Executive Mini MBA Accelerator

Experienced Consultant, Coach and Facilitator, who travels extensively throughout Asia supporting Organisations as an Executive Coach, Business Mentor, Facilitator, Subject Matter Expert in Human Skills, Consultant, and Senior Learning and Development professional.​

With a multi-industry background and 40 years’ experience, Alison held Senior Leadership and a Board role at The Institution of Mechanical Engineers, where she led on large-scale leadership programmes at Ericsson Global, Network Rail, Alpine Racing and JCB. She helped develop and launch Graduate and Director Programmes whilst managing 30 Associates, the full non-technical portfolio and target profit levels of 150 courses for Engineers.​ She helped launch DE&I, Mental Health, and Coaching and Mentoring initiatives – all subjects she is passionate about.​
As L&D Group Head at Legal and General, with a laser focus on people and change, Alison led in complex organisational problem solving, and managed service/vendor account management, whilst increasing training impact and surfacing savings of over £620K.​

Alison was a key player in project managing and delivering Leadership Training to PSI Clinical Trials, a 53-country multi-site operation.

She is a 4 x Award-Winning professional, who continues to volunteer mentor STEM post PhD students at Warwick University, on the Innovate UK/ICURe initiative. She presented her first training to 10,000 delegates at Wembley Arena in the UK at age 24 and has been delivering keynotes ever since.

Featured in the mainstream press and on UK and German National TV for her record-breaking results in Human Skills, Alison has over 18,600 coaching and facilitation hours, having trained over 17,000 clients, including Gartner, HCA Hospitals, and Google Campus, on how to better communicate and connect in leadership/self-leadership, difficult conversations, feedback, team effectiveness, negotiation, sales/business development, and stakeholder management.​
Her focus is on ensuring a tangible impact for your organisation and people, by delivering meaningful interventions and learning that sticks, and empowering your leaders and teams to perform at their best.

Fitz’s 45-year career encompasses director and CEO-level experience since the mid-1990s, award-winning research, and strategic leadership and governance roles with agencies tackling some of society’s most complex challenges including sustainability, community development, and youth violence and knife crime.

His outlook combines enduring and related interests in leadership and inclusion, grounded in a belief that they are foundational to each other – creating inclusion requires leadership, and leadership at its best requires an inclusive approach. Fitz’s work incorporates open and bespoke programme design and facilitation, alongside leadership coaching.

Fitz continues to play a significant role at INPD as a key subject lead on inclusion, evolving a philosophy which goes beyond a more commonplace ‘EDI’ narrative.

Starting out as a civil engineer responsible for large infrastructure projects, William became fascinated with the people side of business. Now a qualified business psychologist, and executive coach, he aims to bring a refreshingly practical approach to culture, people and performance. Over the last 10 years, he has worked with leaders and managers in organisations like British Airways, the Met Office, Bombardier, the NHS and multiple local authorities. He also spent time supporting SMEs and start-ups as well as working in the Middle East with one of the world’s largest food producers. As a result, he can relate to a wide range of people and organisational contexts.

Credentials:

• Member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and holds the Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential
• Lecturer with Henley Business School, teaching on its Professional Certificate in Executive Coaching (PCEC) programme
• Holds a Team Coaching Certificate from the Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC)
• Holds a foundation certificate in Nancy Kline’s Time to Think coaching method
• Recently interviewed for the book Coaching with Research in Mind on utilising psychometrics with coaching, as he aims to strike a balance between practical ‘rules of thumb’ and the latest evidence-based research.

Having operated in both the public and private sector through an incredibly successful career, Suzanne has developed a unique skillset for being able to take an outside-in view of an organisation and the eco-system it operates within, to work with leaders to deliver key success.  

Suzanne brings a fresh lens and energy to discussions, exploring alternative strategies to identify pivots that make ‘good’ organisations ‘great’, and increase their success. With the key to success being a strong offering alongside the right people, processes, and technology in place – to maximise that landscape and stay ahead of the curve, she works with leadership teams to ensure these are delivered in a sustainable way through a blend of consultancy with challenge, mentoring, coaching and professional development. With a real passion for helping drive an organisation forward from within, bringing a newfound ‘spirit of adventure’ into the organisation, to ensure a winning and growth culture is fostered for all.  

Pierson has 15 years’ experience as a consultant and facilitator, specialising in leadership, management and coaching. Experienced in the design and delivery of people development, Pierson uses coaching psychology to engage with leaders at all levels, supporting them to; be, have and do more.

Highly experienced in talent development, from managing large graduate programmes to developing directors and senior leaders for global brands at an international level, Pierson adds value by making learning stick, while turning new knowledge into practical skills.

Martin has worked in the marketing industry for 33 years. As both Marketing Director and Managing Director, he has worked with companies and clients at every level to develop implement marketing strategies and create tactical campaigns across companies as diverse as Lloyds TSB, Mercedes, Scania and Harper Collins. 

Over the last 12 years he has worked with companies throughout a wide range of industry sectors, from start-up entrepreneurs, to larger, well established brands. He delivers training, coaching, and consultancy on every element of marketing, and has trained hundreds of companies in how to develop their marketing from top level strategy to day to day skills and tactical implementation. 

He is a combination of strategist, planner, and tactical marketeer with a wealth of real experience working as, and with, marketing directors, owner-drivers, CEOs and teams. 

Christine Silvester is a qualified chartered accountant, (ICAEW) who runs her own accountancy practice in Warwickshire where she specialises in the provision of accounting and tax compliance services to a range of small businesses. She also provides tutoring, support and guidance to business owners in the understanding and requirements of finance.

After qualifying as an accountant with Coopers & Lybrand in Birmingham Christine briefly worked in financial recruitment before moving to work for BT. During 12 years at BT she worked in various senior financial management roles including Head of Business Planning and Forecasting for one of the divisions in the company which required working with operational teams across the business.

Christine has over 37 years working in Finance and has gained a wealth of experience which ranges from working with large teams and budgets in excess of £1bn to supporting start up businesses including building and running her own successful business for almost 20 years. Christine enjoys sharing these experiences through her various tutoring roles.

Tara Askham is a qualified lecturer specialising in finance and a Fellow of the Association of Accounting Technicians. As a Finance Director, Tara co-founded multi-award-winning social enterprise Infused Learning and wrote the first Accountancy Access to Higher Education Diploma in the country. She designs and delivers finance courses to companies around the UK including Volkswagen. She inspects colleges’ accounting provisions on behalf of the Association of Accounting Technicians and works as a consultant subject matter expert for global accountancy awarding bodies writing and moderating exam material. She wrote the global award-winning ACCA-X finance course and is a published author for Osborne Books. Her experience has led to her role with NatWest as a Social and Community Capital credit panel member. (Part of the independent credit panel to analytically review each charitable proposal for funding). Tara is also a guest Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University.  

Janet is a leadership, resilience and business coach. After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young she worked in senior management and finance director roles for recognised retailers such as WH Smiths and Littlewoods. She then followed her passion for developing people by becoming a leadership development trainer, currently specialising in wellbeing and resilience with a wide range of companies including BAE Systems, Pets at Home, Janssen Pharmaceutical, SME’s and Charities. She also delivers a wide range of finance programmes from introductory sessions up to Directors Development, together with individual finance business coaching.

Janet enjoys using her finance, business and personal leadership experience, combined with her coaching and training skills, to enable people and teams develop the skills, behaviours and culture they desire.

Janet works with not-for-profit organisations, currently as a Governor for the Trafford College Group, a Trustee & Treasurer for Home-Start Trafford, Salford & Wigan plus a business mentor with the Manchester Business Growth Hub.

Janet is an accredited practitioner for the Kirros RQi resilience programme plus trained in the Drake P3 behavioural profiling system. She is a member of the Association of Coaching (AOC), the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAEW).

Martin Wright is an Associate Principal Consultant specialising in artificial intelligence, innovation, transformational change and commercial leadership. A former Sales Director with experience delivering programmes across 33 countries, he helps senior leaders translate emerging technologies and complex business concepts into practical strategies that improve productivity, decision-making and competitive advantage. Martin combines extensive commercial experience with academic insight to deliver engaging, practical learning that leaders can apply immediately within their organisations.

Stephanie Corking is an Associate Principal Consultant specialising in leadership, organisational development, change and organisational design. With more than 20 years’ experience, she helps organisations strengthen leadership capability, develop effective people strategies and build scalable structures that support sustainable growth. As an experienced facilitator and executive coach, Stephanie creates psychologically safe environments where senior leaders can challenge their thinking, improve collaboration and prepare their organisations for long-term success.