Our people
Meet the team
Jon Cowell
Executive Chairman
Jon is a practitioner, researcher, teacher and consultant in leadership. His role at Edgecumbe falls into 3 parts. As CEO, he helps to create the conditions for Edgecumbe to thrive. As an Associate Fellow at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, he helps leaders from all over the world to lead better as a programme leader, tutor, action learning set facilitator and coach; his main research interest is in the leadership of Major Projects. With Edgecumbe’s clients he assesses, coaches and develops leadership capability, working with individual leaders, senior teams and whole organisations.
Jon is a practitioner, researcher, teacher and consultant in leadership. His role at Edgecumbe falls into three parts. As Executive Chairman, he helps to create the conditions for Edgecumbe to thrive. As an Associate Fellow at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, he helps leaders from all over the world to lead better as a programme leader, tutor, action learning set facilitator and coach; his main research interest is in the leadership of Major Projects. With Edgecumbe’s clients he assesses, coaches and develops leadership capability, working with individual leaders, senior teams and whole organisations.
Dr. Megan Joffe
Health Consulting Lead
Megan is an organisational and clinical psychologist who works mainly in the assessment and development of senior people, including doctors. She is particularly interested in how the individual and the system influence one another.
Through her work with NCAS and with clinicians from all over the UK, Megan has become a leading authority in doctors and teams in difficulty.
Her experience extends to the development of leadership teams, leading change, and experiential learning. She is also an executive coach and facilitator.
Megan is an organisational and clinical psychologist who works mainly in the assessment and development of senior people, including doctors. She is particularly interested in how the individual and the system influence one another.
Through her work with NCAS and with clinicians from all over the UK, Megan has become a leading authority in doctors and teams in difficulty.
Her experience extends to the development of leadership teams, leading change, and experiential learning. She is also an executive coach and facilitator.
Rebecca Lees
Operations Director
After completing a Master’s Degree at Bristol University, Rebecca joined the business in 2012. Her main focus has been the development of our Doctor 360 toolkit, working with the GMC, RCGP and our partner company Premier IT to deliver a complete appraisal package to NHS Trusts, Primary Care groups and private medical companies. As well as managing the Doctor 360 service Rebecca went on to coordinate our appraisal training courses and gained a Level 3 Diploma in First Line Management in 2014.
Rebecca is now also our Operations Director, working across the whole of the company since June 2016 to advance the sales, marketing and client relationships at Edgecumbe. Rebecca is the main contact for our affiliate network and Primary Colours® in Practice Training Programme.
After completing a Master’s Degree at Bristol University, Rebecca joined the business in 2012. Her main focus has been the development of our Doctor 360 toolkit, working with the GMC, RCGP and our partner company Premier IT to deliver a complete appraisal package to NHS Trusts, Primary Care groups and private medical companies. As well as managing the Doctor 360 service Rebecca went on to coordinate our appraisal training courses and gained a Level 3 Diploma in First Line Management in 2014.
Rebecca is now our Operations Director, working across the whole of the company to advance the sales, marketing and client relationships at Edgecumbe. Rebecca is the main contact for our affiliate network and Primary Colours® in Practice training programme.
Sophie Mattholie
Principal Consultant and Head of Development
Sophie is a Consultant at Edgecumbe and has been with us since 2009, working across both our Corporate and Health businesses. Experienced in assessment methodology and psychometrics, Sophie specialises in leadership assessment and development, mainly with middle and senior executives in large, multi-national corporate environments.
Following her first degree in Psychology, Sophie obtained her MSc in Occupational Psychology from the University of Leicester and is a Graduate Member of the British Psychological Society, holding Level A and B certification in Psychological Testing.
Sophie is passionate about helping leaders develop their potential and has particular research interests in women in leadership.
Sophie is a Consultant at Edgecumbe and has been with us since 2009, working across both our Corporate and Health businesses. Experienced in assessment methodology and psychometrics, Sophie specialises in leadership assessment and development, mainly with middle and senior executives in large, multi-national corporate environments.
Following her first degree in Psychology, Sophie obtained her MSc in Occupational Psychology from the University of Leicester and is a Graduate Member of the British Psychological Society, holding Level A and B certification in Psychological Testing.
Sophie is passionate about helping leaders develop their potential and has particular research interests in women in leadership.
Ben Vernazza
Principal Consultant and Head of Assessment
Ben is a Chartered Psychologist and joined Edgecumbe in 2021, where he works as a Principal Consultant within the Corporate Consulting practice. He is highly experienced in consulting with clients on leadership assessment and development services having previously worked for several consultancies including Saville Consulting and OPP/The Myers Briggs Company.
Ben works at all levels with public and private sector clients and his core focus is to provide bespoke consultancy solutions that impact individual, team and organisational performance. His principal experience includes the design and delivery of assessment and development processes, leadership development, coaching, team development and the application of psychometrics. He is a skilled coach and facilitator, equipped to use a wide range of tools and techniques when supporting leaders to harness their strengths, uncover their blindspots and develop to reach their potential.
Ben is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a Registered Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council and holds an EMCC accredited coaching qualification. He is qualified to use an extensive range of psychometrics to support his practice.
Patrick Kelly
Principal Consultant and Head of Research & Analytics
Patrick has been active in the field throughout his studies; delivering psychology based teaching sessions to Sports teams such as Bristol Rovers Football Academy, Bristol Rugby and various Sports colleges. He has also assisted and run a number of research projects at the University of the West of England. Meaning Patrick comes bearing a cocktail of fresh experience, hunger to put psychological theory into practice and is driven to continue expanding his research repertoire.
Patrick is a principal consultant and has been with us since 2016 working across our corporate and health businesses. Patrick has a current focus on employee engagement, recruitment assessment and organisational research that helps provide essential, actionable insight to help your people.
He has an academic background in psychology holding a BSc in Psychology and MSc in Sport and Exercise Psychology. Patrick is also an experienced user of psychometric assessments; holds Level A and B certification in psychological testing and is a certified user of Hogrefe’s NEO and the Hogan assessments.
Patrick is passionate about exploring links across sport and occupational psychology to help optimise personal development, performance and well-being.
Jo Summers
Head of Client Project Delivery
Jo is very enthusiastic and committed to building on her skills, recently achieving her APM Certificate in Project Management. She has a first class honours degree in Psychology and a Graduate Diploma in Business Administration.
Jo joined our project management team in June 2015. Her role involves organising and controlling project activities for employee research projects, as well as leadership development programmes. Prior to working with us, Jo has a wealth of project and event management experience working in a number of different industry sectors within similar roles.
Jo is very enthusiastic and committed to building on her skills, recently achieving her APM Certificate in Project Management. She has a first class honours degree in Psychology and a Graduate Diploma in Business Administration.
Johannah Palmer
Business Manager
Johannah is also part of the Project Client Coordinator Team and provides support to our corporate business for leadership development programmes and employee engagement research.
Johannah has been with Edgecumbe for over seven years and has recently been promoted into the Business Manager role, with responsibilities in information security, data protection, governance, compliance, human resources, finance and office management. She has a passion for data protection and information security and has worked closely with the Edgecumbe senior leadership team on these areas for the last six years, fulfilling the roles of Information Security Administrator and Data Protection Officer. She is also a certified GDPR practitioner. Her latest promotion has seen her role expand to include additional finance and human resource duties and also relinquish her line manager responsibilities for the Doctor 360 team.
Victoria Newland
Consultant
After beginning his career in advertising, Nick worked as a freelance writer and training designer before switching direction to focus on strengths-based assessment and selection, leadership development and coaching.
As a Chartered Psychologist, APECS Accredited Executive Coach and Accredited Practitioner in Cognitive Analytic Therapy, Nick possesses a deep understanding of the cultural and behavioural issues surrounding organizational change. He works with public and private sector clients at all levels to enhance their personal performance and professional effectiveness, to develop the attitudes and behaviours needed to lead more effectively, and to boost levels of well being and enjoyment at work.
His coaching style is positive and constructive, and he brings high levels of energy, creativity and flexibility to his work. His focus is on creating open and supportive relationships within which clients can explore and test out more effective ways of thinking, feeling and behaving; clients describe him as highly supportive, reflective, positive and challenging.
Nick has coached and facilitated extensively across a number of sectors including Professional Services, Financial Services, Media, Pharmaceuticals, Engineering and Manufacturing.
A member of the British Psychological Society and Association of Business Psychologists, Nick obtained an MSc in Occupational Psychology from University of London, and a BSc in Psychology from the University of Manchester. He holds BPS Level A and Level B (Intermediate) qualifications in the use of psychometric instruments, and is an accredited user of a wide range of tests including the Hogan suite, NEO, OPQ32, and Firo Element B.
Victoria is a consultant at Edgecumbe and joined us in September 2021 working across our corporate business, she supports the delivery of organisational research. Victoria has a current focus on employee engagement, assessment, and organisational research, providing actionable insights to help organisations and the people within them thrive.
Victoria has an academic background in Leadership and Psychology, holding a BA (Hons) in Leadership and Management and two master’s degrees in psychology and Occupational Psychology. She is a graduate member of the British Psychological Society holding level A and B certification in psychological testing and Associate member of the CIPD. Victoria has worked in business operations, HR and organisational development across multiple sectors and also within an Occupational Health Consultancy specialising in mental health in the workplace. She holds a keen interest in wellbeing in the workplace incorporating evidence-based research techniques to make a real difference.
Georgia Feltham
Doctor 360 Service Manager
Georgia joined Edgecumbe in 2013 after completing her A-levels in Bristol. Georgia started with us as an assistant working on data entry for our Doctor 360 and has since progressed to Doctor 360 Service Manager, focussing on supporting our Doctor 360 clients and improving our tools and processing within our Health Services department. Georgia is Edgecumbe’s champion typist, averaging about a thousand words per minute (or at least it sounds like it)!
Summer Bolitho
Client Service Coordinator
Summer joined Edgecumbe in October 2021. Although graduating with a degree in Music Business at the British Institute of Modern Music in Bristol, Summer is passionate about the work that Edgecumbe provides for their clients and enjoys being part of the dedicated Doctor 360 team. Her role includes administering and enabling support for GP’s and doctors within the feedback service as part of their revalidation.
Summer joined Edgecumbe in October 2021. Although graduating with a degree in Music Business at the British Institute of Modern Music in Bristol, Summer is passionate about the work that Edgecumbe provides for their clients and enjoys being part of the dedicated Doctor 360 team. Her role includes administering and enabling support for GPs and doctors within the feedback service as part of their revalidation.
Jackie Brace
Senior Client Project Manager
As well as working as a Senior Client Project Manager, Jackie also operates as a Personal Assistant to Dr. Megan Joffe.
Ellen Dacombe
Product Owner | Doctor 360
Ellen joined Edgecumbe in 2021 as a Doctor 360 Client Coordinator and has since progressed to Product Owner. Ellen ensures that the needs of clients are met by working with the development team to continuously update the Doctor 360 system, ensuring that it is running to the highest standards with the most up-to-date functionalities and products.
Ellen joined Edgecumbe in 2021 as a Doctor 360 Client Coordinator and has since progressed to Product Owner. Ellen ensures that the needs of clients are met by working with the development team to continuously update the Doctor 360 system, ensuring that it is running to the highest standards with the most up-to-date functionalities and products.
Josh Fletcher
Client Project Assistant
These include, supporting doctors and GP’s with the Doctor 360 team to help them through the feedback area of their revalidations, and general overseeing and support of the psychometrics and 360s run by the Primary Colours side of Edgecumbe.
Josh joined the Edgecumbe team in July 2019 and now works as part of the client project delivery team. His duties include overseeing and supporting 360 surveys and psychometric assessments, and generating reports using data gathered from our tools. Josh is also the main point of contact for Edgecumbe affiliates, managing and delivering their project requirements.
Beth Carter
Client Project Coordinator
Beth joined Edgecumbe in 2019, after graduating with a BA in History of Art from the University of Manchester. As a Client Support Assistant, her role focusses on administering and providing support to clients across the health and corporate services.
Liv Whatley
Client Service Assistant
Liv joined Edgecumbe in 2023, working alongside the Doctor 360 team as the client service assistant. Liv’s role involves supporting our doctors and GPs who use the Doctor 360 platform as part of their revalidation.
Liv joined Edgecumbe in 2023, working alongside the Doctor 360 team as the client service assistant. Liv’s role involves supporting our doctors and GPs who use the Doctor 360 platform as part of their revalidation.
Iza Morley
Client Success Manager
Iza holds a degree in Business Administration from Oxford Brookes University. With her extensive experience in account and project management, she is passionate about developing and managing client relationships, as well as leading complex projects from inception to execution.
Iza joined Edgecumbe in July 2024 as a Client Success Manager. Based in the Research and Analytics division, she plays a key role in assisting the launch of the market-leading partner platform for the employee engagement service and works alongside the consultants to establish and develop excellent client relationships.
Iza holds a degree in Business Administration from Oxford Brookes University. With her extensive experience in account and project management, she is passionate about developing and managing client relationships, as well as leading complex projects from inception to execution.
Sarah Sansom
Finance Director
Sarah holds a degree in economics from York University and is a qualified Chartered Accountant, with over 15 years’ experience of working within the SME sector. Sarah joined Edgecumbe in April 2019 and has overall responsibility of the finance department.
Mel Hacker
Client Project Manager and PA to Directors
Mel manages Edgecumbe’s work with Oxford Saiid Business School, ensuring our consultant’s sessions run smoothly.
Mel is one of the team’s longest standing members, having joined us in 2006. Since then, Mel has been supporting our employee engagement, leadership development and training projects, providing co-ordination, client communication and document production.
Mel manages Edgecumbe’s work with Oxford Saïd Business School, ensuring our consultant’s sessions run smoothly.
Jeremy Greaves
Chief Marketing Officer
Jeremy has a wealth of experience in B2B marketing spanning 30 years. Jeremy works part time for Edgecumbe and also runs his own award-winning marketing agency based in Bristol. Jeremy’s role at Edgecumbe is to develop and implement the business strategy and work closely with the marketing manager to align marketing with the overall objectives of the company.
Mark Dale
Chief Technology Officer
Mark is a Technical Consultant with 20 years’ experience working in the technology industry. He has acted as Edgecumbe’s CIO since 2016, providing oversight of our technical infrastructure and Cyber Security, as well as assisting in the design and implementation of new systems. He works closely with both our customers and our technology partners to ensure that we have the systems and the processes in place to provide and smooth, effective and above all secure service.
Dr. Jenny King
Special Advisor
Jenny remains an Affiliate of Edgecumbe after retiring from the Company in 2015. After gaining a Postgraduate Diploma in Executive Coaching from Ashridge Business School, she now works almost exclusively as a coach, with a variety of senior managers and Executives from the health, corporate and voluntary sectors. She is also a Lay Reviewer for the Royal College of Surgeons’ Invited Review Mechanism.
Dr Jenny King, CPsychol, FRCGP (Hon), FRCP(Edin)
EMCC (Global) Accredited Coach
Jenny is a co-founder of Edgecumbe Consulting and the former Director and Practice Lead for Edgecumbe Health. Jenny has over 30 years’ experience of assessing, developing and training leaders in a wide range of organisations and sectors. For most of her career, Jenny specialised in working with doctors and clinical teams across the NHS, contributing to the development of national assessment methods for medical doctors. In 2018 she was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners.
Jenny remains an affiliate of Edgecumbe after retiring from the company in 2015. After gaining a Postgraduate Diploma in Executive Coaching from Ashridge Business School, she now works almost exclusively as an executive coach for the health, corporate and voluntary sectors. She is a Lay Reviewer for the Royal College of Surgeons’ and Royal College of Physicians’ Invited Review teams.
Dr David Pendleton
Special Advisor
David, a co-founder of the Edgecumbe Group, has worked in most organisational sectors and on five continents. He specialises in the assessment and development of leaders and leadership. David’s ideas have been captured in several books of which two are particularly well-known. In the field of leadership, he has most recently published, with Prof Adrian Furnham of UCL, Leadership: all you need to know (first published by Palgrave Macmillan 2012, second edition 2016). In this book he describes the evolution of the Primary Colours ® Model of Leadership, its four propositions and their relevance to the leadership of 21st century organisations.
Earlier in his career, in the field of medical communication, he published The Consultation jointly with Theo Schofield, Peter Tate and Peter Havelock (first published by Oxford University Press in 1983, all new edition published 2003). This book won the 2011 Lynn Payer Award of the American Academy on Communication in Healthcare and is often cited as the source of a task based approach to consulting with patients and of the eponymous ‘Pendleton Rules’ for feedback. In the field of healthcare, David is an experienced consultant. He was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners in 1997 and is now a member of their Trustee Board.
David is Professor in Leadership at Henley Business School. He is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, of Oxford University’s Saïd Business School. Educated at Nottingham and Oxford Universities, David is a Chartered Psychologist with over 30 years’ experience of working to develop the effectiveness of individuals, teams and organisations.
David, a co-founder of the Edgecumbe Group, has worked in most organisational sectors and on five continents. He specialises in the assessment and development of leaders and leadership. David’s ideas have been captured in several books of which two are particularly well-known. In the field of leadership, he has most recently published, with Prof Adrian Furnham of UCL, Leadership: all you need to know (first published by Palgrave Macmillan 2012, second edition 2016). In this book he describes the evolution of the Primary Colours ® Model of Leadership, its four propositions and their relevance to the leadership of 21st century organisations.
Earlier in his career, in the field of medical communication, he published The Consultation jointly with Theo Schofield, Peter Tate and Peter Havelock (first published by Oxford University Press in 1983, all new edition published 2003). This book won the 2011 Lynn Payer Award of the American Academy on Communication in Healthcare and is often cited as the source of a task based approach to consulting with patients and of the eponymous ‘Pendleton Rules’ for feedback. In the field of healthcare, David is an experienced consultant. He was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners in 1997 and is now a member of their Trustee Board.
Caroline Taplin
Associate Health Consultant
Caroline is an expert in medical appraisal and has extensive experience of appraiser training, multi-source feedback, quality assurance of appraisal systems and consulting on appraisal strategy.
Chartered DCIPD, ACII, FPC
Caroline is a Fellow member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and has over 20 years Human Resources and Organisational Development experience both within the private and public sectors, much of it in the NHS.
Caroline is an expert in medical appraisal and has extensive experience of appraiser training, multi-source feedback, quality assurance of appraisal systems and consulting on appraisal strategy.
Chartered DCIPD, ACII, FPC
Amanda Pigny
Associate Consultant
With a keen interest and breadth of experience in assessment methodology and psychometrics, she has a particular focus on designing quality driven solutions that are bespoke to client needs and which put the candidate and participant experience at the heart of this, managing difficult situations sensitively and flexibly.
MSc, MCIPD
Mandy holds an MSc in occupational psychology and is a chartered member of the CIPD. Having begun her corporate career in human resources she moved to consultancy and has over 15 years’ experience specialising in the design and delivery of assessment and development centres for public and private sector clients.
With a keen interest and breadth of experience in assessment methodology and psychometrics, she has a particular focus on designing quality driven solutions that are bespoke to client needs and which put the candidate and participant experience at the heart of this, managing difficult situations sensitively and flexibly.
MSc, MCIPD
Joy Palfery
Associate Consultant
Joy is widely respected chartered psychologist who enjoys helping to find a better fit between people and work. She works with individuals and teams to help them identify the right people to fill gaps and both facilitates groups and coaches individuals to enable them to be the best they can be. She works internationally with clients like Allianz, Anglo American, Borealis, BP, Heathrow, Janssen, Marks and Spencer, Old Mutual Wealth, Rolls Royce, RBS and Vodafone.
Her approach is positive, practical and business focused. Clients find her easy to get on with and appreciate her ability to draw deep insights and foster them in others. Highly experienced and constantly developing herself, Joy has a wide range of tools and approaches to draw on, enabling her to adapt to different cultures, contexts and individuals in order to facilitate meaningful and lasting change.
Recent assignments include:
- Designing and running a cross-Europe development centre for middle managers in Borealis
- Assessing senior leaders in Marks and Spencer for development, with feedback and coaching
- Delivering ‘leadership essentials’ programmes for middle managers in Vodafone, covering subjects including coaching skills, interviewing skills, self-awareness and performance management
- Coaching senior leaders on areas such as delegating, personal influence and tackling difficult conversations
- Supporting several well known charities in evaluating suitable candidates for CEO roles
- Assessing for a variety of senior technical roles in Anglo American, addressing the challenge of balancing technical and leadership job requirements
- Delivering high-impact building resilience through change workshops in several different financial institutions
Joy is an active member of the profession; she reviews conference papers for the British Psychological Society, is a founding member of the local Association for Business Psychology coaching supervision network and has been a supervisor for practitioners in training. She is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a Chartered Scientist and a qualified Coach and NLP Business Practitioner. She is qualified in an unusually large selection of psychometrics for evaluating personality, emotional intelligence, cognitive capacity and learning agility, and has trained others in market leading tools like OPQ or using MBTI for team building.
CPsychol, AFBPsS, CSci, MSc, PPABP, BA (hons)
Joy is widely respected chartered psychologist who enjoys helping to find a better fit between people and work. She works with individuals and teams to help them identify the right people to fill gaps and both facilitates groups and coaches individuals to enable them to be the best they can be. She works internationally with clients like Allianz, Anglo American, Borealis, BP, Heathrow, Janssen, Marks and Spencer, Old Mutual Wealth, Rolls Royce, RBS and Vodafone.
Her approach is positive, practical and business focused. Clients find her easy to get on with and appreciate her ability to draw deep insights and foster them in others. Highly experienced and constantly developing herself, Joy has a wide range of tools and approaches to draw on, enabling her to adapt to different cultures, contexts and individuals in order to facilitate meaningful and lasting change.
Recent assignments include:
- Designing and running a cross-Europe development centre for middle managers in Borealis
- Assessing senior leaders in Marks and Spencer for development, with feedback and coaching
- Delivering ‘leadership essentials’ programmes for middle managers in Vodafone, covering subjects including coaching skills, interviewing skills, self-awareness and performance management
- Coaching senior leaders on areas such as delegating, personal influence and tackling difficult conversations
- Supporting several well known charities in evaluating suitable candidates for CEO roles
- Assessing for a variety of senior technical roles in Anglo American, addressing the challenge of balancing technical and leadership job requirements
- Delivering high-impact building resilience through change workshops in several different financial institutions
Joy is an active member of the profession; she reviews conference papers for the British Psychological Society, is a founding member of the local Association for Business Psychology coaching supervision network and has been a supervisor for practitioners in training. She is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a Chartered Scientist and a qualified Coach and NLP Business Practitioner. She is qualified in an unusually large selection of psychometrics for evaluating personality, emotional intelligence, cognitive capacity and learning agility, and has trained others in market leading tools like OPQ or using MBTI for team building.
CPsychol, AFBPsS, CSci, MSc, PPABP, BA (hons)
Felicity Gibling
Associate Consultant
Felicity is Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, member of the International Society for Coaching Psychology and a founder member of the Association of Business Psychologists; she is registered with the Health and Care Professions Council. She is a certified and experienced user of many psychological tests, including NEO, Hogan, 16PF, MBTI, FIRO-B, OPQ, CPI.
She has over 25 years’ experience in business and as a consultant, working globally and across a variety of sectors and organisations, including engineering and manufacturing, banking and finance, local authority, gas and oil industry, retail, IT, law enforcement worldwide and the public sector. She facilitates leadership development as part of a peace building programme with women leaders across the Balkans and has specialist expertise in the psychology of wellbeing and psycho-physiology of stress. She regularly coaches on programmes for Oxford Business School.
Felicity holds a BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD and post-graduate certificates (with merit) in coaching and mentoring and in training and development.
She is a Chartered Psychologist.
An experienced business psychologist, Felicity has breadth of experience in coaching and leadership development, assessment methodology, culture and organizational development. She is a passionate advocate of personal growth and change through coaching, helping people to define goals that will enhance personal, professional and organisational performance and effectiveness. Through honest dialogue and the use of diagnostic psychological tests, she encourages people to realize their full potential and the potential capability of their teams. Her coaching style is constructive, positive and strengths-based, and she seeks to develop insights through reflection and challenge, to explore different ways of seeing and approaching personal and professional situations.
Felicity is Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, member of the International Society for Coaching Psychology and a founder member of the Association of Business Psychologists; she is registered with the Health and Care Professions Council. She is a certified and experienced user of many psychological tests, including NEO, Hogan, 16PF, MBTI, FIRO-B, OPQ, CPI.
She has over 25 years’ experience in business and as a consultant, working globally and across a variety of sectors and organisations, including engineering and manufacturing, banking and finance, local authority, gas and oil industry, retail, IT, law enforcement worldwide and the public sector. She facilitates leadership development as part of a peace building programme with women leaders across the Balkans and has specialist expertise in the psychology of wellbeing and psycho-physiology of stress. She regularly coaches on programmes for Oxford Business School.
Felicity holds a BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD and post-graduate certificates (with merit) in coaching and mentoring and in training and development.
She is a Chartered Psychologist.
Caroline Gourlay
Associate Consultant
Caroline is a Chartered Psychologist with up to 20 years’ experience of supporting people and organisations to thrive. Her primary fields of expertise are the assessment and development of executives. She has designed assessment processes, including full scale assessment centres.
Caroline carries out in depth, psychological profiling of senior managers for selection, promotion and succession planning purposes. She has also assessed entire teams on behalf of private equity firms for Management Due Diligence exercises prior to acquisition or investment. She is qualified to use a wide range of psychometric instruments, including Cognitive Process Profile, NEO-PI, 16PF5, MBTI Steps I & II and Wave.
Additionally Caroline holds a Diploma in Leadership Coaching from the Institute of Leadership and Management and a Certificate in Counselling Skills from the Spectrum Centre for Humanistic Psychotherapy. She is an experienced coach, who works on leadership development programmes at Saïd Business School, Oxford University. Prior to retraining as a psychologist, Caroline had a successful career in IT, including business analysis and project management. She brings something of the analytical approach used in IT to her work as a psychologist and is adept at getting to the heart of the matter.
Caroline works in two main fields – with middle and senior executives in large, multi-national corporate environments and with the owner-managers of medium-sized businesses, some of which are family-owned. She has also trained professional advisors, such as lawyers and accountants, on the dynamics of family businesses.
Caroline is a Chartered Psychologist with over 20 years’ experience of supporting people and organisations to thrive. Her primary fields of expertise are the assessment and development of executives. She has designed assessment processes, including full scale assessment centres.
Caroline carries out in depth, psychological profiling of senior managers for selection, promotion and succession planning purposes. She has also assessed entire teams on behalf of private equity firms for Management Due Diligence exercises prior to acquisition or investment. She is qualified to use a wide range of psychometric instruments, including Cognitive Process Profile, NEO-PI, 16PF5, MBTI Steps I & II and Wave.
Additionally Caroline holds a Diploma in Leadership Coaching from the Institute of Leadership and Management and a Certificate in Counselling Skills from the Spectrum Centre for Humanistic Psychotherapy. She is an experienced coach, who works on leadership development programmes at Saïd Business School, Oxford University. Prior to retraining as a psychologist, Caroline had a successful career in IT, including business analysis and project management. She brings something of the analytical approach used in IT to her work as a psychologist and is adept at getting to the heart of the matter.
Caroline works in two main fields – with middle and senior executives in large, multi-national corporate environments and with the owner-managers of medium-sized businesses, some of which are family-owned. She has also trained professional advisors, such as lawyers and accountants, on the dynamics of family businesses.
Nick Clark
Associate Consultant
After beginning his career in advertising, Nick worked as a freelance writer and training designer before switching direction to focus on strengths-based assessment and selection, leadership development and coaching.
As a Chartered Psychologist, APECS Accredited Executive Coach and Accredited Practitioner in Cognitive Analytic Therapy, Nick possesses a deep understanding of the cultural and behavioural issues surrounding organizational change. He works with public and private sector clients at all levels to enhance their personal performance and professional effectiveness, to develop the attitudes and behaviours needed to lead more effectively, and to boost levels of well being and enjoyment at work.
His coaching style is positive and constructive, and he brings high levels of energy, creativity and flexibility to his work. His focus is on creating open and supportive relationships within which clients can explore and test out more effective ways of thinking, feeling and behaving; clients describe him as highly supportive, reflective, positive and challenging.
Nick has coached and facilitated extensively across a number of sectors including Professional Services, Financial Services, Media, Pharmaceuticals, Engineering and Manufacturing.
A member of the British Psychological Society and Association of Business Psychologists, Nick obtained an MSc in Occupational Psychology from University of London, and a BSc in Psychology from the University of Manchester. He holds BPS Level A and Level B (Intermediate) qualifications in the use of psychometric instruments, and is an accredited user of a wide range of tests including the Hogan suite, NEO, OPQ32, and Firo Element B.
Nick Clark is a highly experienced facilitator and executive coach with almost two decades of experience in improving the effectiveness of managers and leaders across a range of private and public sector organizations.
After beginning his career in advertising, Nick worked as a freelance writer and training designer before switching direction to focus on strengths-based assessment and selection, leadership development and coaching.
As a Chartered Psychologist, APECS Accredited Executive Coach and Accredited Practitioner in Cognitive Analytic Therapy, Nick possesses a deep understanding of the cultural and behavioural issues surrounding organizational change. He works with public and private sector clients at all levels to enhance their personal performance and professional effectiveness, to develop the attitudes and behaviours needed to lead more effectively, and to boost levels of well being and enjoyment at work.
His coaching style is positive and constructive, and he brings high levels of energy, creativity and flexibility to his work. His focus is on creating open and supportive relationships within which clients can explore and test out more effective ways of thinking, feeling and behaving; clients describe him as highly supportive, reflective, positive and challenging.
Nick has coached and facilitated extensively across a number of sectors including Professional Services, Financial Services, Media, Pharmaceuticals, Engineering and Manufacturing.
A member of the British Psychological Society and Association of Business Psychologists, Nick obtained an MSc in Occupational Psychology from University of London, and a BSc in Psychology from the University of Manchester. He holds BPS Level A and Level B (Intermediate) qualifications in the use of psychometric instruments, and is an accredited user of a wide range of tests including the Hogan suite, NEO, OPQ32, and Firo Element B.
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