Key experience

* Contributing to international / cross-cultural programmes of innovatory learning and reflective practice

* Conducting action research and cooperative consultancy  in diverse settings to strengthen human capacity and practice

* Acting as advisor and mentor within corporate learning initiatives and institutional change programmes

*  Working one-to-one and in small groups to bring depth and breadth out of others, enabling them to link personal with professional, tacit with explicit, limbic with neocortical.

 Education and professional status

* PhD and MEd from the University of  Manchester 

* Fellow of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (FCIPD)

* Honorary Fellow, Centre for Organisations in Development, University of Manchester

* Foundation Certificate in couples’ counselling, and qualified in Pesso-Boyden System Psychomotor mind-body healing           

* Licensed Associate with Executive Development Assessment Centre (http://edacen.com)

 Consultancy Experience

* improving sustainability skills and workplace knowledge, action research with the Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester: Project Advisor and Mentor to research associates

* Bangladesh, Nigeria and South Africa private, public  & NGO

leadership development, University of Manchester: , lead consultant / programme director

* Peace Keeping Operations management training, UN: mentor of multi-national personnel

* Masterclasses on Capacity Building in NGO Sector, EU: presenter of Masterclasses with Eastern European NGO managers (in Bulgaria)

* Cyprus Academy of Public Administration, Republic of Cyprus: residential Training Advisor for two years 1994-96

* Review of learning design of ‘Midwest’, 5-year continuous professional development of community artists in British Midlands: facilitator and evaluator

* Individual and team feedback of advanced psychometrics, assessment of self / potential / 360º performance for executive growth and corporate culture shift: one-to-one coaching.

Specialisations

* Teaching managers and practitioners from private / public / NGO sectors in global programmes of postgraduate and executive education

* Design, implementation and validation of initiatives in action learning / appreciative inquiry / experiential learning

* Applying psychology and contemporary understanding of the brain within the development of professionals / generalists / specialists confronting personal change and career transition

* Supervising practice-led academic writing of managers and professionals enrolled in award-bearing programmes

* Getting on with colleagues who value less the above

 Career experience

* Lifetime working in cultures other than that of family of origin (an American working in the Commonwealth for 40 years)

* 30 years’ experience with mature learners in UK higher education at postgraduate level

* Keynote speaker / Masterclass presenter at international conferences

* Writer on the development of practice 

Key abilities

* Enabling specialist / technical clients to strengthen people-management / affinity skills

* Incorporating distributed and work-led learning within corporate strategic priorities

* Applying organic healing principles to bringing the best out of self and others

* Backcasting one’s personal growth to go forward into significant  professional development.