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Sue Abbotson
E-Mail:
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Sue has been working as a learning consultant integrating learning and creativity for over twenty years. She is currently working in Creative Leadership development across Continental Europe and the UK. She is also working in partnership with internal developers in both the public and private sector to enhance the value-adding aspects of the development function and of their direct facilitation. One of the UK's few qualified Gestalt in Organisation Consultants Sue is keen to enable experimentation, develop new meaning making and catalyse creative insight as integral aspects of learning and development. A former academic, Sue was a lecturer in the Management of Innovation at the University of Bath and Visiting Lecturer in Learning and Culture Change on the Reading University MBA. Her doctoral research was with the management of the creative process within radio drama and stage. This was a co-inquiry with actors into the organising processes that enhanced their creative consciousness and enabled the translation of creative insight into creative product.
Peter Binns
Peter
has been part of the BCG team for the past eight years, currently with
an emphasis on developing the BCG European Network. He leads
organisational transformation projects with a variety of clients in the
UK and Continental Europe. Prior to that he was a Senior Research Fellow
at Warwick Business School. He usually works within a �whole systems�
perspective, concentrating on culture change issues. His work is also
informed by an understanding of organisations as complex adaptive
systems, and it often focuses on strategy development & implementation,
quality assurance, and on developing organisations� internal change
capability through Action Learning and other processes.
Recent/current private sector clients include Reuters, Siemens, Infineon, Orange, Shell and Nokia. Quite a lot of this work has involved developing effective cross-organisational an/or cross-national learning and project working, as well as leadership development. This work has been undertaken most recently in UK, Germany, Ireland, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Portugal, France and Finland.
In the public sector, his clients include central government (Crown Prosecution Service, CAFCASS, Department of Constitutional Affairs) and a wide range of local authorities & NHS Trusts. As part of this he has led award-winning programmes for the participation of users in NHS services. He has also worked with a number of public / voluntary sector bodies dealing with vulnerable and homeless young people (National Youth Agency, Crisis, Turning Point, Centrepoint.)
He has extensive experience of top team development, culture change and performance improvement in local authorities. In Wales he has been involved with a variety of consultancy projects with County Borough Councils, and is currently part of the BCG team providing client side advice and support in the commissioning and delivery of Public Sector Management Wales (PSMW).
He has worked with several business schools (Including Warwick, Cranfield and the Irish Management Institute) to assist them to develop new approaches to learning and to managing their knowledge assets. He has been a keynote speaker in this area to a number of UK and European conferences, including the European Foundation for Management Development.
Margaret Attwood
E-Mail: [email protected]
Margaret is Chair of New Possibilities NHS Trust and a Partner in Whole Systems Development (WSD) with Professor Mike Pedler, David Wilkinson and Sue Pritchard. WSD has a client portfolio, which includes government departments and agencies, local authorities, the NHS, charities and voluntary organisations. The partners are currently working on a book on the leadership of whole systems development. Margaret is also an Associate of the Bath Consultancy Group and a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Health Studies, University of York. Currently her consultancy work includes:
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A review of the Open University Business School
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An organisational learning and strategic change project with The Children�s Society
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A strategic development assignment with a major acute NHS Trust, and
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Support to the Liverpool Partnership Group to develop a Standing Conference comprised of community and voluntary sector representatives
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A Leadership Development Programme for the NHSE (North West).
John Bristow
E-Mail:
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John's
consulting practice focuses on the links between personal and organisational
development. He works with leading executives and their teams on
their personal, team and organisational effectiveness, and assists
them in the process of bringing about changes within their corporate
culture. This has included being the lead consultant on major change
programmes, for example in the transport and financial services
industries, in multinational companies and in the National Health
Service. He is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist with over
20 years experience in management development and change. He was
previously Director of an international consulting business.
Robin Coates
E-Mail:
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Robin Coates has been a consultant for the last 23 years working with private, public and charitable organisations, helping them develop their capability to work in more effective, creative and human ways, and to adapt to their changing environments.
His consulting assignments have included development of organisations, strategy, culture, teams, department and interdepartmental relationships, major change and transformation initiatives, and mentoring individuals.
He works with a whole systems approach to find the places where small focused developmental shifts at the individual and organisation level can result in significant change. He has designed and facilitated inter institutional Whole Systems Events.
His open programme work has been associated with leadership, empowerment, consulting skills and developing facilitators. He uses action learning approaches both in change assignments and in cross sector development programmes like the Senior Leadership programme for the Whitehall and Industry Group.
His skills and experience include:
Fast cycle iterative learning and change: Working in such a way that the deeper dynamics of the organisations helpful and dysfunctional cultural patterns are understood at the same time as progressing priority tasks and connecting the key parts of the organisation together.
Broadening the organisations repertoire of ways of bringing about change: Identifying the ways of bringing about change that would engage more of the distributed intelligence, local knowledge and energy and at the same time turn round cynicism and apathy.
Building enabling leadership: Releasing the cultural constraints that make leadership at all levels too difficult and increasing the number of employees able to work in this way for the wider organisation as well as their current tasks.
Fostering effective partnerships: Enabling organisations in partnership to work effectively together to deliver change and helping people to see that every organisational and professional boundary within the organisation provides the same partnership challenge.
Integrating multiple initiatives: In today�s world at every level there are numerous initiatives, targets and pressures raining down. Robin has developed ways of helping the individuals and organisation to have ways of making sense of these, creating the necessary connection and coherence and the ability to act/deliver whilst containing risk and avoiding getting bogged down in bureaucracy.
In his early career he had thirteen years experience as a project manager of large civil engineering and multi discipline design and construct projects. He was managing director of a medium sized Environmental Engineering Company for five years.
Terry Haskins
E-Mail:
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Terry�s consulting work draws upon skills, knowledge and relationships developed during twenty five years working in Shell and Cable and Wireless in the fields of Human Resource Management and Organisation Development. His work with these companies and his more recent consulting assignments have given him extensive international experience. This spans the Far East, USA, Europe, and, more recently, Africa.
A key premise underlying his work is that sustained high performance requires the achievement of balance between the personal and organisational needs of those involved.
His focus is on the support of individuals and their teams in stretching and fulfilling their business and personal development goals. This includes individual coaching, team development and broader organisation change initiatives.
His approach rests on the notion of partnership with his clients. This means working closely together to agree the aims and the methods, reviewing progress frequently and adapting these according to emerging needs. Best practice processes, tools and concepts are deployed in a pragmatic, flexible way. He seeks to transfer knowledge and skills to clients� own resources to build their own capability to sustain the consulting contribution. He is a fluent French speaker.
Elisabeth Henderson
E-Mail:
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Elisabeth is an organisational development consultant working with the management of change and major internal or external re-organisation. Her consultancy is international: Poland, advising the creation and consolidation of the Ministry of Privatisation, India, The Netherlands, the USA as well as Britain. Elisabeth trained in adult psychotherapy at the Tavistock Institute, where she became interested in socio-technical systems and the connection between personal and professional development. Following this she founded The Recess College, an Anglo-Dutch initiative for senior professionals and executives. The College supports people of influence to re-appraise their own approach to the dimension of leadership and personal and professional renewal.
Elisabeth has worked in health, local and central government as well as the private sector in the UK and abroad. She is an organisational development consultant working with the management of change and major internal or external re-organisation. Her consultancy is international: Poland (advising the creation and consolidation of the Ministry of Privatisation), India, The Netherlands, the USA as well as Britain. Elisabeth trained in adult psychotherapy at the Tavistock Institute, where she became interested in socio-technical systems and the connection between personal and professional development. She advises on change processes. She is Director of the Recess College for senior executives and professional managers.
Sally Kleyn
E-Mail: [email protected]
Sally Kleyn�s background is in counselling psychology, sales management, and training and development. She has worked for a wide range of clients in diverse sectors including, financial, IT, media, oil, retail and the public sector in the U.S. and throughout Europe. Her work encompasses executive and team coaching, HR repositioning and client relationship management, action learning, group facilitation and organisational change consultancy. Sally believes that her greatest strengths are her ability to balance the elements of support and challenge that are required for change to occur and the flair she demonstrates in working with teams. Sally is an American, and has lived in the UK since 1989.
Recent projects have included:
· Delivering innovative leadership development programmes to academic and administrative managers at the University of Central Lancashire � working with emergent change processes
· Facilitating conference participants as they developed their emotional resiliency and motivation at a global women�s networking conference on Emotional Intelligence at CitiGroup
· HR repositioning with UK HR directors and their senior teams at AGFA, Universal Music, and Wolverhampton City Council.
· Designing and delivering group facilitation and internal consulting skills programmes to the HR team at Debenhams
· Executive coaching for 75 managing directors in New York, London and Zurich for Credit Suisse First Boston.
Academic
MA � Counselling, New York University, U.S.A.
MsC � Change Agent Skills and Strategies, University of Surrey, UK.
Vic Luck
Vic has a wealth of international experience in senior leadership positions and client consulting over a 28 year career with IBM and its predecessors Coopers & Lybrand and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. This was built upon a foundation of ten years in business strategy and management accounting roles in the European automotive industry.
His most recent position was that of General Manager of IBM UK, where he led the corporation's business in Defence and Security as well as undertaking personal consulting assignments in the area of leadership team performance improvement and acting as Senior Responsible Industry Executive on a number of major programmes, for example the Defence Resource Management Programme, one of the largest business change programmes in Europe.
Vic has led many business performance improvement projects across a range of public and private sector clients in the UK, USA and Continental Europe. In addition, he has held responsibility for people development, leadership and client partnering programmes.
He is now working with top teams to help them exceed their organisational goals, through non-executive roles, executive coaching and management consulting.
Aged 58, Vic obtained a First Class Honours Degree in Business Management and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
Family-oriented, married with two daughters and three grandchildren his other interests include playing and watching a range of sports, a varied social life, travel and having fun.
Gil Schwenk
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Gil�s passion is to liberate the potential of individuals to operate within organisations. He designs innovative interventions to shift employees attitudes and motivation in line with business strategy.
Clients include Orange, Nationwide Building Society, Avaya, BOC, Bombardier Transportation, The Cabinet Office, MOD, NHS, Goldman Sachs, John Lewis Partnership and London Business School.
The portfolio includes these areas:
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Systemic Change Consultant � Working with teams and organisations to enable them to change their culture to perform more effectively:
- Facilitated an international software company to identify and overcome process and performance issues, by addressing and changing culture.
- Facilitated the creation and establishment of a global engineering team using a combination of team development and 1:1 coaching.
- Transformational Learning Facilitator � Public and tailored in-company development programmes including Eagles � Personal Transformation workshop, Making the Most of My Talents and Transformational Leadership:
- He developed and implemented Making the Most of Your Talents - a customised development programme to support Nationwide Building Society�s employee development strategy.
He is Chair of the Standards Committee of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council leading the creation of professional standards for the UK and Europe.
Business Experience
Prior to being a coach and consultant, Gil had 15 years blue chip experience in Human Resource Development. As Group Learning and Development / Organisational Development Manager at Orange and previously as Manager of PHH University Europe, he specialized in large-scale change projects including business transformation, management and leadership development.
Professional Membership
- European Mentoring and Coaching Council, Member, Executive Board member and Chair of the Standards Committee
- Association of Management Education and Development, Member
- Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, Associate Member
Sue Pritchard
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An independent consultant (and a partner in a number of consulting collaborations) since 1990, Sue works with Local Authorities, health bodies, government agencies and departments, and education institutions on �whole system� development, leadership and team development and working across boundaries with partners and service users, using small and large group facilitation, action learning and mentoring.
Sue is also Chair of Monmouthshire Local Health Board, representing Chairs and LHBs on a number of All Wales groups and bodies, and was Visiting Research Fellow at the Revans Institute for Action Learning and Research from 1999 to 2004. Through this relationship, she supported a consortium of health and social care organisations in North London to establish a landmark partnership development project (�Julip� � joined up learning in partnership.) Sue is in the long process of completing PhD on �Leadership in Partnerships.�
Sue has published widely, including:
Leading Change � a guide to whole systems working. Attwood M, Pedler M, Pritchard S, Wilkinson D. The Policy Press, Bristol, 2003.
A Best Practice Guide to Culturally Competent Service User Involvement; Altounyan, C and Pritchard S, Birmingham Race Action Partnership, 2002.
Supporting interorganisational partnerships in the public sector: the role of joined up action learning and research Mann, P Rummery K and Pritchard S, in Public Management, forthcoming.
Leading in partnerships: from action hero to action learner. Berg C, and Pritchard S, in Action learning: research and practice, forthcoming.
Jane Speller
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Jane Speller is a facilitator and change
management consultant, and Associate of the Bath Consultancy Group.
She has worked for 20 years as a consultant with public, private and voluntary sector organisations such as Barclays Capital, Save the Children (Asia), the Civil Service College, DFID SE ASIA, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and the Housing Corporation. She also worked as Director at the National Housing Federation in the UK, running a nationwide training and conference business for the national social housing sector. And for five years was an associate of Roffey Park Management Institute delivering a corporate development programme for senior managers from British Gas.
Jane�s work is driven by wanting to make a difference to the quality of people�s lives. Her aim is to help organisations be the best in their field by being flexible and creative, and by maximising the contributions of their people in ways that are sustainable and energising.
She is an excellent meetings facilitator, who works simultaneously to ensure the business gets done, better relationships are fostered and the effectiveness of individuals is improved in the process. She is also a challenging individual coach, and a creative designer of effective pathways to improve communications and learning within organisations.
Recent clients have said:
�I enjoyed working with Jane. She is reliable, thorough and perceptive. She designed an excellent senior staff recruitment process for us, and supported me personally through some difficult staff situations." Robert Kerr, President Director, PT Consulting Services Indonesia
�As usual Jane approached this task with enthusiasm and thoughtfulness and I, and the women she worked with, were very satisfied with the outcome.� Gary Andrews, Managing Director, British Chamber of Commerce, Indonesia
�Jane has consistently provided a fresh and objective perspective in working with the Senior Leadership of Save the Children's Programs in Asia: She is rapidly able to establish a rapport and trust with different groups - often mixed in background, language capacity and seniority - while at the same time taking the leadership in exciting new areas of exploration with the full confidence that if we go up in the air she will not let us crash but supports throughout: A truly superb thinker, catalyst and colleague." David Claussenius, Regional Director (Asia), Save the Children.
Jane has recently returned to the UK after three years based in SE Asia. She currently lives in London.
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