Founding Partner

Jill is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist with over 10 years experience of working with clients in both the public and private sector.

Jill specialises in designing and delivering bespoke solutions for organisations to support them in their development, selection and organisational change initiatives. She takes a creative but also pragmatic approach to all her assignments and takes the time to fully understand her clients' needs and goals.

Jill also works with individuals coaching them to maximise their performance within their current roles or to ensure they realise their career potential.

Jill's most recent projects have included designing a suite of selection materials for a government department, coaching senior managers in a global management and engineering consultancy and working with high performing individuals within an international savings and wealth management company to support them in achieving their potential.

Jill also enjoys spending time with her family and achieving a work life balance, as well as riding roller coasters, watching ballet, visiting good restaurants and learning new things.

Founding Partner

Originally trained as an actor, over the last ten years Mark has developed a successful career as a filmmaker, writer and theatre practitioner.

Alongside producing his own work in film and television, Mark specialises in working with public and third-sector organisations on original performing arts and media-based projects. These range from designing and delivering one-off workshops to leading long-term nationally-funded programmes. He has delivered projects across the UK, USA and Southern Africa.

Mark is a consultant for the Charity Technologies Trust and is also a member of the advisory board for Operating Theatre Company.

Mark enjoys Saturday morning film club with his 3 year old daughter, power-kiting, coffee, eating out, itunes, holidays, flying and time spent with his family and friends. He wishes he could cook, but he can't.

For information regarding Mark's writing, please contact his agent Laura Rourke at Independent.

Sandy is an independent finance transformation, risk, regulatory compliance and change management consultant with 20 years experience of delivering positive change into global financial services, media and technology organisations.

His recent assignments have focused on implementing and embedding enterprise risk management and regulatory change in the financial services industry, covering Customer Due Diligence, Sanctions, Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing compliance, Basel II Operational Risk compliance and SOX Harmonisation. In addition, Sandy provides independent programme risk assurance to senior management across their Business Change Portfolio.

Prior to this, Sandy initiated and delivered a number of finance and business transformation programmes at Reuters, including strategy / business model review, legal re-structuring, acquisition integration, business process re-engineering (including control review) and performance management.

Chris has trained as a Careers Guidance Practitioner, Researcher, Lecturer, Counsellor and Coach. She has worked in the education, private and voluntary sectors successfully leading on small and large scale projects.

Chris brings a passion for coaching and mentoring as a means of promoting positive change and personal growth. Chris creates individually designed coaching and mentoring programmes, along with individual and team coaching, to strengthen organisational and individual performance.

Leading a large government partnership initiative Chris has also worked with staff in two local authorities, and delivered mentoring programmes in local schools.

Emma is a chartered occupational psychologist with specialist skills in assessment and development. Over the past fifteen years she has worked with a comprehensive range of clients at all organisational levels.

Emma has extensive experience of designing and delivering bespoke assessment solutions. She has worked in a variety of sectors including local government, financial services, hospitality, retail and manufacturing.

Emma works with individuals and teams to facilitate their development. She has expertise in coaching clients through career transition. She has also designed and led successful team building initiatives.

Emma loves spending time with family and friends. Work / life balance is really important and she makes the most of holidays and social gatherings.

Louise is an actress/singer/dancer and has worked professionally over the last twenty years in the West End, television, commercials and regional theatre.

Louise has also worked extensively in teaching, concerts and the corporate sector.

Credits include Mamma Mia, Les Miserables, Blood Brothers, Eastenders, Halifax and calgon adverts and campaigns for Smirnoff to name but a few.

Louise is currently appearing in Blood Brothers in the West End.

Maria is an Occupational Psychologist specialising in coaching, career management, leadership development and selection and assessment.

She is an experienced facilitator and has worked with senior clients from a variety of private and public sector organisations at various functional levels including Marketing, Finance, IT and Engineering.

She has eight years of experience and is recognised for her ability to motivate, engage and challenge clients to achieve their objectives.

Radhika Seth is an Occupational Psychologist with over 10 years experience and has worked across the public, private and voluntary sectors, specialising in Assessment and Selection, Development, Executive Coaching and assessor training. As a preferred consultant for two major Government Directorates, Radhika provides very active and involved support as a Senior Diversity Advisor and Senior Assessor as part of a recruitment and development team.

Radhika has designed, run and assessed in over 500 assessment and development centres with particular use of psychometrics and 360° feedback tools. She has worked with over 120 organisations across the U.K., Europe, Middle East, Asia and Africa.

Radhika holds a B.Sc (HONS) in Psychology, an M.Sc in Occupational and Organisational Psychology, and is Level A and B qualified. She is a member of The British Psychological Society, The Association of Business Psychologists and sits on the Board of The London HR Connection (part of CIPD). She has also been granted the OCPA standard of qualification by the Commissioner for Public Appointments.

In addition to her academic background, Radhika is also trained in using alternative approaches to stress management including 5-point acupuncture. With the use of her Asian languages, she is a voluntary radio presenter for an International radio station based in West London.

Radhika enjoys Japanese cuisine, watching sci-fi and all things theatrical.

Robert Diggins is a resourcing professional with a wealth of experience recruiting for a wide variety of companies in the private and public sector. This includes interviewing and assessment skills, as well as building close relationships with organisations and individual managers to troubleshoot and provide advice on attraction strategy and recruitment need.

Robert delivers a variety of courses for managers on how to recruit effectively and he has a sound understanding of embracing diversity in recruitment and applying best practice within assessment methodologies.

Since training in filmmaking in Leeds and London, Russell is now independently producing, writing and directing music videos and short films.

Russell has worked for Miramax Films, The Weinstein Co and as the directors floor assistant to Oscar winning director Mikael Hafstrom on the feature film '1408'.

Fiona is a professional actress who graduated with an MA from the Central School of Speech and Drama in 2005, where she specialised in performing the plays of Shakespeare.  She also holds a BA in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Warwick, and is a graduate of the Royal Court Theatre’s ‘Young Writers’ Programme’.

Fiona’s experience of role-playing as an actress for the recruitment industry has led to her gaining substantial experience of interviewing, facilitation and assessment on behalf of numerous private companies and public-sector organisations.  She is Level A qualified, and is listed on the British Psychological Society’s Register of Competence in Occupational Testing.

Fiona is particularly interested in the way in which actors’ ‘tools’ can be used to help develop confidence in any individual within the workplace.

In her free time, Fiona enjoys falling off snowboards and crashing motorbikes.

Catherine has over thirteen years experience in the design and delivery of bespoke assessment centres for selection and development purposes.

She has extensive exposure to a number of organisations within both the public and private sector and within this has conducted job analyses, designed competency frameworks, bespoke assessment exercises and delivered high profile assignments on the back of these.

She is fully qualified to administer and interpret psychometric tests and personality questionnaires, providing valuable input to selection and development processes. She has also conducted culture audits and designed employee handbooks for start up organisations. Although based in Belfast, Catherine’ s client base spans Northern Ireland, ROI and the UK.

In her spare time, Catherine is becoming a damp expert due to her house being flooded back in 2007 as well as studying for her degree in Psychology. She also likes to socialise, cook, play cards, practise yoga, swim and run.

Chris Bruce has taught Drama and Media Studies in secondary education for 16 years. He is an AST and teacher-trainer and is currently Head of Media Studies in north London.

He is an A Level Senior Examiner and National Coursework Advisor.

He is also Marketing Director and Education Officer with the Barn Theatre.

An HR Consultant specialising in the areas of competency-based assessment centres, recruitment training courses and outplacement services. As a SHL Associate Consultant, experience spans blue chip and Public Sector organisations through the delivery of management development centres and executive assessments.

Janet is an Occupational Psychologist with over 20 years experience in designing and delivering selection, development and OD solutions. Janet has worked as Head of Talent, Recruitment and Training Manager and as a consultant within the public and private sector.

Janet has worked with Senior Managers, Directors and Executives designing and facilitating bespoke assessment centres, development centres, team building events, strategic away days, change management and creativity workshops, as well as one to one coaching.

Janet enjoys travelling, keep fit and helping out at her children's schools.

Sue has a background in vocational psychology and ran an assessment centre for the unemployed in Hackney for 5 years. She qualified as a psychodynamic counsellor in 1998, and as a professional life coach in 2006. She has worked for ten years in management in the third sector and has a sound background in strategic business planning, recruitment, policy-making and fundraising.

Lou Wallace trained at Goldsmiths' College (London University) before teaching Drama in schools across Hertfordshire.

Lou has extensive experience as both an actor and a director and is particularly interested in Youth and Community Theatre. She has led INSET courses for teachers and has worked with the PGCE Drama Department at Middlesex University. Two years ago Lou began touring schools with Shakespeare workshops as well as undertaking professional directing work in Youth Theatre.

Other projects include working with the RSC, The National Army Museum and Hertfordshire County Council.