Our Team

Nicholas has over 20 years experience in organisation consulting, coaching and leadership development. His expertise is based around a deep interest in human relations and organisational effectiveness. He has worked with many blue chip organisations including Nokia, Barclays, Shell, British Airways and JP Morgan to develop leadership skills and related capabilities. His interests and expertise include leadership development, strategic thinking, influencing skills and business partnering.

Clients have described Nick’s working style as challenging and direct but coupled with caring and humour. He brings an intellectual rigour to his work, but is also focused on the practical and the achievable.

Dr Mark Jenner is a specialist in leadership development who has advised many FTSE 100 companies on how to increase the impact of their leadership development solutions. His approach to leadership development was shaped by his doctoral research and his twenty years experience leading learning & development functions in organisations like Barclays Bank and Ernst & Young. He brings an architectural approach, challenging the organisation to connect leadership development to its strategic challenges, and designing innovative programmes and processes that develop leaders and leadership.

Mark’s approach is to help organisations create conditions in which leadership can emerge. This requires clarity about why leadership is needed and what it is, developmental systems that support and challenge people to lead and learn, the presence of sponsors who set a positive example, and background processes that recognise and reinforce leadership.

 Steve has over 20 years experience in learning and development with a focus on leadership. He has a particular knack for helping Leaders apply coaching principles to the way that they lead their teams and develop the people that work for them.

Steve is also recognized for his ability to translate a training need into an innovative workshop design enabling participants to have a rich learning experience through developing their self-awareness.

Steve was the Director of Leadership Development at Ernst & Young where he was responsible for developing its Accelerated Leadership Programme for people identified early in their careers as having great leadership potential. 

Alison is a creative and innovative management development consultant with over 20 years experience in development consulting, facilitation, training and coaching. Alison has experience across a wide variety of organisations and has particular experience in working with third sector organisations.

Alison has designed and delivered strategic leadership programmes for major organisations for many years and is particularly strong in the areas of interpersonal and communication skills and developing high performing teams. She is known for her pragmatic and supportive style, making use of very strong feedback skills and coaching tools to help individuals and teams develop performance.

Gary is an experienced training designer, trainer and facilitator who specialises in change and leadership management skills.

After graduating Gary had a successful career in logistics, consultancy, systems design and human resources in ASW, Royal Mail, Northamptonshire County Council and Lorien Connect.

Since 2009 he has focused his career on change management and organisational development. Experienced at dealing with business leaders he can also work with the front line to define challenges and make change happen. Gary is highly skilled at designing training programmes that support and challenge, Gary creates an environment for learning and the development of skills that make a difference

Joanna is an experienced and pragmatic change agent whose engagements include training, facilitation & coaching; skills developed during her successful career in BT.

She completed an MSc in Change Agent Skills and Strategies in 2008 focussing on the transfer of training; a critical issue for all organisations interested in getting the most from their training investment.

Her real passion is helping people make the small pragmatic changes that are both sustainable yet significant in terms of their performance and self-esteem.  She is known as an engaging and challenging yet supportive change agent who is able to balance the needs of the organisation with the needs of the individual.

Amanda is a highly experienced trainer and coach who specialises in helping individuals and groups develop all aspects of their personal impact ranging from formal speeches and presentations through to one to one interactions.

She has worked at the most senor levels for over 20 years and is known for her ability to combine clear and detailed feedback with practical strategies and approaches for developing personal impact, drawing heavily on her professional experience as a coach.

Amanda is a Certified Professional Co-active Coach and an Insights Discovery Practitoner.

Georgina is an experienced trainer and facilitator who specialises in finance and business management skills.

After graduating in 1998 Georgina had a successful management career in supply chain, marketing and finance roles with Unilever & Pfizer. In this period she also qualified as an accountant.

Since 2007 George has focused her career on management development. She is renowned for her personal energy and enthusiasm that, coupled with her practical experience, translate into real engagement from the groups she works with. This creates the perfect learning environment for them to build new skills and grow in confidence.

Karen is a performance management consultant, trainer, facilitator and coach who has worked in a variety of L&D roles for over twenty years including as culture change manager with Centrica. Her approach to business combines a passion for life-long learning with a pragmatic desire to achieve measurable business benefits.

A certified trainer of neuro-linguistic programming , Karen’s recent projects include research into emotional intelligence, meaning at work, and the use of technology to enhance the learning experience.

Karen holds an MBA and at the 2011 Asia HRD Congress received an Award for Outstanding Contribution to the field of Human Resource Development.