Our Team

Our associates have many years of personal experience working at the highest levels in organisations and are comfortable with board members, chief executives and senior management teams. We understand the demands faced by senior executives and have the utmost respect for the confidentiality associated with the majority of our projects.

Our Areas of Expertise

By bringing together a team of specialist associates – each at the very top of their individual fields – we have the flexibility to address the widest spectrum of leadership issues offering programmes and interventions tailored to client need.

Sheila Stokes White

Sheila’s experience includes substantial work in sensitive and political environments with a very broad range of partners including elected representatives and chief officers as well as…

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Iain Edgar

Dr Edgar is a social anthropologist based at Durham University. Before becoming an academic Iain qualified as a social worker with posts in Aberdeen and Newcastle…

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Carolyn Peacock

Carolyn Peacock had a very credible career history in the public sector with a track record of success in operational, organizational and strategic roles. She has experience…

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Monica Shaw

Professor Shaw is a social scientist with a strong record of successful senior management in Higher Education. At executive level she was responsible for leading the strategic development…

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Mike Parker
Over the last 18 years his roles have involved regular contact with politicians at local and national level reporting to councilors who form Passenger Transport Authorities…

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David Stanley

Professor David STANLEY, BPhil PhD FHEA AcSS FRSA is the foundation holder of Northumbria University’s research Chair in Social Care in the School of Health…

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