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Key experience
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Contributing to international / cross-cultural programmes of innovatory
learning and reflective practice
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Facilitating action learning and cooperative consultancy in diverse settings
to strengthen human capacity and practice
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Acting as advisor and mentor within corporate learning initiatives and
institutional change programmes
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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
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PhD and MEd from the
University
of
Manchester
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Fellow
of Chartered
Institute
of
Personnel
and Development (FCIPD)
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Honorary Fellow, Centre for Organisations in Development,
University
of
Manchester
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Foundation Certificate in couples’ counseling; qualified in Pesso-Boyden
System Psychomotor mind-body healing
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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
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Bangladesh
,
Nigeria
and
South Africa
private, public & NGO leadership development,
University
of
Manchester
: lead consultant / programme director
*
Capacity
Building
in NGO Sector, EU Eastern European NGO managers: presenter of
Masterclasses
*
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
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Teaching managers and practitioners from private / public / NGO sectors in
global programmes of postgraduate and executive education
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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
Career
experience
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Lifetime working in cultures other than that of family of origin (an American
working in the Commonwealth for 40 years)
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30 years’ experience with mature learners in
UK
higher education at postgraduate level
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Keynote speaker / Masterclass presenter at international conferences
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Writer on the development of practice
Key abilities
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Enabling specialist / technical clients to strengthen people-management /
affinity skills
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Incorporating distributed and work-led learning within corporate strategic
priorities
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Applying organic healing principles to bringing the best out of self and
others.
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