Meet Our Team

Sharon Livermore MBE

Founder & Domestic Abuse Survivor

The Domestic Abuse Education visionary and driving force behind it all. She is a passionate trainer, delivering her courses across the globe, to businesses of all sizes and sectors. Sharon is a survivor, an educator and a beacon of strength, who thrives on empowering others. In 2024, Sharon made the New Year Honours list for her services to victims of domestic abuse.

Jo Stevenson

Associate Trainer

Jo brings over 20 years of global experience as a dedicated people and culture professional. She is the founder of Red Rocket HR Consulting, where she leverages her extensive expertise in HR, coaching, and leadership development to empower individuals, teams, and organisations to thrive.

With a diverse background spanning senior global HR leadership roles at renowned organisations such as Microsoft, Barclays, HBOS, and Tesco, Jo has honed her ability to create engaging, dynamic, and equitable workplaces. Her qualifications in CIPD, psychology, and coaching, coupled with psychotherapy and counselling experience, uniquely position her to help individuals overcome barriers and achieve their personal and professional aspirations.

Jo’s deep commitment to altruism and systemic change is reflected in her past work as a counsellor for Rape Crisis and her determination to transform her own experience of domestic abuse into a force for good. She is passionate about helping others live free from abuse and contributing to the cultural and systemic changes needed to eradicate it in the UK.

Jo’s combination of professional expertise and lived experience makes her an invaluable partner in Sharon’s mission to educate businesses about domestic abuse and its impact. As an Ambassador and Associate Trainer for Domestic Abuse Education, Jo advocates for victims and survivors and delivers impactful training programs to workplaces, fostering awareness and meaningful change.

Jo resides in Lincolnshire, near the picturesque Georgian town of Stamford, with her two children and her beloved Cavapoo, Alfie.

Tracey Secker

Associate Trainer

Tracey Secker joins Domestic Abuse Education as an Associate Trainer. Along with this role, Tracey founded Voices Social Enterprise to continue her work in the domestic abuse field and raise awareness around trauma and other forms of abuse. She utilises her many years of experience in business development, sales and commercial operations to build collaborations and networks that will support victims, survivors, warriors and thrivers of abuse and trauma.
She is a qualified trainer, has lived experience of abuse and trauma, and is passionate about raising awareness of these areas through training, events, providing quality resources and working with like-minded individuals and organisations. Her work is centred around survivors, voices and trauma- informed approaches.

Tracey says, “I know that if we work together and collaborate, we can do more for our organisations, employees, friends, family and local communities to raise awareness and support everyone.” Along with her work, Tracey is a keen writer. Her first solo book ‘The Way of a Warrior’ looks at how childhood trauma and abuse impacts into adulthood. It came out of her research into her own experiences, the research she found, and experiences of others, including self-care ways others have found helpful.

Karen Lingwood

Associate Trainer

Karen is an experienced trainer having developed and facilitated training for a wide variety of audiences over many years. Karen continues to work closely with organisations across the UK and is pleased to be able to work alongside Sharon to share this vital learning to workplaces.

Integrating the voices of people with lived experience is important in all her work and she advocates for their voices to be kept at the centre of any training. After many years supporting victims and survivors, Karen now spends most of her week in a learning and development capacity but continues to volunteer her time facilitating a survivor group in her local area.

Having been directly affected as a child, Karen wishes there had been more help available for her Mum and is determined to use her personal and professional experience to keep raising awareness.