MAYVIN - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Senior Client Coordinator
Abi has worked in Operations for over a decade, predominantly within the education sector. She has extensive experience working in online events and thrives working in a busy environment.
Abi has worked in Operations for over a decade, predominantly within the education sector. She has extensive experience working in online events and thrives working in a busy environment.
Abi believes that collaboration and communication are key to success and will always strive to build trust and respect with her colleagues and clients. She loves to learn about others and establish genuine meaningful connections.
She is known for her adaptable and friendly personality and will approach every challenge with a positive attitude. She has a strong work ethic and is committed to delivering high quality results.
Abi has a curious nature and a passion for learning and constantly looks for ways to improve and grow, both professionally and personally.
When Abi is not working she spends as much time as she can outdoors with her family and friends. In the warmer months she loves kayaking, paddleboarding and camping.
Having previously served as a Contracts and Compliance Manager, Aimee orchestrated the entire department with a keen eye for detail, ensuring impeccable oversight of subcontractors and upholding company-wide compliance standards.
Having previously served as a Contracts and Compliance Manager, Aimee orchestrated the entire department with a keen eye for detail, ensuring impeccable oversight of subcontractors and upholding company-wide compliance standards. Her multifaceted responsibilities encompassed internal audit processes, comprehensive support for funding contracts, and the implementation of service improvements driven by rigorous data analysis.
In a recent role as a Business Analyst, she delved into the intricate tapestry of business challenges, applying her adept skills in data analysis and proficiently utilizing tools such as Excel and Visio. Her focus centered on prioritizing operational needs, employing strategic methodologies like SWOT and PESTLE analysis to unearth innovative solutions that propelled the organization forward.
Academically, Aimee's journey boasts a graduation with First Class Honours in International Business. Her commitment to continuous learning within the education sector has led to the acquisition of indispensable qualifications, including Equality and Diversity Level 3, Safeguarding Level 3, and Health and Safety in the Workplace Level 3.
Beyond the confines of her professional pursuits, Aimee finds solace in the pages of classics and cherish quality moments spent with friends. Additionally, her leisurely strolls are accompanied by the joyful company of her two canine companions, Gavin and Gwen.
Additionally, the past 10 years, she's explored 15 different countries across 22 holidays. She even lived in Australia and Norway for a while, soaking in the culture and gaining new perspectives. Traveling isn't just a hobby for her; it's a way to find inspiration and learn from different experiences.
In her recent transition, she's returned to a role as a Compliance Manager, bringing a wealth of expertise to ensure robust adherence to regulatory standards.
Alison brings a distinctive mix of research, creativity, empathy and challenge to ensure that there is real and meaningful impact.
She takes a partnership approach with clients - sitting alongside them to work through the real issues, opportunities and challenges they face. She is known for her ability to combine clarity and focus with flexibility and creativity - enabling her to adjust to the issues as they arise, whilst maintaining momentum and purpose. She has a strong track record in building long-lasting relationships with organisations and clients and delivering impactful transformation and leadership programmes.
Alison brings twenty years' experience as a coach and consultant to her work. She has led large-scale culture transformation programmes with a range of organisations and brings a systemic approach to leadership and change challenges. Her client base spans global companies and organisations across the private, public, and not for profit sectors.
She has been an executive coach and systemic team coach for a number for executive and senior teams in central government and public bodies, NHS, banking and financial services, International NGOs, and the Church of England. As an experienced and accredited coach, she has also provided coaching supervision and professional support to internal coaches across a range of sectors.
In her earlier career as a senior manager for one of the world's largest international development agencies, Alison brings experience in working in a global, fast moving, and complex environment, influencing across networks and organisational boundaries to deliver results. Having lived and worked in East Asia for six years, with a range of multinational organisations, she is skilled in working cross culturally and is fascinated by how organisations run in an international context with the added complexity of cultural difference.
Her professional development and accreditations include:
Masters-level Diploma in Systemic Team Coaching, AOEC (to be completed)
Gestalt in Organisational Development programme
Certificate in Systemic Team Coaching, AOEC, 2017
Foundation in Group Analysis (Institute of Group Analysis) 2015
Time to Think -thinking partnerships - accredited 2005
Advanced Diploma in Coaching and Mentoring (OCM) 2003
Accredited in Team Connect 360, Facet Five, Team Scape
Alison lives in Oxford and has two daughters. She loves walking, trying to grow veg on the allotment and singing with a small group of friends.
Clients value Anna for her collaborative style and her ability to think outside the box and come up with solutions that are sustainable for the long term.
Anna is an organisation design expert with 13+ years' experience of leading complex transformation programmes across industry sectors (FTSE 100 & major public sector clients). Anna spent most of her career working as a consultant in Deloitte's organisation design practice, supporting clients in developing their organisation to deliver their strategic objectives. During this time, Anna led Deloitte's future of work proposition, putting Deloitte at the heart of the conversation around the role of AI, robotics and the gig economy in the future world of work. Anna left Deloitte to take a role as Head of Transformation at Sky, where she worked extensively with Sky's streaming businesses to improve international integration and set them up for growth.
Anna is currently building a more purpose driven portfolio. Clients value Anna for her collaborative style and her ability to think outside the box and come up with solutions that are sustainable for the long term.
Carol specialises in helping senior managers to lead organisational change through developing effective behaviours and relationships.
Carol is highly experienced in 1:1 and team coaching and the facilitation of senior management groups at critical decision points within strategic planning processes. Her PhD was awarded for her research into the fostering of trusting relationships for leadership development and personal growth. Carol brings a gender sensitive approach to all of her work recognising both the visibility and vulnerability in Senior leadership roles.
Caroline is passionate about enabling organisations and leaders be the best they can be, to deliver for their customers, their stakeholders, their people and for their own individual growth.
Caroline has over 20 years of experience as an in-house and independent organisational development consultant and has worked in a variety of sectors including retail, travel, airline, local authority, finance and the civil service.
She started her career in product management, holding regional management roles within British Airways (BA) Holidays for Scandinavia and later the Far East market before she moved into people and organisational development.
Acting as a critical friend, she offers support and challenge with a focus on performance and well-being, leadership and cultural change, ensuring change initiatives align to deliver new or adapted business strategy.
Her experience in organisations includes creating trusting partnerships with leaders, executive coaching, commissioning and facilitating leadership development including women into leadership programmes, implementing staff engagement surveys & culture measurement tools and providing change management support for programmes & projects.
Her approach is practical & useful. She has the theory to back-up her thinking but years of in-house delivery has taught her that keeping things ‘simple', whenever possible, helps improve understanding and engagement.
Caroline has a post graduate degree in the ‘Psychology of organisational development and change', an NTL Certificate in Organisational Development and is a member of the OD Network for Europe and the CIPD. She is a Master NLP Practitioner, is licenced in the Insights Discovery psychometric tool, Prosci Change Management and Hofstede's Organisational Culture assessment tool. She is also an accredited ILM Action Learning Set Facilitator and ICF accredited coach.
She lives in Brighton with her husband and two children.
Carolyn is passionate about developing the adaptive capacity of people and systems to learn and thrive. She is known for her leadership, relationship-based approach and strategic and creative thinking and brings both a mindset and set of methodologies from complexity science to her work.
Carolyn joined Mayvin in 2019 as an organisational development specialist and brought extensive experience as an internal practitioner. She has 30 years of public sector experience leading teams and services in a variety of L&D, change & OD roles and was a part of the setup and growth of the OD function at one of the countries largest and most successful NHS organisations, Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. During her time in OD there (2008-15) she helped grow the strategic influence of OD in the wider NHS. Additionally, she developed its practitioner capability through work with the NHS DoOD network.
Moving to the Civil Service OD&D function in 2015, Carolyn had a dual focus: practising OD across the Civil Service and developing OD for the Civil Service. Her organisation development and design consulting included working with various Departments, small and large, Agencies and Civil Service Professions. Additionally, she worked across the whole Civil service system on developing and implementing a model to enquire into and work with culture at multiple levels - a process still being used in that environment today.
Having experienced the vital strategic importance of OD in public sector organisations, Carolyn is a strong advocate for developing OD capability through practice-based learning. She was part of the team that designed and launched Mayvin's Masters in People and Organisation Development in 2022 and is both programme lead and faculty for current and future cohorts. She is faculty co-lead for the UK Civil Service Organisation Development and Design capability development programme (accredited through Chichester University) and has delivered similar programmes for VirginO2 and various public sector clients.
Alongside her faculty work, Carolyn consults across a wide range of organisations facing seemingly intractable issues around culture, leadership and transformation. Carolyn draws on a wide range of OD approaches to help Boards, Exec teams and leaders understand their contexts systemically, develop fresh perspectives and act wisely and courageously in service of their people, clients and stakeholders.
Her development path includes an MSc in People and Organisational Development from Roffey Park Institute, a PG Cert in Coaching and various psychometric certifications. Also, Carolyn is an Associate of the Institute of Human Systems Dynamics.
Carolyn has lived with her partner in South East London for 30 years and enjoys all the delights that city life has to offer, particularly its food, art galleries and cinema. She balances her OD practice with regular walking, Pilates and 5Rhythms dance - a dynamic movement practice.
Cathy's style is to work supportively but also to be challenging in the relationships with her clients, to offer honest feedback and to challenge the status quo; to facilitate learning beyond the superficial; and to seek ways forward to produce real and lasting change.
Cathy Korn has over 25 years of experience of working as a coach, facilitator, mediator, and developer in organisations and has worked with many senior teams and boards.
Highly skilled in developing and empowering individuals, facilitating organisational change, and resolving conflict between groups and individuals, she has a strong sense of personal integrity contributing to a model of true partnership working with clients and colleagues.
Her recent assignments include:
Working with the Executive Team of a major rail franchise to support them in working as a cohesive team during a period of industrial action and negative press reporting.
Supporting teaching hospitals in the north of England to re-establish a collaborative working culture after disruption through inter-team conflict.
Working with UK Ambassadors to support their preparation for their leadership roles when going out to overseas postings.
Designing and leading a multi-modular leadership programme for emerging leaders in a leading UK university.
Supporting a London hospital through restorative interventions to move forward from a climate of broken trust and damaged relationships affecting service delivery.
Working as a Collaboration Partner for a main contractor on the HS2 project to enable efficiencies and effectiveness across the supply chain.
One of her roles is to support the development of members of the internal team within Mayvin.
Cathy read Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford and has trained at the Metanoia Institute and the Academy of Executive Coaching, Specialising in Gestalt as a model for working with individuals and groups. She is a member of the Association for Coaching and a Principal Member of the Association of Business Psychologists, a member of the Occupational Psychology Division of the British Psychological Society and is Accredited Workplace and Commercial Mediator (SPC 2007) and has a certificate in the Facilitation of Action Learning from the University of Chichester.
Job Titles:
- Senior Client Coordinator
Charlotte spent over a decade in luxury hotel event management. Her capability, affability, and adventurous spirit offered her many opportunities for travel. Before joining Mayvin, she was the Project Coordinator at ViRTUS, a Leadership Development company based in Vancouver. Prior to that she was the Senior Event Manager at Dubai's illustrious Ritz-Carlton.
Outside of work you can usually find her curating music playlists, reading and creating special memories with her family and friends. Charlotte is a proud cat mom to Mithril.
Charlotte loves to travel and she backpacked to 10 countries within five months.
Job Titles:
- Operational Support Administrator
Her career spans various sectors, including healthcare, insurance, and travel, where she feels confident in her ability to demonstrate adaptability and strong problem-solving skills. During her studies, Chelsea has been drawn to leadership and organisational development modules, and she is enthusiastic about further developing these skills in her current role.
Chelsea, currently pursuing her BSc in Business and Management Studies at the University of Sussex, which has honed transferable skills that have provided her with valuable insight and hands-on experience throughout her career journey.
Her career spans various sectors, including healthcare, insurance, and travel, where she feels confident in her ability to demonstrate adaptability and strong problem-solving skills. During her studies, Chelsea has been drawn to leadership and organisational development modules, and she is enthusiastic about further developing these skills in her current role.
Outside of work and academics, Chelsea is a social individual who loves spending quality time with friends and her extensive family. In her spare time she enjoys spending time in nature and will often be running and hiking in the South Downs. Chelsea's adventurous spirit has led her to explore various parts of the world, including vibrant destinations like New York and California and Dubai, where she enjoyed trying new cuisines and embarking on adventures to iconic landmarks, such as Alcatraz Island in San Francisco.
Chris has over 20 years of experience in delivering management and leadership development programmes to the public and private sectors. He has a particular interest in diversity and new models of leadership.
Chris has been working in management and leadership development since 1987. He has over 20 years of experience in delivering management and leadership development programmes to the public and private sectors. His recent work for Mayvin includes design and delivery of a High Potential Senior Leadership programme for the Insolvency Service and a Consultancy Skills Programme for the Department for International Development and he is currently working on a Leadership Development Programme for Companies House.
He also works regularly as an executive coach and delivers interpersonal skills training and team-building events. He has a particular interest in diversity and new models of leadership. His experience of leading staff in front line service delivery roles in a Government Department means his development programmes are informed by practical first-hand experience.
Chris was a visiting tutor in leadership development at the National School of Government until it closed and is an Associate of The Roffey Park Institute and The IMD (Institute of Management Development). He has experience of working at all levels in the private sector and extensive experience of the public sector having worked with nearly all the major Government Departments and several Local Authorities in London.
Outside of the UK, Chris has delivered leadership development programmes in over 30 countries in Europe, Africa, North and South America, The Middle East and Asia. Chris is accredited to administer Myers Briggs, Firo-B, Talent Q Dimensions, the Strength Deployment Inventory and the Margerison-McCann, Team Management Systems and Types of Work Index.
Cindy is at her best getting alongside others to enable growth and collaboration through focussed inquiry, deep listening, and sensitive challenge. Her approach to working with clients and stakeholders is founded on curiosity and joint exploration to which she brings rigour and responsiveness, underpinned by a keen critical perspective and mission clarity.
Cindy has over 20 years' experience brokering partnerships, consulting on organisation and network development, co-designing and facilitating long-term development programmes and is an experienced Action Researcher. Cindy is an accredited Action Learning facilitator, Relational Dynamics coach and Human Systems Dynamics professional, with a background in the creative and cultural sector. She holds a commitment to celebrating diversity, respecting multiple intelligences and leveraging difference in complex environments.
Obsessive about potential but anchored in pragmatism, she's a passionate believer that important work doesn't have to be ‘hard work'. She actively seeks to foster creativity and innovation and has considerable experience of self-managed and experiential learning, and body-mind/systemic practices (yoga, embodiment, constellations).Cindy holds a certificate in Gestalt groupwork, is a Licensed Instructor and Certification Examiner of Clear Leadership™ and gained an MSc in People and Organisation Development from Roffey Park/University of Sussex in 2016.
Previously director of a non-profit development agency and consultancy promoting creativity as a catalyst for change, Cindy later joined Roffey Park's faculty, where she was Senior Consultant and Director of Masters and Certificate level Organisation Development and Leadership qualification programmes. She now works independently as a coach, facilitator, network and community catalyst and co-creator of learning and development experiences, such as:
Supporting Healthier Cultures: through dialogue-based insight gathering research and co-created sense-making and planning responses in order to highlight patterns in experiences, addressing the harmful and amplifying the helpful, with large scale non-profit organisations and in health and care settings.
Claire is passionate about people and making real connections. With a positive outlook and bright character, she is the creative force that drives Mayvin's marketing team.
Claire's interest in people is evident from her social science heavy education including a BSc in Psychology.
Claire joined Mayvin with over a decade of marketing experience from a true variety of settings from small family run companies to global corporates. From finance recruitment in Crawley, to the cutting edge of renewable energy development worldwide, to the film industry. With a particular highlight being event management at the Cannes Film Festival. All of which enabled her to expand her business understanding, relationship building and communication skills.
Her role at Mayvin brings together what had previously been somewhat separate parts of her life - her academic studies/personal interest and her professional career, making her very passionate about nurturing the wonderful Mayvin community.
Outside of work Claire has a young family who continually challenge her strategic thinking, creative and negotiating skills!
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Consultant
- Executive
Much of Clare's work focuses on strengthening relationships and team dynamics in senior teams, whilst addressing strategy development, organisation congruence, and managing lasting and sustainable change.
Clare is an organisational change consultant, a leadership development specialist, and an executive coach, with over twenty years' experience in the UK Civil Service and wider public sector. Clare develops executive teams and creates cultural change with a broad range of client tailored interventions and deep understanding of group dynamics, encouraging communication and connection through the organisation. She has key skills and experience in working in large organisations and political environments.
Clare' recent work includes:
Supporting The Home Office on culture development after The Windrush Report
Working with the Independent Office for Police Conduct on leadership development, culture change and designing leadership development centres
Cultural inquiry and change with NHS Health and Safety Investigations Branch
Organisation design with The Kennel Club, Executive Team development and culture change
Working with Veterinary Medical Directorate to improve employee experience and engagement
Working with Wirral Council to develop their Executive Team
Developing senior leadership within NHS Trusts across the UK on development programmes
Creating stronger joint working practices in the Department for Education
Developing OD practitioners skills on an NHS OD Development Programme
Developing the HR Model for NHS Improvement
Clare is an Executive Coach and her coaching programmes have been delivered in The Independent Office of Police Conduct, The National Crime Agency, The Church Schools of Cambridge and Wirral Council. Clare has a coaching specialism in belief change using Cognitive Behavioural Coaching skills. Alongside this, Clare designs and facilitates team builds for organisations of all sizes, facilitates leadership training and Action Learning Sets.
Clare has an MSc with Commendation in Human Resource Management and Development from Nottingham Trent Business School and a Drama BA Hons from the University of East Anglia. Organisation Development Practitioner Programmes with Roffey Park and Ashridge developed her OD practice further. She is a PCC accredited coach and psychometric practitioner (EBW) with an Advanced Certificate in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Approaches, a Certificate in Dramatherapy and training in Gestalt approaches to group facilitation. She is a qualified Action Learning Set facilitator and holds a Diploma in Executive Coaching and Mentoring. She is licensed to deliver the "When Cultures Meet" workshop from Power + Systems.
Clare lives in South Cambridgeshire with her young family, husband and dog Flash. She enjoys textile crafts, cooking for friends dancing and acting. She is an active member of the school PTA and local village community.
Job Titles:
- Senior HR and Operations Administrator
Coral is a keen learner with a can-do attitude who always strives to do her best and calmly approaches whatever the task or challenge. Coral is a team player and is always willing to help our were needed while working independently and managing her own task list.
Coral has spent much of her career in administration previously working as a personal assistant at Legal & General, an insurance company based in Hove. In addition she has worked in retail working for several high street stores and has also worked for a Stag & Hen company. Customer service is at the heart of what Coral does and she is always thinking about the customer journey and how she can best contribute. She finds it helpful to imagine herself in the shoes of the client to better understand their needs and then she can adapt her ways of working to suit.
Outside of work Coral enjoys listening to music, watching films and occasionally reading but most importantly she enjoys spending precious time with family and friends, and is a cat mum to beautiful ‘Trooper'.
Coral loves going on family holidays and has travelled to some extraordinary places including Hawaii, San Francisco but most frequently to Las Vegas where she is eager to return in the future.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Coach
- Consultant
- Social Worker
- Development Consultant and Executive Coach
Dorothee is an experienced Organisation Development Consultant and Executive Coach with many years of experience of supporting individuals, teams and organisations through major change.
Originally trained as a couple and family therapist, she has always taken a keen interest in how organisations function as systems and her interventions focus on the relational aspects of human interaction and change. Her work has spanned across one-to-one executive coaching work, to working with teams and groups, to large organisational change programmes. She brings her systemic thinking and natural curiosity into all of her practice. She observes and works with the patterns that individuals and teams create with each other and explores narratives that exist about current organisational challenges and problems.
Following jobs in the UK National Health Service and with several London local authorities, she worked as a senior change management consultant for Logica, before joining Ashridge Business School and subsequently the international OD consultancy Sheppard Moscow as member of Faculty, OD consultant and executive coach, developing and delivering leadership development programmes and culture change interventions and working with Senior Leaders and Teams. At Ashridge Business School she still teaches on the Master in Executive Coaching and is the Programme Director for the Team Coaching Programme.
Dorothee has worked as a coach and consultant with a cross-section of organisations from a wide variety of sectors including the NHS, public sector, retail, automotive, manufacturing and large infrastructure projects.
Dorothee is a trained social worker and systemic psychotherapist and holds a Master in Organisational Change from Ashridge Business School. She is qualified in a number of psychometric instruments and is an accredited coach with Ashridge Business School.
Dorothee is originally from Germany and has lived, studied and worked over the last 25 years in the UK. She is fluent in English and German and lives with her family in South London where in her free time she enjoys open water swimming at any time of the year.
Griff is known for his inquiring mind and ability to create thinking spaces for his clients that are both exploratory and catalytic. He works with leaders and managers who are struggling with the challenge of seeing clearly what's going on.
Originally working in the IT industry, principally for consultancies in London and Rotterdam, Griff eventually became more interested in teams than technology and moved into coaching and Organisation Development. His education in environmental science and engineering shows up in his approach, through a strong bias towards methods that draw on complexity science.
Recent projects include: developing the capacity of local government to generate solutions to reduce family homelessness; combining visual art with qualitative data analysis to show how hospital leaders flexed on key leadership traits during the pandemic; identifying tensions in midwives' stories about their work to create a map of the culture in a maternity unit; and developing the collaborative leadership of impact investors by facilitating Action Research on the organisation's strategic challenges.
Griff regularly teaches on a programme that applies ‘complexity' ideas to organisational life and is valued for his ability to support individual learners as they forge their own path in making sense of these ideas.
Helen is an Organisation Design and Development (OD) Consultant. She has over 20 years' experience working in and with a range of global and UK based organisations, both big and small, and from various sectors. She enjoys the stimulation and stretch that this variety provides.
Helen's strength is in getting to the heart of what's going on - bringing to the surface what needs to be named - so that subsequent interventions have the best chance of making a real and sustainable difference. She finds huge fulfilment in partnering clients as they navigate the highs, lows and ‘mess' of change together.
Prior to working as a Consultant, Helen worked for the John Lewis Partnership and the Woolworths Group, where she had operational and commercial experience in addition to positions in Organisation Effectiveness, Talent Development and Change.
As a consultant Helen has worked independently, as well as within a consulting firm where she held a leadership role. Her consulting experience ranges from OD, Team Development, and Change. She also enjoys building internal Change and OD capability within client organisations. She has shaped, led, and delivered projects with clients across the UK and beyond, including a 9-month stint out in Chicago partnering a Retail firm on their transformation journey.
Helen is passionate about her own development. She holds PGDip in Management Studies from the University of Oxford, the ILM level 7 Diploma in Leadership Coaching and Mentoring, and a Certificate in Agile Project Management. Additionally, she is a Certified Transactional Analyst (CTA) and an internationally approved trainer and supervisor (PTSTA) in the Organisational field of application. She enjoys learning with and from her colleagues and clients.
As a member of the European Association of Transactional Analysis (EATA), Helen works within their code of ethics, values, and principles, which includes participating in professional supervision.
Helen lives in St Alban's with her partner and son. She is a keen runner, theatre lover and has more recently developed a passion for gardening.
Her approach is rooted in academic depth and rigour which she balances with a deeply practical way of working always seeking to ask ‘so what? and to make learning useful. She balances support with challenge and is known for her compassion and clarity.
Helena is a leadership development and OD consultant working with individuals, teams and organisations to help them build their capability and effectiveness. She also practices as a coach and facilitator.
Helena works across all sectors and at all levels within organisations, Current and recent work includes: running a programme she designed for 100 high potential leaders in a global consulting firm; developing OD capability within the Civil Service; running a virtual action learning programme for a retailer; teaching and facilitating on an MSc in people and Organisational Development.
She began her career in operational and strategic HR with Dennis Publishing, Aon and Deloitte. She also spent 7 years at Roffey Park Institute, the later years as a Director, and so brings to her work a personal understanding of leadership and of creating change from the inside. She is keenly interested in how organisations and individuals can balance head, heart and spirit, as well as how organisations address the big social /climate issues of our time.
Job Titles:
- Chairman and Director of Qualifications
- Leadership and Organisational Development Specialist
James is known for his wisdom, intuition and the depth of his knowledge. His sensitive and pragmatic approach, offering sound advice and thought provoking questions, enables people to master complex situations and find important truths that are out of sight.
James Traeger is a leadership and organisational development specialist with extensive practical and teaching experience.
In 2010, James co-founded Mayvin with Martin Saville. James specialises in providing coaching, facilitation and supervisory support in a mindset informed by OD, action research and diversity. His clients are usually senior leaders and internal change people in large, often global, concerns such as the governments of the UK and Singapore, in the pharmaceutical and financial sectors and in the NHS.
Prior to launching Mayvin, James had a brief but prize-winning stint in theatre production, worked his way up to be a general manager in a commercial photo agency, and was invited to be a senior consultant at Roffey Park for four years. Between 1995 and 2006 he had a consulting business with clients including Barclaycard, the Metropolitan Police Service, Surrey County Council, Thus and the University of Cambridge.
He created the Navigator Men's Development Programme and won acclaim for his work on the Metropolitan Police's ‘gender agenda', an area of specialism that became the focus of his doctoral research at the University of Bath, which he completed in 2009. As a result of this he was invited to be a research fellow at Hult Ashridge Executive Education, where he is also now an adjunct Professor of Practice in Leadership and Management and a faculty member of the doctorate in organisational change.
James is collaborating on a number of research projects with Dr Rob Warwick, Reader in Management and Organisational Learning at the University of Chichester. Their book, Organisation Development: A Bold Explorer's Guide, was published in 2018. The book challenges the received building blocks of organisation development, putting the curious reflexive individual at the heart of their own development. James and Rob are now working together to explore practice-based learning: how to learn close to the grain of the work at times of discontinuous change. As part of this they are delving deeper into ‘artful knowing'; exploring how taking an imaginative creative approach to work can help people to meet organisational challenges.
In 2021 James was recognised as one of HR Most Influential Thinkers for the second year in a row.
James lives in Surrey, where he is an active member of his faith community and father of two teenage children. He enjoys running and will play five-a-side football until his knees give out. He is also a member of a thriving local book group. He looks forward to his retirement activities of making model aeroplanes and flying gliders, both of which he has started early.
Kate has a background in theatre, counselling, psychology and voice and applied linguistics, which makes her uniquely placed to work with the complexities of human relationships and communication as expressed through the voice, body, and words.
Kate has more than 25 years' experience as an executive coach and trainer, specialising in voice interpersonal communication.
With a background in theatre, counselling and psychology, voice and applied linguistics, she is uniquely placed to work with the complexities of human relationships and communication as expressed through the voice, body, and words.
Her psychological training makes Kate and ideal thinking partner, providing both support and challenge for senior leaders who seek to reassess their direction and reconnect to their sense of purpose. Her coaching process is holistic, enabling clients to find their own answers from within. To fulfil our potential, we our whole selves (heart, mind, body, spirit) on board. Kate helps them unlock their own wisdom and dream big. She works with clients who wish to cultivate courage, strategies and skills to put insight into action.
She also works as a personal impact coach to clients who want to feel, sound and appear confident, credible, authoritative and inspiring. She coaches them in practical, precise and transformative techniques to help them develop skills and confidence to communication effectively, and to deliver memorable, inspiring and persuasive messages. Her philosophy is that ‘finding our voice' means listening to our inner voice and then having the confidence and skill to align with our values, speak from the heart and walk our talk.
Kate recognises your contribution as a leader not only influences others in your organisations, that leaders live and work in a wider context. Now, more than ever, who you are and what you do also impacts on the flourishing of all people and planet.
With a BA in Drama and Spanish, Kate's career has taken her all over the world, starting in San Diego, California, where she worked as an Assistant Manager in a busy Planned Parenthood clinic. She then took up MA studies in cognitive and psycholinguistics while teaching academic writing at San Diego State University. Returning to the UK she toured with the Royal National Theatre as an actress, before training as a voice coach at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and later gaining a MA in transpersonal psychology and a Diploma in Therapuetic Counselling.
As an Executive Coach and communication skills trainer, Kate has worked in Blue Chip companies, the NHS, as well as third sector organisations. As a voice coach, Kate has worked in theatre, film, and in performing arts training, including 18 months teaching voice at the Institute of the Arts Barcelona.
Kate is also a poet, awaiting publication of her first Chapbook with Waterloo Press. She has also written her first novel.
Liz is known for her ability with people, her sharp wit, warmth, insight, and academic rigour. She quickly establishes rapport with clients and is effective in encouraging real and productive debate, reflection and growth.
Liz has strong interests in leadership, individual and team development and the evaluation of interventions, transformation and development programmes, Liz delivers leadership and team development, executive coaching, OD research, consultancy and evaluation across a range of sectors.
Liz brings a breadth and depth of 35 years' experience working across a variety of sectors and cultures in the UK and internationally as an OD practitioner and leadership team/executive coach, as well as a warmth, curiosity and strong relational ability.
Liz is a highly experienced Organisation Development consultant, leadership team/executive coach and action learning set facilitator.
She brings over 30 years' experience working across UK public services and with international NGOs, supporting organisations to live their purpose and values, navigate change and learn and thrive in a complex world. She enjoys working at depth with the ‘messy' realities and power dynamics of organizational life in the ‘here and now', as well as working across sector and cultural boundaries. She sees culture, strategy and leadership as inextricably linked and works with this inter-relationship in her leadership team coaching and accompanying long-term culture change work.
Her previous roles include working as OD lead in consultancies within the public and international NGO sectors , as well as Co-Director of a Masters leadership programme in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. She has also served as a Board member of an International disability NGO. Her development path includes a MSc in Organisation Consulting and Change from Ashridge Business School.
She is known for her naturally collaborative, creative and relational approach and has a strong track record of building long-term relationships with clients that sustain learning, impact and change. With this in mind, she is particularly keen in developing internal OD and change capability, through mentoring and designing and leading accredited programmes for OD practitioners.
Having worked and lived in Africa and Asia, Liz is skilled at working with diverse cultures and world-views and is fascinated by some of the challenges and opportunities these differences present. She is also increasingly interested in supporting new forms of democracy to address critical issues of our time, for example, engaging citizens to influence the climate and ecological emergency through the role of citizens' assemblies.
She seeks to use her strong inquiry, relational and facilitation skills to create the conditions for different kinds of conversation and shifts in patterns of behavior that support ‘promising practices' and sustainable change - be it with leadership teams and Boards, change agents and front-line staff, action learning sets, large multi-stakeholder groups or social movements.
She is deeply committed to reflective practice and draws on a wide range of contemporary approaches, including dialogic OD, complexity, Gestalt, systemic constellations, Theory U and embodied approaches.
Liz lives in Oxford and enjoys playing flute in a Cuban band. She also has a large garden that keeps her grounded, alongside her meditation practice, and is actively involved in climate change work locally.
Expertise:
Working with top teams as a leadership team coach and executive coaching on a 1-1 and team basis.
Working with complex, ‘wicked issues', bringing together multiple stakeholder perspectives and supporting connections, learning and change across organisational, sector and cultural boundaries and systems, using methods such as learning labs, action learning sets, communities of practice and large group interventions including World Café, Open Space and citizens' assemblies
Designing and running large-scale innovative systems leadership programmes to Masters level drawing on contemporary leadership thinking and practice
Designing and facilitating culture change and transformation initiatives in partnership with clients, drawing on complexity, inquiry and dialogic principles
Providing supervision, mentoring and coaching to OD practitioners, OD directors, leaders and coaches
Building capability of OD practitioners and action learning set facilitators
Recent examples of Liz's work include:
Long-term culture change work with Oxfam Uganda, Oxfam Ghana and Oxfam Sierra Leone, as part of a global transformation programme, Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service and Pancreatic Cancer UK
Long-term leadership team coaching for SMT's and Boards working with culture, inter-personal conflicts, external relationships, strategy and collective leadership with government departments, NHS, housing associations, charities and local authorities
Co-led a four modular programme for change agents on organisational/systemic constellations (COLPI)
Design and lead for accredited OD open programmes (OPM) and in-house (eg Oxfordshire County Council)
Supporting health and social care integration in localities, prototyping and experimenting with new ways of working around complex social issues and supporting communities of practice and learning labs
Co-Director of national systems leadership programme (Leadership for Change) Tutor on Roffey Park Masters in Organisation Development and 21st century leadership programme (Public Health England)
Design and facilitation of citizens' assemblies on climate emergency across the UK
Leading a number of Action Learning Sets, including with women university academics and aspiring Directors of Public Health and an in-house ALS facilitator programme
Mentoring a number of OD Directors in the NHS, local authorities, charities and consultancies
Education and Professional Accreditation:
MSc in Organisation Consulting and Change (Ashridge Business School- 2004-7)
Diploma in Human Resource Development (South Bank University- 1994-96).
BA (Hons) Development Studies (University of East Anglia- 1982-5)
Certificate in Executive Coaching and Leadership Mentoring (ILM Level 7)
Certificates in Organisational Constellations and Systemic Constellations and Coaching
Certificate in Supervision in Team Coaching (CTSD)
People trust Martin, they feel better about themselves and the world after spending time with him. The thing that enables this is the strong relationships he develops, with integrity, care and trust - relationships that last well beyond the confines of any piece of work.
Martin Saville's expertise is in helping organisations to lead and navigate complex change. A former Director of Strategic Planning and Operations at London Business School and a one-time Board member of OD Network Europe, his experience ranges from Organisation Development and Design (OD), leadership, culture and values to team dynamics, change and personal effectiveness. As a consultant, he seeks simultaneously to help people be more human at work, and to support organisations to be more effective, impactful and successful. He has a particular passion for OD education and practitioner development.
He has consulted to organisations in the public, private and third sectors, as well as to family-owned businesses. He is passionate about making a demonstrable difference and leaving his client organisations stronger. His clients range from the UK Civil Service, government agencies, NHS organisations and local authorities to global banks, and companies in the pharmaceutical, retail, telecoms, media and managed services sectors. He has also consulted to International NGO and third sector organisations.
Martin is a regular conference speaker on OD and is the co-editor of A Field Guide to Organisation Development, published by Routledge. He has a degree in Classics from Oxford University and an MBA from London Business School, as well as a Foundation Certificate in Psychotherapy and Counselling from Regent's University. He is certified as a Somatic Coach.
Martin's early career was spent in opera management. Until recently he was Deputy Chair of British Youth Opera. He lives in Brighton with his wife and son.
Job Titles:
- Marketing and Masters Programme Coordinator
Melissa enjoys building warm relationships and brings a collaborative and forward-thinking approach to her work.
A Masters in art history and museum curating led Melissa to previously work for one of Brighton's renowned art galleries where she successfully established a high profile portfolio of clients and artists while working as an art consultant, operations lead and gallery manager. Melissa particularly enjoyed building warm and personable relationships delivering a quality service through one of the most personal and emotive luxury goods people can invest in.
The relationships built during the acquisition and instillation of an artwork have informed Melissa's dedication to client service, coupled with a strong focus on organisation, which she brings to Mayvin as part of the operations team.
Outside of work, Melissa has a passion for live music, Korean cinema and TV alongside running an Instagram blog dedicated to the weird and wonderful world of skincare! She lives in Hove with her two miniature schnauzers, Flora & Willow.
Olivia brings over a decade of experience in Account and Project management to our team, coupled with a proficiency in events management, administration, and customer service.
Olivia brings over a decade of experience in Account and Project management to our team, coupled with a proficiency in events management, administration, and customer service.
With a proven track record of success, Olivia is known for her adeptness in building lasting relationships and tackling challenges with innovative problem-solving techniques. With a solid foundation in account and project management spanning ten years, Olivia has honed her skills in overseeing multifaceted projects from inception to completion.
Beyond the realm of professional endeavours, Olivia has a passion for travel, having embarked on an eight-month journey through Southeast Asia and Europe, her favourite country being Vietnam!
Olivia specialises in organisational dynamics and leadership. She works as a coach, facilitator, and consultant to support leaders to make sense of their experiences in role and take purposeful action with accountability for the impact.
She consults across sectors and industries, drawing on this diversity to bring insight and pragmatism. She has previously led an in-house OD Consulting team in a corporate environment, as well as being a core Faculty member for MA and MSc programmes in Leadership and Organisational Analysis.
Olivia specialises in systems psychodynamics but draws on a wide body of work in her practice. She's curious to illuminate the unconscious dynamics at work in organisational life, working with the gifts and tensions that reside at the heart of people, purpose, and organisations.
Her aim is to make this work accessible to others. Clients say she is deeply kind and challenging in equal measure.
Paul's coaching style is person-centred. He designs coaching programmes that are tailored to the individual's needs, working on how we create our experiences through words and language.
Paul coaches heath care staff and senior staff who have made, or who are making, a transition in a working role or life role or who find themselves ‘stuck'. He works with individuals and small groups, in creating a safe space to help people to regulate their ‘nervous systems' and their ‘state' in order to talk about and explore immediate and pressing issues.
Paul has extensive experience and a deep understanding of the healthcare sector, having worked in the NHS from 1985 to 2018. To begin with, this was as a nurse in Intensive Care and then as Senior Resuscitation Officer. He then became Head of Training & Development and worked in Change Management and, for the last 10 years, was an Organisational Development Consultant and Coach with a focus on values and culture, individual and team effectiveness and leadership development, for which coaching has been an indispensable part.
He has worked with a wide range of people across the NHS including senior medical staff, senior nursing staff, allied health professionals and senior non-clinical staff. As a coach, Paul is currently working with Third Space in the support and development of the current cohort of coaching students and developing ongoing learning for graduates.
His approach as a coach enables people to observe themselves in the everyday, where their ‘issue' arises, to reflect and to be more aware of the world they are creating and which is creating them. Paul supports people to explore the idea of ‘practice', a key requirement to observe and reflect and to make change that lasts, in the mind and the body as a whole.
Peter has a passion for building partnerships with people around a shared purpose. He is able to make the theory of change relevant and meaningful within the operational environment.
Peter is a change management professional specialising in organisation design and development. He shares a passion with Robert Greenleaf, author of Servant Leadership, in which he describes himself as being a ‘student of organisation, how things get done and a pursuer of wisdom'.
He worked as a change management professional within the UK Public Sector and his roles included both operational and strategic change management.
Up until April 2016 he was Deputy Director Organisation Design for HM Revenue & Customs. During this time, he led a team of design consultants providing consultancy support to both HMRC and Whitehall Departments including Defra, Department for Transport, Treasury solicitors and Companies house.
He also partnered the National School of Government International (now part of FCDO) providing onsite support to the Cabinet Office of Zambia, he is an FCOD OD Designated Civilian Expert (DCE) and has hosted visitors from overseas delegations including Vietnam, Ghana, India and Ethiopia.
Since then, Peter has established his own consultancy practice, partnering clients from across the public, private and voluntary sectors.
Philippa's experience of senior roles and her training as an organisational change consultant means that her approach is leading edge, empathetic and grounded in the real world of work.
Philippa has substantial experience of coaching executives and their teams. Prior to becoming an Executive Coach, Philippa managed people and development services in large and complex organisations in the public sector. Working at Board level, she was responsible for people strategy, top team and leadership development, and change.
Naturally empathetic and curious, Philippa believes in the power of relationships and taking time and care to really understand people as individuals, and the business context, vision and culture in which they work. She creates a safe, reflective yet challenging space in which her clients can better understand themselves, what sustains and constrains them - and find new ways of being and acting in the world. Philippa's clients say how much they value her warmth, creativity and non-judgemental support and challenge.
Structured yet flexible, Philippa tailors her coaching to suit each client's specific needs. She particularly enjoys working with clients who are stepping up into a new leadership role; contemplating the next steps in their career; want to improve relationships with a person reporting to them, a boss or a colleague.
Outcomes reported by her clients include: improved confidence to lead successfully and well; better relationships and understanding of self and others; strategies to manage areas of stress/anxiety; self-assurance to successfully manage career choices: skills and confidence to lead change, manage conflict, delegate.
As well as national charities, Philippa's clients include the British Council, local authorities, NHS/Health organisations and private sector clients including Blackrock, G4S, Red Hat and a national zoo.
Philippa's approach to coaching is relational, person-centred and integrated. She draws on a number of values, beliefs and theories to orientate her coaching practice including the psychological theory of Berne (Transactional Analysis), Perls (Gestalt), and Rogers (Relational psychology). Results focused, Philippa often focuses on personal narratives to support people to work towards a goal, explore a question, challenge, or change.
Philippa's professional qualifications include: MA in Psychological Coaching (Metanoia Institute); MSc in Organisational Change (Ashridge Business School); BA Hons (University of Sussex) and Psychometrics used include MBTI, Facet 5 and Strengths Finder
Rajni has led and collaborated on a wide range of OD projects for nearly 20 years in the public and private sector. A trained occupational psychologist her work centres on leadership development, team development, coaching and development of organisational cultures.
Rajni believes people deserve to be fulfilled in all areas of their life, including their work and careers. As it is a place where people can find meaning, purpose, identity, and community She is drawn to collaborate with others on projects that focus on developing people and organisations to be more human, with all the complexity and challenges that may bring.
She describes her approach as "inside-out"; meaning it's about what is happening "inside" (internally) and "outside" (externally) the individual, team or organisation that calls for a change, shift, or transition. At the heart of her approach is 'relationship' with oneself and others, and she believes having time, space, and support (individually or collectively) to reflect are just as important as the task or goal to be achieved.
She brings willingness and curiosity to support her clients towards congruence between what is said, felt and done; recognising that achieving congruence can be complex and challenging.
Rajni is both serious and light-hearted and enjoys developing relationships with others. She values transparency, fairness, and collaboration in life and work. She has growing interests in diversity and inclusion and the impact and recovery from experienced organisational trauma on identity and health (individual, team and organisation).
Rajni is an accredited and licensed MBTI, DISC and Insights Discovery Practitioner as well as being a trained mediator, action learning facilitator and coach. She is currently in the process of training to become an Integrative Psychotherapist - possibly one of her most challenging and rewarding experiences!
She is married with two young children. Life is full but when she can, she loves to read, listen to podcasts, cook, bake, and cultivate her yoga practice. She recently discovered she enjoys coastal walks and the freedom to reflect, breathe and be that accompanies her.
Richard is known for his ability to pose challenging questions to support learning. He is a specialist in action learning based organisation development and the creator of the higher education accredited Action Learning Question methodology.
Richard's big focus is enabling leaders to learn in the flow of work through effective questioning. He is currently Leadership & Learning Lead with UK Research & Innovation (Culture, Inclusion and Learning) where he is integrating action learning and research into the career and leadership development of scientists, technologists and innovators.
His early career was in defence sector engineering with GEC Marconi Avionics and broadcasting with BSkyB and then in management consultancy with international blue-chip organisations and the public sector.
Richard has worked in a range of commercial business sectors and public service organisations providing access to higher education qualifications using the Action Learning Question system he has developed which is used to support Organisation Design & Development capability building in Mayvin programmes. He also directs the Action Learning Facilitator Accreditation Programme (ALFA).
He is a mentor, coach and academic supervisor at doctoral level with international business schools (Ashridge/Hult, Middlesex University) focused on action research. He is external examiner to the MSc in Management Practice, Irish Management Institute.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Consultant
- Greater Manchester Programme Director
Rita is known for her humility, creativity, sense of fun and ability to build trusting relationships. Her clients value her supportive challenge, strategic insight and ability to make connections across the whole system. She brings an energy and a passion to tackle the root cause of issues and ‘model the change we want to see'.
Rita is an organisational development and staff engagement specialist with over 30 years experience in the private, public and voluntary sectors. Rita is passionate about working with others to support personal, organisational & system transformation to improve community engagement, health and well-being, and reducing health inequalities.
Rita is one of the first NHS validated system organisational development leaders in the UK. She is strongly values led and works collaboratively with others to enable change. She is a highly experienced coach, facilitator, mentor and project manager.
As Director of Organisational Development for Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS FT, Rita was responsible for all aspects of the OD strategy to enable delivery of strategic priorities and a complex culture transformation programme of work. This included working closely with the Board, leading the OD and staff engagement teams, and enabling others through matrix working to design, deliver and evaluate innovative change interventions.
In her previous role as the Leaders in Greater Manchester Programme Director, Rita was responsible for leading a major culture transformation programme and ensure engagement across all boroughs and sectors in Greater Manchester. This involved working with all public services, the voluntary sector, senior leaders and multi-disciplinary teams at a system level; to develop leaders, support cultural change and bring about transformation across the region.
Prior to this Rita worked with Manchester CCG's and Manchester City Council, providing organisational development support for the Working Better Together Programme. She has also worked with Stockport Together, supporting the major transformation programme across the health and social care partners in Stockport.
Rita's past roles include Assistant Director for Organisational Development and Learning at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, Head of Client Development for the Institute of OD, Leadership Programme Manager for the Improvement Foundation and Lead Consultant with Oliver Wyman Leadership Development.
Sarah's clients value her for her keen insight, her strategic foresight, her wit and her ability to make useful connections, in relationships and thinking. She is inspired by working with individuals and teams to promote culture change and drive innovation.
Sarah Fraser focuses her practice on the design and delivery of high impact OD programmes across a broad range of not-for-profit organisations, public sector and commercial clients, enabling change in complex environments. She has become a trusted advisor and developed leadership programmes with organisations including Oxfam GB, Kings College London, Barnardos and Plan International.
Sarah developed her practice through the Masters in Organisational Change at Ashridge Business School and is an accredited action learning facilitator, which supports ten years' experience of working with leaders through facilitation, coaching and action learning to help people to bring about change, both in themselves, their relationships and their organisation.
Some highlights have included action research into creating a culture of innovation through diversity, facilitating a co-operative inquiry into leadership and gender diversity in NGOs, strategy development and the design and delivery of practice based leadership programmes. Her close working relationships with clients enables flexibility of ideas and an emergent process, with the ability to influence key stakeholders and build a vision of what is possible.
Within this breadth, Sarah's projects tend to fall into a few key areas, leadership and culture change for managers and leaders, facilitation of action learning based change, and the design and delivery of strategy development processes. She also has a specific interest in diversity and inclusion, designing innovative approach es to tackl e issues across different sectors. Working with individuals at all levels from emerging managers, through to Board and senior management teams, her focus is always on finding approaches that people can immediately bring into practice.
Sarah lives near London with two children and enjoys fitting in as much yoga, sailing and coffee drinking as possible! She also belongs to an amateur orchestra as a violinist.
Satu is attracted to challenges that require bridging a gap and bringing people together across a variety of divides, including ones within themselves. She helps people improve their ability to work productively and lead effectively on a global scale.
Satu Kreula coaches senior executives from around the world to help them develop their leadership capabilities including their ability to lead and manage their teams in constantly changing environments and their sensitivity in working across cultures. In addition, she works with multicultural teams to help them better understand and capitalize on their diversity, and she works with organizations in ensuring that their strategic intents and operational plans are compatible with the markets they wish to operate in.
Satu has over 10 years of experience in coaching executives. In addition to coaching and consulting work, she held senior international business development roles successfully leading virtual teams and developing new programs and services for emerging markets. Her employers and clients have included WPP, Siemens, Unilever, Sodexo, BP, Accenture BBC, Egon Zehnder, AXA, RS Components, Club Med, Marks & Spencer, Volkswagen Financial Services, Nokia, CapitalOne, Shell, Tieto and Civil Aviation Authority (UK). Most recently, Satu has worked with a variety of multinational high-tech and energy companies across Europe on various global leadership development interventions.
Satu has a wealth of international experience having worked and lived in 7 countries (Finland, Brazil, US, Belgium, Denmark, Colombia and the UK), worked in over 40 countries across six continents and travelled in over 75 countries.
Satu's professional training includes an M.Sc. Organisational Behavior and Intercultural Communication from Helsinki School of Economics (HSE). She is a graduate of Coach University, Strozzi Institute, Newfield Ontological Learning Programme, Career Counselling Skills (CCS) and Firework Career Coaching Programme. She is also an Accredited MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Inventory) Steps I and II, and IDI (Intercultural Development Inventory) administrator. She was swarded designation of Associate Certified Coach (ACC) by the International Coach Federation (ICF) and is a Member of SIETAR (Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research) and AC (Association for Coaching).
Satu is fluent in English and Finnish and has solid Spanish, basic French, Portuguese & Swedish skills.
Satwant is recognised as somebody who has a passion for success and as an innovative, challenging thinker whose personal style enables her to work alongside her clients through the challenging issues they face.
Satwant is a skilled consultant facilitator and executive coach who has worked internationally in the fields of global diversity, and inclusion, organisational development, culture and change, transformational leadership, programmes, for a period of twenty -five years.
She has an extensive experience in the field of OD across the different sectors. Sawant's OD approach lends itself to working with small group interventions alongside large scale ones.
Satwant is highly regarded as a facilitator and coach to chief executives, boards, senior managers and teams and led on design and programme delivery in South East Asia, EMEA and Africa. Satwant has worked with a range of clients from, corporate INGO and public sectors including Barclays, Munters, Ernst Young, Ticket Masters, Nomura, Home Office, Civil Service, NHS, Oxfam, Save the Children and Action Aid. She worked as a Consultant on an OD global transformational project focusing on South East Asia, Middle East and Southern Africa that resulted in high impact and effective engagement on complex change and culture issues.
Sawant's pedagogy is transformational one and is underpinned by her diasporic and cultural background predominantly around the intersection of race, ethnicity, gender and class. This trajectory alongside her own lived experience has informed her work as a practitioner with a desire for working with leaders focusing on addressing structural inequalities. Her work is relationship and establishing trust often in relation to sensitive systemic patterns/issues. This creates both autonomy and exploring different perspectives around leadership resulting in high impact and more effective conversations through multiple lens.
Satwant lives in North London and enjoys spending time with her two young nieces.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Coach
- Consultant
- Executive
Seema's strengths lie in her ability to quickly form and develop relationships and becoming a trusted advisor. She is a skilled facilitator who loves helping clients unpick their knotty challenges and find renewed excitement in achieving business objectives.
Seema Arora is a highly versatile executive coach and organisation change consultant who is committed to increasing her clients' business performance. She combines academic rigour with creative and pragmatic problem solving to achieve successful organisation design, development and growth. She has a track record of achieving transformative organisational and operational change, and overcoming associated cultural challenges.
Seema's experience includes organisation design and restructure; culture and behaviour profiling; supplier-customer relationships; as well as leadership development and team dynamics. She has worked with Executive Boards, senior executives and cross-cultural teams. She focuses on achieving clear purpose and intent, and then identifies opportunities for efficient use of existing resources and for addressing barriers to growth and development.
Seema takes a highly collaborative and objective approach, offering senior operational management experience, people and team development insights, and extensive international exposure. She draws on her wealth of business experience to ensure that her work with people and teams is always aligned with the overall organisation context and strategy.
Seema has worked in the US, South Africa, Europe and Asia, as well as in the UK. Clients include Airbus, Aviva, Barclays, British Gas, My Fitness Pal, NHS, and UEFA. Seema was Head of Strategic Operations at The Financial Times, and she has held a number of other senior operational management roles.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Consultant
- Founding Member of ODN Europe
Shelly has passion and courage to support organisations to enhance their Inclusion practice. She works at the individual, group and organisational level to understand the complex dynamics of diversity work.
Shelly is an Organisation Development (OD) consultant with a strong academic grounding and experience base. All her work has a strong thread of Diversity and Inclusion. She has passion and courage to support organisations to enhance their Inclusion practice. She works at the individual, group, and organisational level to understand the complex dynamics of diversity work.
As well as her work with Mayvin, Shelly is an Associate with several leading development specialists globally, including Roffey Park Institute and the MiL Institute in Sweden. Her work includes running Masters level programmes, coaching senior leaders and providing consultancy interventions. She is experienced in Action Learning and provides masterclasses in advanced facilitation skills.
She also supports and guides strategic and top teams on change projects and works with organisations on broader issues such as Creating a World Class organisation and International Leadership. This has given her opportunity to work with numerous corporate global organisations.
She now spends most of her time as an OD Educator to support aspiring and existing OD professionals deepen their practice and impact. She is the Co Dean of the Global OD Certificate Programme.
She has won the gold diversity award for her work with the Department of Transport. She and her team won the National Training Journal gold leadership and bronze awards (2014) for the best leadership programme and best public sector programme for diversity work in the Ministry of Justice. She continues to design and delivery highly regarded pan Civil Services programme for the UK and other nation states
Shelly is also a founding member of ODN Europe and has been on the Board and Co chair. She is a professional member of the NTL Institute and past Board member. Shelly continues to hold an international mindset and contributes to ODN conferences, IODA and is a member of the global Organisation Development, Leadership and Change working group for NTL
Job Titles:
- Senior Client Coordinator