EXTRAVITALITY - Key Persons

Dr Carol Sadler

Job Titles:
  • Freelance Nutrition Consultant
Carol is a freelance Nutrition Consultant. She has worked in the recent past with the Surrey Cardiovascular Clinic advising clients on diet change and with the University of Sydney on policy advice for the prevention of type 2 diabetes. Prior to this Carol worked in private practice in Dubai for nine years, where she had various media engagements including Emirates Radio 2 Lifestyle Show ‘phone-in'; Gulf News Friday Magazine's (weekend supplement) nutrition queries answered; City7 TV appearances on Breakfast Television commenting on nutrition topics. Carol also contributed to local magazines, and organizations, eg Rheumatoid Arthritis Group, Grazia Magazine, Living in the Gulf magazine. Carol is a Registered Nutritionist at the Association for Nutrition, Registration No. 912 and a member of SENSE (self employed consultant Nutritionists group for professional development). Having worked in several countries, Carol is passionate about the health and wellbeing of those of us whose working lives require us to travel.

Julie Dennis

Job Titles:
  • Coach
  • Fitness Coach and Personal Trainer
Julie Dennis is a fitness coach specializing in weight loss and body transformation results. She is a level 4 skilled personal trainer and a qualified…

Kathy Lewis

Job Titles:
  • Consultant
  • Management Consultant
  • Consultancy Director
  • Vice Chair of the Caroline Walker Trust
Kathy Lewis, Consultancy Director, enjoys a multidisciplinary career based on a portfolio of achievement. Kathy is a Management Consultant for Executive Travel Wellbeing and Stress, Health Promotion Specialist, Consultant Nutritionist (Registered Nutritionist and World Public Health Nutritionist) and a Chartered Marketer with over 25 years of experience. Her specialist areas include executive stress and wellbeing (including jet-lag and travel wellness), travel nutrition, travel policies, corporate vitality, employee engagement, marketing and internal communications. Kathy holds several relevant degrees, Masters in Applied Psychology (MSc) with distinction for her research in Executive stress and maladaptive coping behaviours looking specifically at clinical work-based stress and the impact on healthy lifestyles, Masters in Business Administration (MBA), with distinctions achieved in Management Accounts, Statistics and Project Management, completed with a research-based dissertation in the marketing of healthy options in catering establishments, and a Bachelor degree in Nutrition and Food Science. Over the last 25 years, Kathy has worked as a consultant and advised in various industries, from travel, health and food to financial services and telecommunications, on nutrition, executive wellbeing, workplace health, change management, internal communications and employee engagement. She has worked with a variety of clients across local government, NHS, educational institutes, NGO's, national and multinational companies. As a Management Consultant (post-MBA) Kathy was required to travel to several locations each week and in 2002 began her masters in Applied Psychology (& Health Promotion) as a result of observing the stress in senior managers. She was awarded a distinction for both her research on work-related stress and maladaptive behaviours and her course work. Prior to this, Kathy spent many years working with catering establishments to provide healthy options, and prior to this working in diet and fitness centres, following her degree in Human Nutrition and Food Science in 1989. Combining all areas of experience and expertise was the obvious way forward, and subsequently founded the concept of business travel vitality and wellbeing. Kathy is a former Consulting Editor for Readers Digest Association Inc (USA) and Readers' Digest UK (Vivat), as well as the former founding Non-Executive Editor for the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) Food, Drink and Agriculture group. As an author, she has written a number of publications and a variety of articles in consumer publications and professional journals, with guest media appearances on a number of radio shows, including the BBC, London and regional radio. She enjoys public speaking on a range of topics and is a regular speaker at professional events. Kathy is also the Vice Chair of The Caroline Walker Trust, Founder of the International Forum for Health Promotion and Education, a board advisor for the Tessa Sanderson Foundation and Academy, the Vice-Chair/former Chair for the Financial Services Board at the Chartered Institute of Marketing, former Trustee/Non-Executive Director for the Association of MBA's (where she chaired the Governance Committee and was a member of the HR Committee and Strategic Working Party), former Honorary Secretary for the Institute of Health Promotion and Education, a founding Council Member of the Association for Nutrition. Kathy was also a committee member for the Food, Drink and Agriculture group at the Chartered Insitute of Marketing and a current Non-Executive Director at NZ Engineering. She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Association of MBAs, Institute for Travel Management, Association for Woman Travel Executives, Nutrition Society, SENSE, World Public Health Nutrition Association, Association for Nutrition (UK) and International Travel Writers Alliance. She is a former member of the Institute Institute of Directors, Royal Society of Arts and Institute of Health Promotion and Education.

Pam Carvell

Job Titles:
  • Hotel Marketing Consultant
Pamela Carvell, BSc (Hons) Management Sciences, has spent over 30 years travelling on business on her own. What's more, she knows the hotel industry inside…

Ruth Cohen

Job Titles:
  • Chartered Physiotherapist
Ruth facilitates part of our Better Travel - Better Health workshops. Ruth is a Chartered, State Registered, Physiotherapist at First Physio in London. She specialises…

Tessa Sanderson

Job Titles:
  • Olympian & Non Executive Director