Our trainers include the following:

Stella Styllis

LLB (Hons) (Exon), Solicitor (now non-practising), University of Cambridge CELTA
Managing director of Axia Training

Stella practised as a commercial solicitor for over 20 years, both in-house and in private practice, before devoting her time fully to training. She held legal positions with the Cyprus Development Bank, Amoco U.K. Limited and (for 10 years) the Rank Group (a multinational leisure group and then global owner of the Hard Rock Cafe). She subsequently also ran her own private practice.

For some years, Stella been delivering legal skills and language training to English solicitors and to non-native speaking lawyers from major international law firms and companies. She also delivers business skills and language training to business people from the UK and all over the world.

Alan Simmons

LLB (Hons in Law and French), LLM (International Human Rights), RSA CTEFLA

Alan trained as a solicitor at Linklaters & Paines. He subsequently practised as a commercial solicitor at the firms of Merriman White and Izod Evans, advising on (among other things) Company, Commercial, Construction, Employment and Intellectual Property Law.  After then gaining his LLM, he trained lawyers and judges in Central and Eastern Europe on the European Convention on Human Rights, and represented people in cases before the European Commission and Court of Human Rights.

Alan has been engaged for many years in delivering legal English skills and language training to lawyers worldwide.

Jeremy Keys

BA, Solicitor (now non-practising), Post Graduate Certificate of Education in Teaching English as a Foreign Language

Jeremy worked as a solicitor for 14 years, having begun his legal career with the internationally renowned business law firm, Lawrence Graham. For well over a decade, he has also been a trainer of legal and business English to practising lawyers and business people from leading companies around the world.

Jeremy's career has extended to teaching law to students of the law degrees of Manchester University and of East London University. He has also been a personal assistant to a leading expert on international contract law. In the latter role, with responsibility for writing all her lectures and tutorials, and setting and marking exams.

Cameron Stewart

BA (Hons)

Cameron has been providing development training and coaching in presentation, teamwork and other interpersonal skills for the last 16 years. He has  combined this with his acting career, appearing on TV, in West End and national theatre productions and on the radio.

Cameron is a qualified NLP practitioner and a founder member of the Professional Speakers Association. He has personally trained  executives from major companies including Shell, Marconi, Ericsson, AMEC, Gulf Air, Capita, the British Film Commission, Robson Rhodes, De La Rue and Temple.

For more information please send an e-mail to: sts@axiatraining.com or call us on: +44 (0) 20 7681 0043
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