who are we?

Terry Wright

In addition to being a Chartered Fellow of the UK Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (FCIPD), Terry is a qualified and experienced coach, mentor and facilitator. Terry has many years’ experience as a Director of Human Resources in both the public and private sectors, working at a strategic and policy level. Terry’s innovative approaches to people management are always linked to his clients’ business success.

Hywel Evans

Since 1978 Hywel has been involved with a number of strategic and practical aspects of social and economic development, working with the Development Board for Rural Wales, and later as the Chief Executive of Menter a Busnes. Hywel specialises in coaching and facilitation – having worked with individuals and organisations, boards of directors and management teams, as well as facilitating partnerships. He also has considerable experience of mainstreaming the Welsh language and can deliver services bilingually.

Debbie Wilcox

Debbie is an HR professional with over 20 years experience across all aspects of Human Resources.  Over the last few years she has focused on strategic HR and coaching and mentoring.

 Working with management teams as lead HR business partner, Debbie has led organisation wide projects such as developing a performance culture and developing workforce planning.

John Ashford

Is a highly trained and experienced specialist in leadership, team and personal development, built on the back of a successful career in marketing and general management to board level. He combines his commercial experience and people development expertise to help senior executives and their organizations to transfer people’s potential and learning into tangible bottom line business performance. John is a qualified coach and a trained assessor for coaching and mentoring quality awards.

Linda Charlton

Specialises in supporting individuals, teams and organisations working to improve their practice. Linda has extensive experience of working in public sector organisations, operating at board level for more than ten years. She has particular experience of leading programmes of work that deliver cultural and operational change in organisations. Her interest and skills lie in the areas of service improvement, staff and stakeholder engagement, managing change, and equality and diversity in practice.

Jacqui Hartas

Is a chartered business psychologist and qualified coach, mediator and psychometric practitioner, Jacqui has over 20 years experience of business, management and consulting. Her proven coaching tools and techniques come from both psychology and business and form a powerful combination with her insight, perspective and strategic vision. Her approach is positive, constructive, creative and challenging. Her main interests are in using coaching and facilitation to identify and develop leadership strengths, professional success and positive change. Jacqui works across all sectors and at all levels, she has worked with Directors and Board members at BAE Systems, B&Q, The Engineering Employers Federation (EEF), Aerosystems International, Fidelity and International SOS, and with Vice Chancellors, Heads of Department and Managers at Brunel, Kingston, St George’s, Royal Holloway and
Goldsmiths Universities.

Tony Elvin

Has worked with young people, from mainstream youngsters to those with special needs and challenging behaviour, for over 15 years. For the last 6 years he was head of Training and Development at Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen Foundation. His responsibilities included creating, managing and developing the highly innovative London training programme, as well as setting up and over seeing the Fifteen Franchise training programmes in Amsterdam, Melbourne and Cornwal. Tony has been a Board Member of Westway Housing Association for over 6 years, sitting on its Policy and Performance Committee and is on the Board of Access to Employment, an NGO seeking to bring long-term unemployed back into employment. He is a member of the Home Office reference Group the Corporate Alliance, sitting on the employer reference group and the Marketing and Communications sub committee. He is a founder subscriber of MY- Life an NGO in Cape Town which aims to get young people off the streets into accommodation and into employment.

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