As an organisational development consultant, I work alongside clients to craft bespoke organisational transformation strategies and interventions that will drive meaningful, sustainable change aligned with purpose, strategy, culture and context. I have deep skills in organisational change, executive facilitation, leadership development, and coaching, and have led clients through culture and process change, organisational restructuring, strategic planning, new technology adoption, talent management and individual and team development.

 

With solid practical experience as a leader in global organisations and a robust academic background, I am adaptive and skilled in building effective working relationships across complex organisations and diverse cultures, having worked in EMEA, South Africa, China, Brazil, Mexico and the US with global, multinational, and regional organisations. Clients include Avanade, the NHS, the Church of England, HSBC, ArcelorMittal, Unilever, Novartis, GSK, Daimler Mercedes Benz, Newy & Eyre, TransUnion (formerly CallCredit), Brose, International Committee of the Red Cross.

 

I’m an honourary fellow at Exeter University Business School, where I provide programme design, research and teaching on responsible leadership, women’s leadership and organisational change. As a scholar, my research focus is on leadership, power, change and gender. I led a comprehensive study into gender balance in the UK, including more than 50 lived experience interviews with 17 organisations and over 850 survey respondents, highlighting the impact of persistent gender bias on men and women, and identifying best practices for equity. I’m a peer reviewer for the academic journals Gender in Management and Action Research and a Non-Executive Director for MemoryWorks, a community interest company enabling people to live well with dementia.

 

Previously, I was a Managing Director at Duke Corporate Education, where I built and led a portfolio of global business in executive education (~£5.5m rev), designing and delivering customised programmes in Europe, South American and Asia, whilst developing thought-leadership in the areas of leadership, gender, diversity and inclusion.  Prior to DukeCE, I was a corporate client director and faculty at Ashridge Business School, a business leader at Microsoft, Oracle, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and a strategy consultant at KPMG.

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Qualifications:

Doctor of Professional Studies in Organisational Change (Ashridge/Middlesex University), with a research focus on gender equality in management education; MBA (Vanderbilt University); MDip Leadership for Change (Boston College) and BA Journalism (University of Texas).  I am a certified Coach (ICF) and qualified in the Leadership Development Profile, MBTI Step I and II, FiroB, SDI, the Team Management Profile and the MSCEIT assessment instrument for emotional intelligence.  I am a qualified Advanced Yoga Teacher (RYT-500) and teach Yoga for Cancer.