Amanda Phillips
Associate
Amanda is a people strategy and leadership development specialist, working internationally with senior executives in both large organisations and in more entrepreneurial environments to create climates for sustainable high performance and innovation. Amanda works 1:1 and facilitates teams, up to and including board level. She brings a powerful combination of business acumen and psychological insight to optimise the performance of the leaders with whom she works. Her style is collaborative, and she works in a results-focused way to strengthen resilience and mental toughness, and further developing clients’ skills for leading others in today's turbulent and highly competitive environments. She is also a supervisor of executive coaches, and is coaching supervisor for the Oxford Brookes University Business School MA in Coaching & Mentoring Practice.
As a principal consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Amanda was responsible for global development programmes designed to foster creative thinking and innovation in leaders, and to develop skills for peak effectiveness and well-being at top levels of the organisation. She has also held senior HR roles working with leaders to define and implement strategy, and building organisational capability through leadership development, talent management and employee engagement. She has a particular interest in supporting the progress of women in their teams, organisations and wider business world, and strongly supports the view that inclusive working environments deliver better business results and real value. On the Steering Committee for the London Managing Partners' Forum, Amanda is also a judge for the European Management Awards. She is a former member of the Ethics & Professional Standards Committee at the Metanoia Training Institute and, for a number of years, was the external examiner for London's South Bank University Masters programme in Human Resources. Amanda holds Masters Degrees in Human Resource Management and Integrative Psychotherapy, and a Diploma in Supervision for Coaching & Mentoring. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development and a registered practitioner with the UK Council for Psychotherapy. She is a fully accredited Executive Coach with the Association for Professional Executive Coaching and Supervision (APECS) and holds membership of the Association of Business Psychologists (ABP), the British Psychological Society Special Group in Coaching Psychology (BPS SGCP) and the Association for Coaching (AC).
Cathy Knight-Scott
Associate
Cathy is an Organisational and Learning Consultant and was previously with Citigroup for over 20 years. She was most recently Head of Learning and Organisation Development for the Corporate and Investment Bank in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Cathy and Roger have long shared the values and principles that help corporations create a sustainable model of integrity. During her time at Citigroup, Cathy worked closely with Roger on a number of projects. In particular the ethicability® framework was rolled out to the whole of the Global Transaction Services (GTS) business across EMEA. Whilst in many areas of banking, profitability and respect have collapsed as a result of unethical behaviour, GTS EMEA remains one of the most valued and profitable businesses within Citigroup. Cathy joined the Citigroup Training team having held senior roles in Product and Operations Management for Citi Treasury and Trade Solutions. Prior to working in the banking industry, Cathy was employed in mathematical modelling in the Research labs at Marconi Avionics. She received an MA in Natural Sciences (Physics and Theoretical Physics) from Selwyn College, Cambridge. Cathy is currently studying to be a physics teacher as well as maintaining her ongoing interest in organisational and business design and structures via her consulting work.
Jane Mitchell
Associate
Jane is an Internal Communications Consultant, with over 20 years experience of working with organisations, public and private, large and small. She began her early professional career in television broadcasting at the BBC cutting her programme-making teeth on Tomorrow’s World, Grange Hill and Blue Peter. In the mid 1980’s she moved into the world of corporate film and television and headed up BISFA, then the only trade association that existed for corporate organisations and production companies. She subsequently joined up both areas of expertise and moved into producing award-winning corporate films and videos at both The Moving Picture Company and Hawkshead. She began developing a more strategic Internal Communication offering in response to clients’ increasing need to understand whether employee engagement really encouraged better performance. Action Based Communications® was born - an approach to internal communications, doing exactly what it says on the tin! She now applies this thinking in the area of communicating and embedding Ethics programmes. Jane believes that the success of communicating ‘ethics’ lies in people understanding their personal responsibilities and values and how they can impact the culture and reputation of the organisation they work for. Words are often not enough and bringing codes and cultures to life is at the heart of a successful communications and training strategy. Roger and Jane share the view that key to embedding real change is an understanding the importance of sustaining one’s own moral values in the pressurised environment of work. Jane is also involved with a number of external organisations as an adviser including Young Enterprise , is an elected Fellow of the RSA and an Associate of the Institute of Business Ethics.
Peter Haines
Associate
Peter Haines is a compliance practitioner who has been involved in regulation and compliance since 1986. He started working with the London Stock Exchange and The Securities Association, helping to develop the first set of SRO financial rules. Peter subsequently worked for the Securities and Futures Authority in the UK, implementing EU directives, including most notably the Capital Adequacy Directive and the Investment Services Directive (the predecessor directive to MiFID). Peter has held senior Compliance roles with Chase Manhattan, Paribas, UBS and Bank of America, before setting up his own consultancy business in 2006. In both his years in regulation and compliance and subsequently as a consultant, Peter has travelled widely to the US, Asia and within Europe, experiencing diverse regulatory systems, cultures and types of financial institutions and products. Peter’s aim is to work proactively with his clients to navigate through the regulatory environment and to protect all stakeholders from reputational and regulatory damage. Roger Steare and Peter Haines have worked together on a number of projects and share the same views on the importance of ethics in financial services and in life in general.
Peter Lewis
Associate
Peter is one of the UK’s senior Coach/Mentors with over 30 years’ business experience at Managing Director level. Having originally trained at R.M.A. Sandhurst, he left the Army to work as an investment analyst in the City. Highly effective both as an individual Coach/Mentor and as a facilitator for Boards and teams, Peter is an Associate of the Institute of Interim Management and affiliated to both the European Mentoring and Coaching Council and International Coach Federation. He is one of a handful of Senior Coach/Mentors in the UK to hold a Certificate in Supervision and is a strong advocate of Supervision as representing best practice for the industry. Peter is also a Visiting Lecturer at the Business School of the University of Buckingham, having been invited by the Dean to deliver part of the Innovation and Enterprise programme which forms part of the degree course for the BSc in Business Enterprise. The University of Buckingham is the UK’s only fully fee paying graduate institution and for the past three years students have voted it the number one University in the UK for tutorial care and excellence (ahead of both Oxford and Cambridge). Peter has extensive experience in administering various diagnostic instruments and is a licenced practitioner for Myers Briggs(MBTI) both Steps 1 and 2, FIROHuman Elements and the Thomas Kilman Conflict Resolution model. Team Dynamics at senior levels in organisations are another special interest and Peter’s longstanding connections with the City and various political, academic and economic institutions provide clients with a rich source of widely ranging expertise.
Wendy Addison
Associate
Wendy who resides in Cape Town, is a published author and coach who spent over 20 years as an accountant specializing in treasury management within listed companies both in South Africa and the UK. Wendy’s deep vision and core sense of integrity was courageously demonstrated as the whistleblower that exposed the wrongdoing at LeisureNet in 2000, the biggest corporate disaster in South African history. Wendy showed great courage in the face of danger and losing her livelihood by taking a moral stand. Choosing to utilize her unique experiences as a catalyst for change, Wendy studied with LifeCoach UK in 2001 and created her own coaching and motivational speaking business in London. On returning to South Africa in 2005, Wendy continued her coaching career and discovered overwhelming public outrage with the number of corruption cases demoralizing South Africa’s young democracy and threatening its economy. In addition to her ongoing coaching and consulting work, Wendy has become the South African representative for ethicability®.