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Directors:
 Andy Foster is an executive coach and facilitator who has specialised in developing senior executives and their teams throughout his career. During his military career he co-ordinated decision-making between the most senior British and US Generals during the first Gulf War and specialized in “Chief of Staff” roles. In a similar role working for Formula 1 team owner Sir Jackie Stewart, Andy developed and managed a hugely successful network of senior executives from the team’s sponsor companies. After consulting roles working directly with global heads of function in investment banks, he became Operations Director of The IMPACT Programme, where he designed and delivered facilitated action-learning activities to FTSE board members and their lead teams, and created and ran “the best business seminars and conferences in Europe”. Andy is fluent in French and Spanish, has an MBA from Melbourne and Cranfield Business Schools and is a founding director of Clarity. |
 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. |
 Nick South is an expert facilitator and executive coach. He helps senior executives and their teams identify and crack their key challenges, working with them to develop new strategies, and drive through organisational change. Following a highly successful sales career in major account sales and sales management, Nick moved into European HR, where, as a management trainer, facilitator and coach, he supported organisational change in European sales and marketing at Pitney Bowes. After his Cranfield MBA, Nick joined a niche business change management consultancy, where he specialised in the people element of change, in particular working with client change teams to overcome stakeholder resistance and develop real commitment. Since 2003, Nick has been working with FTSE senior executives, bringing groups together to share evolving best practice in areas ranging from driving business innovation to resource management. Nick is a founding director of Clarity. |
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. |
 Jane Slatter is a highly experienced change manager with a commercial outlook gained from 25 years working in a variety of HR roles across the IT, Financial services and Utilities sectors. She is well versed in organisational design and transformation where she has worked at board level as well as with small teams and individuals. Before stepping into HR consultancy Jane spent six years at Centrica PLC and led the HR strategy in a large number of transformational programmes at British Gas involving turnarounds , acquisitions, divestments, joint ventures and start up operations. An alumnus of the London Business School, Jane uses the commercial skills and knowledge gained throughout her career to provide shape and focus to organisational change planning. A vibrant team worker with a sense of fun, Jane enjoys assisting clients in meeting the challenges that their businesses present when orchestrating change and in bringing their employees with them on the change journey. As well as acting as a consultant, Jane is also an Executive coach and facilitator to senior managers and teams. |
 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. |
 Jane Bromley uses her Executive coaching, business strategy skills and passion for inspiring leadership to support companies who wish to achieve outstanding results. She has advised Boards and Management teams of Fortune 500 and smaller companies to achieve peak performance for well over a decade. Having worked with companies like Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Npower and Sky, she is highly qualified and has a wealth of experience. This includes setting up an international company from scratch, leading a European roll out, helping companies to turn around sliding profits and increasing revenues by £millions. She lectures to corporate audiences and is writing a book on leadership. Fluent in French and Spanish she works across several continents. Do you wish to develop goals and strategies that engage the imagination of your staff so they pull together with the power of an army? Or to streamline and develop your people to work at their full potential? Both these areas are her particular forte. |
 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. |
 Brinley Platts is well known for his work in executive development. He has been helping FTSE 100 and equivalent CIOs and other senior executives with their careers for over 10 years and is an authority on CIO career development and performance. He is a leading executive coach, researcher and author and is an NLP Master Practitioner who has helped scores of senior executives achieve better insight into their personal strengths and drives. |
 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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