Ritchard Brazil 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.
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.
David Wilkinson 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.
Diana Wade's wide experience in organisational, management and workforce development has led her to believe in the immense power of diversity, dialogue and collective thought - in working together, creatively, to share a coherent meaning and to shape a better future. Her work includes whole systems development, action learning, facilitation, coaching, training and counselling. She is especially inspired by the concept of servant leadership.
Annie Medcalf 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.
Howard Naylor 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.
Peter Brookes 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. I was elected to Durham County Council in May 2008.
Learning from her own experiences of leading change within a large organisation, Davina Clarke 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.
Neil Spencer is an economist, facilitator and social entrepreneur, working in the spaces between ecological sustainability, socio-economic regeneration and participative processes. Building on these themes, Neil is now focusing on connecting public policy and whole system development with practical actions that address climate change and our unsustainable economic and social ‘'trajectories'.
Elaine has 30 years’experience of partnership working. This work has involved working alongside local people and workers from different sectors to reduce poverty and its effects. Together, they have developed innovative policy and practice. She likes to use creative thinking to simplify the complex to enable action.
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.
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