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

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

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.

Cathy Korn

Cathy is a highly experienced professional with over 20 years experience of designing and delivering management, leadership and organisational development interventions. She works from a psychological perspective, believing that insight into and exploration of underlying beliefs and values are key in establishing lasting change.

Cathy has worked with leaders and HR professionals to support them in delivering culture change and other OD initiatives within a university/health education environment, within the pharmaceutical industry, and through programmes such as Leading the Vision for senior civil servants up to Board level. Cathy’s involvement has ranged from large scale interventions to individual coaching. She has delivered these and other initiatives in the private and public sectors, including several government departments and agencies, local authorities, science research institutes and universities. She is an accredited mediator and specialises in working in conflict situations that frequently accompany organisational change. In her spare time Cathy loves scuba diving and following cricket and lives in Monmouth in South Wales.