Birmingham City Business School Advisory Board

Birmingham City Business School is built on business. Part of Birmingham City University, we have a unique relationship with the extraordinary city we’re rooted in, renowned for its entrepreneurial and commercial past, present and future. Building your career With us, everything starts with business. So we provide you with the building blocks for a successful career, by developing your skills […]

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Coventry & Warwickshire Chamber of Commerce – Board Members

The Coventry & Warwickshire Chamber of Commerce board is made up from a diverse range of sectors, to inform, support and provide expertise on a wide range of business areas. Our board’s primary purpose is to ensure the prosperity of the Chamber by mutually directing the finance and policy agenda. Our Board meets quarterly to strategically set and assess the […]

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Fleur Sexton DL

Fleur Sexton is the Chief Executive and co-founder of multi-ward winning PET-Xi Training, one of the most hard-hitting and dynamic training providers in the UK with a reputation for success with the hardest to reach people. Deeply committed to changing lives through education and employment, since 1995 she and her team have delivered impact, inspiration and value to 200,000 learners […]

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Eight things schools can do to help to prevent students from becoming ‘NEET’

With the COVID-19 pandemic fuelling high youth unemployment[3], financial insecurity and mental ill-health[4], schools need to be able to spot the warning signs of young people at risk of becoming NEET (not in education, employment or training), unpick the underlying issues behind students’ ‘behavioural issues’ and boost preventative support to help steer them towards a positive future where they can […]

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Training provider boss highlights importance of work experience

A JOINT managing director at Coventry’s largest training provider has highlighted the importance of work experience to coincide with the topic’s awareness week. Fleur Sexton, who works for Westwood-based PET-Xi, has been instrumental in providing work experience opportunities and guiding youngsters in the right direction en route to employment. For many young people, work experience is their first contact with […]

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National training provider growing team after successful 2020

A leading national training provider based in the Midlands is set to build on virtual development with some very real growth in 2021. Coventry-based PET-Xi is to expand its team across the UK with eight new senior roles, after a successful 2020 despite the disruption caused by the pandemic. The firm works with adults and young people in schools to […]

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National training provider growing team after successful 2020

A leading national training provider based in the Midlands is set to build on virtual development with some very real growth in 2021. Coventry-based PET-Xi is to expand its team across the UK with eight new senior roles, after a successful 2020 despite the disruption caused by the pandemic. The firm works with adults and young people in schools to […]

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Coventry company to create 30 placement opportunities as it champions new government scheme

A leading training and education company in Coventry is set to create new placement opportunities for young people as it champions a new government scheme. PET-Xi has applied to create 30 new roles within the business through the Government’s Kickstart scheme, which will create high-quality six-month work placements for those aged 16 to 24 who are at risk of long-term […]

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NEET: How to help at-risk kids

Fleur Sexton is Deputy Lieutenant of the West Midlands, Businesswoman of the Year and Managing Director and co-founder of multi-award winning PET-Xi Training, one of the most hard-hitting and dynamic training providers in the UK with a reputation for success with the hardest to reach. Deeply committed to changing lives through education and employment, she and her team have since […]

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When the elements of teaching and technology come together it’s a kind of alchemy

When the elements of teaching and technology come together it’s a kind of alchemy Fleur Sexton, managing director of PET-Xi and Deputy Lieutenant of West Midlands describes how her company adapted their highly successful intensive courses to a digital world. Schools and colleges rely on us to work miracles, sometimes in just a week. When lockdown came, we had to […]

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