The team

We’re people people.

A senior leadership team across New Zealand, Australia, and Asia-Pacific, plus a dedicated and passionate network of trainers around the globe. Every one of us has done the job before we taught it.

Around the region

People who’ve done the work, not just managed it.

Local team in the markets we serve, so the support you get speaks your language, sometimes literally.

Mike Reading

Founder & Director
New Zealand
Started UTB to prove technology training could feel human. Still opens many of the workshops himself.
Julia Anderson

General Manager
Australia
Keeps the whole operation honest, and insists we map the work before we ever touch a tool.
Kelly Kenyon

Head of Training Operations
New Zealand
Turns a calendar full of sessions across three countries into something that actually runs on time.
Grace Rebueno

Global Head of Finance
Philippines
Runs the numbers across NZ, Australia, and the US without ever losing the plot, or her patience.
Adrian Francis

Technology Trainer (Google)
Australia
Joseph Muir

Digital Solutions Specialist (Microsoft)
New Zealand
Karissa Paula Feliza

Creative Producer
Philippines
Tala Macasieb

Project Coordinator
Philippines
Kate Mahedy

Marketing & Projects
Australia
Akira Yoshikane

CEO · UTB Japan
Tokyo
Ts. Olya Dollah

Technology Trainer · UTB Malaysia
Malaysia
Kris Dempster-Rivett

UTB Alliance partner
Australia & New Zealand
Helps small and medium businesses sort out how work gets done in the tools they already use, then adds AI where it helps.

UTB Alliance

Plus a global network of trainers in the field.

Beyond head office, we work alongside a dedicated and passionate alliance of independent trainers around the globe. You bring the practice; we bring the platform, the pipeline, and a community to sharpen on.

Explore the UTB Alliance

Trainers from the alliance working together on laptops in a bright shared office

Platform partners

The tools we know in our bones.

Certified, accredited, and working inside each of these platforms every day. The advice you get from us is based on lived use, not a reseller brochure.

Google · Cloud Partner · Education Partner

Google.

Workspace rollouts, Classroom deployments, and AI enablement, from the first tenant through to Gemini adoption, without the scary bits.

Partner since
2014

Practice leads
Adrian Francis & Kelly Kenyon

Status
Cloud & Education Partner

Region
Global
- Workspace
- Classroom
- Gemini
- Chromebooks
Microsoft · Solutions Partner · MIE Experts

Microsoft.

Teams, SharePoint, and Copilot. Plus the change work that makes the modern workplace feel less like an IT project and more like a better way to work.

Partner since
2016

Practice lead
Joseph Muir

Status
Solutions Partner · MIE Experts

Region
Global
- Teams
- SharePoint
- Copilot
- Viva
Apple · Professional Learning Provider

Apple.

As an Apple Professional Learning Provider, we’re deep in the pedagogy and design of the Apple programs, helping schools draw out the creativity that Apple products inspire in their students. We’ve been in Apple classrooms across the Pacific for over a decade.

Partner since
2018

Practice lead
Adrian Francis

Status
Professional Learning Provider

Region
Global
- Apple Professional Learning
- Apple Learning Coach
- Classroom + Schoolwork
- iPad deployment
Canva · Certified Creative Training Partner

Canva.

Making the most of Canva for Education and Canva for Teams. From brand kits that don’t get abandoned to classroom creative that kids actually finish.

Partner since
2020

Practice lead
Kelly Kenyon

Status
Certified Training Partner

Region
Global
- Canva for Education
- Canva for Teams
- Brand kits
Monday.com · Gold Partner

Monday.com.

Turning sticky notes into systems. We design, build, and train teams on Monday from operations through sales to HR. We sit with them until it sticks.

Partner since
2022

Practice lead
Joseph Muir

Status
Gold Partner

Region
Global
- Monday Work Management
- CRM
- Dev
- Workflow automation

The tools we work across

Platform-agnostic, by design.

We build, connect, and automate across the software your team already lives in, and the AI now reshaping how the work gets done. Whatever your stack, we work in it.