About Fully Engaged
Kia ora, I’m Elizabeth.
Founder of Fully Engaged, facilitator, learning designer and long-time student of what makes learning actually work.
I’ve always been obsessed with learning.
Some of my earliest memories are of lining up my soft toys on my bedroom floor and planning meticulous lessons for them.
When I became a high-school teacher in my twenties, I focused more on delivering content than building relationships. Teaching felt harder than it needed to be.
The “Aha!” moment
Then I sat in a workshop led by a truly skilled facilitator.
She showed me the power of experiential learning and the importance of the debrief. And surprisingly to me, she made the whole thing fun.
Later, when I started running my own train-the-trainer sessions, I noticed the same themes. They were switched-on subject-matter experts, but most of them had no idea where to start when it came to designing a workshop, or how adults actually learn. They’d end up piling information on people with no real way of knowing if any of it landed.
The ripple effect
That’s why I founded Fully Engaged.
Great facilitation isn’t lecturing. It’s grounded in brain-based learning and genuine connection.
And when we change the way an expert trains, we upskill every learner they’ll ever work with too.
You equip and inspire trainers and facilitators with practical, engaging techniques that make learning stick.
A growing group of confident, skilled facilitators, each taking what they’ve learned and using it to deliver engaging training in their own organisations and communities.
Many more people experiencing effective, engaging training that helps them learn, remember and apply what matters.
What people say
Trusted in the room.
Elizabeth is technically competent but also genuinely understands what makes an exceptional learning experience for people and brings that to everything she does. There are plenty of people who can put a workshop together, but finding someone who prepares thoroughly, communicates straight, and actually cares whether the learning sticks is much rarer.
Elizabeth has she supported me in preparing for several workshops, for leaders and teams, and her impact was immediate and lasting. What stood out most was her process. She has a real gift for asking the right questions at the right time, I never felt rushed and she kept me focused on the purpose of what I was building.
Elizabeth has an exceptional ability to manage complex learning and development projects and programmes. Her work at Trade Master has resulted in high-quality industry training programmes that put the learner at the centre of how we prepare, train, engage and review new and existing programmes.
