Suzanne Weekes is a highly experienced hospitality educator and trainer . She is an established hospitality author whose books are used internationally . Highly respected by employers for her inspiration passion and dedication from all sectors of industry.

Suzanne is a an experienced and knowledgeable hospitality professional with many years of industrial and training expertise. Many hospitality professionals will testify that they owe the progression in their hospitality career to Suzanne with her dedicated expertise and enthusiasm.

Having Suzanne in to train our staff was a sheer delight. She engaged the staff with her focused and driven training sessions where on entering her training sessions they were employees and staff, but they left as a team better prepared to help each other, leading to better customer focused employees and a well-oiled business.

Throughout the time Suzanne worked on Sommelier of the Year with me on the technical side of competition management for the regional heats, semi-finals and finals in London, she showed professionalism, attention to detail and a warm sense of humour which enabled all who worked with her and the competitors to feel supported and at ease in a very pressurised situation.

Suzanne taught for several years on the courses that I have led at the University of West London and Westminster Kingsway College. Bringing a wealth of professional experience to her teaching from her roles in the hospitality industry she brings the industry to life through the use of contextualised examples whilst maintaining rigorous academic standards, ensuring student engagement which is so important for retention and progression on the courses.