'She is all about integrity and trust and honesty'
Emily Hutchinson
Emily is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, a Chartered Coaching Psychologist, an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and a registered Practitioner Psychologist. In 2004, she was featured as one of Britain’s 10 leading Occupational Psychologists by the Independent on Sunday.
Emily is known for her warmth and positivity as well as her practical approach and results focus. She is a highly experienced consultant, and also stays connected to her profession through guest lecturing and mentoring psychology students. In January 2024 she began a part-time PhD on gender diversity in STEMM leadership with the University of Exeter. Her first book (with Caroline) was published in 2021.
'Passionate and inspirational leads - Emily and Caroline - your energy is contagious'
Caroline Brown
Caroline Brown is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer who since 1997 has evolved from an engineer, to a project manager and business head. Being a natural connector and driven to action she is now a leader of transformational culture change and is a qualified business coach and certified Time to Think facilitator, as well as a Mental Health First Aider. She has successfully implemented new approaches to engaging employees, and more recently to improving wellbeing.
Caroline is also an independent non-executive director for HorseHeard (a registered charity working with horses to promote positive emotional health and resilience outcomes for children, young people and adults in need).
Cass Smith
Cass is an experienced Operations Support professional, entrepreneur, digital marketeer and all-round brilliant person. She has worked for many businesses over the years helping them to run more smoothly (alongside this she also completed a part-time degree in English Literature and raised her two sons). Earlier in her career, she spent five years starting, growing, and eventually selling her own successful business.
Cass is known for her ability to form easy and strong relationships and has a constant curiosity and compassion for other people.
Dr. Chris Begeny
Chris is an Assistant Professor in Social and Organizational Psychology at the University of Exeter, a Specialist Member on the UK Department of Health and Social Care’s Gender Pay Gap Implementation Panel, the Academic Lead for the Working Party on Sexual Misconduct in Surgery, and a Research Affiliate at the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership, Australian National University. He has a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Chris examines several topics related to diversity, bias, and the development of healthy, equitable work environments. As a research collaborator and as a consultant, he works with organizations to identify the most prominent barriers and promising pathways to greater workplace equity
'Susie truly knows and lives the theory, and can answer questions with a great deal of understanding. She has a great ability to connect at a really deep level'
Dr. Susie Phillips-Baker
Following several years working in the advertising industry in Dublin, Susie followed her passion for understanding behaviour and its impact in the workplace by training as an Occupational Psychologist. As a psychologist with the College of Policing, Susie designed and delivered assessment and development programmes for Police officers and staff up to the most senior levels. She also developed and ran a coaching programme for the first membership body for policing. Alongside her coaching and training, Susie supports neurodivergent individuals in the workplace. She holds a PhD in Psychology and is a visiting lecturer with Leeds Beckett University.
Her strengths include compassion, listening, and problem solving.
Susie is a qualified Time to Think® Teacher, Facilitator and Coach.
'Sonali is a breath of fresh air'
Sonali Kumarakulasinghe
Sonali is a Leadership Coach, with 20+ years’ human resources, organisation development and governance experience. She is also a Consultant and Facilitator, a Charity Trustee, and a Mentor. She has an MSc in Organisational Behaviour (Psychology) and she is a Chartered Member of the CIPD.
Sonali is passionate about supporting leaders to have better conversations so that results are delivered with courage, empathy and trust. She is an accredited Strengths Practitioner, and strengths-based approaches are a core part of her coaching and facilitation practice (along with Solutions Focused and Emotional Culture approaches). Sonali supports leaders and teams to co-create culture change, develop leadership capabilities, and enable employee engagement and voice.
'Jo is a true pioneer and thought leader in the field of emotional intelligence'
Dr. Jo Maddocks
Jo is a Chartered Psychologist (and holds a Professional Doctorate in Psychology) with over 30 years’ experience in organisational consulting. For five years Jo was Chief Psychologist for developmental products at Talogy. Prior to this he was co-founder of JCA occupational psychologists that he grew into a thriving business with over 40 employees.
Jo began his career with the Employment Services rehabilitation team before working as a careers-advisor and trainer. He has authored several widely used psychometric products (including the EIP) and self-development programs that have helped thousands of leaders across the globe develop their emotional intelligence.
'Leyla is a pleasure to work with; she is always upbeat and positive; very customer-focused and good at understanding the requirements of a project'
Leyla Hayes-Wright
Leyla is a Chartered Psychologist with over 15 years’ experience working closely with clients in psychology and occupational psychology.
She specialises in project and client management and coordination, where she combines her love of psychology with her abilities, experience, and enthusiasm for planning and organising. Always described as positive, warm, down to earth and with a “can-do” attitude, she enjoys working collaboratively and helping others to achieve their business goals. She is a member of The British Psychological Society and the Association for Business Psychology and is a Registered Test User in Occupational Testing.
'Tanya was excellent, everything explained well, everyone was listened to and valued… absolutely amazing'
Dr. Tanya Harris
Tanya is a Business Psychologist, trainer and coach who has worked across all sectors for over 25 years supporting organisations, teams and individuals to maximise their talent and enhance their wellbeing.
Having researched stress and depression for her PhD, she specifically studied the role of life events and dysfunctional attitudes in terms of how they can lead to negative or self-defeating thinking patterns and emotions.
She also trained as a counsellor and coach to help and support people to make sense of their thoughts and feelings as a means of improving their emotional and physical wellbeing.
'Rachael inspires trust and openness and I would recommend her wholeheartedly'
Rachael Lewis
Rachael Lewis is a fully chartered and registered psychologist (HCPC) and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS). She is also a founder member of the Association for Business Psychology (ABP).
In October 2019 she was announced the winner in Excellence in Learning & Development by the ABP and in 2016 was shortlisted as a finalist for Excellence in Coaching / Training. In 2017 she was the shortlisted finalist for the BPS Division of Occupational Psychology award for Practitioner of The Year.
Rachael specialises in building strong leaders and leadership teams and is a sought-after Executive Coach. She has held several board level positions and until recently was a Trustee at the End of Life Partnership.