Ian Huntley OBE
Ian is an independent leadership consultant and an executive coach. He has designed, led and run national and international leadership development programmes for the public and private sector for over a decade. His clients have included the NHS, the nuclear industry, HM Prisons and Probation Service, a bio-medical research centre, and early career cancer researchers across Europe. He has also delivered keynote presentations to senior military and civilian audiences in the UK and internationally.
Formerly in the Royal Marines, he was the head of the Ministry of Defence’s leadership centre, which was set up to improve the strategic leadership of very senior officers and senior civil servants both within the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and overseas. In this role he was also responsible for all the MOD’s language and culture training, equality diversity and inclusion advisor training, stress management training and all MOD Civil Servant management training. For his work at the MoD leadership centre he was appointed OBE in 2016. In addition to his operational experience with 3 Commando Brigade in Northern Ireland, Iraq and Afghanistan, he has worked on policy issues in the UK MoD and on strategy in the Cabinet Office.
He is currently a senior assessor for the College of Policing and an independent member on the disciplinary panel of the International Cotton Association.
Ian is an Honorary Fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford, and a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute. He enjoys most legal outdoor activities, as long as it’s not raining.
Anna Heywood
Anna is a Chartered Organisational Psychologist, working as an executive coach and facilitator, specialising in leadership development for individuals, groups, teams and organisations. She spends much of her time working with chief executives, directors and their leadership teams to improve organisational capability, culture and performance. She also trains and supervises other coaches and has helped numerous organisations to adopt a coaching culture.
Anna has a particular passion for helping leaders and teams navigate the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous nature of their organisations. She is inherently curious about what makes people tick and why we behave in the ways we do, so she brings both psychological understanding and an appreciation of the commercial realities of organisational life. Hence her focus on aligning individuals’ and teams’ development agendas to the needs of the organisation as a whole, to ensure everyone gets a return on their investment and sees evidence of improved performance.
Anna blends a relaxed, approachable style with perceptive, incisive questioning rooted in a deep understanding of human nature. Her clients are quick to trust her and quick to get to the heart of whatever topics they bring to the table. Her past and current experience spans a range of organisations, e.g., financial, social media, energy and retail sectors, telecommunications, professional services, manufacturing, local authorities, NHS Trusts, Integrated Care Systems, Integrated Care Boards, charities, and central government agencies.
Current & past projects include:
· One-to-one and team coaching up to and including CEO & Executive Leadership Teams.
· Designing, managing and delivering organisational development programmes, across sectors and continents.
· Designing, managing and delivering leadership development programmes, across sectors to improve organisational talent and leadership performance.
· Working with existing and newly formed Executive teams to deliver better results for their organisations, through establishing better relationships; improved collaboration and performance with wider stakeholder groups; managing competing agendas; learning how to challenge; giving feedback and managing the complexity of being a functional and executive leader.
· Facilitating partnership working and systems leadership at Executive director level across organisational boundaries, including local authorities, NHS trusts, voluntary sector, and the police.
· Training and supervising business / coaches.
· Enabling organisations and leaders to adopt a coaching style of leadership.
· Leading action learning sets to encourage self-directed learning.
· Facilitating leadership development programmes – including workshops on leading change and complexity, resilience, decision making, performance management, influencing, conflict management and enhancing relationships with key stakeholders.
· Facilitating in-depth interpersonal development programmes within an organisational context to help individuals develop better interpersonal relationships within their organisations.
Anna’s qualifications:
· In addition to an MSc in Organisational Psychology, Anna holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Business and Executive Coaching and a Postgraduate Diploma in Coaching Supervision. Anna is qualified to use a number of psychometric tools and instruments.
Mark Edwards
Mark Edwards is a Chief of Service, Consultant Vascular and Trauma Surgeon based at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust. He oversees a service improvement portfolio that includes the implementation and study of novel methods of integrating Serious Incident data in order to identify patterns and trends.
Mark graduated in Medicine from the University of London in 2003 and has worked within the NHS since. His practice as a Vascular and Trauma surgeon includes work in two specialist, tertiary care centres as well as several networked secondary care hospitals where his work interfaces with primary care.
During his training Mark undertook a two-year Safety and Leadership Fellowship linked to the work of the Staff College that saw the commencement of his work looking at the analysis of integrated Serious Incident data. This applied academic work, based upon complexity theory, has since been adopted by a number of healthcare bodies where it is being used to inform quality improvement processes.
Jane Jones
Jane is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist who thrives working in the in-between. She has led service and system change both within and between organisations in NHS England and NHS Wales.
She graduated from the University of Wales in 2005 working for the NHS across North Wales and North London before returning to Cardiff. She is a Northerner.
Jane’s clinical work is underpinned by psychoanalytic and systemic thinking with a specific training in psychodynamic psychotherapy, and these theoretical bases inform her work with individuals and groups.
With a firm belief that staff wellbeing is at the heart of NHS improvement and that positive and thoughtful leadership is a vital aspect of this Jane remains committed to the mission of developing better leaders for healthcare.
Chris Gibson MBE
Chris Gibson brings with him over 34 years military, governmental and private sector experience. He has held leadership roles and key appointments throughout his career which have seen him serve on specialist military operations all over the world including 18 months in Beirut attempting to gain the release of Terry Waite, 12 months in Sarajevo on a Special Forces Team charge with the capture and arrest indicted war criminals and 16 months in Sierra Leone manging the President’s personal security during the civil war. Further deployment on operations in Zaire, El Salvador, Uganda, Sudan and Algeria brought many challenges. Having led the Close Protection operation in the Middle East during the 2nd Gulf War which saw him planning and leading the protection of various world leaders, Chris moved on to further challenges that the military offered. Having graduated from NHS Staff College he has taken his inventive enthusiasm for adapting military leadership and wisdom for the wider benefit of enterprises such as the NHS.
Having gained a post graduate award in management from Harvard University and an MBA from The University of Northampton, Chris was appointed as The Chief Instructor of The Army Medical Services Training Centre, the world’s largest medical simulation centre preparing the multinational trauma hospital deployments to Afghanistan. Whilst there he co-developed a training, leadership and assurance methodology for hospital care which has been adopted by American, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand militaries as international best practice.
Chris was given the task of leading on the development and delivery of a training model for military and NHS volunteers to combat the Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa. This was an irrefutable success which saw over 1200 personnel deploy appropriately trained and equipped for the rigor of delivering care in a West African jungle, for which he was awarded the MBE. A known innovator, Chris was recently awarded with The Health Service Journal Special Recognition Award, the first occasion this has been issued for his development of innovative solutions to healthcare this was latterly followed by Ideas UK as International Innovator of the Year 2017-18.
Of late Chris has been the government lead on assisting London Ambulance Service NHS Trust out of Special Measures and several NHS Trusts who have sought his assistance in supporting struggling areas of their enterprise. Other tasks saw him working as a leadership and cultural advisor to the Ministry of Justice. Of late Chris has worked with the Irish Government on strategic contingency planning. He works with various professional sporting teams including The Football Association as a leadership and high-performance advisor on the Pro Licence Course and business groups on how to translate this positive philosophy and effective thinking into a winning capability. He has worked with the governors of the Bank of England and the College of Policing Strategic Command Course on developing a high-performance culture. He works with C-suite teams regularly helping shape and bring into focus strategy and culture to create a winning capability.
He remains much sought after as a keynote speaker on leadership and innovation by businesses and leading academic institutes.
Gill Wilkinson QVRM
Gill Wilkinson has served in the Army for 29 years, initially as a Regular Officer and now as a Reservist. She has led soldiers on operations in Northern Ireland and The Balkans and worked across a range of specialist logistic, human resources and training roles, including as an assessor of leadership potential at the Army Officer Selection Board. She was the Deputy Commander of The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst from 2018-2020 and is currently the Deputy Military Secretary Reserves, with responsibility for career development policy and talent management of the Army’s Reserve component.
Since 2012 Gill has delivered leadership assessment and development programmes to senior leaders across a range of sectors including Health, Higher Education and Professional Sport and also works as an executive coach. She has a post graduate qualification in Education from the University of Edinburgh. A successful sportswoman in her earlier years, she captained her university hockey team and, through quirk of being in the right place at the right time, represented the Army in Bobsleigh, placing second in the British Bobsleigh Championships back in 1997.
She enjoys most outdoor activities and is too easily persuaded to sign up for events which need much more commitment to putting the training miles in than they used to!
Jamie Martin
Jamie Martin brings over 33 years of command and leadership experience from his service in the British Army. His career included command of an armoured reconnaissance regiment and operational tours in Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Kosovo and Iraq as well as tours in command of an international training and advisory team in Sierra Leone, commanding a multi-national peace monitoring team in Mozambique and working in various headquarters and departments of the Army and the Ministry of Defence, where he specialised in policy, strategy, planning and in media and strategic communications. His leadership experience thus spans small, multi-national teams to larger organisations of many hundreds. He also served at the UK Defence Academy where, in helping to deliver the Defence Studies and Leadership MA course, he was closely involved in the professional development of his students, helping them to prepare themselves for leadership at the operational and strategic levels.
Since leaving the Army in 2015, Jamie has developed a second career as an independent training and leadership consultant. He has used his extensive experience of command and leadership in the Army and built on his military training experience to help deliver senior leadership development courses to professional healthcare workers in the NHS. He has also been heavily involved in Disaster Management training and academic research both in the UK and abroad (Middle East, Africa and the Caribbean). His area of speciality is the design, research, development and delivery of disaster management simulation scenarios. The delivery of this disaster management training is to individuals from a wide range of backgrounds, cultures and experience across the spectrum of the police and emergency services, the military and Government Departments including national emergency management organisations and Ministries of Health.
Tim Hodgson
Tim Hodgson, Consultant in Oral Medicine/Honorary Associate Professor was appointed Medical Director Specialist Hospitals Board, University College London Hospitals (UCLH) NHS Trust in November 2019. He had previously been Clinical Director at the Eastman Dental Hospital since January 2014 and had supported the move of the Eastman and Royal National ENT hospitals from their Gray’s Inn Road sites to the main trust campus at Warren Street. He has innovated several workshops for staff development.
He sits on the UCLH Board as Executive Medical Director. He has led sections of the Membership of the Joint Dental Faculties exam for the Royal College of Surgeons and Overseas Registration Exam for the General Dental Council. He advocates self-awareness resilience and change training for health care professionals.