Our Consultants

Gwen Stirling

Gwen has a wealth of experience and success as a senior leader in commercial and charitable organisations; leading individuals and diverse teams to deliver high levels of performance in challenging circumstances. She has been consulting to individuals and organisations since 2001. Gwen is a skilled senior team coach, organisation development and change consultant, working in a creative way with senior leaders and teams to bring strategic goals to life. She uses organisational challenges as a focal point to generate real-time leadership and team development opportunities, including live action coaching; this is one of the fastest and most effective ways of changing leadership behaviours and introducing new ways of working. At the heart of her work is building confidence and conversational skills so leaders can have conversations that matter during periods of uncertainty using the latest approaches in dialogue and change.

Sarah Hunter

Sarah has over 20 years of experience of providing engaging and interactive leadership and management activities and programmes for Senior Leaders, Academics and private sector Boards. She is responsible for transforming all BCL programmes to a virtual format and is currently working as a specialist advisor for Derby University supporting the design, launch and implementation of a new performance management system.

Ajay Bundy

Ajay's expertise lies in facilitating teams and individuals to realise potential through consultancy interventions and learning events; from the initial diagnostic meeting to the design, delivery and ongoing review of bespoke development interventions. In addition, she has worked at senior level supporting strategic planning, culture change and executives through coaching. Ajays international career has spanned retail, media, publishing, financial services and telecoms. She has worked extensively across sectors as a learning and development consultant. Ajay is a Certified Master Practitioner of NLP, qualified in the use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Steps I & II, the 16PF5 psychometric tools and Belbin profiling. She can facilitate in both English and Italian.

Nicola Baines

Nic is an experienced Learning and Development Consultant and Project Manager who has worked with organisations across the public and private sectors including the National Offender Management Service, Prudential and The Health Foundation. She has designed and delivered a variety of learning and development interventions that have built both individual and organisational capability as well as co-designed and assessed at a number of Assessment Centres. Nic has also done a lot of work around evaluation including the design of evaluation processes, data analysis and written comprehensive evaluation reports for Board level to demonstrate individual and organisational impact and return on investment from specific L&D interventions. “Excellent subject knowledge, enthusiastic approach to teaching” She has excellent communication skills as well as a strong customer focus which she uses to build good working relationships. She is also a MBTI Step 1 and Step 2 qualified practitioner, a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) with the Institute of Consulting and is a qualified Prince2 foundation and practitioner in Project Management.

Amanda Bouch

Amandas passion is in helping people to develop an authentic values-led leadership style and rewarding, productive work environment. She brings to this expertise and extensive experience in strategy, people development and organisational development and change. Amanda’s approach is highly practical, challenging perspectives and building focused solutions, she is capable of working at all levels of the organisation up to top management, in a range of contexts. Amanda has an MBA, is an Accredited Professional Executive Coach through AC and Master NLP Practitioner. Amanda specialises in Leadership Development and Organisational Change, working with senior Leaders and managers to build their capability to lead and transform the organisation. Amanda has worked internationally and speaks German. She has experience with private and not-for-profit organisations, including financial services, IT, professional services, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, leisure, energy, retail, housing, police, public sector - central government, local government and agencies - and in charities. close

Andrew Constable

Andrew focuses on the provision of leadership development, organisation development and change management consultancy. He does this through working with Boards and other senior teams, Executive Coaching, facilitating learning sets and developing groups of professionals and senior managers. He previously worked at Roffey Park, one of the UK’s leading management education and development centres, where he held a series of Director roles and was a member of the Executive Team for seven years. The last of these roles was Director of Consultancy and Bespoke Services, heading up the major part of the business, which experienced substantial growth during this time. Andrew has worked with the Boards and top teams of many, varied organisations in different sectors, and has carried out a wide range of consultancy and bespoke projects for a large number of major clients. Recent projects have focused on the health and university sectors.

Antoinette Dale Henderson

With over 20 years international experience in management, consultancy and learning & development, Antoinette has expertise in the fields of leadership development, communication and presentation skills, personal impact and and coaching. Antoinette has worked with clients across a range of corporate sectors, including communications, PR, advertising, media, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, banking, retail, environment technology, construction, engineering, as well as in the public and third sector, specifically in the areas of housing and health. Antoinette is a Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and a Master Practitioner in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). Antoinette is a highly experienced facilitator and executive coach, specializing in designing and delivering strategically-aligned, creative and accelerated learning programmes both in the UK and internationally. She is half Swiss and speaks fluent French and Spanish.

Gale Vincent

With over 25 years of commercial experience in director roles, transformational training and extensive coaching experience, Gale is passionate about inspiring and enabling individuals and their teams to unlock and fulfil their potential. Her approach combines a working knowledge of human psychology with the pragmatics of practical commercial experience. Her clients in the public sector have included the NHS, Ofsted, the ISA and various Postal Authorities and within the private sector Gale has worked in oil and gas, publishing, pharmaceuticals, financial services, IT and a with range of SME’s. She has also worked with the Princes Trust on the business advisory panel, mentoring start-ups and training their mentors. Gale is a Master Practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and is accredited in a range of psychometric tools including Insights, Lumina, MBTI and Strengthscope. She has an MSc in Change Agent skills and strategies and is an accredited coach.

Shelly Hossain

Shelly is an organisational development consultant. She specialises in leadership development, change management and personal effectiveness. Shelly has operated at senior levels and worked internationally for corporate global organisations for over 20 years. Her work has involved designing and delivering local, national and international leadership programmes for private, public and charity sectors. Shelly works with strategic /top Teams in organisations focusing on individual, team and organisation wide development, supporting and guiding on change projects and working with organisations on broader issues such as creating a world class organisation and international leadership. She brings a strong academic grounding and experience base to her work, including a focus on diversity and inclusion.

Liz Palmer

Liz has over 20 years of experience managing change in FTSE 100 companies and other environments. Liz has a particular expertise and interest in supporting culture change programmes within organisations, performance improvement, leadership development and executive coaching. Liz has worked with a wide range of organisations including private, public and not-for-profit and her focus has always been on how individuals and teams can develop themselves, both personally and professionally to have the greatest impact on the organisations in which they work. Her career has spanned engineering, operations and human resources and she has held senior positions in manufacturing and FMCG organisations. Sector experience includes aviation, engineering, education, medical research and SMEs.

Sue Young

For the last 15 years Sue has worked mainly at senior and middle levels of management as a coach and management development consultant in a range of private, public sector and not-for-profit organisations. Her development work has involved a range of approaches to learning, including team and group development workshops, facilitating Action Learning Groups and extensive coaching and mentoring. She has often combined her coaching work with team or group development. Sue brings a sound grasp of business and organisational strategy together with an approach to leadership and management development that is grounded in an understanding of the psychology and dynamics of how organisations function, and how people learn and change.

Rachel May

Rachel has over 14 years experience as a senior manager within manufacturing, retailing and healthcare. She led learning & development teams in several large UK-based businesses, supporting senior line managers as an internal consultant, across the full spectrum of business functions from Logistics to Marketing. She also spent several years specialising in team development and accelerating project team effectiveness. Rachel then moved into change & organisation development roles, supporting three significant restructures in five years, and leading work streams around culture change and integration. She has worked extensively as a consultant, facilitator and executive coach across sectors as diverse as construction engineering, central and local government, technology and defence, higher education and the NHS.

Sue Green

Sue is a highly experienced Change Consultant specialising in increasing organisational performance through people development and organisational design. Her wide-ranging background includes manufacturing, retail and central and local government. She has an extensive track record of successful delivery of cultural transformation and organisational restructures and development programmes in complex, dynamic environments. Skilled in getting maximum performance at organisational, team and individual level through working in a pragmatic and collaborative manner, Sue continuously seeks opportunities to create innovative solutions and inspire management excellence. Her excellent interpersonal skills, strong facilitation and team building abilities, are matched by her balanced and practical approach to achieving employee, company and commercial requirements.

John Aspden

A Facilitator, Trainer and Executive Coach with over 25 years experience in international sales, marketing, business and people development in healthcare, medical technology and professional services companies. John now works in organisational development, specialising in leadership and change development with the NHS, public, private and charity sectors and with a particular interest in ‘dark-side’ derailing personalities in leadership & management. With significant business & strategic development expertise both in small to medium and blue-chip organisations especially in Europe & the Middle East, he also specialises in strategy development workshops using behavioural change models to manage risk and increase performance. He works at all organisational levels including Board/C-Level. John is an Accredited Coach and is a Coach Supervisor, a Member of the Association for Coaching, trained as a Cognitive-Behavioural Psychotherapist and is DISC Behavioural Profiling Certified. He is experienced in building relationships across cultures, having lived and worked in several countries and is fluent in English & French and with a working-knowledge of German.

Chris Locke

A qualified Leadership and Talent Development coach and specialist with over 25 years of experience in a range of both public and private sector organisations driving leadership and people engagement to understand and manage complex change and build effective cultures across the world. Experience in regulated and regulatory industries. Highly skilled as a coach, facilitator, assessor and trainer and is used to operating in robust environments with people at all levels of an organisation. Chris is qualified in a range of psychometrics including: • Hogan: HBI, MVPI & HDS • Leadership Versatility Index (360°) • MBTI • Facet5 • Regular, professional supervision • Experience in coaching and facilitating Primary Care managers and leaders

Larry Shulman

Larry is a strategic leadership consultant with nearly 25 years of experience in senior roles in major blue-chip companies. He has led consultancy assignments with major organisations in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. He started his professional life in human resources and change management and then made an unusual cross-functional move into a senior sales & marketing role within a global FMCG brand where he led and grew a £25m sales, marketing and distribution business. Now as a consultant, facilitator and executive coach, Larry’s sector experience includes FMCG, retail, transport, health, charities, telecoms , local and national government. He works with senior leaders across all sectors and helps individuals, teams and whole organisations to ask the big questions. Larry is a licensed interpreter of a number of development tools, including: TEI (team emotional intelligence), MBTI Step 1 and 2, Insights and FIRO-B.