About Us

Before becoming an instructor I was a Civil Servant and then a Senior Operations Manager in Banking. Although I enjoyed my role in banking, the birth of my children made me look at my life differently. I needed more flexibility as I was missing out on too many important life events! So over 10 Years ago I re evaluated my life, left the bank and took a leap and became an Instructor. During this time I undertook additional training and became an instructor trainer, then in 2016 when the boys were older, more independent and less demanding I decided to set up Driving School Wirral. I love teaching people to drive as it gives them more options in terms of work, freedom to see friends, family, and have a more varied and active social life. Becoming an instructor trainer I have been able to the change lives of the instructors who can now have both greater standard of living and a greater work life balance!

I began my career with the civil service in 1979, it was only meant to be a temporary job whilst I worked out what I wanted to do with my life! In 1995 I met Carol whilst we were both working for the department. I undertook numerous roles within the department until I took early retirement in 2015 to spend more time at home supporting the boys with their studies and enabling Carol to expand the business. I continue to support the boys with their studies and undertake all of the operational support and administration that is involved with running the business.

My career began in the Civil Service working in Training where I learnt how the impact of change and learning new skills can make people feel. I realised the learning experience could be uncomfortable and usually came from an earlier experience. I moved into teaching working with children with specific learning needs to help promote an early positive learning experience. I learnt the value of how others learn and how to overcome barriers. In fact, there are no barriers just different ways to look at things. My instructor training came after realising I was a nervous driver and that my daughters were reluctant to get in a car with me. I took lessons, my theory and driving test again and understood why I was nervous. I was hooked then and enjoyed driving again. My drive is in helping others face barriers, look at ways to manage them and use those strengths in driving.

Before joining the team at Driving School Wirral I had been a teacher for over 20 years and had reached the point where I now needed a complete career change. I had met Carol through her music and arts ventures with 471 Routes C.I.C. and I first began to help out with the digital side of things. It was a chance to be involved in helping local musicians and artists and to make use of skills I had developed in my previous career. As I became more involved with the team it was the obvious next step to join them to take on the role of digital media coordinator for the Driving School when the opportunity arose. I am really excited to be taking up this opportunity and looking forward to becoming a member of the Driving School Wirral family.

I have had a number of different jobs, but when it comes to my career it always seemed to be involving vehicles and it always comes back to something driving related except my first jobs where I worked in the Insurance Market in the City of London and then for Alcatel who make phones now but in those days made photo copiers and fax machines – and managed a large fleet of leased cars for the sales team..

I actually learned to drive in 1988 and later that year joined the army where I spent the next 13 years driving all different types of vehicle across different environments and countries such as an armoured vehicle across the desert to a big American car across the US.

When I left the army I became an HGV driver and although most of it was working for retail chains I have also delivered fuel, parcel freight and shipping containers.

However I decided needed to find a career that I gained as much enjoyment from during the day time as I did in my leisure time with friends & family so I decided to look at my skill base.

This is when I began my journey to become a driving instructor and have never looked back. I began my career as a driving instructor with another company and although they were a great group of people, like Phil I always felt there was something missing and we could be doing more for each other and our customers.

After hearing about Driving School Liverpool through a friend, I knew this was the company for me. I approached Carol and undertook a period of training and development to learn new skills and techniques and how to implement these techniques to create safer drivers for life in a fun and engaging way that would stay with our pupils forever.

To be honest this is what I love about being part of Driving School Liverpool, we are always sharing ideas, undertaking training and developing new content for our online driver training Portal to keep things interesting for us and our customers. I want to create safe drivers for life and improve standards to make sure the roads in Liverpool and surrounding areas are safe for all within our community.

I am married with 3 beautiful children. I live in Liverpool. I love spending time with the family, going to the park or visiting museums and other family trips. I have lots of hobbies when I get the time with having 3 young children, I enjoy hiking, running, playing squash, playing golf and watching football.

I decided to become a driving instructor after I was made redundant from a well-known supermarket. I was looking for a better work life balance. I worked there for 23 years. I did various roles within the company from general assistant to department manager to store manager in the express format to becoming a Deputy manager in the larger superstore format. Over the years I worked in 12 stores from the Wirral to Warrington. But I was looking for a new career path that I could transfer my skills to and do some good! I love driving and it made my travel to work so much easier. I see the benefit that driving brings and wanted to help others have that freedom!

I look forward to seeing you on the road and making the roads a safer place for everyone.