Richard Black	Richard Black, OBE, has, for many years, led change orientated organisations, with community partners, focusing on localised issues of service delivery in health and social services, strategic change, conflict resolution and heritage. A visiting Professor, he has extensive international, particularly European, experience and brings drive and creativity to issue resolution...( Read More )
Howard Naylor	Howard  has many years’ experience working in learning, development, and human resources roles in the public and private sector. An experienced facilitator with a particular interest in helping organisations to understand the people aspects of change management, Howard uses Action Learning as a way of helping people to learn, develop and make improvements to services and performance.......... ( Read More )
Ritchard Brazil	Ritchard  has focused on exploring ideas which were ahead of their time, spanning development of innovative community services for people with disabilities and mental health problems, conflict resolution, community regeneration and collaborative capacity building. He is a creative welfare entrepreneur/change promoter - constantly interested in looking around policy corners rather than just straight ahead...... ( Read More )
Peter Brookes	Peter is inspired by change architectures that can make a real difference to connectivity in communities. He founded Trimdon 2000 in the North East as a means of exploring how citizens can control their own lives by viewing agencies as being ‘'on tap rather than on top'. Community development and empowerment underpin his preferred modus operandi. ...............( Read More )
Pete Mann	Pete has relied upon institutions all his working life yet retains a healthy skepticism towards their grip on people. Perhaps this perspective adds value in his efforts to release resourcefulness within people – those in the mainstream and those on the fringe. As an American blessed to live globally, he has worked 30 years internationally with postgraduates and practicing managers. Years in academia remain complemented through continuing self and professional growth, from body-mind therapeutic practice, to physical training, and more recently by learning with and from colleagues in The Stamford Forum, whose fellowship inspires him . . . ..........( Read More )
Annie Medcalf	Annie works with people to help them reach their full potential, and to be excited by the possibilities and opportunities they can create for themselves and their organisations. She works as a coach, as a source of ideas and implementer of innovative development approaches in organisations across Europe and Africa............( Read More )
Jackie Redpath
David Wilkinson	David is a facilitator, coach, action researcher, writer and adult educator. He works across all sectors, working with individuals, teams, organisations, partnerships and 'whole systems' who want to improve their effectiveness by developing the potential and talents of all. The key to this is to enable people to design their own ‘'learning architectures' to ensure their own and the community's growth, development and effectiveness.........( Read More )
Phil Woods	Phil Woods has a background in public service and specialises in deriving unorthodox solutions to difficult problems. His particular interest is in finding new and more interesting ways in which existing policies and strategies can be combined to ensure the delivery of better and more appropriate services to vulnerable groups of people. As something of a career iconoclast, he is often asked to cut across established boundaries and bureaucratic impediment to find ways forward which are grounded in common sense.
Davina  Clarke	Learning from her own experiences of leading change within a large organisation, Davina  moved to the outward-looking fringes of innovative educational research in order to better support practitioners enquiring into their own change efforts. Interested in the learning of the individual within the social context and grounded in the reality of practice, she is strongly influenced by the philosophy of action learning and seeks to develop and understand its ability to contribute to helping good people do good things......( Read More )
Sandy Carter	As an experienced and qualified youth and community worker since 1982, Sandy has been actively involved in developing many neighbourhood projects, motivating people of all ages to engage fully in initiatives that directly affect them. She is an excellent communicator and adult trainer, educating and informing local communities about sustainability issues...............( Read More )
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