Our team includes organisational psychologists, leadership coaches and experienced organisational development professionals, with expertise in business psychology, management and leadership, team development and technology. Information about key staff is provided below:
Dr Robert Allen
PhD, MBA, MEng, MSc (Psych), Certificate in Performance Coaching, Member of the British Psychological Society, PRINCE2 and MSP certified
Robert is an organisational psychologist and managing director of the business. He has over 15 years experience in education, training, development and research, primarily in the fields of innovation and change programmes and with wide experience of technology. He has worked with organisations from Stockholm to Sri Lanka and been responsible for managing areas including entrepreneurship, innovation, public and cultural engagement and research impact.
Mike Cockburn
Post Grad Diploma in Coaching for Organisational Excellence, British Psychological Soc. Level B, Member of European Mentoring and Coaching Council, NLP Practitioner.
Mike is a leadership coach with over 20 years experience in leadership and organisational development. He has worked with senior managers and management teams in a wide range of sectors helping them to tackle performance improvement, culture change, organisational development, behavioural change and career development challenges.
David Hartland
Former CIO and Director. Educational IT Trainer, Digital Consultant and Project Manager, PRINCE2 and MSP.
Dave leads our digital team as an experienced consultant with over 20 years experience in IT, education and training. He was formerly CIO of Jisc Advance and Director of Jisc Netskills based at Newcastle University. There he built a team of 16 staff providing a high quality training and consultancy service primarily to the HE/FE sectors, with a turnover of £1.2 million.
He has successfully managed a wide range of projects, with budgets from £2000 to £200,000, in topics including e-learning, online assessment, eportfolios, multimedia content development, information services and website management.