Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS) has opened the latest round of its leadership development programme, aimed at nurturing and improving leadership skills.
The programme includes a number of seminars and workshops over the next 10 months where participants will learn a range of new skills and how to put them to use. It will also offer opportunities to be part of strategic projects.
The first session took place at the end of September and was an interactive insights discovery workshop run by Weston College.
CSS, which specialises in valuation panel managements services, also offers a training academy which has trained almost 400 people to be surveyors. This include the most recent cohort of 12 trainees who have become surveyors.
Rebecca Freeman, director of field operations at CSS, said: “Supporting future leaders of our business is incredibly important to us. A number of our current leadership team have come through our leadership development programme and we very much look forward to the ideas, innovation and different perspectives that the current group has to offer.”
Anna is currently the deputy editor for Mortgage Solutions and editor for Specialist Lending Solutions. She has worked as a journalist since 2019, having secured her Gold Standard NCTJ diploma from News Associates in a fast-track six-month course.
She started her career as a report at specialist publication The Insurance Insider covering a wide range of areas before joining Mortgage Solutions and Specialist Lending Solutions in 2021.
In her role, she helps put together and structure the news agenda for the day and writes up press releases, reports, interviews, analyses and exclusives across both titles. She also commissions blogs for Specialist Lending Solutions and hosts online masterclasses and in-person events across the business.
She has been shortlisted for three journalism awards, which include BIBA Journalist and Media Awards Scoop of Year Award in 2020, Headline Money Mortgage Journalist of the Year Award (B2B) in 2022 and 2023.
Prior to being a journalist, Anna worked in ecommerce across Snow + Rock, Cycle Surgery and Runners Need websites, and before that worked at specialist financial PR firm Rostrum.
In her spare time, Anna enjoys reading, seeing live music, and cooking for friends and family. When she gets a chance, she also enjoys hiking, skiing and indoor rock climbing.
