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Managing Director:
 Andy Foster A leadership specialist with 8 years’ military service Andy has for the last 10 years been coaching, training and advising senior executives and their teams: from FTSE operating board members to AIM chairmen and their boards to the owners and CEOs of SMEs. Andy also has “client-side” experience in many different areas of business: as Sir Jackie Stewart’s business manager during his time as head of a Formula One team, as a global project manager in Credit Suisse and as the operations director of an SME focused on the executive development of FTSE board members and their lead teams. This latter experience involved playing a key role in the turnaround of the business and a successful exit. This mixture of SME and blue chip experience prompted him to found Clarity in order to make a difference to executives and teams in smaller growth companies. Andy is fluent in French and Spanish, has an MBA from Melbourne and Cranfield Business Schools and is an accredited IhD coach. |
Core Team:
 Lynn Mercer is a widely experienced executive coach and management consultant who works with business leaders and senior management teams to help them achieve personal, organisation and business goals. Drawing on his significant international management experience of business, people, change and information technology he provides support to those seeking to clarify their direction and opportunities and to realise their ambitions. Lynn has facilitated change and development related client assignments in the UK, Europe, USA and Far East. He is an IMC Certified Management Consultant and a Fellow of, and registered consultant with, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. He studied business management in the USA and human resource management in the UK. |
 Darrel Poulos is a top coach and a specialist in developing senior teams. He started his working life as a clinical psychotherapist, when he acquired an extensive skill set of intervention techniques, coaching techniques and psychometric tools. Darrel then moved into private industry where he progressed to international IT Director positions with Management Science America and Pansophic Systems. Since 1989, he has been working with senior executives or with senior teams, frequently at board level, focusing primarily on individual coaching, strategy & leadership development, senior team development, and cultural change. Darrel is a lecturer on personal change and transformation at Templeton College and Ashridge Management College, and an accomplished speaker on the subject of Emotional Intelligence. |
 Geoff Shaw is an experienced and accredited professional performance coach and one of the UK’s top coaching trainers. He has over 10 years experience in Investment Banking (Citibank, Morgan Stanley and UBS) in operations management, major change projects, building & leading pan-European and global teams and process and organisational re-engineering. He has an MA from Oxford Brookes University in Coaching and Mentoring Practice. Alongside executive coaching services, Geoff designs and delivers in-company training programmes to introduce and develop a coaching approach within the management and leadership culture. |
 Jamie Stewart For the past twenty years Jamie Stewart has specialised in executive development in a vast range of organisations both in the public and private sectors including Heinz, BBC, Pfizer and the Strategic Health Authority. Jamie has an MSc in Human Resource Development from Lancaster University, and is an accredited consultant in using the High Performance Behaviours competency framework from the Centre for High Performance Development, using it as a framework for executive development in organisations such as GSK and Microsoft. He is a highly experienced executive coach and group facilitator, and draws on a rich portfolio of psychometric and other behavioural instruments. Jamie is also an affiliate Leadership Consultant at the Centre for Leadership Studies at Exeter University and a coach on the MA in Leadership studies. |
Associates:
 Jo Bostock has 12 years experience in coaching, facilitation and organisational consultancy. She specialises in working with emerging leaders and high potential teams to convert raw ability into tangible results. Her professional practice is firmly underpinned by a first class Masters Degree in Coaching. Before becoming an independent consultant she was Head of Learning & Development at the National Theatre and prior to that held a national training role at the Prince’s Trust. Her early career was as a recruitment consultant in the City. Jo has worked with organisations as diverse as the NHS, Sara Lee, the Foreign Office and Amnesty International. Assignments include supporting fast trackers to step up into Executive roles, assisting Management Boards to articulate their leadership vision and coaching top teams to achieve more effective internal and external working relationships. Her approach is to create space for clients to access their best quality thinking, which in turn drives exceptional performance. |
 Francoise Emery is an inspirational executive coach; able to help cut through conflict and confusion and release potential in a way that is easy and lot of fun. She has over 25 year of business experience in sales & marketing and product development with blue chip companies such as Nestlé, Diageo, Reuters, Bloomberg, Tesco, Kingfisher and RBS. Over the past 6 years, as an Executive Coach, she has worked within a wide range of global organizations in different industries. Françoise specialises in coaching Board members, Senior Managers, Leaders in Global organisations and Entrepreneurs. She has a wide range of skills, tools and years of business experience that enable her to understand her clients’ challenges and help them acquire highly successful strategies. Françoise is an NLP Master Practitioner, is a Member of the International Coach Federation and has a degree in psychology. |
 Chris Roberts is an experienced executive coach, creating the environment for leaders or those with leadership aspirations to develop. Chris actively facilitates their learning to make change happen, unlocking their potential and maximising their performance. He is a qualified CIPD coach / mentor with the Oxford School of Coaching and Mentoring and is currently working with individuals and teams in Professional Services firms and IT functions across a number of sectors. Following 16 years in senior leadership positions he fully understands the complexity that rapid and continuous change brings to businesses. He worked as a COO and CIO in both Financial Services and the Professional Services sector delivering services internationally where he gained considerable experience in the delivery of culture change and wide ranging change programmes. |
 David Wagstaff is an independent consultant and coach specialising in Organisational Development and Change. He has particular experience of working in the financial services sector and in professional service firms. He has worked in the public, private and voluntary sectors. David has degrees from Durham and London Universities. He is also trained in coaching, counselling and facilitation skills. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Continuing Professional Development, an Associate of the Institute of Management Consultancy and a member of the faculty of the Academy of Executive Coaching. David is a Visiting Fellow at Durham Business School where he teaches on the full-time and part-time MBA programmes and is also programme director for the HBOS Postgraduate Diploma in Business & Management. He is currently completing a PhD in Organisational Change. |
 Stephanie Wheeler is a Research and Knowledge Management consultant with over 10 years experience of working within human resources, change management and strategy consultancy. She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and the Chartered Management Institute. Stephanie uses primary and secondary research techniques to help clients ensure they are making informed decisions based on objective factual analysis. She has carried out a range of research and evaluation assignments with clients such as: Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS), Standard Life, Shearman Sterling, BT, The Department of Work and Pensions, and Defra. Stephanie previously worked for Penna Plc where she had a dual role: internally as Head of Research and Knowledge Management and externally providing Research & Knowledge Management Consultancy to clients. Other employers also include Mckinsey and Co. Stephanie also writes content for hardcopy and electronic resources and has spoken at research and knowledge management events. |
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