Our People
BA (Hons), PG Dip Psych, PhD
James is known for his wisdom, intuition and the depth of his knowledge. His sensitive and pragmatic approach, offering sound advice and thought provoking questions, enables people to master complex situations and find important truths that are out of sight.
MA (Oxon), MBA
People trust Martin, they feel better about themselves and the world after spending time with him. The thing that enables this is the strong relationships he develops, with integrity, care and trust – relationships that last well beyond the confines of any piece of work.
BA (Hons), MSc
Sarah’s clients value her for her keen insight, her strategic foresight, her wit and her ability to make useful connections, in relationships and thinking. She is inspired by working with individuals and teams to promote culture change and drive innovation.
BA Hons, MSc, FCIPD, PG Cert Coaching.
MBTI Step 1 & 2 and Leadership Development Framework Accredited
Carolyn is passionate about developing the adaptive capacity of people and systems to learn and thrive. She is known for her leadership, relationship-based approach and strategic and creative thinking and brings both a mindset and set of methodologies from complexity science to her work.
MA (Oxon), Associate Certified Coach (ICF)
Sophie’s clients value her for her intuitive insight, her playful style and her ability to come to the essence of the issue at hand. She is inspired by the power of human connection and compassion to make change in the world.
BSc (Hons), MSc
Tony brings a strategic perspective, creating space for clients to understand their contexts and to reflect on their ways of working. Clients value his calm, reflective and occassionally challenging presence.
Charlotte instantly builds rapport and connection, relates well to others and communicates effectively.
Coral is a keen learner with a can-do attitude who always strives to do her best and calmly approaches whatever the task or challenge. Coral is a team player and is always willing to help our were needed while working independently and managing her own task list.
Melissa enjoys building warm relationships and brings a collaborative and forward-thinking approach to her work.
Sue has over 30 years’ experience in Operational/Area Management & Project Management, with a can-do attitude and a passion for learning new skills, she excels at problem solving through teamworking and collaboration.
BSc (Hons), CIM Postgrad Diploma
Claire is passionate about people and making real connections. With a positive outlook and bright character, she is the creative force that drives Mayvin’s marketing team.
With over 6 years of experience in marketing, she’s collaborated with a diverse range of companies and brands, helping them tell their unique stories and build their online presence.
Suria values the importance of strong communication skills, and prides herself on her own as she feels they are key in forging strong, successful relationships. Suria is both creative and organised in equal measure and assists Claire in running the marketing side of Mayvin.
Tony works to create a climate in which people want to know and apply their strengths. He is particularly interested in developing effective patterns of behaviour needed for outstanding leadership, both individual and collective.
BA (Hons)
Alison brings a distinctive mix of research, creativity, empathy and challenge to ensure that there is real and meaningful impact.
BSc (Hons), CIPD PG Dip
Clients value Anna for her collaborative style and her ability to think outside the box and come up with solutions that are sustainable for the long term.
BSc, DMS, MSc, PhD
Carol specialises in helping senior managers to lead organisational change through developing effective behaviours and relationships.
MCIPD BA (Hons)
Caroline is passionate about enabling organisations and leaders be the best they can be, to deliver for their customers, their stakeholders, their people and for their own individual growth.
MA(Oxon), MAC, MBPsS
Cathy’s style is to work supportively but also to be challenging in the relationships with her clients, to offer honest feedback and to challenge the status quo; to facilitate learning beyond the superficial; and to seek ways forward to produce real and lasting change.
Chris has over 20 years of experience in delivering management and leadership development programmes to the public and private sectors. He has a particular interest in diversity and new models of leadership.
BA (Hons), MSc
Cindy is at her best getting alongside others to enable growth and collaboration through focussed inquiry, deep listening, and sensitive challenge. Her approach to working with clients and stakeholders is founded on curiosity and joint exploration to which she brings rigour and responsiveness, underpinned by a keen critical perspective and mission clarity.
BA Hons, MSc, PGDip
Much of Clare’s work focuses on strengthening relationships and team dynamics in senior teams, whilst addressing strategy development, organisation congruence, and managing lasting and sustainable change.
BA/DipSW, MSc and MA
Dorothee is an experienced Organisation Development Consultant and Executive Coach with many years of experience of supporting individuals, teams and organisations through major change.
MSc
Griff is known for his inquiring mind and ability to create thinking spaces for his clients that are both exploratory and catalytic. He works with leaders and managers who are struggling with the challenge of seeing clearly what’s going on.
BA (Hons), PG Dip (Oxon), CTA-O
Helen is an Organisation Design and Development (OD) Consultant. She has over 20 years’ experience working in and with a range of global and UK based organisations, both big and small, and from various sectors. She enjoys the stimulation and stretch that this variety provides.
MA, BA, MCIPD
Her approach is rooted in academic depth and rigour which she balances with a deeply practical way of working always seeking to ask ‘so what? and to make learning useful. She balances support with challenge and is known for her compassion and clarity.
BA (Hons) MA, PGDip, PGCert
Kate has a background in theatre, counselling, psychology and voice and applied linguistics, which makes her uniquely placed to work with the complexities of human relationships and communication as expressed through the voice, body, and words.
MA (Cantab) AoEC diploma in executive coaching
Liz is known for her ability with people, her wit, warmth and insight. She quickly establishes rapport with clients and encourages and enables real and productive debate, reflection and growth.
Liz brings a breadth and depth of 35 years’ experience working across a variety of sectors and cultures in the UK and internationally as an OD practitioner and leadership team/executive coach, as well as a warmth, curiosity and strong relational ability.
Postgrad Cert, MA
Olivia specialises in organisational dynamics and leadership. She works as a coach, facilitator, and consultant to support leaders to make sense of their experiences in role and take purposeful action with accountability for the impact.
Paul’s coaching style is person-centred. He designs coaching programmes that are tailored to the individual’s needs, working on how we create our experiences through words and language.
PhD, MSc, PGCert, BSc (Hons), CertCoun, Master Somatic Coach (MSC)
Pete is interested in leadership and personal development, including the role conflict plays in organisations and society. He is passionate about supporting leaders to deliver change in organisations, and maximise potential.
Peter has a passion for building partnerships with people around a shared purpose. He is able to make the theory of change relevant and meaningful within the operational environment.
MA, MSc, BA (Hons)
Philippa’s experience of senior roles and her training as an organisational change consultant means that her approach is leading edge, empathetic and grounded in the real world of work.
Rachel’s approach involves paying attention to the human dynamics, organisational structures and wider contextual factors that support or impede organisational performance.
MSc
Rajni has led and collaborated on a wide range of OD projects for nearly 20 years in the public and private sector. A trained occupational psychologist her work centres on leadership development, team development, coaching and development of organisational cultures.
BA (Hons), DMgt, MA
Richard is known for his ability to pose challenging questions to support learning. He is a specialist in action learning based organisation development and the creator of the higher education accredited Action Learning Question methodology.
PG Dip, PG Cert
Rita is known for her humility, creativity, sense of fun and ability to build trusting relationships. Her clients value her supportive challenge, strategic insight and ability to make connections across the whole system. She brings an energy and a passion to tackle the root cause of issues and ‘model the change we want to see’.
MSc
Satu is attracted to challenges that require bridging a gap and bringing people together across a variety of divides, including ones within themselves. She helps people improve their ability to work productively and lead effectively on a global scale.
Satwant is recognised as somebody who has a passion for success and as an innovative, challenging thinker whose personal style enables her to work alongside her clients through the challenging issues they face.
MBA
Seema’s strengths lie in her ability to quickly form and develop relationships and becoming a trusted advisor. She is a skilled facilitator who loves helping clients unpick their knotty challenges and find renewed excitement in achieving business objectives.
BA, PGdip, MBA, NTL
Shelly has passion and courage to support organisations to enhance their Inclusion practice. She works at the individual, group and organisational level to understand the complex dynamics of diversity work.
MSc, BA, HSDP
Steve supports and challenges clients to find their edge and stretch when what they are after is more than simply ‘better sameness’.
MA
In addition to his formal training, it is Steve’s ability to draw upon many years’ experience as a practising manager and leader in a variety of settings that makes his approach so effective. Put simply, one of Steve’s core skills is bringing together diverse groups of people with a wide variety of views and backgrounds and helping them to work together effectively.
BA (Hons), DipFRCD
Creating the environment in which voices can be heard (with the wisdom of hindsight!) is central to Sue’s work. Sue has run more than 100 large group interventions across all business sectors. She specialises in participative ways of working.
BSc, MSc
Tom enjoys drawing the best from individuals and teams, co-creating approaches to enable learning and results. Participation and empowerment matter to Tom, building strong relationships around clear purpose and task so that people are engaged and fulfilled in useful action.
BSc (Hons)
Tory brings a wealth of hands-on experience working at board level in FTSE 100 companies to scope, design and deliver business transformation. She is passionate about helping leadership teams to lead their organisations more effectively through complex change.
PhD
Val specialises in working with organisations that are dealing with transformational and digital challenges by supporting leaders to shape and embed strategic initiatives. Her mission is to co-create and deliver innovative and future-focused solutions that transform leadership, organisations and the workforce.
BA (Hons) DipM FCIPD
Vee is an entrepreneurial, insightful and values led Chief People Officer, Organisation Development practitioner and Board Advisor who works with high growth and/ or high change organisations acting as mentor and trusted advisor to CEO’s and Boards.