People
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Grace Davis
Research Associate
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Kris Elliott
Operations & HR Manager
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Christianne Garofalo
CEO - Americas
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Laura Heron
Head of Data & Analytics
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Jonathan Hime
Group CEO
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Lucky Johal-Goulsbra
Senior Partner
Head of Consulting - Europe -
Mandip Johal
Principal Consultant
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Prachee Luthra
Senior Associate
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Dev Modi
Advisory Partner
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Ria Moore
Finance Manager
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Dharlynnie Neelamagam
Principal Consultant
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Sandra Peña
Senior Partner
Head Of Search & Succession - Americas -
Ian Randle
Founding Senior Partner
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Jane Timmer
Advisory Partner
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Bettina von Wachter
Senior Consultant
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Marc Woods
Founding Senior Partner
Advisors
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Jenny Knott
Chairwoman
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Baroness Grey-Thompson
Advisor
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Frank Douglas
Advisor
Coaches
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Jonathan Bevan
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Mark Chamberlen
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David Daniels
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Tremaine du Preez
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Josette Goldberg
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Linda Grant
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Graci Harkema
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Jacqueline Heron
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Penny Illston
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Ray Luther
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Dr Clare Murray
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Nadia Nagamootoo
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Karan Paige
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Jiten Patel
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David Radford
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Derek Redmond
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Carmel Taibi-Lehn
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Yumi Katherine Tomizuka
Grace Davis
Research Associate
Grace received a Bachelor's in Applied Psychology, from Durham University. During this time, she had the pleasure of an Erasmus year studying in Bergen, Norway.
After then working in South Korea, as an ESOL teacher, she joined the Civil Service. She then went on to work in Talent Acquisition, in the UK, specialising in the Tech start-up/scaleup market.
These experiences have contributed to fuelling her inquisitive nature. She is passionate about creating and fostering environments that value innovative perspectives, whilst celebrating societal, and cultural differences.
In her free time, Grace enjoys horse-riding, audibles, and developing her entrepreneurial spirit. She is currently learning French - in the slow pursuit of bilingualism.
Kris Elliott
Operations & HR Manager
Kris is an Operations Manager with experience in Office & Facilities Management in an Executive Search environment.
Born in Canada, she has also lived in Berlin, Germany where she worked in Marketing/PR and German-English translation. Her work has been published in the Canadian Military History Journal.
She has a keen interest in cultural and cognitive diversity and holds an MA in History/Sociology from Wilfrid Laurier University, a BA in Culture and Language from University of New Brunswick as well as French and German language certifications.
Christianne Garofalo
CEO - Americas
Christianne has over 20 years of experience as a trusted advisor for global clients across a multitude of industries. As a leader and expert, she implements business solutions through a blend of Executive Coaching, Assessment, Culture Evolution, Leadership Development and Executive Search. Her creative, state of the art approach to modernizing leadership has accelerated many high performing organizations. Known for her ability to create long-term partnerships, Christianne not only works toward, but she inspires and activates inclusive cultures that attract and retain the best leaders in the world.
Christianne has been one of the most successful contributors to two global Executive Search firms and has won multiple awards for her achievements. She encourages profound storytelling to build professional connection and personally showcases her story of resiliency, purpose, family, and vitality to inspire others to have an exceptionally satisfying life.
She cares deeply about the future of leadership, celebrating differences and promotes workplaces where everyone contributes while flourishing professionally and personally.
Laura is a Chartered Organisational Psychologist who is passionate about using data and analytics to drive workplace inclusion efforts. She received a PhD in Industrial- Organisational Psychology with a Quantitative Statistics minor from Florida International University, and a BSc in Health and Human Performance and Psychology from Texas A&M University-Commerce.
Laura has extensive research experience using quantitative and qualitative methodologies to ensure that organisational solutions are evidence-based. She also has experience developing leadership training programmes, resources and tools aimed at promoting disability inclusion. Her research has been published in leading academic journals in both organisational psychology and disability-related fields. With the desire to promote inclusive workplace cultures, Laura also engages in professional speaking and regularly presents research at conferences.
Outside of work, Laura is an avid football fan having played for 17 years in both the UK and US. She also enjoys hiking, camping, and exploring new countries and cultures.
Laura Heron
Head of Data & Analytics
Jonathan is a British entrepreneur and businessman with a successful track record over 20 years in growing leadership advisory companies worldwide. He is a trusted advisor and confidant to a large network of C-level executives who run some of the most influential and progressive companies. Jonathan brings a value centric and commercial approach to business transformation and has helped hundreds of companies and individuals in their pursuit for growth and performance improvement.
Jonathan has a huge desire to positively disrupt the thinking and strategies of executives relating to succession planning, cultural dynamics in the board, as well as sourcing the next generation of leaders. He has been a regular contributor to panel discussions, newspapers and industry journals on topics relating to diversity, leadership and the emerging trends in the boardroom.
Jonathan Hime
Group CEO
Lucky Johal-Goulsbra
Partner
Lucky is an experienced executive coach, leadership expert and chartered organisational psychologist. She specialises in helping transform global organisations and develop leaders, through successful long-term partnerships. Her career spans over 25 years, with extensive experience helping senior leaders and their teams deliver on their strategy in a sustainable way.
She has spent most of her career working with global corporations helping to identify, assess, develop, and retain top of house leaders with a core focus on fairness and equity. She is a skilled coach and facilitator, passionate about helping leaders and teams achieve their potential, clarify, and deliver on their purpose, and develop the cultural conditions around them that promote an inclusive environment.
When she is not working with Equiida, she is mum to two lively girls, enjoying a healthy outdoors lifestyle. She is a yoga enthusiast and when time allows, plays netball in a back-to-netball league. She also volunteers for organisations which help provide financial and developmental aid to disadvantaged children from around the globe.
Mandip is an organisational psychologist with expertise in leadership strategy, assessment and development. Her experience spans corporate banking, retail, technology, consultancy and academia. She has designed talent assessments for intelligence roles in MI5, MI6 and GCHQ. She has also designed and delivered large-scale people-focused change initiatives for Rolls-Royce, the NHS and EDF Energy. Mandip is skilled in conducting in-depth selection and development assessments for FTSE 250 and Fortune 500 leaders, and has coached a range of C-suite and C-suite –1 leaders.
As a result of her own difficult life experiences and personal growth, she is fiercely committed to unlocking people’s potential by helping leaders to develop their self-awareness and psychological insights. Her work is guided by an ethos of delivering a positive societal impact. Mandip is especially interested in the areas of diversity, equity and inclusion, entrepreneurial behaviour and high-performance culture.
Mandip has a BA in Business & Finance, MSc in Psychology and MSc in Organisational Psychology.
Mandip Johal
Principal Consultant
Prachee Luthra
Senior Associate
Prachee is a student of Psychology with a Master's in Organisational and Social Psychology from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor's in Psychology from Mumbai University.
With a real passion for understanding human behaviour and team dynamics, she has worked in numerous organisations both - big and small and contributed to the Human Resource teams of each in varying capacities. She has previously thrived in talent acquisition, talent management, employee development and leadership management roles.
In her free time, Prachee enjoys reading, sketching and running. She is also trained in Yoga, Fine Arts and Peer Counselling.
Dev Modi
Advisory Partner
Dev is a leadership expert and chartered organisational psychologist, specialising in inclusion and diversity. Over the last 20 years he has gained experience of working in-house and as a consultant with the world's largest global brands. His core areas of expertise are inclusive leadership, assessment, team coaching and culture change.
He is a speaker and contributor to several professional bodies such as The CIPD, The Association of Business Psychology, The Diversity Project and WiHTL on the topic of Inclusive Leadership. He is the author of 'The Inclusive Leader Scorecard, A Framework to Unlock the Power of Diversity in Your Organisation' (2020). He currently works and lives in two cities, London and Malaga. In his personal time he runs personal development seminars for community and charitable organisations.
Ria Moore
Finance Manager
Ria is an FCCA qualified accountant with comprehensive experience in both public practice; dealing with compliance matters such as personal tax, VAT, statutory accounts, and corporation tax, as well as leading in-house finance teams within a range of industries to include education, travel, construction, and music.
Ria enjoys implementing and streamlining financial processes with a modern outlook and the use of digital systems and software. As well as possessing a ‘hands on’ approach, her desire to make a positive impact within business means she constantly strives to apply her technical knowledge and experience to individual situations and translate the jargon into meaningful and accurate information capable of supporting important decision making.
Before embarking on her accountancy career, Ria gained an LLB (Hons) Law degree from the University of Greenwich and the Legal Practice Course qualification from the College of Law in London.
Dharlynnie Neelamagam
Principal Consultant
Dharlynnie is a leadership advisory consultant with a multicultural and diverse professional background. She has experience working with top executives across Europe, the US and Asia. Her previous background in consumer insights for a leading telecommunications industry has also given her a strong business focus on market research, competitive intelligence and strategy development with the customer in mind. Aspirational and driven, Dharlynnie enjoys building and developing client relationships, creating opportunities and inspiring progression across businesses.
Dharlynnie received an MSc in Management and Finance from Durham University Business School and a Bachelor’s with honours in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Hull University. She was educated and has lived in the UK, Singapore and Malaysia.
Sandra Peña
Senior Partner
Head Of Search & Succession - USA
Sandra has world-wide experience spanning more than 20 years across a variety of industries, utilizing her language skills to create partnerships with the C-level community in executive search, selection, succession, strategic talent planning, and mobility. Starting in international sales and finance with global industrial manufacturers, she later pivoted to data insights, market research and consultancy services, serving as a trusted advisor to executive teams and boards across the US and Latin America. Working for Executive Search firms, Sandra and her teams, have led the appointment and onboarding of every position of the CEO’s direct reports and their successors. She uses advance intelligence, research, assessment and onboarding to create measurable business, strategic, and culture change. Sandra is purpose-driven and deeply committed to inclusion, assessment and leadership effectiveness at the very top of large global organizations.
As a mixed-race Asian Latina and first-generation college graduate, she actively contributes to the community in the hopes of guiding and elevating other first-generation college students and supporting disadvantaged communities in Chicago.
Ian is an advisor at executive level with over fifteen years in leadership management and search, globally. He enjoys working with some of the biggest and recognisable brands worldwide. Ian builds long-term, sustainable partnerships with clients, some of whom are now considered friends as well as trusted colleagues.
Ian believes deeply in the power of diverse thinking and the benefits diversity and inclusion brings to leadership, culture and innovation. He advises on topics ranging from personal and behavioural development to value-centric leadership trends. Ian helps companies with C-level succession planning and board dynamics and creates total trust and confidentiality along the journey.
With humble roots and a good sense of humour, he prides himself on keeping others grounded and consistently sharing real and honest feedback.
Ian Randle
Founding Partner
Jane Timmer
Advisory Partner
Jane is based in the US and has been in executive leadership roles both the UK as well as the US in consulting, consumer and non-profit market sectors. Her expertise focusses on areas such as leadership development, executive team dynamics, strategic thinking and planning, team and organisational culture amongst others. With a degree in education, Jane has extensive experience at the top level of organisations where she is able to focus on understanding how team dynamics impact business results and incorporate real and current business challenges/opportunities into the learning process.
Bettina von Wachter
Senior Consultant
Bettina has a multidisciplinary background combining market research, strategy development and project management for a range of global clients across multiple industries.
She has experience in entrepreneurship and innovation and is passionate about understanding people at their core and getting under the skin of cultures. She previously worked at a VC firm in Washington DC focused on Fintech for inclusion in emerging markets.
She’s also worked at various DC based non-profit organisations that foster economic development. Bettina has a MA in Entrepreneurial Management from the University of Chester and a BA in Sociology and Economics from American University.
Marc is a board advisor and former gold medal winning paralympian who has created and delivered leadership, behavioural and communication strategies and development programmes for a range of organisations working with senior executives in 32 different countries and 100 different nationalities. Marc's background is integral to his helping organisations perform to the best of their ability, in an ever-disruptive world. He competed internationally as a swimmer for 17 years, winning 12 medals from five Paralympic Games. Over time he became recognised for his ability to get the best from himself and the teams he was part of.
As a member of faculty on IBM’s Accelerated Leadership Programme and London Business School's Accelerated Development Programme, he continues to influence a new generation of business leaders. Particularly interested in the attributes, behaviours and values that individuals bring to organisations to balance ‘positive disruption’ and ‘fit’, he is co-author of Beyond the Call and the Coomber-Woods Discretionary Effort tool.
Marc Woods
Founding Partner
Jenny Knott
Chairwoman
Jenny is a board level investment banker with over 30 years’ experience. Having worked as a CEO, CFO and COO, she is widely respected for leading the modernisation and transformation of major institutions throughout the world, including China, North America, Europe and Africa.
Jenny has been a public advocate for the radical technological modernisation of the Financial Services Industry. Her strategy and application in the Fintech sector has been praised as “the Game changer of 2017” by Global Derivatives. She acquired and nurtured a number of award winning technology companies and championed the value of blockchain in extensive media appearances in the UK and the USA.
Jenny is a winner of the “Woman of the City, Financial Services” Award and she acts as mentor and advisor to a number of CEOs.
Baroness Grey-Thompson
Advisor
Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson is one of Britain’s most iconic Paralympic athletes. She competed in five Paralympic Games, winning 11 Gold Medals. In addition to her outstanding Paralympic achievements, she won the London Wheelchair Marathon a total of six times.
Tanni has gone on to play a prominent role in public life, and is currently Chair of ukactive, a Non-Executive Director of the BBC, Chancellor of Northumbria University and sits on the board of Transport for London.
Made a ‘Dame’ in 2005, she was elevated to the House of Lords in 2010, with a focus on sport, disability, health and welfare, and has made significant contributions to debates on welfare reform, assisted dying and sports governance.
Frank Douglas
Advisor
Frank Douglas is the CEO of Caerus Executive, an advisor and a speaker. He was born in the USA and spent a major part of his life in New York. He was the EVP, Group Human Resources Director for Misys, the Group Human Resources Director for Scottish & Newcastle and Transport for London (TFL). He is also a Non-Executive Director and a Chartered Companion of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
Frank was included in the list of the top 30 ‘most Influential HR Directors’ in the UK and has spent the last 15 years working internationally but now lives in London.
Jonathan Bevan
Jonathan is a CEO and board director with extensive experience previously as a Divisional CEO, COO and CFO for Clear Channel Outdoor, a $3bn global media business. Jonathan is also an experienced Non-Executive Director with over 10 years on the Non-Exec Board at Clear Media Ltd; a Hong Kong quoted business with a US$500m market cap operating in mainland China.
Jonathan has an outstanding commercial record of driving strategic initiatives and leading transformational change. He has driven implementation through leadership of key business functions including strategy, sales, sales operations, marketing, HR, finance, revenue management, business development and operations. He also has a strong record in attracting top talent and leading, building and motivating teams.
Mark Chamberlen
Mark is a Paralympian who competed in Great Britain’s downhill ski racing team between 1982-1990. The majority of his career has been spent in recruitment and executive search, operating at board level to address all human capital strategy & change management issues for clients in a wide range of sectors, particularly, Professional Services, Retail, Financial Services, Life Sciences, and Public Sector including Charities. In 2010 Mark qualified as a Business Coach through Meyler Campbell and in 2016 he focused entirely on building his own coaching brand.
With lived experience of visual impairment Mark believes in the power of story-telling to address a very present need for corporate understanding of difference, in order to encourage best practise among employers in relation to inclusion.
David Daniels
David possesses over 25 years of executive and operational leadership in the education sector. He has dedicated his career to helping increase access to quality and affordable education for students with a passionate focus on persistence and completion.
Recent corporate experiences include President of Academic Partnerships, a privately-held Online Program Management business recently sold in December, 2019 to Private Equity. Prior to Academic Partnerships, he oversaw all managed services for Pearson's Higher Education business in North America including their Online Program Management division.
He has held numerous other senior roles spanning K-12 and Higher Education. With a unique blend of educational, government, start-up, board work, and corporate experience, David has a wealth of knowledge in business process outsourcing, learning design, product development, organizational design, change management, and implementing/scaling innovative solutions in traditional and non-traditional environments.
David is also a husband and a father of six children.
Tremaine du Preez
Tremaine is on the global faculty for Duke Corporate Education and, previously, adjunct professor at SP Jain Global School of Management, lecturing on both the undergraduate and MBA programmes. In 2009 Tremaine designed the critical thinking training programme for the Monetary Authority of Singapore (Singapore’s Central Bank), which she also delivered.
Tremaine spent 12 years in Asia coaching executives and lecturing in behavioural finance, decision science and critical thinking to multinational organisations, government agencies and on MBA and undergraduate programmes. She has a BCom in Information Systems, an MSc in Financial Economics from the University of London, and is a certified executive coach and author and co-author of several books.
Josette Goldberg
Josette Goldberg is President of Goldberg Executive Coaching, a Chicago-based executive coaching and leadership development firm, specializing in taking already successful business leaders and their teams to the next level of performance. She has demonstrated success in assisting her clients to meet their financial and operational goals by focusing on analysis, planning, and execution.
Typical client engagements include executive coaching, high potential leadership programs, new leader on-boarding, emerging leader workshops, team transformation and alignment, competency model and assessment, organization design, culture transformation, and change leadership. She focuses on aligning priorities, systematically developing goals and action plans, and inspiring leaders’ passion for excellence.
Josette has a BA in Organizational Effectiveness from DePaul University and an MS in Management and Organizational Behavior from Benedictine University. She is an ICF- certified PCC level coach, and an EMCC-ESQA-certified Coach Supervisor. In addition, she is a Results Trained Coach through the Neuro Leadership Institute.
Linda Grant
Linda is a Chairwoman, CEO and advisor who has over 25 years' executive experience in developing and executing transformational growth strategies within major media groups. Earlier in her career Linda held senior marketing, commercial and strategy roles across print, radio and digital operations which then led to to general management and board positions. Linda now has a portfolio career as Chairman, Non-Exec and advisor across both consumer and business-to-business companies.
Most recently Linda has been the Chairwoman of Housesimple Ltd., a technology led business in the growing online property sector and NED of Crowdreactive, a technology led social media company for large events and content generation.
Graci Harkema
Graci Harkema is an international diversity, equity & inclusion consultant. She specializes in implicit bias training, racial equity, gender equity, LGBTQ+ inclusivity and public speaking within the Fortune 500, small businesses and non-profit organizations.
Graci is committed to helping clients build equitable and inclusive work environments where employees are empowered to perform to their potential as their true selves. Graci is recognized as a 2015 and 2020 ‘40 Under Forty Business Leader of West Michigan’ and is recognized as one of the 2020 and 2021 ‘200 Most Powerful Business Leaders of West Michigan’ by Grand Rapids Business Journal.
She has a Bachelor’s degree in Communications from Grand Valley State University.
Jacqueline Heron
Jacqueline had over 25 years’ corporate experience in senior leadership and consulting roles in global risk and human capital consulting firms Mercer and Aon, where she was responsible for a number of business divisions. These included business strategy, client management, operations, new business areas and high-profile regulatory reviews.
Jacqueline also led significant change management projects. Creating high performing teams, inspiring others and delivering real business results were key to her success. She helps individual clients develop strategies and practical steps to bring their resilient self to work. This feeds into her work with leaders, working with them to understand their authentic ‘tone from the top’ and its impact.
Penny Illston
Penny is a leader with a global career as a board level director and deliverer of organisational and individual transformation. She is a commercially astute Board HR Director with a great track record in global and UK board-level roles in the retail, leisure and hospitality, education and travel sectors.
She works with executives in teams and individually as an interim People Director, a coach and a consultant. The breadth of Penny’s capabilities is considerable and may take the form of a Global HR transformation programme or board and executive level development and reward. She delivers customer centric organisational change, talent strategy and development programmes, and much more besides.
Ray Luther
Ray Luther, PCC, is a senior lecturer of management and the executive director for the Partnership for Coaching Excellence and Personal Leadership at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University.
Ray founded and co-directs the Kelley MBA Leadership Academy, and previously served as executive director of the fulltime Kelley MBA Program. He teaches classes in personal leadership, strategic visioning, organizational behavior, and executive coaching. He has also developed programs for clients including John Deere, H&R Block, National Express, Cummins, OneAmerica, MISO, and the NFL Players Association.
Ray’s work experience spans 25-years and includes executive team leadership, strategy, branding, market research, innovation and change management. He started his career as a U.S. Army Officer in the 3rd Infantry Division where he was a platoon leader and a company executive officer in the Medical Service Corps.
Ray holds a BS and MBA from Indiana University. He is a Professional Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation, a Certified Hudson Institute Coach, an Immunity to Change Certified Coach, and is currently pursuing his PhD in Leadership Studies.
Dr Clare Murray
Dr Clare Murray is a consultant organisational psychologist, author and leadership coach across a spectrum of industries including finance, banking, industrials, consumer as well as public sector. Clare has a global client base and operates up to board level utilizing her expertise in building high performance teams, facilitating large-scale organisational restructuring, culture change, assessment and development of leaders and boards amongst other areas.
Clare has a Bsc in Psychology/Sociology and a PhD in Social Psychology both from City University, London and regularly works as a leadership coach and group facilitator in executive education at London Business School (LBS).
Nadia Nagamootoo
Nadia works with leadership teams and as an executive coach across sectors, industries, and global regions from large corporates such as HSBC, Ericsson and GSK to building leadership capability and resilience within Central and Local Government.
She has a deep specialism in the field of Inclusion and Diversity. Her 2016 and 2018 ground-breaking pieces of research on men working flexibly and the systemic impact on women, organisations and society has achieved significant publicity and attention.
Her observant coaching style allows her to ask the powerful questions to make deep, sustainable change. Her passion for helping leaders reach their full potential and discover their purpose has led to tangible shifts in performance time and time again. At an organisational level, her results come from creating a shift in inclusive behaviours and practice.
Nadia hosts the podcast show ‘Why Care?’ where she discusses all things Inclusion and Diversity.
Karan Paige
Karan is a change and transformation leader and coach with deep expertise shepherding organisations through evolutionary and revolutionary change across a variety of sectors including retail, media, hospitality and leisure, and business services.
She works closely with leaders in global teams to craft change-strategies and plans, build digital cultures and virtual global teams, and develop organisational effectiveness programmes to ensure organisational success. Karan specialises in change leadership coaching and coaching women leaders.
She has an MSc in Coaching and Behavioural Change from Henley Business School.
Jiten Patel
After 20 years in Financial Services, Jiten founded a highly successful consultancy specialising in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion for a vast range of clients from Blue Chip companies, national and local governments, through to small local charities.
He works internationally, helping clients with inclusive leadership, and developing organisational culture/change, through coaching, strategic planning events, training & facilitating, and policy & process development. His work has earned him several awards, including the Diversity Champion (Education Sector) in 2015 and the Highly Commended Head of Diversity and Inclusion at the 2016 and 2017 UK Inclusive Company Awards.
Jiten’s first book, Demystifying Diversity (co-authored by Gamiel Yafai), was published in 2016, with an expanded second edition going to press in 2020.
David Radford
David has over 20 years of corporate leadership experience at director level. Most recently he was CMO for Allianz Insurance plc, part of the global insurance and investment group Allianz SE. He has a track record in leading transformational change and high-performing teams in a range of organisations including Allianz, Barclays, LV= and Labatt Brewing.
David now enjoys advising and coaching organisations and individual leaders towards realising their potential. He is a Fellow and a Course Director on Strategic Leadership for the Chartered Institute of Marketing, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Associate Fellow at Said Business School, University of Oxford.
Derek Redmond
One of Britain’s most famous athletes, Derek Redmond is a World and European relay champion. Having broken the British 400m record on two occasions, Derek was one of the country’s best athletes during the 1980s and 1990s. A key member of the relay squad that won gold at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo, he competed at the highest level for over a decade.
By the time the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo arrived, Derek had established himself as one of Britain’s best athletes. Alongside Kriss Akabusi, John Regis and Roger Black he then stunned the sporting world as Britain triumphed over the favourites USA to win gold. Their run remains the second fastest 4x400m run in history.
Having now proved himself as a relay athlete, Derek went about trying to do the same as an individual runner. At the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, representing his country he became part of one of the most inspirational scenes in Olympic history.
In the 400m semi-final Derek went into the race amongst the favourites but as he passed the 250m mark he tore his hamstring. Determined to finish the race he hobbled to the finish line with the help of his father as a 65,000-strong crowd cheered him on. This incident has since been voted one of the Olympics’ most inspirational moments by US network NBC and even referenced by Barack Obama in a presidential speech.
This injury signalled an end to his athletics career, but, committed to not letting his injury keep him down, he has since played basketball for England and played rugby 7s.
Derek’s story is truly inspiring and he now works as a motivational speaker sharing his remarkable story with audiences up and down the country. He has worked with a wide range of high profile brands delivering his inspiring stories from the track in corporate environments.
Carmel Taibi-Lehn
Carmel is an Executive Performance Coach who is dedicated to helping leaders, teams and organizations succeed.
With deep experience in Leadership and Organizational Development, Change Management, Leadership and Team Coaching, she partners to develop leadership teams built on trust, safety, collective problem-solving, responsibility and aligned execution of strategic priorities.
She has served as a successful C-Suite Executive, received a Leadership Coaching Certification from Georgetown University, and Change Management certifications from Prosci and GE.
Yumi Katherine Tomizuka
Yumi Katherine is a people-led, mission-driven leader, fuelled by curiosity, with over 20 years of commercial leadership and consulting experience. Her focus is on sparking progress, building trusted partnerships, and scaling the impact of purpose-led organisations as a corporate executive, executive coach, board advisor and entrepreneur.
She has served as a consultant with Egon Zehnder in the UK, as the global VP of Corporate Development at adidas Group in Germany, and has held regional, market, and global roles at IBM Asia Pacific in Japan, Booz Allen Hamilton in the UK, and Deere & Company in the US.
Yumi Katherine earned her MBA from Columbia Business School and a BSc from Cornell University. She is a graduate of the accredited Meyler Campbell Mastered executive coaching programme and a certified yoga instructor.