Vybrant people

Alan Sears
Alan co-founded Vybrant with Julie Goodwin with a vision of a completely different kind of learning and development consultancy. He has over twenty years experience in the development of management and leadership skills and has run programmes in every continent except Antartica. Alan is a charismatic presenter with the knowledge and practical experience of leading and managing large and small teams in complex and competitive environments.

Building on his work as a consultant Alan is a public speaker, a published author and a personal teacher and coach. He has worked with board members, chief executives and senior partners in a variety of industries and professions providing developmental support and guidance in the achievement of business objectives and personal goals.

Julie Goodwin
Julie co-founded Vybrant with Alan Sears following a remarkable career spanning 25 years experience of development in the Pharmaceutical Industry. Julie was the first female country leader in Bayer’s Healthcare Division when she became General Manager, Healthcare Division, in New Zealand.

Practical, hands-on management experience, a global perspective and a keen nose for what works and what doesn’t in developing management and leadership skills make Julie a highly sought after consultant in a field she has enthusiastically made her own.

Anne Chandler
Anne is passionate about helping individuals and organisations to become the best they can possibly be – and for them to enjoy the journey. An experienced senior Sales Manager and business coach, she is a member of the Industry Editorial Board for Pharmaceutical Field and judges two categories in the National Sales Awards. Anne is qualified to BPS Levels A & B in psychometric assessment and EI diagnostics. She has over 20 years' commercial experience gained in sales, marketing and management including 5 years as a National Sales Manager in pharmaceuticals. Anne brings a brilliant mix of senior sales experience, commercial know-how and structure to help clients simplify complex situations and deliver measureable personal and business improvements.

Anne Fanning
Anne is a hugely experienced consultant with a strong track record of successful assignments at senior levels. Anne has a proven track record of professional service in the UK and internationally, coupled with a great ability to motivate and inspire confidence through her enthusiastic and understanding approach. Anne also has particular expertise in the design, development and delivery of selection and assessment centres, having worked directly with Professor Harry Schroder in the development of his High Performance Management Competencies – still considered by many to be the ‘gold standard’ in the field.

Beth Harvey
Beth specialises in leadership development, personal effectiveness training, and career management. She has worked with Self Directed Learning methodologies in a number of organisations, both in the design phase and as a set facilitator. Beth is also an external moderator for MCIPD certificate level programmes.

With twenty years experience in her field, Beth began her career in retail, later moving into the City in a senior L&D role. Beth’s sector specialisms are financial services, media and telecoms.

Christine Collins
Christine has over 17 years experience as an HR professional and training manager for organisations including J Sainsbury, Etam, Jaeger and Coats Viyella. As a facilitator she has delivered a wealth of management development programmes in leadership and team development as well as effective presentation skills. As a consultant Christine has led the introduction of performance management and coaching and mentoring schemes as well as working with senior management teams to support organisational change programmes. Her clients include major healthcare companies AstraZeneca, Bayer, Shire and GlaxoSmithKline and she has worked with such well known names in other sectors as Anglian Water, BT, Nestle and IKEA.

Clare Maberly
Clare Maberly is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist with over 15 years experience specialising in: the identification and analysis of competencies, values and preferences which drive the people within an organisation; creating tailored development plans to improve personal and corporate performance linked directly to business objectives.

She has a strong track record of delivering innovative and effective solutions across a wide range of industries both in the private and public sectors in the U.K. and internationally. Clients range from large multi-national Pharmaceuticals, Investment Banks and Manufacturing Companies to public sector and small charitable organisations. Clare has worked predominately with middle/senior management on a 1:1 basis and with teams.

Clare Neal
Clare has a wealth of high level experience in industry, management consultancy, and career management. She has spent many years working with senior executives to develop their leadership and management skills, helping to build leadership teams and coaching executives one-to-one. Clare is also a highly skilled facilitator of off-sites, meetings and project reviews. As well as being a sough-after consultant, Clare is a speaker at Nottingham, De Montfort and Lincoln Universities. She is a Member of the Institute of Personnel and Development, the Association of Coaching and is a Qualified Coach Supervisor and a Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

Dennis Doyle
Dennis is a highly motivated professional with almost 20 years management experience working for blue chip Pharmaceutical Companies. His energetic and enthusiastic style serves to inspire and engage people ensuring maximum participation and involvement. His broad spread of experience covers Leadership and Management development, the creation and observation of Assessment Centres, and high level Performance Coaching.

Dennis has a passion for making a difference. He has a clear focus on implementation and follow up which ensures that behavioural change really happens. This passion also shines through in his drive for personal fulfilment - Dennis has completed 7 Marathons raising in excess of £5,000 for various charities.

Derek Jones
Derek has a wealth of experience in business, firstly as a qualified accountant, then as a senior manager in both sales and marketing and general management, and as Managing Director and CEO of several different organisations.

He has hugely varied experience in many industries and has worked across a number of business sectors including engineering, electronics, water research, financial, automotive, and construction – among others! Derek specialises in financial management and strategic thinking. He delivers on MBA programmes for several leading UK Universities and is also on the teaching staff of several Universities and Business Schools.

Des Christofi
Des has a passion for facilitating behavioural change in individuals, teams and organisations to help them achieve goals and fulfil potential. She has been working in the field of people and organisational development for over 10 years to improve leadership capability and to identify, develop and engage talent throughout organisations. Des has particular skills in the delivery & evaluation of organisational development programmes including the development of competency frameworks, the implementation of performance management, and talent management and succession planning programmes.

Gayl Long
Gayl is a seasoned HR professional, a Fellow of the CIPD, with over 15 years commercial corporate experience which she combines effectively with delivery skills to enable leaders and their teams to deliver significant and sustainable change and growth. She has led the human and cultural aspects of major restructuring, acquisitions, divestments and integration projects.

She has the British Psychological Society Certificate of Competence in Occupational Testing Level A&B. She is also an NLP Master Practitioner. Gayl is practical and challenging as well as insightful and supportive. She engages quickly with clients enabling the collaborative creation of ideas and solutions.

Howard Rose
Howard is a dynamic, down-to-earth deliverer who always gets results, whilst maintaining great empathy with his clients. Howard’s diverse background in electronics, telecommunications and manufacturing allows him to appreciate the unique problems and business issues specific to different clients. His scope covers sales training in financial services, customer service training for a national retail store chain and the delivery of management development programmes for a major utility.

Ian Perry
After 13 years as a manager in Engineering, Organisational Development and HR in manufacturing companies, Ian now uses his extensive knowledge to deliver organisational change and development to clients in a variety of sectors. Ian’s expertise enables him to deliver significant results in the areas of leadership competency assessment and development, Senior Leadership development and Management core skills training. HisProfessional Development includes Coaching at Ashridge Management school, and accreditation by Hay Group in the use of the Emotional Competence Inventory (ECI) and the Inventory of Leadership Styles (ILS).

Jane Spree
Jane is a confident, enthusiastic and pragmatic consultant with a proven track record in both the NHS and the Pharmaceutical Industry. Following a career in paediatric nursing, Jane gained extensive experience in sales, management, and training roles in a ‘Big Pharma’ environment. She has worked with both sales and NHS liaison teams in both a managerial and a training context. Jane’s operational experience spans a wide range of projects from introducing a Key Account Management approach to pharmaceutical sales, to leading major change initiatives, and the design and delivery of assessment centres.

Janet George
Janet has over twenty years’ experience of developing people in changing organisations. She has worked in industries as diverse as IT, finance and healthcare, and has held senior positions in HR Management and Development in leading organisations such as IBM and Bayer. Janet is sought after as an Executive Coach and works with senior executives seeking to develop their leadership capability. She is also a skilled facilitator/trainer and has run leadership and management development programmes for a range of clients in the private and public sectors. As well as holding an MSc in Management Development, she is also a qualified coach, and NLP and emotional intelligence practitioner.

Jonathan Cook
Jonathan is an insightful HR Professional with over ten years experience covering the UK, USA, continental Europe and Asia Pacific. Working as an HR strategic business partner, Jonathan has delivered a range of projects covering Learning and Development, Mergers and Acquisitions, Change Management and generalist HR. He has been involved in developing performance management programmes which align with change and at the same time meet commercial imperatives, visions and goals. This includes linking personal development plans with performance based pay to reinforce reward and motivation strategies. Jonathan has brought a high level of empathy to all these projects, enabling him to connect with the ‘human’ side of change.

Karen Ruffle
Karen worked for seven very successful years in the UK Financial Services Industry, where she was a top performer both in sales and as a sales manager for two different blue chip organisations. Her in-depth experience in this sector has been complemented in recent years by working as a consultant with a wide range of managers from global organisations in other sectors, most particularly in Healthcare and IT, in the UK and in the US. Karen is a highly personable conslutant with a very strong drive for results. She combines excellent facilitative skills with a warm personal touch and a solid knowledge of her subject matter to deliver workshops that are engaging and authoritative at the same time.

Katarina Rose
Katarina worked for over nine years in the pharmaceutical industry in sales and management, achieving outstanding success and recognition as ‘Salesperson of the Year’ for her consistently high sales growth. Now with over ten years learning and development experience, Katarina She is seen as an authority in the area of Emotional Intelligence and has developed stimulating Leadership programmes with an emphasis on the practical application of this model with a number of corporations throughout the UK and abroad.

Liz Rogers
Liz is an immensely experienced consultant with over 20 years professional practice in training and people development. Liz spent 8 years working for the Wessex Institute for Health Research and Development where she was involved in developing innovative health promotion interventions and evaluating their effectiveness in terms of changing individual and population health behaviour. Her work attracted great interest nationally and internationally and Liz became an accomplished conference speaker. Liz now works with a wide variety of clients across a range of industries, and has worked in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific, specialising in Leadership and Team Development. Client feedback consistently confirms the relevance and inspirational nature of her delivery.

Lou Walker
Before her consultancy career, Lou was a freelance editor and PR consultant specialising in internal communications. Working primarily on behalf of contract publishing agencies she wrote, edited and coordinated the production of customer magazines, newspapers and employee publications for major blue chip organisations. As a consultant Lou works principally on behavioural diagnostics, and personal and organisational development for clients in the investment banking, construction, pharmaceutical, transport and media sectors.

Lucye Deacon
Lucye is a highly experienced management and leadership development professional who is passionate about enabling people to achieve their true potential. Her recognition and appreciation of individuality and difference has been key to her success both as a facilitator and coach. Lucy has a strong background in Pharmaceuticals including leading an organisational cultural change to move Learning and Development and People Strategy into the heart of business development. Her career has included international work in both the Financial and Service sectors.

Mandy Spooner
Mandy is an experienced senior consultant and facilitator, having worked in the in the field of HR and Learning & Development for over 16 years. Passionate to ensure her solutions deliver clients tangible results, she is business focused and has an enthusiastic, down-to-earth and pragmatic style. Mandy has held senior Human Resource Management roles at both Divisional and Group level working in large blue-chip companies doing work assignments in the UK and abroad, and as Learning Director for a London agency designing and delivering solutions for many well-known companies and their brands across a wide range of business sectors and organizational levels; shop floor to CEO.

Mark de Cosemo
Mark is an innovative Learning and Development Consultant with a proven track record in implementing both large scale and individual training interventions in a Blue Chip environment, leading to measurable increases in productivity. Mark has a particular ability to design bespoke learning and development interventions, particularly in the areas of selling skills, communication, and management and in his specialised areas of disease and product knowledge for the Pharmaceutical industry where he has worked as a Toxicologist, Medical Representative, Regional Sales Manager, Area Sales Manager and Field Training Manager.

Nick Coombe
Since 1995, Nick has been delivering inspirational training to large corporations, financial institutions and SMEs across a range of industry sectors. He has focussed on team leading and leadership skills, working at all levels on the importance of leadership and team development in management teams. He has been involved in a huge range of development programmes for teams and individuals, and took a key role in a groundbreaking piece of research into the impact of Emotional Intelligence on performance run in partnership with Henley Management College and drawing data from the BT Global Challenge Round the World Yacht Race. In addition to his consultancy career, Nick has served as Chief Operating Officer for the UK based charity, Hope and Homes for Children. The charity has a turnover of £4.5M and runs projects in 14 countries in Africa and Eastern Europe.

Nigel Wood
Nigel’s early career was as a project manager within the HR department of London Underground where he helped to deliver IIP accreditation for the business. With more than 14 years experience delivering management and soft skills training, Nigel has delivered courses on topics such as assertiveness, stress, personal effectiveness, influencing and leadership. He is also an Assessor and Internal Verifier for the Chartered Management Institute (CMI). As a qualified Occupational Psychologist, trainer, coach and hypnotherapist, Nigel’s expertise lies in helping people improve their focus, confidence, interpersonal skills and overall levels of satisfaction with their lives and careers.

Pam Crellin
Pam is a very experienced HR Manager who delivers training and workshops on Employee Related topics. In addition, she is a highly competent programme manager with over 20 years’ experience of co-ordinating and controlling the logistics that ensure that training courses run smoothly. Pam has worked in a wide variety of sectors including financial, retail, market research and marketing. She ran a training company for 4 years providing both public and tailored courses for City Institutions, including most of the major investment banks, and was responsible for all the course logistics.

Patricia Hodgins
Patricia is a top-flight consultant in Management and Organisational Development and an associate of the Centre for Management Development at the London Business School - where she also teaches on Executive Education Programmes. She specialises in the design and delivery of programmes in Leadership and Management, Communications, Diversity, Change and Work/Life Balance at senior levels. Patricia is a leading exponent of Discovery Based Programmes, where experiential methodologies and processes are used as a means of enhancing learning. She is Co-Director of Proteus, a new and innovative Executive Education Programme based on Creative Encounters in the field. With a career that spans the business and creative worlds Patricia looks to build bridges between the two, designing programmes which are grounded in solid business and commercial principles and delivered via innovative and creative processes.

Phil Higgins
Phil is a highly experienced consultant whose work is backed by 15 years of commercial leadership and management experience in the sales arena. A stimulating & dynamic facilitator, Phil has worked with public and private sector clients to create lasting change for individuals and teams. Phil’s own experience as a highly effective and award winning sales manager underpins all his work and his natural warmth and humour make him a great asset to any client organisation he works with. Phil has developed a great track record in helping sales leadership teams to maximise team effectiveness.

Sarah Fenwick
Sarah is a Chartered Psychologist who specialises in Performance Coaching, Organisational Development and Sport Psychology. Sarah combines her wealth of knowledge and expertise in performance psychology, leadership behaviours and emotional intelligence to facilitate talent development using engaging and challenging business focused interventions. Sarah brings with her an in depth understanding of how our thinking and behavioural styles influence our ability to impact the performance of ourselves, those we work with and the business. Sarah has wide range of experience coupled with excellent business and interpersonal skills. This combined with her sporting achievements and academic qualifications gives her an excellent understanding of performance psychology from the theoretical, practical and personal experience perspectives.

Sean Murphy
Sean is a senior consultant with more than 25 years of international experience in the gas industry and other blue chip companies in the UK, in developing managers concerned with major organisational change. Sean’s strength as a consultant is his breadth of expertise in developing and delivering programmes specifically designed to address the needs of clients. He has worked extensively on the assessment and development of managers, in both the UK and USA, using behavioural observation methods. Sean is actively involved with the Cambridge high technology business community and his work in developing strategies for managing growth in a rapidly growing software house has proved particularly valuable there.

Stuart Attewell
Stuart brings to clients 30 years of highly successful operational and strategic leadership experience in international business in America and Europe as a Senior Executive, Coach, Consultant, Seminar Leader and Trainer. Working in English and French, from both London and Paris, he is skilled at enabling executives, team leaders and emerging talent to face the challenges of radical organisational and personal change. He firmly believes that everybody has the potential to be a leader in their own way and in their own domain.

Stuart Gray
Stuart is a highly experienced organisation and management development specialist. His background includes teaching to post graduate level, research and corporate business life. He has held a number of posts in organisation development and management development in both the public and private sector. Stuart has trained, consulted and researched in the field of organisation and management development for 20 years. This includes significant time with large organisations moving from a traditional mechanistic culture to a more customer focused, team working culture. At a strategic level Stuart has worked with directors and senior managers to develop and translate mission, vision and values into practical outcomes. At an operational level he has developed organisation members to deliver bottom line business improvements in line with the organisations mission, vision and values.

Sue Wright
Sue has a strong track record of enabling organisations to develop managerial talent, and create the teams and infrastructure to support business growth. She is particularly experienced in working with senior management to identify and develop sound business and management processes to drive individual and team performance and realise potential at all levels. Her work as a Business adviser uses her strong operational experience and skills.

Sue’s commercial clients include global IT, Pharma and Telecoms companies, organisations in the construction and banking/insurance sectors and large international charities. In the public sector Sue has a wealth of experience in local authorities, county councils and other bodies such as Energywatch and the National Audit Office.

Sue is appreciated for her incisive thinking which often brings clarity to her clients, and for her willingness to always “go the extra mile”.

Suzy Phillips
Suzy has worked as a consultant for over 15 years in the development of individuals, teams and organisations including the NHS, housing associations, councils, employment partnerships, manufacturing and new technology companies. Suzy is a creative and experienced management development consultant in individual, team and organisational development, with excellent interpersonal, facilitation and design skills. She has a strong focus on generating business revenue streams through innovative training solutions to multi-professional groups, using networks. She has controlled teams in multi-site environments and initiated, designed and delivered leading edge initiatives to support managers with development responsibilities.