Dr Carol Barnes PHD, Cpschol, AFBPsS
Associate Consultant
Carol is a chartered psychologist and management consultant with a doctorate from Leeds University. Since 1992 she has worked with a wide range of organisations in the private and public sectors as facilitator, trainer and coaching consultant.
Her work includes leadership and management development, skills training in appraisal, performance management and communication; the facilitation of change programmes; quality assurance of Performance Review and Appraisal systems; development of competency frameworks; personal development through one-to-one executive and performance coaching, team-building and team coaching.
Sam Wakefield MSc, CIPD
Associate Consultant
Samantha Wakefield is an experienced management consultant, facilitator and coach with an interest in change, leadership development and management training. She puts a partnership approach at the heart of her work and builds strong relationships with clients looking to improve the health and performance of their organisations. Samantha's background includes 16 years of consulting experience in the private, not-for-profit and public (health) sectors.
Samantha’s academic background includes an M.Sc in Training and Development, a Post Graduate Certificate in Psychodynamic Thinking and a Diploma in Management Coaching and Mentoring. She is a qualified and licensed psychometrics practitioner and belongs to the CIPD and the Association for Coaching.
Mike Udin BSc, Chartered FCIPD
Associate Consultant
Mike is a highly experienced management development consultant working extensively within the public and corporate sectors, in the UK and internationally. He has delivered a wide range of development programmes to sectors that include banking, insurance, pharmaceuticals, transport, housing and the health sector. His focus is on enabling personal and team awareness and in helping individuals to develop their management and leadership capability to achieve their full potential.
Mike is an outstanding presenter, able to work creatively with large and small groups, and is a very skilled facilitator of team events and an experienced coach.
Keith Goddard MSc, CPsychol, AFBPsS, FITOL, MISMA
Associate Consultant
Keith is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, and holds a BA(Hons) in Psychology from the University of Durham and an MSc in Occupational Psychology from Birkbeck College, London. He main interests are organisational change, including organisational restructure, succession mapping exercises, and designing and running performance management programmes. He has worked in a wide variety of sectors including retail, telecommunications, multi-utilities, manufacturing, construction, airlines, insurance, finance, research institutes, local government business advisory services, local authority and in the NHS.
Dr Peter Havelock
Associate Consultant
Peter is a retired GP in Buckinghamshire. He has been involved with teaching and learning for over 30 years, as a trainer, course organiser, GP Tutor, and now as an Associate Advisor to the Oxford Region.
He was an examiner for the RCGP and taken a key role in the teacher development and communication skills training within the deanery. His special interests are in communication skills, team development, the management of poor performance and the development of quality in primary health care. His recent publications are on teaching in general practice and developing effective communication and teams in general practice.
Professor Rosslynne Freeman
Associate Consultant
Rosslynne is a medical educationalist of international renown. She works all over the world in postgraduate education advising deaneries and other educational institutions in Faculty Development, educational approaches to address institutional issues around Clinical Governance, introducing appraisal, ethics and communication skills.
She is a policy advisor to NCAS and an educational advisor to the RCGP. She has a particular interest in mentoring and the contribution mentoring can make to performance and professional development. She is committed to cultural diversity and is interested in how to take diversity into the workplace without compromising standards of medical practice.
Karen Frost
Associate Consultant
Karen has more than 20 years experience working in business across the spectrum of private, public and voluntary sectors. She holds a MBA and a variety of postgraduate coaching qualifications from the Oxford School of Coaching and Mentoring. She is also a qualified and registered psychometrics practitioner. Over the past 12 years Karen has previously spent 5 years as an Internal Coach and Line Manager for the Leadership Trust and for the past 7 years has worked as a freelance coach and trainer. She is a member of the European Coaching and Mentoring council and currently sits on their Standards Committee.
Alison Freer BA (hons) MCIPD
Associate Consultant
Alison is an experienced coach, facilitator and trainer, specialising in working with groups and individual who lead and are affected by organisational change and transition. With over 13 years management consulting experience, Alison has worked with clients in the Health, engineering, IT and enterprise development sectors. Alison’s goal is to enable people to be themselves at work and to maximise their personal effectiveness in doing so. Alison is a qualified psychometrics practitioner and coach.
Conall Platts BA (hons) MSc CPsychol
Associate Consultant
Conall is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, and holds a BA (Hons) in Psychology and Sociology from Leicester University and an MSc in Occupational Psychology from Cranfield University. Coming from a medical family, he has always been intrigued by the psychological aspects of health and well-being, and this led him to the profession of applied psychology. Conall now works nationally and internationally, across sectors and industries, focusing on enabling real organizational achievement through people.
Conall’s background includes extensive experience in assessment, psychometrics, leadership development, executive coaching, organizational development, performance management, team development and inter-cultural working. Conall has worked extensively in the commercial sector with blue-chip companies including Lafarge, KPMG, ABN-AMRO, Aspen RE and Punch Taverns. He has particular experience working with Doctors and teams in difficulty across a range of NHS Trusts. He has worked with a wide range of NHS management teams and clinicians, particularly those transitioning into clinical leadership roles. He has experience of working with deaneries, commissioners, boards, in-tact clinical teams and cross-functional groups. He is an active committee member of the BPS’ Special Group in Coaching Psychology and a founding member of the internationally-based Society for Coaching Psychology.
Dean Taylor MSc, C.Psychol.
Associate Consultant
Dean is a chartered occupational psychologist with an MSc in Applied Psychology from Cranfield University. Since 1994 his work has focused on identifying and developing leadership and team potential. In industry, he has worked extensively at senior levels within the manufacturing and financial sectors. In the public sector, his experience spans central and local government, police services, and extensive work within the NHS. His specialist skills include the design and application of assessment processes for selection and development; management and leadership training; competency framework design; and team development.
Ross Boddington
Ros has worked for over 20 years in the field of personal, team and organisational development at national, regional and local level in the NHS, following an early career in general nursing and nurse education. She has extensive experience in leadership and management development activities including the design and delivery of assessment and development centres, the facilitation of learning sets and team development and coaching as well as in programmes for service redesign and change management. Throughout this period she has also undertaken a wide range of consultancy activities in the UK and overseas. In recent years Ros has been co-ordinating national work to support and develop organisations with significant challenges, with a particular focus on the application of team based working and airline industry research to the patient safety and governance agenda. She is a licensed user of a number of psychometric instruments and an accredited mediator.
Dr Carol Barnes
