Matt Knowles

Chief Learning Officer & Founder

Accessible, high-quality training is how we re-skill people, raise professional standards, and build the capable workforce our industries depend on.

Matt Knowles

Chief Learning Officer & Founder

Matt Knowles is a founder and CLO of Tri-M, a workforce training company building the skills Saudi Arabia needs to deliver Vision 2030 in renewable energy, logistics, and leadership and management.

Matt is a strategic learning and education leader with a distinguished record in innovative curriculum development, process improvement, and digital transformation across vocational and professional education. He is a Founder, Co-Founder, Executive Director, and consultant.Matt is a strategic learning and education leader with a distinguished record in innovative curriculum development, process improvement, and digital transformation across vocational and professional education. He is a Founder, Co-Founder, Executive Director, and consultant.lps create opportunities for learners to access relevant and specialised professional training.

His practice is grounded in andragogical and asynchronous learning principles, which he uses to drive efficiency, boost achievement rates, and enhance learner engagement. He has excelled at developing both accredited and non-accredited modular qualifications for diverse skill levels and demographics for a range of global industries.

Across his career, he has led national and global teams, held commercial and budget responsibility, and delivered strategic projects generating revenue in excess of £100m to date, and saved £millions in operational running costs through efficiency projects. His deep insight into education, regulatory standards — as an OFQUAL Responsible Officer and in OFSTED contexts — and teaching methodologies allows him to translate requirements into programmes that combine experiential and academic learning, and provide students with access to internationally sought-after accreditations and career-enhancing learning opportunities.

SPECIALISMS

  • Strategic Leadership and Implementation
  • Learning process design, implementation, and improvement
  • Andragogical Curriculum design
  • Product and learning content design and development
  • Learning Systems Implementation and Management
  • Quality Assurance and External Quality Assurance
  • Regulatory requirements and compliance
  • Regulated and Unregulated qualification and training development
  • Awarding Organisation (AO) approval & collaboration
  • Solving real-world competence challenges with bespoke learning solutions.