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Sofia Bustamante

How can we use social technologies and tools to support the facilitation of participative processes for integrated personal and organisational transformation?

Sofia Bustamante (Turn Up the Courage)
A highly creative facilitator of relationships and workshops with a Masters in Engineering, she's professionally trained as a coach (Coaches Training Institute), facilitator (with Metanaction) and mediator (Hounslow Mediation Service). She has more than 10 years experience of coaching mediation and facilitation gained in corporate, civil, and public sector, including learning managers. She is a Member of the International Association of Facilitators and the Society for Organisational Learning. She has worked with groups across Europe to explore creative facilitation tools and processes, such as those developed with Jungian analyst Arnold Mindell and organisational developer Peter Senge. Inspiration: Nobel laureate Mohammed Yunnus (with whom she has worked), conflict resolution specialist Scilla Elworthy and 'The Work' of Byron Katie.

Gerard
Davies

How can we use communications to facilitate innovation for measurable sustainability?

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How can we leverage international diversity to build communities that are sustainable financially, socially and environmentally?

Tanveer Mohamed advises corporate and governance teams on equality and diversity and has a particular interest in its benefit for cohesion and innovation, as well as for preventing discrimination. He's worked for a large midlands charity supporting black and minority ethnic groups to stop school exclusions and promote inter-ethnic understanding, with a top FE College embedding diversity in enterprise, and is now helping the Centre for Excellence in Leadership to develop a cutting-edge toolkit for BME managers. Tanveer, who is studying for the Chartered Institute of Management, is a keen national and international networker: an ambassador to the Alliance of Civilisations, a United Nations partner linked to Harvard University's government school, he is also linked into the Diamond Project which aims to work with offenders across Europe.

Paul
Tanner

Paul Tanner (Virtual Tecnologies) Started out as an Electronics Engineer in Command & Control Systems and from there moved into software and thence to consulting. Held management positions in several startups with responsibility for Product Development, Customer Services and IS/IT. This culminated in a high-profile dotcom in the late 90s. Since 2000 he has operated as an independent consultant working at a strategic level with commercial and not-for-profit clients, especially service companies and membership associations. In addition to strategy work he also manages more tactical business improvement projects where IT has a significant role by bringing in colleagues with appropriate specialist skills as necessary. His speciality is being able to work with what clients have and help them move forward in the faster and more cost-effective fashion that becomes possible when we build on what's already in place.

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How can we embed natural and cosmological cycles in learning in order to reconnect people to nature?

John Wadsworth (Kairos Education), who takes his inspiration from the pyschologist Carl Jung, works as an astrologer, coach and mentor with individuals, groups, and communities, facilitating profound enquiry into people's lives and vocations. He also runs a 12-month personal transformation programme uncovering what it is to be human in a more-than human world. He uses a rich variety of self-enquiry processes and creative exercises, to help people access the magical potential for transformation that lies in each of us, introducing the ancient characters buried in our collective psyche. A former ESOL teacher, in 2005, he founded The I Can We Can project, working with 1500 local residents and facilitators to raise money and spark new projects. John is studying permaculture and embarking on a PhD to explore how to incorporate the cycles of nature into education.

How can we embed learning for sustainability to support the development of effective
vocational learning programmes?

Lorraine Waumsley (Exergy) is an educational consultant and change manager. She has delivered and managed education, training and school links programmes for a range of large corporates and charities, including international petrochemical corporations, with specific experience developing company training programmes around school and college work experience. A consultant to the Learning and Skills Network, she specialises in teaching and learning strategies and producing vocational teaching resources and guidance. She is a senior trainer for de Bono Thinking Tools, has chaired Young Enterprise and developed a web-based tool for re-engaging students in learning. Lorraine coaches FE Colleges on developing learning communities and is a trainer for Diploma consortia specialising in Environmental and Land-Based Studies.

Jon Boys (Prime Source) prepares people to walk on fire.

Tracy Butterworth

Tracy Butterworth (Handstand) Fully qualified with the Chartered Institute of Professional Development since 1995, she was a practising HR consultant since 1989 and is currently completing a BA in Psychology with the Open University. She is also an experienced performance coach working with underperforming 14/15 year olds studying in City Academies, and a passionate believer in helping organisations achieve their goals as a result of the skill, engagement and energy of their people. A competent facilitator and shaper of learning interventions from an individual, team and organisational perspective, she is experienced in engaging and reconciling the needs of diverse stakeholders to create well-being programmes which create vibrant workplaces, improve performance and build sustainable stakeholder relationships. With a commercial focus, Tracy works to improve integration and collective harmony by helping individuals realise their own potential.

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Denise Coppard

Denise Coppard A highly innovative former headteacher and Connexions director, now a consultant on School Improvement and Transformation within the Building Schools for the Future agenda. An innovative and highly competent leader with proven results in challenging circumstances. She is also an Edward de Bono and trainer in continuing professional development.

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David Davies

David Davies (Andati Associates) is a leading thinker, author and business risk practitioner who has adapted and extended traditional Risk Management processes to embrace the realities of business risk. In doing so, he has met and overcome such challenges as the practical risk management of intangible assets such as reputation, brands and corporate culture. He has also solved some of the corporate Risk Manager's biggest nightmares, such as embedding risk management into the core management functions, cutting across silos and achieving universal buy-in. His current interest is in exploring the tremendous synergies between, for example, identifying, modelling and assessing the threat to the business caused by poor customer service, the personal transformation needed to change that culture, and the measurement, reporting and corrective action required to wrap around such a programme.

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Hermann Djoumessi

Hermann Djoumessi (Screenmasters) An award-wining short-film director and writer, TV/film fund-raiser, facilitator and producer, with a passion for unlocking creative potential in young people. Developer of both educational and cutting edge films geared to developing skills of aspiring film-makers. He holds an MA in audio visual production.

Odilia Gartner

Odilia Gartner (Sea Change Consultancy) is a coach, mediator, trainer and facilitator, working with business, non-profit and government sectors as well as on a one-to-one basis and between violent inner-city gangs. Odilia's interests and work areas include: sustainable business practice, cross-cultural issues and conflict resolution.

Martyn Glasock

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Ian Nicholson

Ian Nicholson (Responsible Solutions). Since the 1990s, Ian has focused on business improvement activities with responsibilities for quality assurance, environmental management and sustainable development within the construction industry. He is a Member of the Chartered Quality Institute (MCQI) and an Associate Member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (AIEMA). He has a BSc (hons) in Water and Environmental Management and an MSc in Responsibility and Business Practice. He is a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers Environment and Sustainability Board and delivers environmental awareness training to civil engineering and building contractors, to quality assessors and verifiers of the Civil Engineering Environmental Quality Assessment and Awards Scheme (CEEQUAL), and is developing environmental management systems for SMEs and corporates. Ian has also been appointed as an advisor on the Envirowise Construction Panel and is currently managing an Envirowise-funded Resource Efficiency Club for construction companies on behalf of the East Midlands Centre for constructing the Built Environment (EMCBE). He also has experience of life-cycle analysis techniques such as Ecological Footprinting, and their utilisation as corporate measurement and performance reporting tools.

Azkar Mohammed

Azkar Mohammed (Pioneers) is a senior mentor with young people from ethnic backgrounds who have been excluded from education. He specializes in innovative interventions, working with their energy rather than their skill or knowledge deficits.

Richard Merrick

Richard Merrick (Eatonbank) works with businesses to help them realise new ventures, or reprofile stagnating ones. With an enthusiasm for helping small and medium sized business innovate and develop, he has worked in China and India as well as UK, mainland Europe and USA. He is currently examining the potential for smaller innovative businesses to harness the environmental and demographic changes taking place to develop profitable and sustainable businesses that support all their financial and social stakeholders. Following an early career in the RAF, he has worked as CEO for both private and listed companies, as well as spending time as a business adviser with the Prince's Trust, a director of the Leadership Trust and is a Fellow of the RSA.

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Nigel Moore

Nigel Moore A facilitator and highly creative presenter of science, engineering and technology for sustainable development. A former SETPOINT manager, he works across primary, secondary and tertiary education and has been delivering our pilot cluster in the midlands.

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Brian Morgan

Brian Morgan (Hum Communications) now writes and develops feature films, following a varied and diverse career in the arts and media in the UK and abroad as performer, organiser, curator, writer, producer, consultant and entrepreneur. While still at school, he co-edited Inside Out magazine in London and Paris and subsequently performed a four-year cycle with David Medalla at The Lincoln Centre NYC and the Hayward gallery London. His consulting assignments have covered books, art events, music, film, and television writing, fund raising and sponsorship. As a music promoter and PR/News Manager, he worked across entertainment (with marginal and established artists including BowWowWow, William S Burroughs and Tom Cruise), government and corporate campaigns. As an entrepreneur, he founded a number o startup ventures, including a culture portal for international business.

Sharon Raphael

Sharon Raphael (Cranmer Associates) A qualified teacher with management expertise, including as a part-time principal at a City Academy. She has extensive experience of special educational needs and inclusion, as well as inter-agency work, delivery of consultation and advisory services and in-service training, a specialist in learning, physical and medical needs and behaviour. Recently she consulted to PFI bidders on Building Schools for the Future projects, transformational education planning and school visions.

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Karen Routledge

Karen Routledge is an educational and funding consultant and trainer with a broad public sector experience in public day-to-day management of individuals, teams and resources, including promotion at national, regional, and local levels. She has diverse management and fund-raising experience across a range of government & local authority policy initiatives including research & development of projects and submission and securing of funding from trusts, government and corporate sponsors. She is an accredited trainer in the Quality Extended School kitemark.

Jenny Wardle

Jenny Wardle (ChangeForum) brings a broad skill set based around 'freedom of spirit', which includes human resources, organisational development, change management, authentic leadership, corporate responsibility and psychotherapy. One of her key skills lies in spotting opportunities, pulling teams together and delivering profound change.

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Robin Whelan

Robin Whelan is an experienced corporate accountant and finance manager, specialising in the insurance, fund management and corporate finance sectors for 17 years. He has an MBA from the Open University Business School, with a particular interest in organisational development, and acts as financial and strategic advisor to several startups.

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Janet Wright

Janet Wright (The Wright Coach) is a chartered engineer and a master practitioner and coach in neuro-linguistic programming. She is also a member of the Chartered Management Institute, the International Coaching Federation and the British Board of Nuerolinguistic Programming and writes a column for the Institute of Engineering and Technology. She has worked for nearly a decade with a north London Education Business Partnership and specialises on conflict management, interviewing skills and work experience for Key Stage 4. Janet is also spearheading a transition project with a private girls' school, exploring successful strategies for change.

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