Dave Jones

Founding Director, Consultant

  • Dave has extensive experience guiding teams from a broad background towards high performance. His experience spans over culture design work, leadership development programme delivery, with a particular passion for new world thinking that honours the importance of the contribution of all. Dave has additional expertise in designing and delivering experiential outdoor events. Satisfied clients include charities, SMEs, and renowned organizations such as Oxford University, 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 important yet supportive challenge to all he works with.

Kate Noakes

Co-Director & Consultant

  • A vastly experienced associate-partner working exclusively with Uplift Consulting. Kate is a respectful yet determined coach, trainer and development partner to leaders, teams and individuals. She is known for her unwavering personal integrity and her persistence in securing performance through finding and working with the truth. She is also a qualified CPCAB person-centred experiential psychotherapist who gets to the heart of the matter quickly. With 30+ years supporting both private and public sector enterprises, from across many cultures and markets, the results Kate brings are surprising in both their scale and their sustainability. All that is required from you to realise such returns on your investment are to have the ambition and the courage in what is possible and the code of ethics to do it with kindness and fairness.

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.