About – Darren Whelan

About Darren Whelan

“Many online training programmes are filled with jargon and not relevant to the people on the ground. My role is to develop training that will help people in their day-to-day jobs. Our training will be lively, interactive and will come with ongoing live feedback and support through Facebook."

Out with the old - in with the new!

Out with the old classroom based, stiff, uninspired training plans. Darren wanted to revolutionise the industry.

The aim is to provide interactive, enjoyable experiences for each trainee. One that will be engaging and relatable. The trainee will take away real life examples that they will use in their workplace.

Our style of delivery is humorous and inviting. The trainee is sucked into the course either online or face to face. Trainers are there to guide trainees through the nitty gritty of the course content while pulling real life scenarios and experience into the content. This means trainees are far more involved and can relate more to the content.

Anyone can read a set of slides, but to bring real life experience and knowledge lifts the training to a whole new level.

Match this with trainers who are larger than life, witty and have star quality is what makes our courses work.

Trainees are entertained while they learn. Some even loose sight of the fact that they are learning. This style makes the trainee sit up and take notice which ultimately means the course content is absorbed and can be utilised back in the workplace.

Our amusing approach to very serious and life saving compliance content has proved most effective. Taking the sting out of some of the shocking or scarier aspects. Saving peoples lives is no laughing matter but teaching someone how to do this in an amusing way ensures the facts are retained and can be relied upon later.

Joanne Kelly

Regulation & Compliance Manager

“The devil is in the detail, and without your business being focused on change in legislation you could end up paying for it.”

Aoife O'Brien

Training Coordinator

With 5 years’ experience working in online and onsite training, with Pitman Training and Flow Group, Aoife has a bedrock of knowledge in the online learning environment. Aoife’s key abilities are organization, effective business communication and bringing a positive energy to learning. Aoife’s role is to organise and liaise training onsite, as well as manage any questions you may have on courses or course work. Aoife will be here to help!

“I’m happiest when I know everything is running smoothly and under control, without proper planning and execution, all hell can break loose!”

Alan Roe

Software Engineer

With over 3 years experience working with Darren Whelan, Alan has thrived. Alan is a great communicator who loves large groups and is a great person to gel a training session with larger organizations. Alan’s main asset is team building and creating a great team spirit.

“I love the energy and positivity that can be created when a large group of trainees come together with the same goal.”

James Murphy

Training Presentor & Spokesperson

With over 10 years of experience working in compliance, Joanne is one of our best resources. Joanne’s specialty is understanding regulation, changes in regulation and that our content remains relevant and up to date. Joanne helps organizations run safely and ethically. “The devil is in the detail, and without your business being focused on change in legislation you could end up paying for it.”

Laura Dunne

Master of Ceremonies & Host

Laura has vast experience in hosting and comparing live events. With over 20 years experience Laura brings great presence and professionalism to live seminars and training events.

Paul Sing

Post-Production & Training Presentor

Paul is a valuable member of the team bringing many years of experience in the areas of production, post production and live broadcasting. Paul’s flare and creative mindset brings a unique style and for more engaging and enteraining content. Paul also delivers and presents on many of our compliance training programmes.

Our Story So Far...

Darren Whelan has a unique origin and pedigree, we are a real company managing compliance for real businesses daily. We are the online brand of Emex. In the early years, Emex, (Complete Business Solutions) was founded by Richard Wall in 1995, with the vision to digitise health and safety solutions. This was back in the days when cloud interactive and online safety compliance training hadn’t been invented. Health and safety software were managed and uploaded using disc! Over the years, things have changed a lot and Emex is now a world leader in health and safety compliance for high risk categories such as oil and gas mining and aviation. Emex deliver health and safety worldwide with representation in Russia, Great Britain, USA and Ireland. In 2000, Emex Software (Complete Business Solutions) diversified into property management and the related management of property services. Darren Whelan headed up this collaboration and saw Emex Property Management Ltd manage risk and compliance for portfolios and properties including Nama, Red Quartz and Sandyford Forum Developments. Through this venture Emex took a controlling stake in OSS (One Service Solution) which was established in 2007. This enterprise has grown and flourished and is now an independent entity flourishing with international clients including Toyota, Danone, Jamie Oliver Restaurants and Perrigo. Emex & OSS have grown and continue to innovate in customer service, training and cutting-edge technology.

Over the years we have seen trainees pass their test with flying colours as they absorb and retain more information with our approach. This means more of your trainees are certified and capable of dealing with any emergency they encounter.