#37 - How to train your bat, with Neil Middleton - BatAbility Courses and Tuition

Richard interviews Neil Middleton from BatAbility Courses and Tuition. Together they talk about bats, business and some life tips on how to deliver presentations and overcoming the fear of other people's opinions.   Bio Neil has substantial experience in business management, consultancy, people development, training & the associated skills associated with running SME businesses. As well as being the owner & managing director of BatAbility Courses & Tuition, Neil also owns Time For Bespoke Solutions Ltd. In the past Neil was the founder & Managing Director at Echoes Ecology Ltd. He has designed & delivered over 400 training courses across a wide range of customer types & industry sectors, including training workshops/courses covering a variety of subjects to the Bat Conservation Trust’s National & Regional Conferences, as well as for NatureScot, Northern Ireland Environment Agency, The National Trust, The National Trust for Scotland, Wildlife Acoustics (USA) & >100 ecological consultancies operating in the UK, Ireland & further afield. Author/co-author of the following books: Social Calls of the Bats of Britain & Ireland The Effective Ecologist Is That A Bat? Sound Identification of Terrestrial Mammals of Britain & Ireland Most of his working days currently are filled with producing content for BatAbility Club members & the Talking Bat podcast channel, as well as providing technical support for BatAbility’s online acoustics training course launched in 2021 (Certificate of Bat Acoustics Analysis).   https://batability.co.uk/