Meet our affiliates

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Derek Blackburn

“I am passionate about inspiring, supporting and enabling leaders to identify, manage and meet their customers’ expectations to help them deliver results that meet business, customer and employee demands.”

Diane Boston

"I have always enjoyed working with creative and developing organisations – or ones that aspire to be so."

Jefferson Cann

“The purpose of my work is the liberation of organisational effectiveness and human value, through enabling leaders to ACT with Awareness, Connection and Transformation of themselves, their people and their environment for the sustainable benefit of all.”

Richard Cartlidge

“I used to be a navigator in the Royal Air Force on Chinook helicopters...now I'm a navigator in the development field: I help organisations and individuals get from A to B.”

Sue Chapman

"I very much enjoy working with people to create and maintain effective working environments and relationships."

Aileen Cory

"My approach is to work closely and creatively with the uniqueness of clients to ensure a bespoke service to meet needs."

Steve Davey

"Achieving results that make organizations and the people in them more effective and more energized is a real source of satisfaction."

Margaret Davies

“I relish challenging assignments and believe my personal strengths include my insight and ability to inspire individuals and groups within organisations to develop their potential at work.”

Kevin Dixon

"Organisations can get locked into a complex 'maze' of projects and attempted transformations that are not sufficiently emergent and agile - they become 'time-thieves' wasting energy and resources. I enter the maze and work alongside leaders - from the outside - to help illuminate the internal and external landscape to help get to the core of the problem, and navigate a pathway out of the labyrinth - my aim is to help achieve the outcomes organisations want"

Justin Featherstone MC

"I believe there are certain things that leaders and teams must do but, more fundamental, is what both leaders and teams must be."

Martin Gregory

"I work on the premise that awareness prompts thinking, thinking stimulates behaviour and behaviour produces results."

Baz Hartnell

"I feel privileged to be asked to go on this journey with my clients and create with them the outcomes they require, often creating transformational change along the way - in me as well as the client!"

Jeannie Hodder

"I have courageous, authentic conversations with my clients to help them make important discoveries."

Simon Hollington

"My approach is to build a trusted relationship so that I am able to challenge current practice and allow individuals and organisations to release their full potential."

Carolyn Hooker

"My general approach is to champion people and ideas, stimulate thinking and help change behaviour, but effective thinking is always the key to this!"

Toby Hoskins

"I am delighted to be an affiliate of a leading business school. I really like the people at the CLS, and learn from them as friends. I try to pass that learning and my curiosity on to my clients."

John Jupp

"I enjoy working with all those who believe in improving their leadership and that of those around them, at whatever level they work, because they believe that improved leadership delivers great performance from teams that enjoy their work."

Simon Lawder

"Three principles are central to everything I do: TRUST, PASSION and FUN. The same applies to the way I encourage leaders to build sustainable relationships with those they wish to lead"

Paul Lim

“My diverse past experiences have led me to a much greater appreciation of different cultures and people.”

Nigel Linacre

“Nigel enables people to lead their lives with a deeper connection with self, team and the world they affect, stimulating a gentle transformation.”

Hubert Lobnig

“As a consultant my task is to provide opportunities and inspiring contexts.”

Simon Ricketts

"I believe that we should all be enjoying our work, finding fulfillment within it and stretching the boundaries of our own capabilities."

Mark Robertson

“I believe that, when a team approach is needed, harnessing the energies of different personalities, each with their own strengths and weaknesses, creates a special sort of workplace that gives significant results.”

Jamie Stewart

"I have a passion for creating the environment and holding the space to enable others to learn and develop their skills in the area of leadership development."

Sybille Schiffmann

“Distributed leadership was much more than just a catchphrase. It was being actively applied by teams formed throughout the organisation.”

Helen Sieroda

“I love to work with leaders who are ready to meet the challenge of asking deeper questions about the future they are helping to shape; leaders who value the role psychological thinking can play in developing effective approaches to leadership; who are looking for ways to bridge insight with action and engage with awareness and ’heart’ in the day to day dilemmas of life in businesses and organisations.”