Meet The Team

Gaynor Lowndes

With 20 years of extensive experience as a top-billing consultant in both Australia and the UK, Gaynor Lowndes has a first-rate understanding of the recruitment industry and it’s challenges. Her strengths lie in her passion, tenacity and her commitment to providing beneficial and innovative solutions.

Commencing her career with a large multi-national firm, specialising in the recruitment of accounting staff, Gaynor quickly climbed the ranks from consultant to senior consultant to branch manager. She then worked in the UK for the parent company for 4 years as senior consultant and business development manager, consistently outperforming her peers, and developing a standing as one of the top billers in the highly competitive UK industry.

Returning to Australia in 1993, Gaynor set up an Accounting Division for a large national firm. After a highly successful tenure as a training and professional development specialist with the National Institute of Accountants, Gaynor began developing and delivering training programs on sales techniques and the recruitment process.

In April 2001, Gaynor set up The Recruitment Training Company in response to a desperate need for training and professional development within the industry, which she had observed in her time as a manager. Since its inception, TRTC has trained hundreds of recruiters throughout Australia and NZ, and has been hailed as the definitive provider of training solutions to the recruitment industry.

In July 2004, Gaynor published her first book, “The Art of Recruitment,” which has been hailed as the recruiters bible within Australia, NZ and the UK. Gaynor is regularly published in Recruitment trade publications in Australia and the UK.

As well as training, Gaynor consults to recruitment businesses on a regular basis which allows her the opportunity to keep up to date with the market. In addition, she is an accredited performance coach who specializes in helping high performers reach their potential (www.GaynorLowndes.com).

Gaynor believes her calling in the recruitment industry goes further than her role as a trainer. The Recruitment Training Company is about inspiring and encouraging the professionals within our industry to be the best that they can be,” she says. I see the skills development and training we offer as essential ‘tools’ to help us fulfill this greater purpose.

Toni Silveira

Trainer, Western Australia

Toni comes to TRTC with nearly 12 years in the professional recruitment field. She has worked for some of the United States and Australia's top Recruitment firms including an International Top 100 Company, as well as owning and managing a Boutique Recruitment Agency. Her experience in small to large consulting firms gives her a deep understanding of the Recruitment market and the different challenges Consultants face every day.

She started with a small boutique agency in California 12 years ago and learned quickly the importance of making every contact count. Toni helped that business open a satellite branch which is still running successfully to this day.

From there Toni took the next step in her career by working for an International Specialist Recruitment firm for many years in the USA. Specialising in white collar placements she used time proven strategies and incredible relationship building skills to achieve top sales performance on a weekly basis. After just a couple years with this company Toni received two of the company’s most highly coveted recognitions, a top sales award and achieved over a million dollars in revenue.

Since then Toni moved to Australia and worked with a well known industrial firm to get a deeper understanding of the Australian recruitment market. She was integral in helping them open a new division and provided assistance in several different role within the organisation.

Most recently Toni has owned and managed her own boutique agency. Through this experience she has gained a deeper understanding and knowledge of the Management of a recruitment firm, what it takes to motivate and engage the staff while making the bottom line work for the business.

Using sales and marketing strategies, along with incredible relationship building skills learned through training and development, Toni achieved consistent top sales performance on a weekly basis. By staying focused on the goal, and making one placement at a time.

Toni’s passion is for the training and development of others, to help them achieve and reach their highest potential. With a deep love of the recruitment industry, she inspires others to get more of what they want out of their role for the short term, and to keep them loving what they do for years!

Toni Silveira
Western Australia
M: 0420 982 622

Alayne Baker

Trainer, Tasmania and Victoria

Alayne Baker co managed her own Insurance Brokerage firm for over 12 years. She was responsible for all of the HR, recruitment, business development, sales and marketing for the company. This experience has given her a strong insight into Sales in any organisation. With over 15 years collective experience in Sales, HR and recruitment Alayne understands the needs of businesses in attracting and retaining talent.

Alayne spent several years working for Tasmania’s largest owned and operated Recruitment and HR Company. After joining Season Buck, Alayne developed and consolidated her position as the Permanent recruitment division’s top-billing consultant. She built a successful desk as a generalist and executive recruiter then implemented and developed the Accounting/Finance /Insurance sector for the company. After her success in this area she was promoted to the position of Permanent Recruitment Manager.

In this role she was responsible for the Training, Coaching and Mentoring of a large team of consultants. She established specialist desks in the Aged Care, Medical, through to Not for Profit sectors for the division.

Out of her continued success in Training and Coaching Alayne left to develop her own business in this area in conjunction with HR services Alayne Baker Consulting. Her current clients range from engineering companies through to community organisations.

As well as Training, Alayne consults to businesses on a regular basis on recruitment strategies and many areas of HR, which allows her the opportunity to keep up to date with the market. In addition, she works with individuals in career coaching assisting and empowering people to reach their highest potential.

Alayne is a current member of AHRI and past member of RCSA and AICD. She sits on the Management Advisory Board of a large private school in Hobart as their HR chairperson advising the board and senior management on HR issues. She is an active member in the community sitting on various boards involved in the community and various sporting bodies.

Alayne’s passion for human resource development, coupled with her extensive recruitment experience and proven sales ability means that she can add value to any training experience.

Alayne Baker
Tasmania and Victoria
M: 0437 553 341