About us.

Summer Fern

Learning & Development Consultant

As a Learning & Development consultant who has worked closely with people from the semiconductor industry for more than 15 years, she has a particular interest and affiliation with the technical mindset.

Summer has lived and worked in Australia, the UK and the USA. She is also experienced in training and facilitation in multiple cultures and Countries including China, India, Israel, Japan and many contries in Europe.

Graeme Thompson

Coach & Hogan Developmental Expert

Graeme’s background is sport and the business of sport, with over 20 years of experience at the elite level; he has led athletes/teams at World Cups, Championships and Olympic/Paralympic Games. At the heart of all his achievements is his passion to create environments that enable people to develop to their greatest potential and to compete at world level, successfully.

In his time as a Performance Director, he has inherited and turned around poor team cultures, built good teams to achieve great world level medal success and recruited and developed talented players and coaches from initial identification right through to competing at World Championships/Olympics/Paralympics.

Bernadette Bourke

Coach & Hogan Developmental Expert

For the last twenty years Bernadette's focus has been on helping others unlock their potential: by taking a values driven approach to build integrity, resilience and courage within organisations, and by challenging assumptions and complacency. She helps organisations and individuals to both build the desire, and the ability to excel.
Bernadette enjoys helping clients increase performance and achieve more, specifically in the areas of Disruption and Transformation, Strategic Sales, Procurement and Supply Chain, Lean Manufacturing and Shining Leadership.

Bernadette has worked with SME's in the Electronics, Distribution and Lighting industries and with other larger organisations such as Unilever, Lloyds Register, Airbus, DHL and ebay.

Alison Porter

Coach & Business Psychologist

Alison is a Certified Principal Business Psychologist and Executive Coach with extensive experience in senior leadership assessment and development. As an assessor, she is very experienced in identifying individual potential and in supporting clients to make the best hiring decisions. In her coaching work Alison’s integrated approach draws from cognitive-behavioural, solution focused and positive psychology principles. Insightful and pragmatic, her purposeful approach helps clients to gain a deeper understanding of their behavioural drivers and to effect positive change. A committed advocate of personal growth, she has a special interest in the psychology of resilience, supporting clients to sustain their wellbeing when experiencing challenging situations.
Her experience spans both public and private sectors and she has also worked with executives across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas.

Krissie Haigh

Leadership Business Psychologist

Krissie is a Chartered Psychologist and Executive coach, specialising in People Centred Change, Leadership Development and Assessment. She has extensive leadership assessment, training, and facilitation experience, working across sectors to deliver engaging sessions on a range of topics including wellbeing, change management, performance management and leadership development. Her experience spans all stages of leadership development from entry and graduate to the C-suite. Her naturally energetic style and passion for supporting people creates an environment of professionalism and warmth, supporting people to open and gain deeper insight into their areas for development.

A sample of Krissie’s consulting clients include Barclaycard, Rolls-Royce, HSBC, Vodafone, Novartis, Atkins, Kingfisher Group, Balfour Beatty, Orange, Prudential, Shop Direct.

Sarah Bonner

Organisational Psychologist & Hogan Developmental Expert

Sarah is an organisational psychologist who specialises in leadership development and executive coaching. She is an experienced consultant and advanced Hogan practitioner, who works with teams and individuals within the public and private sector in a selection, assessment, training, mentoring and coaching capacity.
With over 20 years’ worth of experience within the creative industry, Sarah has worked with global brands managing relationships with people at all levels of seniority. Throughout her career, Sarah has always sought to understand what makes people ‘tick’, with a particular focus on team performance and inclusive leadership. Consequently, as an organisational psychologist, coach and mental health first aider, Sarah is able to help companies overcome the challenges they face in order to achieve commercial and cultural growth.
In her capacity as a coach, Sarah helps people to find the confidence and intrinsic motivation to overcome their personal barriers and succeed on their own terms. Within her sessions Sarah creates a judgment-free space where individuals can think, explore their ideas and decide how best to achieve their goals.