GROUND + AIR - Key Persons
Alan Roberston is the creator of VoicePrint, the diagnostic and development tool which is designed to improve individual, team and organisational performance by bringing unconscious patterns of talk and behaviour into conscious awareness.
Alan's corporate career began in the aerospace and industrial relations sectors when both were going through turbulence and change. This took him into leadership and organisational development, and expanded his interests into business psychology and consultancy.
In parallel with consultancy, facilitation and executive coaching, Alan was a Senior Visiting Teaching Fellow at Cranfield University the Cass Business School, where he taught personal and inter-personal skills helping individuals to re-orientate and progress their careers. Alan is a Fellow of the CIPD, a member of the British Psychological Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Ground and Air is delighted to have Alan's involvement.
With 18 years of experience in Financial Services, Amy is a trusted adviser to industry leaders on questions of culture, leadership and people strategy. She combines first-hand experience and sector expertise with a natural talent for understanding people and how to develop, challenge and motivate individuals and teams.
Background
Amy has worked in the finance industry for 18 years and has a wealth of knowledge and experience to offer to clients. She spent 12 years at Schroders and was the Head of Business Management for its quantitative equities business. She worked alongside the team's founder and lead fund manager to oversee a $40 billion book of assets, a global institutional client base and a team of 30 investment professionals based in London, Sydney and New York. Her responsibilities included people management, talent acquisition and development, client relations, sales and marketing as well as oversight of the team's operations and trading function.
In 2017 Amy launched her own consultancy practice, advising senior professionals in the finance industry on culture and people strategy. She works closely with industry leaders to develop high-performance teams, using creative strategies to enhance teamwork, communication and productivity.
Amy enjoys helping individuals to develop their leadership style and capabilities in order to address challenges, navigate change and increase their influence and impact. Her clients now range from large, global institutions to smaller boutiques and start-ups. She has also worked with not-for-profit organisations and the Civil Service.
Job Titles:
- Executive Coach, Leadership Facilitator, Consultant, Diversity & Inclusion Specialist
Anusha is a commercial, pragmatic and highly focused accredited executive coach and leadership facilitator. She draws on sound psychological theories, her working experience and balances this with using practical interventions that are fit for purpose for organisations and individual clients. She continues to receive positive feedback for her ability to understand a client, being relevant, her style and knowledge.
Carla is a qualified, accredited coach, who works with individuals and teams to support them in gaining a deeper understanding of who they are and how they work so that they can define their goals and move forward effectively.
Claire is an award-winning creative industry CEO turned Leadership Coach who guides talented executives to become unforgettable.
Right now, great leaders matter more than ever and in this unpredictable and demanding world, being a leader who people trust and admire is a commercial imperative.
Claire is at her best when asking questions that unlock transformative insights for people who feel stuck. Ideally she would be doing this with leaders and teams who choose to do the hard things and value inclusion and laughter.
Claire offers an ethical, evidence-based and systemic coaching model for leaders. It leverages an individual's unique qualities and gives them the power to harness long-term loyalty from their people, the result of which is to create far-reaching influence and all the organisational benefits that follow.
Job Titles:
- Performance Coach & Data Specialist
Hailing from a background of physical performance, and after working in Formula One with McLaren for over 12 years, Clayton now pursues the potential of enhancing the functions of the mind, body, and environment to produce results.
Job Titles:
- Clinical Psychologist
- Senior Clinical Psychologist
Dr Laura Alcock is a senior clinical psychologist registered with the Health Care and Professions Council (HCPC).
She has worked primarily within child and adolescent mental health services in the NHS and, in private practice, she works with children, adolescents and adults with mental health difficulties. Dr Alcock has particular experience in the assessment and diagnosis of children, adolescent and adults with neurodevelopmental conditions including autism spectrum conditions and ADHD.
She also works with a range of difficulties including, challenging behaviour, depression, anxiety, panic, OCD, bipolar disorder, trauma, emotional regulation, attachment, substance misuse, learning disability and self-esteem.
Elina has built an international reputation for helping executives, teams and private individuals to improve, regulate and enhance their capabilities to restore through sleep. Based in Sydney, she is the founder and architect of The Sleep Expert System and a popular contributor to media organisations including ABC, Network 7, Buzzfeed, PopSugar, Women's Health, Men's Fitness. Her expertise spans across a comprehensive range of modalities including Meta Coaching, Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), Hypnotherapy, Sound Healing, Brainwave Entrainment, Brainwave Mapping and various Human Development Frameworks. Elina's system is founded on proven neurological principles, independent research and practical, easy-to-apply techniques that target all the root causes of insomnia simultaneously. The Sleep Expert is a multifaceted programme that addresses inflexible brainwave states, imbalance in the nervous system, and several other problems that collectively damage our ability to sleep well. Elina has an MBA and has worked with organisations including Procter & Gamble and Macquarie Bank. Clients include Citigroup, TAL and Qantas.
Job Titles:
- Accredited Coach and Clean Language Practitioner
I provide coaching and mentoring across the media, marketing and creative industries, as well as personal coaching to individuals.
With 16 years experience in media and marcomms I have an understanding of the challenges, pressures and needs of the industry and appreciate the importance of return on investment.
Job Titles:
- Master Executive and Team Coach
I am an energising coach and a specialist in leadership development, who puts my client's unique needs at the heart of my work. I coach individuals and teams, and specifically boards and executive teams, to increase their performance in pursuit of the organisation's aims.
Jim works with business owners, executives and high-potentials across a range of industries.
Background
He has over 25 years' experience launching and running businesses locally and internationally. With a background in talent search Jim has supported and advised executives and led external hiring initiatives for global media brands and technology firms.
This has afforded him a unique perspective into how major organisations, SME's and hyper-growth businesses operate - and how their founders, leaders and top performers think. Jim knows first-hand and through his client work what it takes, emotionally and financially, to invest in an organisations' culture and success.
Joe is a Performance Psychologist and Senior Consultant at Ground + Air and the most recent recruit to our ever-growing team. He was previously Head of Performance Psychology at RocheMartin.
Joe has considerable experience in the world of human performance and is highly skilled at applying his knowledge of performance psychology into business, education and sporting environments.
Background
Joe has over seven years of experience supporting high performers within business, sport and education to be the best version of themselves, both personally and professionally. He is a member of the British Psychological Society and has extensive training in a range of psychological therapies. Joe is fascinated by human performance and is passionate about helping people thrive.
Josh helps senior executives and founders capture and elevate their personal value proposition - the true and unique value they will bring to an opportunity, industry or the world. His consultancy is often given at pivotal times when a client is making a big move ‘up' or is exploring a significant career change. By drawing on creative branding and storytelling techniques honed through twenty years of highly-commercial brand consultancy for the likes of Google, Under Armour, Amazon and a host of startups, Josh brings powerful authenticity, emotional impact and an infectious confidence to a client's personal and professional story.
Most recently Josh has worked with CEOs, C-level executives and founders of top tier organisations across the tech and media industries, including Salesforce, DAZN, Red Bull and The Jamie Oliver Group. His honest, energising and inspirational consultancy is typically delivered through one-to-one sessions and often culminates in a beautifully written and designed personal Brand Book or opportunity-focused content. Everything always stems from one guiding principle: Give them something to believe in.
Job Titles:
- Presenting Specialist, Media Lecturer, Coach
For the past 25 years Julian has worked at the cutting edge of media, leading generation-defining brands and creating award-winning content. The former Editor-in-Chief at Heat and Digital Spy, Julian lectures as part of City, the University of London's journalism course. He has worked on every major platform, managed teams large and small, and trained-up the next generation of talent across a range of educational and talent initiatives. Julian has invented awards initiatives, presented at Cannes Lions, the global advertising festival, and hosted ITV2 reality shows.
Job Titles:
- Personal Assistant
- Project Coordinator
Kate is an experienced Executive Assistant, supporting C-suite and senior leadership teams within different sized and structured organisations from small start-ups to major multinationals such as Microsoft. Most recently before Ground and Air, Kate was at Connor where she worked as Executive Assistant to Kate Mason-Keaney.
Kate is a key component of the engine behind the team at Ground and Air, ensuring we're all in the right place at the right time, amongst her many other responsibilities. A calm head, ability to think quickly and in a very organised way means that Kate provides us all with the steadiness required when juggling so many projects at once.
You are most likely to ‘meet' Kate first when you work with Ground and Air, as she has a big part to play in the smooth running of all of our projects, from start to finish. A particular focus of Kate's is managing the process of the diagnostic tools we use when working with teams and individuals - so she'll be the person keeping everyone on the right track.
Kate has over 20 years of commercial experience including holding CEO and Director roles at SME and FTSE 100 organisations.
Background
Kate is works with select clients at global organisations to transform the way high-performing leaders approach their work and life. Kate operates through the lenses of both people and organisation and the system that together they create. Through a balanced focus on people and organisation, Kate achieves impact through blind-spot dynamics and the ability to "interrupt in order to improve" at a human, team and organisational level.
Her extensive background in business leadership, cultural growth and P&L accountability coupled with her specialist background in performance psychology, talent management, neuroscience and physiology provide Kate with a unique and sought-after skill set, which she brings to her coaching and development practice with boards, top performers and their teams.
Job Titles:
- Commercial and Operations Director and Coach
Kirsty is an experienced HR and Commercial specialist who focusses on Organisation Design, Development and Effectiveness
Background
Kirsty has 15 years' experience working with SME's who are experiencing fast growth. Kirsty works with Organisations to prepare them for the future by helping businesses create a roadmap to understand where they are now, where they aspire to be and how they will get there. This ranges an array of both people and commercial driven capabilities such as business processes and efficiency, through to the full people agenda.
Following over 8 years' operating at Board Level and 8 years' experience of working as a Finance Manager, Kirsty is a business focussed people specialist. Kirsty's experience ranges from business start-up and set up through to merging five business into one and creating a ‘one culture'. Kirsty holds an MA in Human Resource Management and is CIPD qualified. She volunteered on the Milton Keynes CIPD committee for 10 years organising in excess of 50 CPD events for CIPD members.
The first 10 years of her career were spent in the creative industry and Kirsty applies her aptitude for creative thinking in her business life. Through her experience and personal values Kirsty delivers results by gaining the trust of those she works with.
Job Titles:
- Culture Specialist and Coach
I qualified as a coach with the Co-Active Training Institute (formerly the Coaches Training Institute), completing its ICF Accredited coach training programme ‘Fundamentals' in 2009.
Since then, I have coached in various capacities: as a line manager, privately as a personal (or ‘life') coach, and as a performance coach for numerous senior and mid-level executives. I enjoy working with my clients on a broad range of areas, helping them to become more effective and create positive change, both in and outside of work.
Whether at an individual or company level, I particularly enjoy working on values - an area that resonates with me personally and which I believe is key to unlocking potential.
Job Titles:
- Executive Coach, Digital Consultant
Purpose driven & people focused professional with over 20 years' leadership experience up to executive board level across multiple national retail businesses. Responsibilities included commercial, marketing, and digital; holding the P&L for these areas, and creating a supportive, collaborative and progressive environment for teams of over 300 colleagues.
A Henley Business School accredited coach with over two years private practice combined with 10 years as an internally trained coach and mentor, supporting the development of senior leaders and emerging talent.
Job Titles:
- High Performing Facilitator and Consultant
Robert is a high performing facilitator and consultant with extensive experience in designing and delivering interventions which specialise in bringing about behavioural change within people.
Background
Robert believes that at the heart of a goof learning intervention is a methodology that inspires and lasts far longer than the event itself, creating a re-skilling and up-skilling state of mind that deepens an individuals sense of empowerment and interpersonal freedom.
Having worked and trained as an actor across theatre, film, tv and radio, Robert became fascinated by what made one performer more impactful and engaging that another.
Understanding that the answer lay in a delicate combination of the inner world of a person and the communication choices they have available to them, Robert now focusses on using that understanding to support organisations and the individuals within them to expand their attitudinal, vocal, physical and linguistic capabilities.
Working with a wide body of participant audiences including apprentices, graduates and middle, senior and C-suite leaders, he has a particular interest in the areas of wellbeing, presentations, personal impact, influencing and storytelling.
Job Titles:
- Leadership and Sales Development Specialist
Sara spent over 15 years working in a corporate environment, managing teams and leading the commercial strategy for several high-profile consumer media brands. Sara has spent the past 7 years working as a trainer and facilitator and coach across a diverse range of clients and sectors.
Sara's business experience and roles included, Group Advertisement Director at Haymarket Consumer Media, Sponsorship & Promotions Director at Bauer Media and Managing Director of round8 - a specialist media recruitment agency. It is this ‘real-life' business experience that adds credibility, relevance and a level of empathy to Sara's approach and delivery style.
Sara has worked with a wide variety of clients and sectors including; Media (BBC Worldwide, Bauer, Citywire, Net a porter, SKY, Hachette, Business Insider, The Mill), Food & Beverage (Camden Town Brewery, Bidvest Fresh, Dalziel, Hain Daniels), Recruitment (Odgers Berndtson, round8, Horizon Teachers), Finance (ICG), Sport (Fulham Football Club), Transport (Heathrow Express), Telecoms & Technology (Virgin Media, Oracle, Ve Interactive, BT), Events (London Tobacco Dock). Sara has experience of delivering and facilitating programmes both locally and globally.
Job Titles:
- Coach and Chartered Occupational Psychologist
Sarah is a psychologist with over 20 years' experience of maximizing performance at the highest level in elite sport and business. She is passionate about helping people perform at their best and thrive in the process. Sarah specialises in coaching high potential individuals and developing high performing teams.
Job Titles:
- Programme Architect, HR and L & D Specialist
Talent Management and Development leader with the passion and drive to deliver creative, yet pragmatic solutions to help businesses move forward with their strategic agendas. With over 15 years' experience as an HR leader in financial and professional services organisations, Sarah has worked with a range of business leaders in complex and fast paced environments and now use this experience as a consultant.
Background
Sarah has held several HR leadership roles in Financial and Professional service organisations, specialising over the last 6 years in Talent Management and Development. She has led teams and Centres of Excellence that are responsible for developing and delivering the People and Talent strategies, partnering with the C-Suite and senior leaders. Sarah has built extensive experience in Leadership Development, High Potential Development, Succession Planning, Talent Assessment, Performance Management and Organisational Change & Development, designing the frameworks for the business, and delivering the solutions. She is accredited to use a wide range of psychometric tools which she has utilised to support the development of leaders, coaching them to achieve higher performance.
Steve is one of the all-time greats in his sport and the only British track and field competitor to win medals at three different Olympic Games. He broke the World Record three times and was crowned ‘World Athlete of the Year' by the IAAF in 1990.
Steve is the co-creator of the Mind-Setting Programme and co-founder of BackleyBlack.
He is an ambassador for UK Athletics, commentator for the BBC, author of "The Champion in All of Us" and "The Winning Mind", and co-author of "The Little Book of Inspiration." He has worked with a huge range of executives and teams at organisations including EY, BP, Staples and Lloyds.
Windy Dryden is one of the most respected practitioners, contributors and trainers in the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) tradition of psychotherapy. He is best known for his work in Rational-Emotive Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (RECBT.)
Windy is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths University of London.
He has published over 230 books and has trained therapists all over the world, in as diverse places as the UK, Australia, the USA, South Africa, Turkey and Israel.