Trained For Life is based near Marlborough, Wiltshire and was set up by Lez Graham MA at the beginning of 2007.

Lez' focus is to show people how, through changing their own behaviour and attitude towards their dog, their dogs behaviour and attitude towards them will change. This then starts the process of training a well mannered, obedient and respectful dog... whether this is in the home, on a walk or wherever you and your dog find yourselves. By expecting your dog to be well behaved and then enforcing it positively and in a way your dog understands, you end up with a dog that is looking to you for guidance and leadership

Lez holds her Masters degree in Canine Behaviour & Psychology, is a full member of the Canine and Feline Behaviour Association (CFBA), a master trainer with the Guild of Dog Trainers (GoDT) and is an established author having published two highly successfully books (The Pet Gundog and The Advanced Pet Gundog) with a third on the way (The Pet Gundog Puppy).

The Education & Development Officer for the Guild of Dog Trainers, Lez headed up their Balanced Intelligent Dog Training Campaign in July 2011; in 2009 she was asked by the Pet Education, Training & Behaviour Council (PETbc) to write the Defining Roles for Dog Behaviour & Training Professionals document which became the definitive guide for the profession.

Lez is a tutor with The Cambridge Institute of Dog Behaviour & Training (CIDBT), teaching amongst other things The Basic Dog Handling & Training and The Professional Instructor Skills & Management modules and a feature writer for Dogs Monthly (http://www.trainedforlife.co.uk/articles_published.aspx).

An executive with the Dog Safety Education Executive (DogSEE), Lez has been involved with this organisation since its conception in early 2011.

Lez has trained and competed her dogs in obedience in the UK and New Zealand and in gundog trials in NZ and has worked in the complementary health care arena as a kinesiologist with different animals, but mainly dogs. As well as competition obedience and gundog work Lez has trained her own dogs for Agility and Search and Rescue.