Our Team

Dave Jones

Founding Director, Consultant

  • Dave has delivered over 150 programs, guiding teams toward high performance. His experience spans over 70 leadership development programs for YUM! brands (Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, KFC) and facilitating experiential outdoor and creative learning for charities, SMEs, and renowned organizations such as Oxford University, WaterAid, SKY, BNP Paribas, and Barclays Bank.

    An accredited practitioner in Heartstyles, iEQ9, and LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®, as well as a certified Lowland Leader, Dave brings 15 years of rich and varied experience leading teams in the charity sector.

    With a versatile toolkit and a passion for uncovering perspective-shifting insights, Dave is dedicated to helping teams thrive.

David Pignon

Co-Director & Consultant

  • David has experience working across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors in the UK and East Africa, working in contingency planning, managing nonprofits and delivering international consultancy services. He enjoys helping teams navigate the human side of success, turning challenges into opportunities. David previously led a consultancy firm in Ethiopia, where he worked with multinational and local clients, providing varied support in areas like team leadership, team recruitment, project development, cross-cultural communication, behaviour change and crisis management.

Becs Dhillon

Associate Consultant

  • Becs Dhillon is a qualified barrister, workplace mediator, conflict coach and leadership coach. Providing safe, confidential space to work through conflict, remove potential barriers, and improve communication. She performs a variety of mediation services around helping colleagues who have fallen out in the workplace. Becs loves helping resolve conflict and reconcile relationships to build strong teams and workplaces.

Steve Morris

Associate Consultant

  • Steve is a passionate and dedicated coach committed to high quality facilitation. This passion has seen him coach unemployed young people in South Africa, Tech start-ups in London and high-profile brands like Google, Arsenal FC, KFC and Pizza Hut. This varied experience has given Steve a curious mind and a heart to see people thrive.

Simon Thomas

Associate Consultant

  • Simon’s passion for people development comes from the satisfaction of making a difference.

    He has delivered a broad spectrum of programmes for thousands of people across Government Departments such as the Royal Air Force, HM Prison Service and the Dept of Work & Pensions, alongside work with Lexus, KFC, and the NHS.

    Simon has a CIPD Level 7 accreditation in Learning & Development, certificates in Stress Management, NLP and Coaching (CMI Level 7). He is also an accredited practitioner for both the Lumina Spark psychometric model and Heartstyles; plus he’s a qualified Hypnotherapist and Mental Health First Aider.  

Alistair Bullen

Associate Consultant

  • Alistair helps generate transformation through value driven leadership principles, bringing purpose into the lives of individuals, teams and organisations. His key levers are creativity, intuition and his vast commercial experience.

Cathy Bishop

Associate Consultant

  • Cathy is a seasoned leadership development facilitator and coach with over 25 years’ experience in HR, and global business. Leveraging deep experience is culture and leaderships development, Cathy’s approach combines proven methodologies with a deep understanding of human behaviour, to empower both employees and leaders to become the best and most effective versions of themselves.