About | VSL Consulting

We will go the extra mile

We have over 20 years experience leading regulatory compliance, data and training projects for multi-national companies such as Novartis, Pfizer, GSK, GE Healthcare and BNFL.

In 2019 we decided that we would shift our focus from multi-nationals to supporting those organisations that work tirelessly to support others in the community. We developed the online training arm of our business to allow charities to benefit from our many years of regulatory and training experience with many different customers.

We have also partnered with the Small Charities Coalition, to provide their members with our training at a significantly reduced rate. Click to find out more about our training.

We believe that digital learning, that can be accessed whenever is needed, is the future of learning and development. This is why we are developing e-learning courses that can be accessed online through our secure Learning Management System, or purchased for use on your own LMS.

Victoria Lister

Director

Victoria has worked in the nuclear industry, Procter & Gamble and GSK. She is the Director of VSL Consulting and is the organiser in the team, keeping VSL and its staff in line.

Victoria is a passionate advocate for disabled rights, having lived with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome for 25 years and is an amateur historian.

Simon Lister

Principal Consultant & Head of Sales

Simon is the Principal Consultant at VSL. He has worked in regulated industries for 30 years and has spent the last 22 years leading global IT compliance, data quality, computer validation and training projects at many regulated life science companies, both large and small.

Simon still listens to punk music and has a new garden (building site) to keep him out of trouble.

Daniel Wilson

Consultant

Daniel started at VSL 2 years ago, following his BSc in Medical Biochemistry and got straight down to business working with LMS provider TalentLMS to set up our Learning Management System. He is currently the document controller for a global data rationalisation project, at a global Japanese pharma company.

Daniel is a Sci-Fi/Fantasy enthusiast and has been seen dressed as Stannis Baratheon (why Stannis??) at Comic Con.

Passionate and Professional

At VSL we are passionate about learning and development. Understanding the difference between training and learning. Training is providing information to a person, learning is absorbing that information. Training is only the vehicle to allow learning to happen.

Many organisations focus too much on the act of providing training, instead of focusing on whether their personnel are actually learning. Training can become a tick box exercise, purely to get a training record and show compliance with the regulations. Of course proof of training is important, but you need your personnel to actually absorb the information they are given.

It's all about the Learner

Training material should always be developed with the Learner in mind. Who are they and what do they need to take away from the training? That is why we ask these questions before we begin development of any of our training courses.

Although classroom training has its place in blended learning, it is time consuming and restrictive both for the Trainer and the Learner. That is why we use e-learning to deliver our training, developed for use on mobile devices as well as Laptop/Desktop. Learning patterns have changed and Learners now want to access and complete training when it is convenient for them. We allow them to do that.