What we do

We specialise in bringing you thought-provoking, research-based development that enables your people to have purposeful and inspiring conversations across every aspect of your business. Working in partnership with you, we create unique solutions designed to fit your culture and support your aspirations.

We help you have thought-provoking conversations that...

  • Energise teams
  • Imagine the future
  • Build trust
  • Tackle conflict
  • Develop talent
  • Win more business

Meet the team

Our core team of professionals share a passion for developing the kind of conversation skills that shift mindsets to inspire people and power performance in organisations.

  • David McDermott
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    David McDermott

    David McDermott

    Director of Business Development Solutions - David specialises in business development solutions and has worked with clients all over the world. He is an expert in competitive pitching, consultative sales and negotiating. David is also extremely passionate about music. In fact, he is a walking encyclopaedia of artists such as ‘Yes’ and ‘Frank Zappa’.

  • Nicola Maxwell
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    Nicola Maxwell

    Nicola Maxwell

    Director of Leadership & Management Solutions - Nicola specialises in the design and delivery of development solutions for managers and leaders across a wide range of organisations. Her expertise lies in partnering with clients to identify the right development solution; one that’s bespoke and tailored to their specific requirements. She delivers engaging events that help participants develop highly effective management and leadership skills. Living on the coast, she enjoys running or walking with her energetic cocker spaniel and being out on the water with her paddleboard.

  • Tina Korup
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    Tina Korup

    Tina Korup

    Principal Psychologist - As a business psychologist, Tina has vast experience coaching and assessing leaders at senior management level. She works with business leaders who are motivated to make a difference and specialises in leading change, navigating complexity and agile thinking. Tina also consults on talent management strategies for leadership pipeline development and heads up our leadership assessment team. Danish and slightly obsessive about her native country’s architecture, furniture and design, Tina spends a lot of her time creating ‘hoogli’ spaces and painting stuff white.

  • Coretta Barry
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    Coretta Barry

    Coretta Barry

    Chartered Business Psychologist - Coretta is a chartered psycholgist working in the field of leadership assessment, talent and development. She has worked with an impressive range of organisations to design and successfully implement a range of bespoke assessment and development initiatives, team development projects, one-to-one executive coaching, leadership and management development programmes. She loves walking in the Scottish hills with her two naughty terriers.

  • Tania Watson
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    Tania Watson

    Tania Watson

    Senior Leadership Consultant - Tania is an executive coach and group facilitator, supporting business leaders and senior teams to accelerate personal and corporate performance. Taking an outcome-focused and incisive approach, Tania quickly gets to the heart of the matter and is skilful at finding the balance between challenging and supporting her clients to make the necessary changes both at a personal and professional level. Outside work, Tania loves to express her creativity through writing both lyrics and novels and through singing.

  • Annabel Graham
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    Annabel Graham

    Annabel Graham

    Leadership Consultant - Annabel has extensive experience working in senior management roles, within HR in employee relations, policy and strategy formation, employee engagement, L&D and OD. She is highly commercial with a strong customer focus and has worked with clients in retail, financial and professional services, healthcare and not for profit sectors. When not surrounded by flip charts in the training room, she can be found hiking, either in the Bedfordshire countryside with her dogs, or up a hill in the National Parks.

  • Ernesto Moreno
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    Ernesto Moreno

    Ernesto Moreno

    Management Consultant - Ernesto has accumulated more than 20 years of consulting experience in the areas of organisational development, change management and people development. His client experience covers public, private and non-profit organisations both in the UK and abroad and he is a specialist in leadership development and behavioural change. Ernesto is also an accomplished entrepreneur who has set up a number of successful businesses. Originally from Venezuela, Ernesto has been living in the UK since 2003. He is passionate about travelling and has visited more than 52 countries across all continents. When he isn't working or travelling, he is developing his own business ventures or playing with Benji, his Jack Russell puppy.

  • Mark Hayes
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    Mark Hayes

    Mark Hayes

    Business Development Consultant - Mark is an accomplished L&D professional and is particularly skilled in delivering sales and business development solutions. He has extensive international L&D project experience in Europe, the Middle-East, USA and the South Pacific. Mark was fortunate to be invited to join a crew to sail the Atlantic from Boston to Cowes via the Azores aboard Yellow Drama IV (RTYC).

  • Rebecca Stevens
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    Rebecca Stevens

    Rebecca Stevens

    Leadership Consultant - Rebecca has worked as a business psychologist, leadership coach and organisation development consultant for over 20 years.  She brings a systemic perspective to her work with individuals, teams and organisations.  Her approach is inquiry-based, combining both horizontal (skills and knowledge) and vertical (mindset) development, which equips individuals to more easily navigate and thrive in today’s complex, unpredictable and ambiguous world. Rebecca enjoys running, cycling and walking, and living on a smallholding in Devon.

  • Mel Bligh
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    Mel Bligh

    Mel Bligh

    Leadership Consultant - Mel has twenty two years experience in learning & development. As a Leadership Development Consultant and Executive Coach, she facilitates the effective learning of both leaders and teams, resulting in enhanced skills and performance.
    Mel has a wealth of experience working in both multinational corporate and public sector environments, driving transformational change through people. Mel lives in Yorkshire with her family. She is a qualified personal trainer and enjoys writing comedy.

  • Matt Hayden
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    Matt Hayden

    Matt Hayden

    Business Development Consultant - Following a career in sales and leadership roles, Matt found his true vocation as a trainer. He has twelve years experience in designing and delivering training in business development skills, as well as communication and influencing skills. He is always keen to work on the research side to develop a deeper understanding of psychology and behaviour to create lasting, positive change. Matt loves history, current affairs, music, theatre, live comedy and film.

  • Tony Harris
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    Tony Harris

    Tony Harris

    Business Development Consultant - Tony has over 20 years of experience in senior leadership roles in financial services. He is passionate about skills-based training for individuals and teams, believing that, “you haven’t got to be sick to get better!” He is known for his passion and high energy when working with leaders to develop high performing teams or improving presentational and consultative sales skills. He is most likely to be found cycling locally in Sussex, or across Europe, often trying to catch up with his two faster daughters.

  • Jo Herrington
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    Jo Herrington

    Jo Herrington

    Leadership Consultant - With a background in professional and financial services, Jo has over 20 years' experience of working in partnership with organisations to design and implement learning and talent development solutions. Whether working with individuals to shift mindsets through coaching, bringing a team together to better understand how they can get the most from each other or developing talented leaders to propel a business forward, Jo relishes the challenge of building relationships, solving problems and offering high quality solutions that make a difference. In her spare time she likes to wander the globe experiencing new cultures. Back in London she can be found at the theatre, in the gym, trying a new restaurant or on the sofa with her cat!

  • Simon Kanani
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    Simon Kanani

    Simon Kanani

    Leadership Consultant - Simon has held senior leadership roles in global organisations and draws on his extensive experience of leading complex change for investment banks, consultancies and technology companies. He loves to bring an incisive spark to developing great leaders and teams. This is allied with a specialism in coaching for emotional intelligence and resilience. Simon enjoys walking and will soon be trekking 26 miles for The Alzheimer’s Society. He is often inspired by (sometimes obsessed with!) discovering new forms of self-expression including food, music and art.

  • Aisling Callaghan
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    Aisling Callaghan

    Aisling Callaghan

    Chartered Occupational Psychologist - Aisling specialises in individual, team and organisational change and growth. She is an experienced leadership and organisation development consultant and accredited coach, working in leadership development, culture change, organisation design/transformation, talent, assessment, capability, skills and behaviour change, team coaching and individual coaching. Aisling has worked in many industries, geographies and organisation sizes and, through her collaborative approach, loves to help people and organisations thrive and serve their purpose. Aisling lives in North Berwick just outside Edinburgh and, when she’s not partnering brilliant clients towards great outcomes, she is spending time with her family, friends and mini-Dachshund by the sea and back in Ireland.

  • Melissa Di Cristoforo
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    Melissa Di Cristoforo

    Melissa Di Cristoforo

    Leadership Consultant - Melissa’s passion is to support individuals, teams, and organisations grow, develop and embrace change. She enjoys helping people see, think and do differently. Her experience spans across a variety of HR specialties including HR business partner roles, talent acquisition, HR services management, organisation learning and development and change management. She has partnered with a diverse range of functions and sites across local, regional and global teams. She is a proud wife and mother to two amazing children who keep her energetic, laughing and enjoying life.

  • David Joyce
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    David Joyce

    David Joyce

    Leadership Consultant - David is a strategy, leadership, and performance coach. He spent the first two decades of his career in the upper echelons of world sport where he coached and led teams to elite-level success. He is a strong advocate of strengths-based leadership and the transformational power of intentional performance conversations. He has spent most of the latter part of his career as a leadership and decision-making coach working with executive teams that grapple with complex problems and difficult situations. After having lived and worked all over the world, David now lives in Sydney with his wife and two mischievous kids, and when not working, he is usually exercising or baking bread.

The clients we work with