organisations find their niche on the path to sustainable development and recognising where they can make impactful change. She is also a perpetual learner and always seeks to gain knowledge, insight and feedback from those she trains in order to inform and improve her pedagogy and future courses. “Every day is a learning day” is very much her motto.
Sara Wynne-Pari
Training and Development Officer
Sara is the lead trainer and project manager for Nature Wise, our eco-literacy training programme, helping organisations in Wales to improve their understanding of the nature crisis and take action to reverse it.
Dedicated to empowering and helping others on their sustainability journey she believes in building inclusive and collaborative, cross-sector partnerships, ensuring best practice, innovation and creativity are at the heart of solutions.
She specialises in pro-environmental behaviour change and supporting and mentoring environmental volunteer organisations.
Chris Woodfield
Sustainability Trainer
Chris joined the team as Sustainability Trainer in March 2024 to facilitate and deliver training across all of Cynnal Cymru’s training offerings. He’s passionate about systems change and facilitating the transformational shift to a zero carbon and regenerative society.Â
Chris believes in the power of play, nature connection and taking a compassionate, collaborative and curious approach to facilitating change. He’s excited about using the potential of futures thinking and visioning, and co-imagining the more beautiful world we know is possible. Chris holds an MSc Sustainability and Adaptation from the Centre for Alternative Technology.
Chris specialises in systems thinking, creative and compassionate facilitation, futures thinking and pro-environmental behaviour change.
