Olive Amoh

Olive is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and a qualified coach. She has over ten years' experience working in both the Public and Private Sectors. She focuses on organisational development and change through the selection and development of people. She is experienced in the design of bespoke assessment and development processes using a wide range of techniques, and has designed development centres as part of major change programmes. She has worked with clients to develop competency frameworks, define roles, and establish processes that will enable individuals to benchmark themselves against new competencies. Coaching emerging leaders and supporting them to enhance their performance, she is an experienced 360 degrees facilitator. Olive has a Masters degree in Industrial Psychology, a BSc in Psychology and a postgraduate certificate in Business and Executive coaching.

Peter Burke

Peter has been an independent educational consultant since 1990, in which role he has managed and participated in large-scale projects for UK and overseas government agencies, many of which have been concerned with the establishment and validation of qualifications. He has wide experience of research and evaluation methodologies, and of facilitating professional development programmes. He is also a Special Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Nottingham. Throughout the 1980s Peter worked in public examinations, first as Deputy Secretary of the Southern Regional Examinations Board and from 1986 to 1990 as Chief Executive to the Southern Examining Group, where he was responsible for managing the introduction of the new GCSE examining system. He thus has extensive knowledge of the assessment process and of facilitating & managing change within a complex organisation. Peter has a first degree from London and a Diploma of Education from Oxford.

Geof Cox

Geof has over eighteen years of international experience as an organisation development and management training consultant, working with large and medium sized organisations in Western, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Caribbean. He specialises in organisation change, particularly using large group processes; training design and delivery; and communications. After graduating from the Queen's University of Belfast, he worked both as a line and HR manager with Esso Petroleum, and has run a training and video production company. As a consultant and trainer he has worked at shop floor and executive levels, in the public and private sectors, and with people from over 40 countries. He is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and a Member of the Chartered Management Institute and the Association for Management Education & Development. Geof is also an author and business writer, having published a number of books and articles on management topics, and edits Organisations & People, the professional journal of the Association for Management Education & Development, and a personal newsletter: Cuttings.

Alison Elliott

Alison is a people development consultant specialising in management and personal skill development, leadership, project management, team building and culture/process change. She consults for organisations requiring leading-edge training approaches: utilising her project management expertise to design/deliver, implement and evaluate successful solutions. Alison has worked with a wide range of groups to individuals, graduates to senior managers and across a broad spectrum of business sectors: defence, central & local government, national charities & FMCG. Alison has a passion for enabling people to maximise their learning of new skills & knowledge through training that is directly applicable in the work place. Alison's excellence in the learning & development field is complemented by her sound commercial experience: she was formerly a global communications manager at Procter & Gamble. Alison is a Biochemistry & Physiology graduate from the University of Sheffield.

Rosemary Hill

Rosemary is an HR and organisation development consultant specialising in leading-edge research and change programmes. Her experience covers a wide range of private and public sector organisations; she works closely with CMPS (a management unit of Cabinet Office) on strategic HR/change projects including the development of a new Masters qualification and the design of HR Masterclasses. Her scope includes the design and implementation of performance management processes, developing action learning programmes, organisational research and the design and delivery of management development programmes. Rosemary has a PhD and MSc from Nottingham Business School, The Nottingham Trent University, where she is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of HRM. Her work has included action research into organisation learning. She has published widely and has recently co-edited an academic text incorporating the latest thinking in management development research and practice across the UK and Europe. Rosemary is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and a Member of the Institute of Quality Assurance. She is an external moderator to CIPD certificate programmes and teaches on CMPS's CIPD Professional Development Scheme.

Emma Niven

Emma is a senior HR consultant with 20 years experience, working in the field of performance improvement, mainly in the service sector. Originally a training designer working on skills development, she became interested in why training doesn't work and why change fails in its implementation phase. She now works with her clients to identify the barriers to the required performance and develops strategies to implement sustainable improvements. This might mean process re-engineering, culture change, alterations to management style, development of HR systems and sometimes even training! The start point is often facilitating workshops at Board level, to clarify issues and to understand exactly what is needed to make a business strategy come to fruition. A graduate of Oxford University, Emma worked as a senior consultant for 10 years at the leading consultancy firm PE International, before leaving to set up ASA Limited, which provides the services of a number of specialist consultants, working on a network basis.

Liz Pinfold

Liz specialises in organisational development and continuous learning policies, processes and programmes, such as competency frameworks and 360° feedback tools. She combines strategic thinking ability with the drive and communication skills to ensure the practical delivery and implementation of initiatives. Founder of the European Learning Network, Liz also works as an executive coach on leadership programmes run by the Centre for Creative Leadership and Ashridge Management College. She has 20 years experience in a broad range of human resources roles in BP. Liz studied French & Social Sciences at Reading University and is a postgraduate of the London School of Economics in Industrial Relations. She is also qualified as a Barrister in Law and is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development.

Clare Talbot

Clare has been an independent business consultant since 2002, specialising in the fields of Human Resources and organisational development. During much of the 1980s and 1990s she worked for ICI, Prudential and the NHS in human resources and organisational development departments and also led a team of Business Advisors at Business Link Kent. She has been a qualified assessor and adviser for the Investors in People (IIP) quality standard since 1999. During this time Clare has assessed around 70 organisations with between 2 and over 6000 employees across all sectors and has advised around 200 companies to successful recognition against the Standard. She is also a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and is currently taking a bachelor's degree with the Open University. As well as IIP work, Clare has developed management competency frameworks for both private and public sector organisations and developed and delivered workshops and training events to support their implementation.