Emma Falkner: Director

Emma has 22 years of experience in teaching and training. She is an expert in group facilitation, team building skills, coaching and action learning. She has delivered courses extensively to organisations in the private, public and voluntary sector and coaches individuals from a variety of working backgrounds.

In her feedback over the years Emma is known for

• Getting to the heart of a problem
• Healing relationships in teams
• Fair and focused facilitation
• Generating confidence in leaders
• Making team building fun, effective and action orientated
• Inspiring people to make a positive difference to their working lives
• Being enthusiastic, effective, focused, challenging and professional

Emma’s qualifications include a MSc in social policy, a postgraduate diploma in education, (PGCE) a Diploma in stress management, and she is a Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

Dr Kathryn Walters: Coach & Internal Moderator

Kathryn is a consultant clinical psychologist and joint head of psychology for an NHS Health Board in Wales. A graduate of Oxford University, she has many years of experience both of clinical work in the field of adult mental health as well as health service management, consultation and supervision. Her practice has also encompassed a focus on health psychology, where she has intervened in high stress environments to maximise efficiency and encourage harmonious working.

She is comfortable with a range of therapeutic environments, including group facilitation, family therapy, individual therapy and 1:1 coaching. Outside of work, she is passionate about her family, running, and cooking, usually in that order.

Dr Alison Hughes: Action Learning Facilitator

Alison's background is in nursing: she currently work as a researcher in the school of nursing at Cardiff University and as a facilitator in primary care – supporting the personal and professional development of nurses. After working for many years as a District Nurse and wanting a change of direction she went to university as a mature student studying philosophy, women’s studies and social policy at under-graduate and post graduate level. Alison recently completed a PhD. Her academic and professional interests lie in feminism, gender and nursing and in personal and professional development. Alison has co-facilitated a number of leadership programmes in the NHS and currently facilitates an action learning set for PhD students at Cardiff University.

Martyn Daniels: Coach

Since leaving South Wales Fire Service in 1999, Martyn has studied a number of therapeutic techniques and psychosocial interventions. These include a Certificate and Diploma in counselling (CBT), a Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy (D.Hyp), a Practitioners certificate in Neuro–Linguistic programming (NLP) and a Certificate in Eyes Movement Desensitization (EMDR). Most recently he has completed an ILM accredited course in non-directive Life Coaching. Since 2004 Martyn has been working within the substance misuse field. For three years he has worked at a senior level in Drug Aid where he manages a team of case workers, who co-ordinates the care for substance misusers receiving substitute prescribing for drug dependency. He also practices privately and works to facilitate change for private clients. In his spare time he enjoys going to the gym and spending time with his family. He is currently governed by the General Hypnotherapy Standards Council (GHsc) in conjunction with the General Hypnotherapy Register (GHR) and is a registered member of the NHS Directory of complimentary and alternative practitioners website.

Bernadette Callanan: Action Learning Facilitator

Berni is a training consultant and has worked extensively on design, delivery and follow up coaching of several leadership and management programmes. For 12 years, Berni has worked with blue chip companies both as an internal and an external consultant, as participants develop personal impact and remove their barriers to business effectiveness. Berni’s career started in sales, and then onto sales and management training within Yell for 5 years. Employed for 2 years in a management and leadership consultancy, and freelance for 5 years, Berni’s commitment to experiential learning is focussed on behavioural skills development for teams, current and aspiring managers and graduates. Berni is qualified in Learning & Development, MBTI® Step 1 and Action Learning Facilitation.

Laurence Brackpool: Internal Verifier and Action Learning Facilitator

Laurence is an accredited Action Learning Facilitator and an experienced Senior Manager in the public sector. He has developed, and managed a wide range of multi agency projects, as well as having facilitated an array of service and strategic developments and forums. Laurence has experience of working directly with children, young people and parents in the public and voluntary sectors. He is a natural facilitator and has been facilitating groups and workshops for eight years.

Through feedback Laurence is known for

• Effective transformational leadership and drive
• Innovative approaches to situations
• Supportive development of people and teams
• Bringing fun into training and team building
• Having the nickname Dave Gorman for his presentation style

Laurence's Qualifications include BEng Mechanical Engineering and ILM level 5 in Management.

Julie Britton: Coach

Julie is an inspiring Behaviour and Performance coach. She has been practising for over ten years and is ILM accredited (Institute of Leadership and Management). Julie combines her expertise of excellent listening skills with cognitive behaviour techniques and core values methodology. She thrives to empower individuals to let go of the past and limiting beliefs to new ways that inspire them.

Mary Chapman: Coach

Mary is an ILM qualified coach, having completed both Stage 1 and Stage 2 in Coaching Training. Her background is in the Education Sector. She began her career as a teacher and taught in London, Kenya, the Bahamas and Wales. For the past twelve years she has also been Co-Director of a highly successful teacher training company delivering courses across the UK and abroad.

Mary coaches professionals from a wide range of sectors, including teachers, lawyers, physiotherapists and other NHS professionals, managers and women returning to work.

Mary has empowered individuals to make crucial decisions in their work or home life, to achieve a more satisfying work/life balance, to overcome negative and self-limiting beliefs and to identify and work towards short and long term goals. She gains huge satisfaction from seeing people rediscover their 'joie de vivre' and recognise their full potential.