Karin brings extensive experience of the corporate environment through both senior management experience and management consultancy in blue-chip organisations across Manufacturing, Travel, Finance, Media and Public Sectors. She draws on this experience to deliver effective solutions to business issues, working with leaders, businesses, teams and individuals to gain insight into issues, design outcomes and enhance performance.
Exceptional Qualities: Highly empathic while remaining outcome-focused; building effective working relationships which encourage open communication and discussion of issues, facilitating a solution-focussed approach.
Particular Passion: Facilitating teams and individuals in (re)discovering their intrinsic drives and motivations, generating energy and commitment to their goals.
Qualifications & Accreditations
Chartered Psychologist
MSc Organisational Psychology
BA(hons) Psychology
ILM (Level 7) Diploma in Leadership Mentoring & Executive Coaching
NLP Master Practitioner & Trainer
Psychotherapist (working towards)
British Psychological Society Certificates of Competence in Occupational Testing (Levels A & intermediate B)
Occupational Personality Questionnaire (OPQ)
Hogan
NEO-PI
Saville WAVE
Firo Element B
Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Steps 1 and 2
Strengthscope
Emotional Competency Inventory (Hays)
Bar-On EQi
Morrisby Career Inventory
MTQ48 (Mental Toughness Questionnaire)
Memberships & Professional Bodies
British Psychological Society
Registered with the Health Professions Council
Ian Flemming
Ian has extensive experience in both the public and private sectors, with a track record of leading significant organisational change and demonstrating his wide breadth and depth of skills and experience. Ian has extensive international experience, particularly in delivering his Leadership Development Programmes and developing awareness and ability in Influencing and Negotiating.
Exceptional Qualities: Ian has a persistence which clients value and is able to combine challenge and frank discussion with a high level of support. This approach creates an environment which encourages clients to review and shift their perceptions of themselves and the world around them.
Particular Passion: He has a real passion for genuine learning and development and gets a great deal from seeing people move on and really start to do things differently, and see the impact this has on themselves and others.
Qualifications & Accreditations
Post Graduate Diploma in Management Development and Organisational Change
British Psychological Society Certificates of Competence in Occupational Testing (Levels A & B)
Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
16PF
Team Management Profile
Memberships & Professional Bodies
Fellow of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
Wendy Shooter (Managing Director)
Wendy fully engages with organisational challenges and demonstrates exceptional commitment and energy in supporting clients' transformation to a different level of performance. Her natural ability to build quick and effective relationships assist her to get engagement at every level of the business.
Wendy's desire to understand the challenges combine with high creativity, intuition and commitment to ensure the right interventions are consistently delivered.
Exceptional Qualities: Wendy combines huge amounts of energy with insightful appreciation of individual preferences and strengths, to deliver outstanding organisational interventions. She is unrelenting in her drive to get the right solution.
Particular Passion: Wendy's greatest passion is to create experiences which broaden awareness, increase understanding and enable individuals to connect with their innate capacity and potential.
Qualifications & Accreditations
Chartered Psychologist
MSc Organisational Psychology
BA(hons) Psychology & Zoology
ILM Diploma Leadership Coaching
Counselling Studies
Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
Occupational Personality Questionnaire (OPQ)
Saville WAVE
Team Management Profile (TMSI)
Penna Assessor
Memberships & Professional Bodies
British Psychological Society
Registered with the Health Professions Council
Association of Business Psychologists
Duncan John
With a reputation for creative and unique high-energy training and facilitation, Duncan brings practical examples together with his business knowledge and experience to deliver high impact interventions. He has an excellent reputation and is highly sought after as a coach and training consultant and also as a conference motivational presenter in a variety of client environments.
Exceptional Qualities: Huge amounts of energy and inspiring use of wit in generating understanding and interest.
Particular Passion: Duncan's favourite work experience is when he hears that his input in the training room has resulted in real tangible results in the workplace. He likes to make a difference.
Qualifications & Accreditations
ILM Level 7 Diploma in Leadership Mentoring & Executive Coaching
NLP Practitioner
Human Givens Diploma (near completion)
City and Guilds Assessor
Investors In Excellence Practitioner
Memberships & Professional Bodies
Associate Member Information about the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)
Paul Chudleigh
Paul has vast experience of working successfully with organisations in the public, private and third sectors. He has worked with many executives and senior managers - individually and in teams - building a reputation for generating practical, focused and tangible results. Paul is committed to building strong relationships with clients, developing an on-going interest in their success.
Exceptional Qualities: Paul's approach is highly supportive. He combines his curiosity, tough questions, insight and dry humour to work with clients to find better solutions.
Particular Passion: Paul really likes to see individuals, teams and organisations get better at what they do and recognise the importance of enjoying the journey as they go.
Qualifications & Accreditations
MSc, Psychological Assessment in Organisations
Postgraduate Diploma, Occupational Assessment
Postgraduate Certificate, Psychology of Organisational Development and Change Certificate
ILM Level 7 Diploma in Leadership Mentoring & Executive Coaching
Accredited Workplace & Employment Mediator
British Psychological Society Certificates of Competence in Occupational Testing (Levels A & & B)
Saville WAVE
Occupational Personality Questionnaire
Jung Type Indicator
Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument
Motivation Questionnaire
MTQ48 (Mental Toughness Questionnaire)
SHL (MAS) Assessment tools
Memberships & Professional Bodies
Association of Business Psychologists
Member, South-West Regional Coaching Forum
Carol Pickering
Carol has significant experience in Leadership and Organisational Development activities over many years, with experience in the private and public sectors (including a great deal in the NHS ). She works strategically and developmentally at the organisational level, while supporting individuals with bespoke transformational interventions.
Exceptional Qualities: Enabling Leaders to make the link between their individual approach and organisational outcomes, through a unique blend of support and challenge.
Particular Passion: Carol is passionate about diversity and equality – in all its forms, and has developed specialist expertise in women’s leadership development.
Qualifications & Accreditations
BA (Hons) English
Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE)
AC accredited Coach
Diploma in Coaching Supervision
NLP Practitioner
British Psychological Society Certificates of Competence in Occupational Testing (Levels A & & B)
Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
Memberships & Professional Bodies
Institute of Training and Development
Association for Coaching
Julia Moore
Julia is our Wellbeing specialist, focusing on maximising the amounts of personal energy clients are able to access. She supports individuals to find the nutritional intake and the physical activity that will have the greatest impact on their personal energy. Julia explores the interplay of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual energy with clients, building self-knowledge and understanding so individuals are resourced to ensure their own wellbeing.
Exceptional Qualities: Julia has an ability to inspire people to enjoy the transition to a healthier, happier, more energised lifestyle. Her broad knowledge of anatomy, physiology, complementary health and therapeutic yoga combine to provide you with cutting edge holistic health guidance.
Particular Passion: Supporting Clients in their journey towards a more balanced lifestyle and their discovery of the benefits wellbeing can bring to their lives, in terms of what they are able to achieve and become, in a way that works for them.
Qualifications & Accreditations
BSc Health Studies and Information Studies
CHEK Holistic Lifestyle Coach
Anatomy, Physiology and Massage Therapy (ITEC)
Yoga Teacher (Level 3)
Yoga Therapy (Intensive teacher training & Advanced)
Paddy has widespread experience across many sectors including Construction, Manufacturing and Financial Services. He is widely experienced at facilitating groups and individuals alike to explore different approaches and find more successful ways to approach their challenges and get the outcomes they want.
Exceptional Qualities: Clients often comment on Paddy's easy manner, which he combines with astute questioning to create the perfect environment for significant change to take place.
Particular Passion: Paddy is strongly motivated by supporting individuals to develop their levels of self-reliance and self-belief, enabling organisational culture shifts to increase personal responsibility and accountability.
Qualifications & Accreditations
MA in Gender, Culture and Politics
Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
Firo Element B
Team Management Profile
Memberships & Professional Bodies
Founder member of the Association of Equality & Diversity Practitioners
Association for Coaching
Member of the British Association for Psychological Type
Partner in the Diversity Partnership
Ian Rothwell
Ian has extensive experience in both private and public sectors supporting organisations to ramp up their performance and see outstanding results. He draws from a broad range of knowledge and experience and is able to tailor interventions to each client's context and aspirations. Focussed on delivery and outputs, he adjusts pace to ensure depth of transition as part of the process.
Exceptional Qualities: Ian brings drive, commitment, enthusiasm, creativity and a passion for life to all his work activities.
Particular Passion: Seeing a shift in people's thinking and ways of working, and them ultimately having the courage, energy and passion to see it through.
Qualifications & Accreditations
BA (Hons) Business Management
MA Human Resource Management
MA Management Learning
Diploma in Sports Psychology
ILM Level 7 Diploma in Leadership Mentoring & Executive Coaching
British Psychological Society Certificates in Psychometric Testing (Levels A & B)
The words below represent what is important to us in the way we work with clients and each other. They also summarise the approach we tend to encourage and develop in our client organisations.