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Charlie has led the charity through its formative two years as Chief Operating Officer before taking up the role of Chief Executive in 2018.  She has leadership experience as an executive board member and trustee within the third sector and through a variety of positions within the NHS in clinical services, clinical education, culture change programmes and leadership development.

Charlie is passionate about improving the quality of care for patients and the experience of staff working within healthcare.  She believes that developing greater awareness of, and placing more importance on, the quality of human interactions, relationships and leadership is the foundation of doing so.  She has designed and delivered a wide range of senior leadership development programmes for leaders in health and social care in the UK and internationally.

Charlie is a Trustee of the Point of Care Foundation, a charity dedicated to humanising healthcare.  She is also a Visiting Lecturer in Healthcare Leadership at City University.

Charlie started her career as an apprentice luthier (guitar repairer), gradually working her way up to running the largest independent guitar repairs workshop in Europe and working for musicians and bands from all over the world.

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Mark Edwards is a Chief of Service, Consultant Vascular and Trauma Surgeon based at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust. He oversees a service improvement portfolio that includes the implementation and study of novel methods of integrating Serious Incident data in order to identify patterns and trends.

Mark graduated in Medicine from the University of London in 2003 and has worked within the NHS since. His practice as a Vascular and Trauma surgeon includes work in two specialist, tertiary care centres as well as several networked secondary care hospitals where his work interfaces with primary care.

During his training Mark undertook a two-year Safety and Leadership Fellowship linked to the work of the Staff College that saw the commencement of his work looking at the analysis of integrated Serious Incident data. This applied academic work, based upon complexity theory, has since been adopted by a number of healthcare bodies where it is being used to inform quality improvement processes.

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Ian Huntley was commissioned into the Royal Marines on a university cadetship. His operational experience, mainly with 3 Commando Brigade, included tours in Northern Ireland, Northern Iraq and Afghanistan, where he was the Deputy Task Force Commander. He has held a number of command and staff appointments dealing with Counter Terrorism, Nuclear Security, and Targeting. He has also worked on policy and strategy in the Ministry of Defence and the Cabinet Office. For the last four years of his service, Ian was head of the MOD’s leadership centre, which was set up to improve the capacity of senior military officers and civil servants for strategic leadership.

Ian left the Royal Marines in 2016 and now works as an independent leadership, defence and security consultant, and an executive coach. He primarily helps to develop the leadership skills of individuals and organisations, and is currently working with the NHS, police, MOD and industry. He is a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute, a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management and an Honorary Fellow of Harris Manchester College, Oxford. He enjoys most legal outdoor activities, as long as it’s not raining.

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Jane is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist who thrives working in the in-between. She has led service and system change both within and between organisations in NHS England and NHS Wales.

She graduated from the University of Wales in 2005 working for the NHS across North Wales and North London before returning to Cardiff. She is a Northerner.

Jane’s clinical work is underpinned by psychoanalytic and systemic thinking with a specific training in psychodynamic psychotherapy, and these theoretical bases inform her work with individuals and groups.

With a firm belief that staff wellbeing is at the heart of NHS improvement and that positive and thoughtful leadership is a vital aspect of this Jane remains committed to the mission of the Staff College – developing better leaders for healthcare.

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David Lilley served in the Royal Navy for 29 years; a career which included command at sea, in the air and on land-based operations in Iraq. Subsequent roles included Aviation Policy and Strategic Planning in the Ministry of Defence and leading major Tri-Service Change Programmes. His broader experience also includes: Officer selection; Junior Officer leadership training and, as a Staff College Faculty Member, teaching at the Defence Academy. He was appointed a Gentleman Usher to HM The Queen in 2017.

Since 2011 he has worked as an Executive Coach and Leadership Consultant, working across a wide spectrum of Public and Commercial organisations. His clients have included Central and Local Government Departments, Start-up and Third-Sector Companies. NHS experience includes working with NHS Commissioning Groups, Foundation Trusts, Public Health England and NHS England and NHS Improvement and a GP Community Interest Company. He is a visiting lecturer in Medical Leadership at City, University of London and in Defence Leadership at the Civil Service College, also based in London. He is a Member of the Association of Project Management (MAPM) and a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (FCMI).

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Anna is a Chartered Organisational Psychologist, working as an executive coach and facilitator, specialising in leadership development for individuals and teams. After attaining her MSc in Organisational Psychology from UMIST, where she focussed on behavioural change, she worked for various leadership development & coaching consultancies, including Roffey Park, OPP Ltd and PBCoaching. Anna has worked with a wide variety of private, public and voluntary sector organisations and spends much of her time working with directors, chief executives and their leadership teams. Anna has spent many years managing and delivering organisational development programmes to improve organisational capability, culture and leadership performance. In addition to this she has spent a number of years training others to become business and executive coaches and enabling organisations to adopt a coaching culture.

Her interests lie in developing leaders and teams to allow them to reach their true potential, through increased awareness of themselves, others, their relationships and the complex systems within which they work. Anna has a particular passion for helping leaders navigate the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous nature of the organisations they work within.
Inherently curious about what makes people tick and why we behave in the way we do, as a business psychologist, Anna brings both psychological & business appreciation to her work. Her experience of working with leaders and teams has highlighted the importance of aligning individual & team development to the needs of the organisation to ensure return on investment and improved performance.

“Anna provides support, challenge, structure, follow-up, care, development, self-awareness and toolkits for improvement! I have absolutely no doubt that I would not have developed in the last 10 years in the way that I have without her coaching me.” Global People Director, High Street Retailer.

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Yogi is a Consultant Neuroanaesthetist and Neurointensivist, and Queen Square, and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Neurology, UCL. He is also the Senior Organisational Development Lead for Leadership and Engagement at UCLH. He is a member of the core programme design team and facilitator for the Staff College, since its inception.  

He has over 15 years of executive coaching for individuals and at board level, with a tract record of working with individuals, and teams in areas of complexity, uncertainty and culture change, as he understands that for change management to be sustainable, one needs to address the culture.

Yogi has had experience with high fidelity platform simulation, with an interest in behaviours and human factors for over 20 years.

Yogi completed his pre-clinical degree at St Andrews University, and clinical degree at Manchester University. During his post graduate training he has been associated Stanford university, California, USA, Imperial College London and University College, London. Yogi has over 25 years of presenting and facilitating at national and International Conferences.

His previous roles include Head of Department at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, and School Governor.

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Rachel has worked as a surgeon in the NHS for over 15 years, her focus being Colorectal and Emergency Surgery.  She is a dedicated and patient-centred doctor with a partnership approach to her patient relationships.  She has worked in London and the south-east, the Caribbean and Central America.

Over her career Rachel’s role has included implementation of new patient pathways, improving patient experience and care. In her academic work she trains medical students and she was an Honorary Lecturer at Brighton and Sussex Medical School where she received commendations as a trainer and examiner.

Rachel has a MSc in Public Health and is passionate about the impact of organisation culture and communication skills on patient experience, patient engagement and staff wellbeing.

Rachel is a Staff Wellbeing Champion and has worked in Personal Development coaching over the past 5 years.  She believes that with greater awareness of our thoughts, feelings and behaviours, we can engage more effectively with our life choices and build a personal and professional life in which we feel more authentic, fulfilled and purposeful.  She is committed to helping build a healthy culture at the heart of the NHS.

Her approach draws on a number of influences including creativity, traditional and modern spiritual philosophy, feminine leadership and cycle aware working.

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Starting life as a physicist––scepticism and the scientific method underpins his approach to life––Kevin then served in the Royal Navy for a third of a century. His experiences were varied and challenging, yet always stimulating. He has extensive experience in many aspects of maritime aviation, gained while operating helicopters from warships in many of the world’s seas and oceans and whilst instructing in the UK and Portugal. Throughout, he has led and managed teams from four to many hundreds.

Alongside his aviation experiences, Kevin trained, educated and developed many leaders. He positively influenced their way of thinking and improved their decision-making. By developing their questioning and evidence-based analysis, he enabled them to better understand the importance of context, whilst developing their self-awareness and emotional intelligence. He concluded his Naval career as the UK Defence Attaché to Brazil, a culturally rich and tremendously diverse setting. Underpinned by highly effective bi-lingual communication, he developed multi-level enduring personal relationships, vital in international diplomacy.

Kevin now engages in many areas. He is a maritime situational awareness expert focused on high seas governance and environmental & ecosystem protection, enabled by maximising the potential opportunities from open, clearly-focused stakeholder engagement. His Staff College role saw him continuing his active role in public sector senior leadership development and in other work of this nature he also delivers bi-lingual leadership development focused on building teams and improving critical decision-making within high reliability organisations. He volunteers in his local Somerset community as a Parish Councillor, local charity trustee, and contributes to local heritage protection projects; Kevin enjoys the outdoor life on his doorstep and often hikes further afield – nature is a vital source of energy and wellbeing for him.

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Casey is a Coach, Mediator and Army Officer. She supports leaders and teams improve their confidence, tune into their intuition and unlock their potential. Her expertise in applied positive psychology and coaching psychology is combined with her decade of military leadership experience.

Casey commissioned as an Officer and immediately commanded troops in the UK, Canada and Kenya. Her career highlight was leading the Army basic training course and transforming civilians into confident soldiers in just 14 weeks.

She has facilitated hundreds of people in culture change and diversity & inclusion matters. She advised the Royal Marines on training women ahead of the historical opening, that now sees females serving in the organisation.

She advocates that she benefitted hugely from her own coaching journey and continues to learn and develop every day, striving to live by the mantra that failure and change is not something to avoid or be ashamed of but provides the best opportunity for learning, growth and fulfilment.

As part of her Post Graduate Diploma in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology she was awarded a distinction in Coaching Psychology and in Wellbeing for Leaders. She is also qualified as an NLP practitioner. Casey is fully insured and accredited with the EMCC.

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Chris Gibson brings over 34 years military experience to Staff College. He has held leadership roles throughout his career which have seen him serve on specialist military operations all over the world. Having gained a post graduate award in Medical Simulation Management from Harvard University, Chris was appointed as The Chief Instructor of The Army Medical Services Training Centre, the world’s largest medical simulation centre. Whilst there he co-developed a training and assurance methodology for hospital care which has been adopted by American, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand militaries as international best practice.

Of recent Chris was given the task of leading on the development and delivery of a training model for military and NHS volunteers to combat the Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa. This was an irrefutable success which saw over 1200 personnel deploy appropriately trained and equipped for the rigor of delivering care in a West African jungle, for which he was awarded the MBE.

A known innovator, Chris was recently awarded with The Health Service Journal Special Recognition Award, the first occasion this has been issued for his development of innovative solutions to healthcare this was latterly followed by Ideas UK as International Innovator of the Year 2017-18. Of late Chris has been the government lead on assisting London Ambulance Service NHS Trust out of Special Measures. He remains much sought after as a key note speaker on leadership and innovation by leading academic institutes.

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Tim Hodgson, Consultant in Oral Medicine/Honorary Associate Professor was appointed Medical Director Specialist Hospitals Board, UCLH NHS Trust in November 2019. He had previously been Clinical Director at the Eastman Dental Hospital since January 2014 and had supported the move of the Eastman and RNENT hospitals from their Gray’s Inn Road sites to the main trust campus at Warren Street. He has innovated several workshops for staff development. He sits on the UCLH Board as Executive medical Director. He has lead sections of the MJDF exam for the Royal College of Surgeons and ORE for the GDC. He advocates self-awareness resilience and change training for health care professionals.

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Jamie Martin retired from the Army in 2015 after 33 years of service. His career included command of an armoured reconnaissance regiment and operational tours in Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Kosovo and Iraq as well as tours in command of an international training and advisory team in Sierra Leone, monitoring a peace treaty in Mozambique and working in various headquarters and departments of the Army and the Ministry of Defence, where he specialised in policy, strategy, planning and in media and strategic communications.

Since leaving the Army, Jamie has developed a second career as an independent training, leadership and security consultant. Much of his work involves delivering Disaster Management training both in the UK and abroad (Oman, Sierra Leone and the Caribbean) primarily to individuals in the emergency services, military and Government Departments including a Ministry of Health. Jamie has used his extensive experience of command and leadership in the Army and built on his military training experience, which includes his time as a faculty member at the UK Defence Academy where he taught the Defence Studies and Leadership MA course, to develop his expertise and interest in the training and development of individuals at every level across a wide range of backgrounds, cultures and experience.

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Ash is a Consultant Interventional Radiologist, working within the NHS for over 16 years. He was appointed to Barnet Hospital, led the interventional radiology department and developed several new clinical services, allowing patients access to treatments previously unavailable. Ash’s leadership career progressed following organisational merger with the Royal Free Hospital where he became Clinical Director of the largest imaging directorate within North Central London (NCL). He led the service though covid recovery to become and is the NCL Imaging Network Clinical lead. Ash is also a Medical Director within the Royal Free Hospital group responsible for Chase Farm Hospital, Imaging, Pathology and Pharmacy. He has experienced and led transformation projects at both trust and ICS level and is focused on cultural change, staff wellbeing, and investing in medical leaders to enable best patient outcomes and experience.

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Anil worked as a General Practice Partner for 31 years. He was Primary Care lead at Leicester Medical School and left that role in 2018. He is an Associate Dean in the West Midlands working for NHS England and is the Royal College of General Practitioners Medical Director of Curriculum. He is married with two daughters and keen on all sports using running and cycling as an opportunity to think, reflect and problem solve.

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Valerie has a background in clinical dietetics largely spent in oncology, she has extensive leadership experience in the NHS through various strategic roles. Her passion extends to nurturing a culture of continuous improvement through cultural change programmes, to enhance the experience of people delivering and receiving care.

Valerie has a special interest in quality improvement, patient safety and leadership for operational managers working in healthcare. Throughout her career she has managed complex mergers and pathways of care, to leading the development of innovative services, often delivered in economically challenged environments.

At Barts Health she has held several operational and strategic leadership roles and is currently responsible for leading the development and delivery of strategic priorities of the NHS People Plan for retention. Valerie is committed to encouraging inclusive behaviours in the NHS and strongly believes that health and wellbeing is underpinned by enabling staff to experience joy at work.

She has an MSc in Health Sciences, is lean and six sigma trained, experienced coach and mentor. During her time at the Modernisation Agency in Leicester, and NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, she trained clinical teams in the tools and techniques of quality improvement.

Valerie was awarded the Elizabeth Washington Student Bursary from the British Dietetic Association, the Bernard Asher Bursary in 1994 at St George’s Hospital, and Trust Board Individual Award for Service Improvement and Innovation in 2008 at Queen Mary’s Hospital.

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Gill Wilkinson has served in the Army for 29 years, initially as a Regular Officer and now as a Reservist. She has led soldiers on operations in Northern Ireland and The Balkans and worked across a range of specialist logistic, human resources and training roles, including as an assessor of leadership potential at the Army Officer Selection Board. She was the Deputy Commander of The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst from 2018-2020 and is currently the Deputy Military Secretary Reserves, with responsibility for career development policy and talent management of the Army’s Reserve component.

Since 2012 Gill has delivered leadership assessment and development programmes to senior leaders across a range of sectors including Health, Higher Education and Professional Sport and also works as an executive coach. She has a post graduate qualification in Education from the University of Edinburgh. A successful sportswoman in her earlier years, she captained her university hockey team and, through quirk of being in the right place at the right time, represented the Army in Bobsleigh, placing second in the British Bobsleigh Championships back in 1997. She enjoys most outdoor activities and is too easily persuaded to sign up for events which need much more commitment to putting the training miles in than they used to!