About Us

Alison Noble - Director + Principle consultant

From international jetsetter to helping make happier horses and riders, Alison Noble (CIPD, NLP, MFSTR)  founder of Evolutionary Training, believes the power to change comes from within…...

With almost two decades’ experience of helping people realise their full potential, Alison Noble is convinced that anybody can build a happier, more dynamic and successful relationship with their horse.

Having begun her career in the corporate world, Alison spent years travelling the globe, using her innate empathy, compassion and understanding of how to get the best out of people to achieve success with high level business people from all walks of life.

As a keen rider and horsewoman, Alison began to think about how she could apply her own qualifications, experience of NLP and coaching skills to help other riders achieve better results in their own chosen discipline.

She says: “Having helped business people make huge steps forward in their professional and personal lives and behaviour, I began applying this to my own life and my own riding and experience with horses.

“I realised that NLP is a tangible, effective way to help riders of all levels become more successful in what they want to do with their horses, bringing their dreams to life.”

Working mainly out of Scotland’s most luxurious equestrian facility, Ingliston Equestrian Centre in Renfrewshire, Alison now offers a range of regular courses and programmes to a variety of riders, from ‘happy hackers’ to top level eventers. She is also happy to travel to clients and can build ‘bespoke’ programmes to suit a client’s particular needs.

She adds: “No two horses or riders are the same and I find it incredibly rewarding to work with a partnership on a personal level to help them meet their goals."

Our Human Trainers and Coaches

All of the qualified facilitators and coaches at Evolutionary Training have extensive experience of working in partnership with clients to develop capability and confidence in all levels of personnel and riders and in working with individuals and organisations to facilitate change. 

Our Equine Facilitators

In our Horse Assisted Training Workshops we are lucky to be able to work with three great horses as co-facilitators:

Ruaridh

Ruaridh is a dark bay, 19 year old, Shire / Thoroughbred X gelding. He is a real gentleman, with lovely stable manners. We bought him as a 13year old, and he's my husband's horse.

He loves galloping on the beach, or paddling in the water and after being ridden he loves to have his face rubbed.

He looks big when you first see him, but he’s a gentle giant and likes to be around people. 

Lewis

Lewis is a black, 9 year old Irish Cob.  He looks on life as an adventure, and absolutely loves to be with people.

His favourite thing is cross-country, although he's learning to do dressage at the moment too (much to his disgust!)

He gets nervous sometimes if he can't work out what you want him to do, and he tries really hard to please you.  When it's dinner time, he runs round his stable, kicking over water buckets and hollering because he just loves his food!

Blanche

Blanche is a dark grey, 14 year old, Clydesdale mare.  She is a very easy horse to work with, although she does like to express her opinions sometimes.

She is usually a very unflappable horse, and will look after her rider well when out on hacks.  She looks big but she's really a very gentle girl.

She takes care of all the young horses on the yard once they've been weened from their mums.