Taming the Training: Ray Pickett

About this episode

Ray Pickett discusses the Private Tertiary Education sector and his role as CEO of AEG.

Ray has multiple ferrets to tame. In this solo podcast Tony and Ray jump into the Private Tertiary Education sector, Activate Education Group, Ministry of education and how resources for the training sector are being develop and tested.  Ray is CEO of AEG and its multiple subsidiaries ranging form health and safety, to ICT and software development providing 75% of education resources to New Zealands PTE sector.  A huge proponent of community welfare and support as well as his love for his adopted city, Ray stands by the philosophy of Long term consistency will always beat short term intensity.    Tune in to see how he manages all the staff and students across the country…. But be warned…  you may actually learn something!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Tony

Guest: Ray Pickett

Topics covered

• education
• training sector
• community welfare
• entrepreneurship
• health and safety
• ICT
• software development

Keywords

• ferrets
• education resources
• PTE sector
• community support
• long term consistency

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Activate Education Group, Ministry of education, AEG

Places: New Zealand

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