We believe - and our research and experience back this up - that only Good Work organisations, where everyone is working towards the same business goals and ambitions, can unlock the vast reserves of discretionary effort that employees hold. Good Work leadership is crucial in achieving this and delivering sustainable high performance
Lynne Thomas
Lynne joined The Work Foundation in 2006 and was appointed Director of Practice in 2007.
Lynne specialises in executing strategy, improving organisational performance and rescuing failed initiatives. She has more than twenty years business consulting experience in the UK, USA and Asia-Pacific. Lynne has consulted to the executive and boards of major players in the private, public and third sectors.
Lynne's areas of expertise include; organisation, role and job design (she previously held the position of Global Competency Leader for Organisational Design for a leading consultancy firm), enterprise-wide change programme design and management, strategy testing for organisational capability, leadership cohesion and clarity and risk management.
Richard Sharpe
Richard is a leadership and organisational behaviour consultant with in-house and consultancy experience in the UK and Europe. Before joining The Work Foundation, Richard ran his own consultancy business which focused on leadership and behavioural change as part of strategic change programmes. He has also worked extensively in the area of executive team development.
Richard has many years experience managing strategic change programs with an international management consultancy group, serving a number of large public and private sector clients.
Peter Carroll
Peter is a human resources and organisation development consultant with significant experience in Europe and North America. Before joining The Work Foundation, Peter ran his own consultancy business, based in the UK, delivering change management, organisational development and strategic projects for a diverse range of clients. He is currently working on a range of private and public sector projects examining urban regeneration, multi-agency collaboration, public value and organisational change.
Marianne Huggett
Marianne has an HR background with particular experience in recruitment and expatriate personnel administration and policy development. Her experience has been in both the public and private sector on a wide variety of projects including: supporting management teams through change programmes, implementing behavioural change, designing performance and talent management processes and 360 degree feedback programmes, flexible working programmes and workforce planning.
Graham Johnson
Graham has over twenty-five years hands on experience in business, performance and people development roles. Working with managers at all levels, Graham specialises in improving their leadership understanding, skills, performance and effectiveness in order to deliver inspirational results.
Graham’s experience includes taking a lead role in a number of high profile assignments for blue chip organisations. Graham has the distinction of being one of the founder Affiliates of The Centre for Leadership Studies based at Exeter University.
Ian Lawson
Ian Lawson is Business Development Director of The Campaign for Leadership at The Work Foundation.
He has written four books on leadership and aspects of people management and is on the editorial board of the journal of public sector leadership and is a board member of the British Army Leadership Training School.
Nick Jerome
Nick specialises in designing and delivering leadership development programmes and coaching. He is passionate about learning and has a strong belief in the unlimited potential of people to grow and develop as leaders, in whatever sphere they work. Nick is accredited to deliver the Emotional Competency Inventory and the Leadership Styles and Climate diagnostic tool.
John Kirkham
John Kirkham firmly believes that all people have a valuable contribution to make to the world of work, and that it is the challenge of management to harness that collective experience for the benefit of all the stakeholders in an organisation. John has had management experience in production, sales HR, and Board level, and has held national office with the employers federation for the printing industry.
John is an experienced coach, facilitator and negotiator.
Patricia Pegg-Jones
Pat specialises in Implementation Strategies for organisations going through planned or involuntary changes. Her background in Large Group Interventions influences an approach that includes informing, educating, preparing and involving staff as early as possible in planning and implementing changes. Pat has published in the field of applied behavioural science on the application of counselling skills in an innovative primary health care practice, on live supervision and coaching.
Helen Morling
Helen has a background in HR focused research and consultancy. Her experience has been in both the public and private sector on a wide variety of projects including employee opinion surveys, recruitment and retention, implications of change, and a wide range of research studies including bullying and harassment, changing the skills mix, and the future of the HR function.
Jane Sullivan
Jane is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist with a background in consultancy, people management and workplace design and safety.
Her experience has been in both the public and private sector on a wide variety of projects including employee opinion surveys, culture change, team and leadership development, communication, reviews of workplace design and the impact of technology on ways of working and organisational culture, studies into bullying and harassment, performance management, and the development of positive working environments.
Julia Woodford
Julia Woodford has been a consultant at The Work Foundation for over 9 years and has the strong project management, analytical, facilitation and implementation skills needed to ensure successful organisational development. In addition to conducting business research, Julia has led a number of consultancy projects in the areas of employee engagement, leadership, top team structures, internal communication and health and safety. She is accustomed to working in partnership with organisations - using diagnostic techniques as strategic planning tools. She is also a Corporate Social Responsibility specialist, able to conduct and report on stakeholder dialogue at all levels.
Peter Wall
Peter gained more than twenty years experience in the motor industry, initially from a marketing perspective and then subsequently in strategic planning, product development, training and then finally leadership and organisation development.
His last role was as the leader of the training and development function within Jaguar and Land Rover; he is also an experienced coach and provides specialist team and individual coaching support at senior management and Board level.
Richard Murray
Richard recently joined The Work Foundation from BT where he worked as a leadership development consultant on a major cultural transformation project. Richard had responsibility for BT’s online learning portal and the 360 degree feedback programme, which he expanded for use across the entire leadership population. Richard undertook a major piece of research into the capability of BT’s leaders, and was a core member of the project team that developed its leadership capability framework.
Jennifer Parkin
Jennifer began her HR career with the NHS where she helped to set up the HR function of a shared financial services centre and was responsible for a range of transactional HR for approx 200 staff. After completing the People Management & Development component of the CIPD Professional Development Scheme she became interested in organisational development. She consequently took an opportunity to join a project team at the University of Bristol where she contributed to the development and implementation of a new pay & grading structure, her focus being around staff communications.