Rob Field is a much sought after trainer and coach, whose career includes a number of years in the Army and later, as a constable of the Metropolitan Police. He is 41 years old, single, self employed and lives in London. He has, during his professional life, collected numerous skills and qualifications. However, his primary role has been as as a Medic and trainer.

He was recognised early in his career, as having a gift for communication and training. Despite the very serious nature of his subjects, he is able to use his personality and experience, in combination with an appropriate use of humour, to achieve his teaching objectives.            

Since leaving the ‘Met’ he has expanded his training portfolio considerably. He is fully qualified and professionally recognised by a number of national governing bodies and is now pleased to include the instruction of such disciplines as rock climbing, mountain skills and first aid. He is also a ski instructor and is qualified as an alpine and adaptive (disabled) instructor. He uses these training environments, and the outdoors generally, successfully incorporating them into personal and team development programmes, where appropriate.

He is paramedically qualified as an Emergency Medical Technician (wilderness specialist). He has worked extensively as a first aid instructor and assessor, and is registered with several national governing bodies in this capacity. He is qualified to supply first aid training for the purposes of first aid at work legislation in a wide variety of working environments. He teaches potential trainers instructional techniques, and specialises in the psychology of training techniques. 

He has undertaken counsellors’ training workshops, in order to allow himself a better understanding of how and why people learn. This enables him to deal more effectively with common barriers to learning such as environmental distractions, background noise, poor lighting, unorthodox choice of venue, poor weather etc. 

He is a rock climbing instructor and qualified mountain leader. Despite his qualifications, he insists on continually improving his skills through personal development training on a regular basis. He sees his own ongoing education as vital to good client care and safe practice. He is a keen mountaineer, and has climbed extensively in the U.K. and Europe. He has visited the Italian Dolomites and the Russian Caucasus. Whilst in Russia, he summated Mount Elbrus (5642 m) the highest mountain on continental Europe.

He is an enthusiastic and accomplished skier and is a qualified as an Alpine and Adaptive Ski Instructor with the British Association of Snowsport Instructors. During the Winter season of 2000/2001, he worked as a ski guide for 4 months in the Trois vallees (Courchevel, Meribel and Val Thorens) area of the Haute Savoie in the French Alps. During the Winter season of 2001/2002, he initially worked in Italy (Courmayeur and Pila) teaching British school groups, then moved to Bavaria for 3 months to work as a ski and mountain instructor for the British Army, and finally finished off the season in the Austrian resort of Wildschonau, before returning to the U.K. in early May 2002. During the 2002 winter season, he completed a total of 540 hours, on snow teaching.