About Us
TIMELINE
In 2010 we’re celebrating 5 years of supplying top quality sales training to the UK and Europe. We relish each training challenge and we love making our customers money. Here are a few of our milestones:
2004:
- 24 July: The Natural Training Co Ltd is registered on the with a focus on sales training and presentation skills training.
- Founder Matt Drought designs and researches a range of courses with the aim of providing a fresh, relevant and bold training experience.
- Our first website is built by Andy Bell from mint digital in exchange for presentation skills and sales training for the team
- From his lounge room in Clapham Matt teaches Andy to cold call which was a spectacular success. Andy made 3 calls.
- October: Bob Dylan releases Chronicles
2005:
- March: Natural Training gets our first customer Searchflow and a further 40 new customers, many of which are still with us today.
- May: Two of our longest serving trainers, Fred Robson and Barrie Sharp join the team.
- July: Lance Armstrong wins his seventh Tour de France
2006:
- April: Natural Training is first to market with Natural LIVE – featuring real sales calls making it sales training with the highest ROI in the UK
- June: British Airways contracts Natural Training to provide a wide-sweeping advanced presentation skills programme for 200 senior executives.
- October: BBC commissioned documentary maker Sarah Cole films our acclaimed sales training
2007:
- February: The team grows to 6 full time naturals and 15 associate trainers
- May: We expand our open workshop calendar with 6 training products in London and Birmingham
- July: We move into our Paul Street office and huddle around 4 desks with co-tenant Vivid Advertising
- August: Led Zeppelin comeback at the O2 arena
- September: Negotiation skills training is added to our portfolio of training with immediate success.
2008:
- March: Natural training celebrates our 500th client!
- May: Clergy House, part of a beautiful former church in the heart of London becomes our new home
- September: Lehman Brothers collapses, heralding the start of the biggest financial crisis since the depression.
- December: We increased our sales year-on-year by 150%
2009:
- We run over 60 Natural LIVE days for EMC and technology partners including Dell, Insight and Unisys.
- July: Peter Andre and Jordan split after 4 years of marriage. Shame.
- Despite the recession we celebrate client 1000 and grow our sales yet again, one of the only training companies in the UK
2010:
- March – former Chief Executive of AIPP Paul Owen joins as our new Managing Director
- We celebrate our first 5 years in the training market!









