About Us

Palladium Training & Consultancy, based in Ystrad Mynach Caerphilly, have been designing and delivering leadership and management behavioural development programmes for organisations based across different sectors for over 25 years.

Our Vision Statement – ‘Exceeding Customers Expectations’

Our operating values are:

Customer Focus – designing and delivering innovative, high quality people development solutions. 

Relationships – developing mutual trust and respect with Customers, Suppliers, Associates andColleagues. 

Learning – enhancing individual’s and team performance through identifying, supporting and developing knowledge and skills. 

Success – optimising business results through continuous improvement and ethics (doing the right things right). 

John Mayne founded Palladium Training and Consultancy Ltd in 1999

After a career in engineering and sales consultancy (British Aerospace & Perkin Elmer), John progressed into designing and delivering behaviour skills development with Dale Carnegle Training. His belief that ‘Better People make Better Managers and Leaders’ motivated him to set up Palladium Training and Consultancy Ltd.

Palladium have been an ilm Accredited Provider since 2002 and hold direct claim status to deliver Leadership & Management Qualifications. 

An extensive range of leadership and management qualifications, workshops and development activities

As part of our fundamental belief in the importance of providing a comprehensive, high quality service to our customers, we offer:

  • ilm National Qualifications.
  • Bespoke Leadership & Development Programmes.
  • Public Leadership & Management Programmes.
  • Modular Workshops (such as Customer Service and the Art of Time Management)
  • Online Seminars
  • Insights Discovery Personality Tool
  • HR and Recruitment Support
  • Team Events
  • Leadership Coaching

Exceeding our Customers’ Expectations

As a passionate leadership & management training provider we have worked with both public and private sector organisations, such as Senedd Welsh Parliament, Aneurin Bevan Health Board, UPG, IG Design Group, LNG South Hook, Resource Limited, to name but a few.

Palladium delivers a wide range of learning and development events to individuals and groups including Senior Management, Operational Management, Team Leaders and Staff across different functional disciplines.

Each programme we deliver is personalised to meet the requirements of individual organisations and delegates and takes into account existing skills, experience and qualifications. This suppports delegates towards an achievement of personal, team and/or organisational outcomes. This is normally achieved through a blended learning approach of group delivery and individual one to one coaching and mentoring activities, enhancing both confidence and competence back in the workplace.

We are a Family Business with over 20 years Experience.

As a high performaning team we are proud to have achieved:

  • Awarded Direct Claim Status for Level 3 and 5 National Qualifications and our own Endorsed Programmes since June 2014.
  • Awarded the ilm Learner of the Year in 2010 (Companies House), 2011 (National Autistic Society) and 2014 (A Schulmans Ltd).
  • Short listed SME for Caerphilly Business Forum Awards – 2017
  • Innovated to online training due to Covid 19 – 2020

We continue to design and deliver Leadership and Management development programmes across a wide range of organisations in both the Public and Private Sectors.

Since we opened our doors we have had over 2000 delegates across a range of management levels and market sectors attend an ilm National Qualification or an ilm Endorsed Programme.

Our success can be measured through 98.9% of all delegates who have completed a Qualification. View what our learners have to say!

© 2025 Palladium Training & Consultancy Ltd,

Tredomen Gateway

Tredomen Business Park

Ystrad Mynach

CF82 7EH

Office: 01443 858668

Email: info@palladiumtraining.co.uk

Company Registered Number 5216462  

VAT Registration Number 840937710