“He kept us all interested throughout the day”
One of the toughest challenges we face in arranging learning experiences for groups is the double-edged problem of managers not wanting to lose precious productivity or sales while participants don’t want to lose their hard-earned free-time off the job. It’s a dilemma that usually ends with the employees compromising to give up one or two days of their weekends in exchange for pay or time-off in lieu.
While I personally prefer that managers see training and development as a fundamental component of one’s Monday to Friday calendar that is an investment rather than a cost, it heartens me to hear participants say that their most precious and irreplaceable gift – their time – has not been squandered in yet another mind-numbingly boring training session:
I learnt the most from the first topic on the phases that people go through when they are stressed and how to deal with them – I found it really insightful. I found all the course very interesting and easy to follow and understandable. I think everything was covered very well! Very pleased with everything – apart from it being on a Saturday, but it was a very good course, so I hate to say it but maybe worth giving up half your weekend?! =) Rod Solar kept us all interested throughout the day and was clearly an expert in his numerous fields and always had an example or an experience to explain or expand on something which I think is very important – very impressed overall!
Accounts Assistant, Yorkshire Eye Hospital, Leeds
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Meet our Founders

Rod Solar
Founder & Fractional CMO
Rod co-founded LiveseySolar and acts as a Fractional CMO for our customers. He’s on a mission to help transform the lives of 10,000 people with vision correction surgery by 2024. To achieve that, he inspires his customers to make confident decisions that will help 50,000 people take the first step towards vision correction.
LiveseySolar completely transformed the way we were approaching this… We’ve gone from having just the dream of having a practice to having a practice up and running with people making inquiries and booking for procedures… It’s extremely pleasing. We feel lucky we connected with LiveseySolar.
— Dr Matthew Russell, MBChB, FRANZCO, specialist ophthalmic surgeon and founder of VSON and OKKO

Laura Livesey
Founder & CEO
Laura Livesey is the co-founder & CEO of LiveseySolar. She has developed powerful refractive surgery marketing systems that increase patient volumes and profits for doctors, clinics, and hospitals, since 1997.
Rod and Laura know as much about marketing surgery to patients as I know about performing it. They are an expert in the field of laser eye surgery marketing. They know this industry inside out. I believe that they could help many companies in a variety of areas including marketing materials, sales training and marketing support for doctors.
— Prof. Dan Reinstein, MD MA FRSC DABO, founder of the London Vision Clinic, UK