Thinking Global, Acting Local

Sile has been working with individuals and organisations since 2008 across a number of sectors both nationally and internationally with clients in the USA, UK and Europe. Sile is experienced in supporting leadership development, values and behavioural alignment, organisational development, cultural development, individual and team performance and supporting tailored solutions to barriers that impact wellbeing and performance. Sile is passionate and experienced in designing, training, supervising and facilitating interventions cross sectors.

Sile’s formal education includes the HDip in Coaching Psychology and MSc in Personal and Management coaching from University College Cork. Alongside additional qualifications in Leadership, Participatory Management and Professional Supervision. Sile is a registered member of the Association of Coaching, a coaching and organisational member of Psychological Society of Ireland and a psychometric tester with the British Psychological Society.

Sile completed her MSc thesis in “Understanding the Barriers and Facilitators to Systemic Psychodynamic Coaching in Organisational Development” with a nod to Dialogical Organisational Development and is currently in the early stages of utilising the qualitative research to author a book on the effective use of coaching within organisational development.

At Roffey Park Institute, Sile works with HR professionals and leadership teams to promote coaching psychology and dialogic approaches in organisational development and change strategies for the improvement of performance and wellbeing across all levels of an organisation.

Sile works with developing capacity across organisations through facilitation, coaching and shadow consulting. She has worked within a range of sectors including tourism, food, education, healthcare, tech, finance, not for profits and within the social sector nationally and internationally.

Rob is an award winning and highly experienced academic, researcher and consultant in leadership, collaboration and innovation, working at levels from emerging leaders to Board level. Rob has designed and developed leader and leadership development programmes specifically across the public, private and not for profit sectors. Rob is an expert in leader and leadership development, intra and inter-organisational collaboration, creativity, innovation and working with conflict and complex systemic challenges in public, private and not for profit sectors.

His cutting-edge and evidence-based collaborative PhD research and practice on place-based leadership development, has been highly impactful in developing the collaborative capability of local leaders working on complex challenges such as urban violence in Kenya, Uganda, Guatemala and Morocco. Other international activities include a range of strategic policy initiatives in the EU, China and South Africa, research consultancy in Kenya, Uganda and Guatemala, as well as collaborations with co-authors in Europe, the US and Australia

Using his unique philosophy and design model, Rob has also designed and delivered leadership development and collaboration initiatives such as ‘Essential Skills for Innovation’ and ‘Collaboration, Creativity and Social Innovation’ for a wide range of range of government agencies and departments such as DEPR and the DRCD, the Criminal Justice Sector, Ordnance Survey Ireland, the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Transport and local authorities and their partner networks and agencies.

Rob’s previous roles include Leadership and Management Specialist at the IPA, Dublin; Principal Lecturer – External Engagement, University of Sunderland. Programme Director for Leaders UK, Strategic Relationship Manager at the National School of Government. Prior to this, Rob also had 15 years’ experience in regional, national and international public sector senior level roles including Assistant Chief Executive of a Regional Assembly and Strategic Policy Adviser to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, UK.

Rob, who now lives in Bandon, West Cork, Ireland has four children between the ages of 10 and 30.  He is currently working on memoir about identity, love, loss and belonging as part of an MA in Creative Writing at UCC. He is also committed to developing his craft as a storyteller, poet and spoken word artist.

Jesse Segers is Partner at Ginkgo Consulting and also Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Exeter, UK. Jesse teaches leadership and develops leaders at executive and board levels. He is also a visiting faculty member at the Stichting Bedrijfskunde, Netherlands. He serves and has served in several board member functions.

Jesse has published 6 books and more than 200 papers in both top academic journals as well as practitioners’ journals. He held hundreds of academic or business presentations around the globe for (inter)national organisations and is mentioned regularly in the media. His research interests are linked to how individuals, leaders, teams, organisations and societies can change. Specific attention is given to leadership and middle managers.

Jesse is the former Associate Dean of Education & Master Programs and Co-director of the Expertise Centre on Leadership and Academic Director of the Masterclass Leadership for Advanced Leadership at the Antwerp Management School, Belgium. He is a former visiting professor at the Northern Illinois University, USA, the University of Calgary, Canada and AOG School of Management, the Netherlands.

Jesse received his Ph.D. in Applied Economics from the University of Antwerpen in Belgium. He has a master’s in industrial psychology from the Vrije Universiteit Brussels and studied two years of gestalt therapy and 1 year of gestalt counselling. In 2013 he was elected as a distinguished practitioner by the European Association of Work and Organisational Psychology.

Before pursuing a career where he (re)builds educational institutes, Jesse worked in several national and international HR-roles.

Kuʻulani Keohokalole (she/her/ʻo ia) established People Strategies Hawaiʻi in 2019 with the vision of growing the capacity of organizations to foster community-minded and people-oriented leaders. She trains, consults, and supports organizations across sectors and industries who are looking to transform around the ways they engage people to achieve their mission.

Kuʻulani was grounded in the traditional Native Hawaiian cultural practice of ho`oponopono by her grandmother, who was a community-based practitioner. The art of reconciliation, and making things right, guides her approach to facilitation and consultation with organizations, stemming from the belief that clients hold the answers to their own challenges, that who shows up and how they show up matters, and that waiting for the moment is key.

Ku’ulani received the distinctions of Pacific Business News’s “40 Under 40” in 2020 and Hawaiʻi Business Magazine’s “20 People To Watch for the Next 20 Years” in 2023. She is a sought-after speaker on topics of diversity, equity and inclusion, Hawaiian & indigenous values, organizational culture and leadership, and psychological safety in the workplace. Past speaking engagements have included clients such as 3M, Amazon, Microsoft, New York University, Georgetown University, the East-West Center and the YWCA.

Kuʻulani is a trained coach with the Co-Active Institute. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Ethnic Studies and Women’s Studies from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, a Master’s of Arts degree in Education Leadership, Politics and Advocacy from New York University, an Executive Certificate in Organizational Consulting & Change Leadership from Georgetown University. 

Emma’s extensive transformation and change leadership experience as an internal and external consultant spans various sectors including Higher Education, Financial Services, Technology and Retail. She has worked on large-scale change projects at The Open University, Ministry of Defence, Boots and other large, complex organisations. A qualified adult educator and coach, Emma has led executive and professional education, training and qualification programmes at the University of Cambridge, professional body The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport and Anglia Ruskin University.

The golden thread throughout her varied career and entrepreneurial journey is transforming workplaces for the better. She is a strong advocate for the power of social learning, and since joining the Roffey Park Institute team in March 2023, is excited about the possibilities for enabling and encouraging future generations of leaders operating digitally and globally in times of unprecedented pace of change, ambiguity and uncertainty.

With an operational cross-industry, cross-functional leadership background, developing, nurturing and managing the performance of professionals with diverse backgrounds, strengths and talents in large, matrixed organisations, she holds tight to principles of openness and respect. A curious and energetic collaborator, she strives to create inclusive and empowering conditions for innovation and learning, as well as encouraging healthy disagreement, which is a natural consequence of diversity.

Emma holds postgraduate qualifications in Personal & Business Coaching and in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education. Earlier in her career she was a Chartered Management Accountant, working at The Boots Company, Arcadia and IBM.

Glenda H. Eoyang, PhD
Founding Executive Director | Human Systems Dynamics Institute

Glenda Eoyang is a pioneer in the applications of complexity science to human systems, and she founded the field of human systems dynamics (HSD) in 2001. Through Human Systems Dynamics Institute, she leads a global network of over one thousand scholar-practitioners. They apply HSD to wicked problems ranging from early childhood education to violent extremism, public health, and corporate futures and strategy. Her theory and practice provide a roadmap for anyone who chooses to work at the intersection of order and chaos.

Griff Griffiths
Founding Executive Director | Human Systems Dynamics Institute

Originally working the IT industry, Griff moved into coaching and Organisation Development. His education in environmental sciences sparked an interest in complexity science-driven methods and he teaches on the Human Systems Dynamics programme at Roffey Park, where he’s valued for his individualised support to participants throughout their learning journeys.

Paul has worked across both the private and public sectors, focusing on delivering sustainable change, building capability, and supporting growth. His work is centred on helping individuals and organisations navigate and lead change. He runs SKIPTA Consulting and collaborates with Roffey Park, in addition to being on the faculty for the ODC (NTL) Global Organisation Development certificate programme.

Anne’s professional journey began in retail. She enjoyed a 14-year international career with the sports retailer and manufacturer Decathlon, beginning as a student intern and closing this stage of my career as UK Head of People. Deciding she wanted to develop her expertise in supporting people to flourish, she then completed an MSc and PhD in Performance Psychology at the University of Edinburgh.

Anne is a PCC level ICF executive coach and has been practicing since 2012 to help purpose-driven leaders in business, sport- and education-related institutes and organisations.

Harnessing her teacher training in Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction, she also specialises in embedding mindfulness-based facilitation approaches that enable wellbeing and transformational change in people and organisations. This is also the area of her academic research at the University of Edinburgh.

Claire Jefferey

Is an HR, Organisation Design and Development practitioner with over 25 years working with executive boards and leadership teams in FMCG, Retail, Professional Services, I/NGOs, Professional & Public Bodies. She lived and worked in Asia-Pacific for 10 years and, for the past 7 years, has worked on global transformation with local teams in the Americas, South-Asia, East-Asia, Africa, the Middle-East and Europe to design adaptive operating models, facilitate strategic alignment, restructuring and coach leaders through change.

Passionate about empowerment, Claire’s experience includes enabling environments for co-creation, local ownership and global connectivity to strengthen organisational performance.

Claire holds a Post-Graduate Diploma in Personnel Management from the University of Westminster and an MSc in People & Organisational Development from Roffey Park.

She is an enthusiastic cook, walker, pilates-goer and singer.

Jo Wright

Jo is an Organisation and Relationship Systems Coach practitioner, and Executive and Team coach.

She was born and grew up in Hong Kong, has lived in 4 countries and is multi-lingual.
Since 2008, following 14 years in sales with global blue chip FMCGs, Jo has worked internationally across sectors and industries delivering training, facilitation and coaching to improve team performance and effectiveness.

Jo’s mission is to bring humanity to work, facilitating the meaningful conversations that help people to align, engage and perform.

She holds a BA Hons in French with Spanish, is a Licensed Practitioner of Insights Discovery®, a Master Practitioner of NLP, a trained ORSC practitioner, and is a member of the International Coaching Federation.

An animal lover, in her spare time she enjoys walking and gardening.

Claire Kennedy

Claire Kennedy is co-founder and Joint Chief Executive at PPL, the UK’s leading social enterprise management consultancy. She works extensively on strategic development at a national, regional and local level, across the wider UK public sector – leading innovation from board level to the frontline.

Claire has been working at the heart of the public sector improvement agenda for almost 25 years. Her particular expertise lies in linking strategic policy objectives and outcomes to everyday delivery, as well as the techniques required to develop effective teams, and to enable them to maximise their performance.

Claire’s current work involves working with local areas moving towards the development of integrated care. She is particularly skilled in enabling leaders to connect across a system in a way that is authentic, and that creates strong practical working relationships at all levels.

Natasha Larkin

Natasha Larkin is PPL’s Head of Organisational Development and leads PPL Catalyst, our approach to delivering sustainable organisational and system change. Natasha has 20 years’ experience in learning and organisational development roles across the public, private and charity sectors.

Since joining PPL in 2016, Natasha’s work has focused on delivering transformational change through people and culture. Her skills and passion lie in bringing together broad and diverse perspectives; creating brave spaces where people can bring both challenge and collaboration to solving organisational and system challenges.

Through her extensive experience of supporting integration across Health and Social Care organisations and teams, Natasha has developed approaches that tap into people’s intrinsic motivations and allow them to engage in Organisational Development without losing sight of the ‘real work’ of solving operational challenges on the ground.

Vicky Wells

Vicky has over 25 years’ experience working with leaders on all aspects of their development. Her background is in retail management, utilities, and HR. Her specialist area is conflict resolution. As a consultant she has worked extensively within the Finance and Insurance sectors to support leaders through designing and facilitating workshops and 1:1 coaching across most areas of leadership development.

One of her programmes, designed to support managers in having better performance conversations, won a Brandon Hall Gold award and was nominated as finalist for a CIPD award. This programme supported her client in raising their Gallup Engagement score from the 38th percentile to the 99th percentile over a 3-year period.

Esther Stevenson

Esther has spent 20 years working in the UK and internationally with public, private and not-for-profit organisations. She began her career in international development, before transitioning into organisational development, and moving into consultancy in 2016.

Drawing on her own experience in leadership and management, Esther has expertise in organisational development and design, leadership and management development, culture change, group facilitation and training, and staff engagement. To these she brings a keen interest in complexity, creativity, innovation, communication and inclusion.

Demola Soremkun

Demola is an organisational development (OD) practitioner with a proven track record of designing, managing, and leading complex change programmes across various sectors. His career began in higher education as a lecturer, where he honed his skills in knowledge transfer before transitioning to OD in the early 2000s. Since then, he has made significant contributions across the civil service in Westminster and beyond.

More recently, he has been working as an Independent Consultant in the NHS, International Development Research as well as supporting emerging communities of practice.

Emma du Parcq

Emma’s extensive transformation and change leadership experience as an internal and external consultant spans various sectors including Higher Education, Financial Services, Technology and Retail. She has worked on large-scale change projects at The Open University, Ministry of Defence, Boots and other large, complex organisations. A qualified adult educator and coach, Emma has led executive and professional education, training and qualification programmes at the University of Cambridge, professional body The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport and Anglia Ruskin University.

Ciara Halloran

Ciara is Head of Operations, Europe, at Roffey Park supporting our global clients in Europe, UK, Middle East and Africa. Ciara’s expertise in organisational development and cultural change spans countries and continents working with clients in Education, Pharma, Construction and Technology. As an expert organisational development consultant, experienced facilitator and executive coach, Ciara works with organisations to realise their potential through people

Andrew Whyatt-Sames

Andrew co-founded uptakeAI with a vision to help organisations harness the power of AI to achieve operational efficiency and competitive advantage. With a background in occupational psychology and consulting, we combine strategic insight and human-centric approach to facilitate tailored AI uptake that resonates with the clients’ needs and values.