Nick Allen

Nick is an organisational change specialist, environmentalist and promoter of sustainable business. He has twenty years consulting and coaching experience worldwide experience in most industry sectors.

His recent work includes a culture transformation project with Cisco Systems across EMEA; support of E.On with the merger and integration of their UK and German engineering businesses; partner and director development for Deloitte & Touche in Russia and CIS; talent development and coaching with Marsh & McLennan, the world’s number one risk-broker; and executive development coaching with Liverpool and Victoria Mutual.

He has a passion for nature and the environment and much of his work has led him to engage with issues of corporate social responsibility and sustainability. As a result he has added his energy and insight as co-founder of the Henley Business School Centre for Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Reading.

He first graduated in Environmental Sciences from the University of East Anglia and went on to complete an MSc from Department of Land Resources at the University of Guelph in Canada. Since then he has undertaken post-graduate studies in Organizational Behavior at UCL Birkbeck and executive coaching with the Academy of Executive Coaching, an ICF accredited course.

Nick is co-owner of The Coaching Partnership UK Limited and Metricus Limited. He was Vice Chair of AMED, the Association of Management Education and Development and is a member of Association of Sustainability Practitioners.

You can contact Nick on: webenquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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Mike Atack

Mike Atack has worked in IT and strategic planning for over 40 years. He started work in Operational Research for the National Coal Board in the 60s and then joined an Engineering Consultancy to work on transport planning studies in the UK and Australia. He then joined Shell International, initially in operational research and then in corporate strategy, focusing on competitive positioning and scenario planning’ being a founder member of their internal Strategy Consultancy Team.

After a number of subsequent assignments running IT in Shell for, inter alia, UK Chemicals and the London Headquarters, he moved into programme management, being responsible for implementing a number of large IT change projects. These included the closure of a global telex operation and its replacement by email, the transformation of Shells PC desktop support teams (originally country-specific) into a globally managed and operated service, Sarbanes-Oxley accreditation of the Downstream (manufacturing, distribution, sales) business.

Latterly he managed the transition of Canadian IT operations (some 500 staff) into the Shell IT organisation following the acquisition of the Shell Canada company, involving the alignment of two very different cultures as well as technical (e.g. JDE vs SAP) and organisation differences. He was also responsible for championing the take-up of standard ITIL processes across Shell’s IT support teams prior to leaving in 2008.

Besides being an Associate of SAMI Consulting, Mike is also a Fellow of the British Computer Society, being a member of their Management Forum Strategy Panel.

You can contact Mike on: webenquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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Peter Barnett

Peter is a highly experienced consultant with a top-class track record in the provision of strategic direction, leadership and transformation. He has in-depth experience of working across the boundaries between private, public and not-for-profit sectors in driving change management initiatives around heath and social care funding and benefits and the provision of relevant information and advice to individuals and their families.

In recent times Peter worked across the insurance, charity and political sectors and in his corporate career he worked latterly in senior public affairs, communications and strategic and corporate development roles in financial services with Unum, the UK’s leading disability insurer, Britannic Retirement Solutions and Swiss Re Life & Health.

Before he joined Swiss Re, his career was outside financial services and embraced various general management appointments within the FMCG, the international pharmaceutical and public sectors. Peter is a pharmacist by profession, is a member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and is recognised as a ‘Qualified Person’ under the UK Medicines Act. Peter is currently Chair of the Continuing Care Conference (CCC) and a board member of SOLLA, the Society of Later Life Advisers. Until recently he sat on the Association of British Insurers (ABI) Public Affairs Committee, having previously chaired the ABI LTC committee.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and is a trustee for ‘The International Foundation for Intelligent Living’ (IFIL), a charity concerned with the impact of new technologies on society, and has organised many events for them in conjunction with Professor Heinz Wolff of Brunel University, particularly around the issue of Telecare for the elderly. He also provides mentoring assistance to EFD and Radar in support of their efforts to place and retain older and disabled people in the workplace. He is a frequent speaker on health matters at conferences and meetings in the UK and abroad and has had many papers and articles published on the health and welfare funding and provision issues faced by both working and retired people.

You can contact Peter on: webenquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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Andrew Black

Andrew has extensive experience in the field of investment analysis, valuations, & value based management. The author of two books, "In Search of Shareholder Value", and "Questions of Value" (published by Pearson). These look in detail at the issues surrounding value based management and their links to the financial markets. In "Questions of Value" themes around the impact of stricter corporate governance regulations are considered. He is also the Managing Director of Building Value Associates Ltd, whose clients include Volvo, the Design Council, Air New Zealand, Qantas airlines, BP & the MoD amongst others. He is currently a visiting lecturer, at the Warwick Business School, part of Warwick University.

He worked for several years as a Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers heading a department that developed and implemented approaches to shareholder value analysis. This included developing a model called “ValueBuilder”. Prior to this he worked in several financial institutions and banks as a global investment strategist, economist and equity analyst. The institutions include Commerzbank, MM Warburg, and MeesPierson.

He also worked as an economist for Unilever and the DTI, as well as being a parliamentry research assistant for then Minister of Overseas Development.

He holds a Ph.D and an MSc in economics from London University, and BA in economics from Sussex University.. Prior to this he held positions as a research fellow at the Science Centre in Berlin, where he did research on industrial economics and the automobile industry and at the Max Planck Institute in Starnberg. He has spent many years linking economic thinking to business analysis. He is also a keen sailor

You can contact Andrew on: webenquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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Martyn Coleman

His skills and experience include MoD/Industry Partnership development from start-up through to maturity and renewal, and Partnership Board Governance and Secretariat. He has wide experience of MoD Agency and Integrated Project Team (IPT) working, including as deputy IPT leader, and is skilled in corporate planning, strategy implementation and developing, leading and facilitating change. He has managed a range of process improvement projects, and is experienced in business development into ‘Other Government Departments’.

Following a successful career in the Royal Air Force, Martyn is now a consultant to Public Sector and Industry clients. He combines an engineering background in Secure Communications Systems with wide experience of Business Management and Private Finance Initiative (PFI) Partnership Working.

Martyn is a graduate of the Cranfield MBA programme (via the Defence Academy Executive Programme), is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, a Member of the Institute of Engineering, and is qualified Lean/6 sigma process improvement. He holds national security clearance.

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Malcolm Cooper

Malcolm Cooper is Head of Research at the Centre for Cities, and independent urban policy think-tank. He has more than 20 years research and research management experience, most of it gained within the Square Mile. Most recently he was Head of Research for the City of London Corporation, responsible for a research programme covering a wide range of competitiveness, regulation and regeneration issues impacting on London and on the City and UK-based international financial services industry. Previously he spent a decade in equity research in the investment banking sector, specialising in European emerging markets. He has also worked for the Research Board of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, and taught history at the Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Malcolm holds a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours in History from Dalhousie University, a Master of Arts in History from the University of Western Ontario, and a D.Phil. in Modern History from Oxford University. He was also Research Fellow in History at Downing College Cambridge.

You can contact Malcolm on: webenquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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Geof Cox

Geof is an international consultant in organisation change and management development with over twenty years of experience as the principal of his own consulting company, New Directions Ltd. He works with public, private and not for profit organisations and specialises in whole system facilitation – using approaches such as Appreciative Inquiry, Open Space and World Café – and workshop design and delivery. He is qualified to administer FIRO-Elements.

He has a B.S.Sc from the Queen’s University of Belfast, is a chartered member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, a fellow of the Chartered Management Institute and a member of the Association for Management Education and Development. He works globally, with extensive experience in Western, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, AsiaPAC, North America and Africa.

Earlier in his career, Geof worked as a line and HR manager with Esso Petroleum, working in such diverse roles industrial relations, distribution management, training, IT systems, organisation development, sales and purchasing. During his final years with Esso he designed and managed a number of major organisation change projects and management development programmes.

Geof is the author of "Ready-Aim-Fire Problem Solving" (Oak Tree Press) and co-author of "50 Activities for Creativity and Problem Solving" and "25 Role Plays for Interview Training" (Gower) and has contributed to a number of books, study guides and articles on management. He edits a regular newsletter: "Cuttings", is a joint Editor of "Organisations & People" (the professional journal of the Association for Management Education & Development) and was the founding editor of "Management Scotland". He is a partner in Learning Consortium, a pan-European network of consultants which provides professional development for their members and intensive interpersonal skills programmes for clients.

You can contact Geof on: webenquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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Tony Diggle

Tony Diggle has been an independent consultant and writer since the mid-1990s, with a particular interest in the future and the major global issues man currently faces.

He was formerly Head of Research at the corporate investigators Kroll Associates (U.K.) Ltd. Other former employers include Baxter Healthcare Ltd., where he developed a systematic approach to strategic information requirements, the BBC, where he did research for television for six years, and Oxford Polytechnic (now Oxford Brookes University).

He has a BSc (Hons) in Library Studies from Loughborough University, an MBA from Manchester Business School and has recently been undertaking an MS in Futures Studies at the University of Houston (by remote learning).

You can contact Tony on: webenquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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Professor Ian Jones

Ian Jones is a consultant in Corporate Governace and Business Ethics to the IoD and ING in addition to his teaching and research commitments at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and has a client list ranging from the UN and EU to the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society and EDF.

He has been responsible for MBA programmes at City University, London and the European School of Management, after starting his career in Marketing at Unilever in Belguim. He has a Ph D from London Business School, is FRSA, and is a Sloan Fellow. He is fluent in French.

His books on Business Ethics (with M G Pollitt) are:
"Understanding how Issues in Business develop" Palgrave, 2002
"The Role of Business Ethics in Economic Performance" Macmillan, 1999

You can contact him on: webenquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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Tony Jefferson

Tony has an MSc in Management Studies, a BSc in Economics, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Visiting Fellow of Cranfield University.

His career spans the private and voluntary sectors with spells at British Steel Corporation, British Gas, Leeds Permanent Building Society and Halifax Building Society.

His experience at the leading edge of learning, organisational development and high profile recruitment has given him an in-depth understanding of business-focused HR and a track record of transforming organisations by understanding key issues & levers and their utilisation, enabling managers to thrive during periods of major upheaval. He drives change through people, by creating and leading high performing teams.

You can contact him on: webenquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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Elizabeth Lank

Elizabeth Lank is an independent specialist who works with private, public and voluntary sector organisations to help them improve efficiency and effectiveness through greater cross-boundary collaboration and knowledge sharing. She has recently published a book on collaborative working across different organisations, entitled Collaborative Advantage: How Organisations Win by Working Together (Palgrave Macmillan 2006).

After completing the INSEAD MBA degree in 1986, Elizabeth joined I.T. services company ICL (now Fujitsu Services) and held a number of strategic organisational development, management development and internal communication roles (including leading ICL’s Mobilising Knowledge programme for five years) before setting up her own business in January 2001. She spent the early part of her career working for the European headquarters of an American computer company (Exxon Office Systems) in Geneva, Switzerland. A Canadian by birth, she graduated cum laude from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts in 1980.

Elizabeth is co-author of the book The Power of Learning - A Guide to Gaining Competitive Advantage (IPD 1994), written as a practitioner’s guide to building ‘learning organisations’. She has published a number of articles on collaborative working and knowledge management and collaborated with Amin Rajan on the research report ‘Good Practices in Knowledge Creation and Exchange’ (CREATE 1998). She is a member of the international editorial boards of the Journal of Change Management and Knowledge Management Review.

Elizabeth is an expert evaluator for the European Commission’s Directorate General for Information Society. She is a Faculty Associate at the Institut d’Administration des Entreprises (IAE) in Aix-en-Provence, France and has been a visiting lecturer on the U.K. government’s Cabinet Office Top Management Programme, at INSEAD, London Business School, Henley Management College, Solvay Business School in Brussels and the Berlin School for Creative Leadership. She is also a regular speaker, facilitator and programme director at public and in-company management conferences.

You can contact her on: webenquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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Neil Macdonald

Neil MacDonald is a consultant in planning, monitoring and evaluation, with a specialism in scenario analysis and outcome mapping techniques

After doing research and teaching in genetics and neurobiology in London, Oxford and Oregon he worked in senior positions in human rights, and development for a number of leading UK international NGOs including Oxfam and Save the Children. This included working as regional development adviser in Southern Africa for Save the Children UK, where he was responsible for strategic planning, programme design and development and quality assurance on knowledge management, HIV/AIDS, gender analysis, and child focus. He has worked in Africa Asia and Latin America, including in conflict and post-conflict situations, and is the author of five books on Latin America and the Caribbean. In 2002 he became an independent consultant and is Director of Gondwana Development Associates.

Clients include the UK government, the European Commission, foundations, the Humanitarian Futures Programme of Kings College, London, and leading international NGOs. Recent work has including leading an assessment of state fragility for the European Commission in Yemen and scenario development for HMG strategy in Sudan and Kosovo, and for CARE in Sudan, Sri Lanka and Asia, as well as strategic evaluations for programmes of Save the Children Norway and for the Oak Foundation. He has security clearance with HMG.

Neil holds a PhD in Genetics from Edinburgh University is currently Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Kings College London, where he is doing research on futures and culture.

You can contact him on: webenquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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Kiki Maurey

Kiki is Owner-Director of Kiki Maurey Consultancy Limited. She has worked extensively as a management, research and training consultant to a wide range of organisations in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors, including local government and the regional development agencies.

Over the past few years she has been a policy consultant serving in a number of ministries including the Department of Health (equalities & diversity), the DfES’s Policy Innovation Unit (thought leadership & intellectual assets), the DTI (now BIS) Small Business Service (women’s enterprise), and the Cabinet Office (equalities & diversity).

Kiki has also been increasingly called upon to coach and mentor senior clients in the public and private sectors here in the UK and Europe and is fast developing a strong reputation in this field. She has also been engaged in small enterprise development since the late-80s and continues to use her wide experience and knowledge to coach individual small firms on business strategy and top team development.

Kiki is described by Barclays as “one of the best keynote speakers/facilitators in the country”, and by Warwick Business School as “world class”, having delivered to over 6,500 SMEs over the past few years, including the acclaimed Barclays national ‘Let’s Talk…’ road show seminars.

Kiki has held a number of public appointments including the national Ethnic Minority Business Task Force, Chairman of the Hampshire and Isle of Wight ‘South Central Connexions’ Partnership Ltd, and served as a non-exec in learning and skills, higher and further education, health, the contemporary arts, housing, community, and the probation service.

You can contact her on: webenquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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Dr Nicholas Miles

Dr. Miles is an economic planner with extensive experience formulating and implementing area based economic development and regeneration strategies.

He has been involved in a number of visioning and scenario-building exercises and strategic planning programmes for cities, regions and public sector organisations, including North Staffordshire, the West Midlands, the Tees Valley, The Luton and Dunstable growth area, Norfolk, and the “three cities sub region” (Derby, Nottingham and Leicester) in the UK, and, Shanghai in the PRC, and St Petersburg in Russia.

Dr Miles has also worked on a number of projects focusing on sustainability including environmental due diligence for bankers, environmental strategies for cities, waste management and recycling studies and the economic underpinnings of the move towards “sustainable solutions”, namely solutions that reduce client risk, improve value added, and enhance market impact in as sustainable manner as possible.

He has increasingly worked on capacity building and change management for governments, partnership based development strategies and institutional strengthening measures in relation to economic development and environmental programmes and projects.

You can contact him on: webenquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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John Milner

John Milner's career spans over 30 years in the IT industry. His early years were spent with ICL where he started as a trainee in the late 1960’s, a long period with Racal/GlobalCrossing followed and he recently completed 5 years at the University of Cambridge where he was the Management Information Services Director.

His career has focussed on project management and board level Technical Director (CTO or CIO) roles, in both development and enterprise application environments. He has specialised in large scale system integration and has implemented organisations and methods compliant with defence and ISO standards for Quality Systems and with ITIL and PRINCE2. He is familiar also with the Capability Maturity Model developed by Carnegie Mellon. He has worked in both private and public sectors.

In his roles as a Technical Director he has gained considerable experience of strategic and corporate planning with fellow board members as well as skills in systems development methods, professional services and complex commercial negotiations both as supplier and as customer. He has an excellent track record in building and motivating high performance teams.

He has worked on business cases and early life set up of “start up” companies within the Racal group.
Significant recent achievements include:
London Underground Radio Systems PFI
Development and implementation of the University of Cambridge MIS Strategy

John Milner is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists in the City of London, Fellow of the British Computer Society, Chartered IT Professional and Fellow of the Institute for the Management of Information Systems

You can contact John at: webenquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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Ricardo Nakazawa

Ricardo has 14 years experience as a consultant in the areas of marketing, market research, strategic planning, technology administration and innovation. He has worked on projects in both the private and public sectors – mainly in Mexico and Latin America.

Besides being associate of SAMI, he is founder and Director of the Nakazawa Consulting Group and of CATI (Centre for Technology Management and Innovation), both of which are based in Mexico. He has worked closely with SAMI Consulting and the University of Cambridge in spreading – and applying - knowledge of technology foresight, scenario planning and technology roadmapping in Mexico.

Currently, from March 2010 to February 2011, he is participating as an invited industrial fellow at the University of Cambridge in a research project in order to develop new theoretical and practical knowledge to extend the scope of TRM (Technology Roadmapping) techniques, focusing on the areas of communication, social issues, marketing perspective and related areas.

You can contact Ricardo at: webenquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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Steve Onyett

Steve has a passion for leadership and team development and coaching that has taken him from heading clinical psychology services into a variety of roles in both provider and commissioning organisations. He currently leads on leadership and teamwork development for the South West Development Centre and runs his own successful consultancy (www.steveonyett.co.uk) offering solution focused coaching, facilitation, research and training. Other roles include Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Health & Life Sciences, University of the West of England, co-editor of the International Journal of Leadership in Public Services and associate of Bristol Business School. He has published widely including “Teamworking in Mental Health” (Palgrave) and “Case Management in Mental Health” (Stanley Thornes). He is a SAMI Associate.

Recent projects have included large scale programmes of team coaching, establishing and helping to design and deliver the “Revitalising Leadership in Social Care” programme in the south west, and an equalities programme for the Avon Fire and Rescue Service. Other recent work includes the “Developing Effective Local Leadership for Social Inclusion” initiative, an influential national survey of crisis resolution teams, stakeholder events for strategy development for health weight, tobacco control, breast feeding and emotional wellbeing, and writing the “Working Psychologically in Teams” for the British Psychological Society/NIMHE.

Steve specialises in “solution focused” approaches to improvement that build sustainable and enjoyable relationships. He is skilled in approaches that build on the strengths and vision that all stakeholders bring to the task of improvement. His work supports embedded cultural change wherein leaders develop their ability to affirm both their own and others strengths, equipped with the wisdom of how change occurs within complex living systems.

You can contact Steve at: webenquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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Andreas Priestland

For over twenty years Andreas has worked in leadership development and organisational change with people at all levels helping them make a difference to what they do. His clients have included company directors, refinery managers, shift supervisors, accountants, research scientists, senior executives, educators and many others based around the world – in Asia, Australia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the United States.

He first started his career as a market research executive in one of the UK’s top ten agencies before retraining as a teacher and curriculum adviser, working in inner city schools in London. Five years later his career once again changed as he began to reshape his skill base as an organisation development specialist in a large multinational company. He now operates as a freelance consultant in leadership, learning and change.

Much of Andreas’ organisational learning experience has come through working for the oil and petrochemical industry, primarily with BP, in training and development and then as the global lead for their Individual and Organisational Learning discipline. He helped the company design its first truly global leadership development program delivered in over 60 locations in five different languages to over 10,000 leaders – the ‘First Level Leaders’ programme not only received the prestigious Helios Award from BP, but was the subject of an article in Harvard Business Review. He is known for his facilitative style, creativity and ability to generate engagement. He has advised leadership teams as they go through periods of change and transition. He has supported Board members as they bring together their leadership and formulate new commitments to the future. He helped guide merger and integration teams through the early and difficult conversations needed to map a way forward. He led the curriculum design for a business simulation that skilled up multidisciplinary teams in locations as far apart as Houston, Baku, London and Jakarta.

His clients have included the Saudi Basic Industries Corporation, AirFrance/KLM, TNT, BP, BBC, Castle Cement, Oxfam and others. He has spoken at, and run workshops for, the Society for Organisational Learning’s Global Forum, the CIPD’s HRD conference, Roffey Park, Cass Business School and has written articles on change and leadership development.

Andreas has degree in Environmental Science, a postgraduate certificate in Education, a diploma in market research, and NTL Institute certificate in OD. He was raised in the UK, US, India and Lebanon, and now lives just outside London.

You can contact Andreas on: webenquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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Adam Scott

Adam Scott is a Senior Research Fellow, Department of Management, University of St Andrews. In 2000, he was appointed to the UK’s new Appeal Tribunals, to handle appeals in competition cases. He also acts a consultant and as a mentor. At St Andrews, he studies and uses scenario planning as well as leading courses on teamwork, constituency management and regulation. He has been involved in scenario planning in the public, private and educational sectors and in two national scenario exercises and he has acted as a facilitator in workshops to refine both issues and scenarios.

Until his appointment under the UK’s new EU style Competition Act, Adam had also been working with telecommunications regulators and economists in the European Commission, UK and in Ireland. Called to the Bar in 1972 and a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, Adam’s past includes twenty years in senior positions with British Telecommunications plc (BT) and its predecessors, studies in engineering science, economics, law, theology, management and behavioural sciences and a 16 year parallel stream of reserve military activities.

You can contact Adam Scott at: webenquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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Jonathan Soar

Jonathan Soar is an ICT consultant and a qualified coach. Originally a software engineer by training he has spent twenty years in the IT industry at director level, mostly involved with banking and finance.

Jonathan joined SAMI as an Associate in 2003 to assist with business development and to provide strategic consultancy. He is also a professional Executive Coach with The Parallax Partnership (www.parallaxuk.com) and a certified NLP practitioner.

During his time with SAMI, he has completed the successful sale and execution of scenario planning consultancy and a workshop for Nationwide Building Society, and helped facilitate a scenario planning session, "The Future of Management Consultancy" jointly with the Strategic Planning Society. He has investigated the use of scenarios in the context of managing operational risk according to Basel II and the Sound Practices Guide. More recently, he was part of the five-man SAMI team who produced the ICT Infrastructure report for the City of London Corporation published in June 2009.

Between 1990 and 2003, he ran his own software company in the Square Mile which specialised in providing consultancy and software development services to banks. Clients included Standard Chartered, Standard Chartered Grindlays, NatWest, WestLB, Citigroup and J P Morgan Chase.

Jonathan has a BSc. (Honours) in Philosophy and Economics from City University, London. He is the Junior Warden of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists and Chairman of its Charitable Operations company. He is a Member of the British Computer Society, an Associate Member of APECS (Association for Professional Executive Coaching and Supervision) and also speaks fluent French.'

You can contact Jonathan on: webenquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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Phillip Tovey

Phillip was group Innovation Manager for Fujitsu ICL, before moving to the Royal Mail group and developing the Innovation Lab. During this time he also worked with Reading University to develop Innovation Works and was a founding member of the EC Open Futures project, a project looking at the role played by the physical environment on creativity and collaboration.

He now works as a consultant in the area of ‘Creativity and Innovation’, and has worked with a number of public and private clients on workplace change and the use of space.

Phillip has a BSc in Business Development and a background in design and technology.

Phillip combines design thinking with business process through a range of offerings.

You can contact Phillip on: webenquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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Dr Suzy Walton

Suzy is a Chartered Director, Chartered Scientist and Chartered Occupational Psychologist. She has a portfolio of board roles and over a decade’s experience in central government. She is an Ambassador for diversity on boards – a role to which she was appointed by the Government Equalities Office.

Suzy sits on the boards of organisations across many sectors including Birmingham Children’s Hospital, the University of Westminster; the Internet Watch Foundation and Combat Stress. She also sits on various government committees including the National DNA Database Ethics Group and the National Specialist Services Commissioning group which oversees a budget of around £3 billion for treatment for rare and specialist conditions. She is also a member of government’s Science Advisory Council hosted by Defra.

From 2000-2004 Suzy led strategic futures work in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit. She has also served in the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit and from 1996-2000 she was a military psychologist in the Ministry of Defence.

For the Institute of Directors Suzy is a member of the Chartered Director Committee and is a reviewer for candidates coming forward for chartered status. As an academic, Suzy has published over twenty papers mainly on social policy.

Suzy’s early career was a producer, editor and presenter for Sky News, LBC Radio and the BBC. She also had a three year stint playing the juvenile lead in the West End hit Children of a Lesser God. Her website is www.suzywalton.com

Suzy holds a first class honours BSc degree, an MSc and a PhD in applied psychology (suicide). As well as being chartered in three professions she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, a fellow of the RSA and a member of Equity. Suzy has 4 children.

You can contact Suzy at webenquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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Molly van der Weij

Molly van der Weij’s career covers a broad path of applying her professional skills and knowledge as visual artist to a wide range of areas. She has worked many years as illustrator, author, and as educator on several Art and Fashion Academies in the Netherlands and Germany, after getting her art degree. She has worked since 2000 at the Telemedicine Future Lab, of the Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine (NST: www.telemed.no), with the design and visual communication of potential applications of information and communication technologies for new telemedicine services.

Molly was Leader of Telemedicine Futures Studies at NST, working with the conceptualisation and visualisation of possible futures, providing a platform for collaborative and multidisciplinary future thinking, and conducting several scenario development projects. Molly was Chair of the TTeC06 Programme Committee of the annual, international Tromsø Telemedicine and eHealth Conference (TTeC), entitled “Beyond Tomorrow”, held in Norway in 2006 (www.telemed.no/ttec2006).

Molly uses her artistic skills and knowledge on the visual language for the exploration, communication and development of complex or abstract ideas, e.g. systems, visions, knowledge, strategies. Her interest lies in the synergy of science, technology and art. She offers this expertise to clients through her UK based VisualArt Consultancy.

You can contact Molly at:webenquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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Susan Voase

Susan has 20+ years experience in Industry, with particular expertise in business strategy, strategic marketing, business development; change management and relationship management delivered through consulting; coaching and advisory services. She has established and run marketing functions; launched companies and developed go-to-market propositions and programmes; and has broadened business reach through developing strategic and tactical partnerships, managing the commercial mix and driving new ideas out through new channels whilst managing the resultant organisational change.

She has experience in a wide range of sectors including: technology; government; telecoms; property services; health; education and the finance sector.

She has worked for: Microsoft; Barclays Bank; PWC; the BBC; EDS; LLTSB; InHealth Group; Group Partners; Abbey National Plc; Futurelab; FFastfill Plc; Newpoint Consulting; McNicholas Plc; Capita; Birmingham City Council; Fujitsu Services and ICL

You can contact Susan at:webenquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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Peter Whittle

Peter is a highly effective business leader with demonstrable record of delivering profitable change and sustained growth in challenging service and manufacturing environments, in the UK and internationally.

He has held P&L responsibility for multi-million turnover businesses – from £60m at Eutech Engineering to £400m at Tioxide Group and has shown consistent success in diverse autonomous leadership roles within the ICI Group underpinned by functional expertise in sales, marketing, M&A and operations.

Latterly, as Board Director and Head of Strategy, Tarmac Group Limited ($4.6 billion turnover division of Anglo American plc) he led an overhaul of Tarmac directing a comprehensive strategic review; initiating, driving and leading the subsequent organisational, commercial and operational improvement programmes.

Initially, he transformed the strategic review process and culture from a routine annual task to a substantive analysis of how to take the business forward. He drove decisions on key priorities and portfolio choices with regards to territories, businesses and products.

This led the implementation of 8 discrete change programmes including restructuring the global business, transforming the customer enquiry to cash processes in the UK and establishing operational and safety improvement processes. He set up appropriate infrastructure to manage the complex and large-scale operation – chaired steering groups, sub-committees and project groups; and employed external consultants to assist with several of the initiatives (project teams often 50+ in size and direct project costs of £several million).

At Tarmac he also managed, with P&L responsibility, the Middle East, India and China activities.

He currently has a part time interim position as an Executive Director of The Met Office where he is establishing the marketing function including market segmentation, product portfolio management and NPD processes and is contributing to the shaping of corporate strategy and climate and science strategy.

Peter has BSc Honours (2i) in Physics - Bristol University, Diploma in Marketing - Chartered Institute of Marketing and is an Accredited Mediator for the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution,

You can contact Peter at:webenquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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Huw Williams

Huw Williams has over 20 years experience of strategy development at the leading edge of change and new business development in the telecoms, internet and e-commerce arenas. He has excellent presentational and influencing skills developed over many years of working at Board level.

Since 2003, Huw has run his own telecoms strategy and regulation consultancy, with many leading industry players as clients – AOL, C&W, Cisco, Intel, HP. The consultancy provided an assessment of regulatory impact on the City’s ICT infrastructure, and helped develop a scenario analysis of the future of communications. Currently Huw is focused on analysis of business cases for community broadband networks, and has recently contributed to the Community Broadband Network response to BIS consultation on the Next Generation Fund. Huw has also provided e-commerce strategy consultancy to public sector bodies( eg local Councils, National Physical Laboratory), and not-for-profit organisations (European Society of Cardiologists)

Prior to 2003, Huw worked in a range of strategy and business development roles at BT. These included running BT’s main website – www.bt.com; developing BT’s global internet strategy, including a major M&A investment; managing the business case for Video-on-Demand trials; and strategic competitor analysis.

Huw did his first degree in Mathematics at Queens’ College, Cambridge, and completed an MSc in Operational Research at Brunel University. He has published papers in the Journal of Operational Research and in the Journal of the IEE.

You can contact Huw at webenquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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Chris Yapp

Chris Yapp has been in the IT Industry since 1980. Most recently he was Head of Public Sector Innovation.

Before that he held a number of roles at Honeywell, ICL and Hewlett Packard.

He has a long standing interest in all aspects of innovation and creativity.

He has been involved in Public Sector IT for the majority of that period and has been involved in many policy and advisory groups on strategic and management aspects of IT. His major areas of interest include e-learning, health and local government. He has been involved in many projects around the creative industries and economic regeneration.

In the third sector Chris has worked on issues including social entrepreneurs, the Digital Divide and IT and disabilities.

Chris is a Patron of NACE, and a Trustee of world e-citizens. Chris is also an Associate of the think tank, DEMOS, and a former Director of the Internet Society of England. He is a past Trustee of the School for Social Entrepreneurs and the British Committee of the UK-Canada colloquia. He is a frequent public speaker and writer on the e-agenda. His most recent publication is “Personalization of education in the 21st century” .

You can contact Chris at webenquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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