Alexandra is Talik’s co-founder and Managing Director. She specialises in coaching boards to deeply examine their contexts, develop clear purpose-led strategies and implement them through integrated transformational change programmes. A sought-after international Organisation Development consultant, coach, speaker and thought leader, Alexandra is known for bringing her considerable systemic and intuitive insights to help clients make sense of complex and politically sensitive challenges. She has particularly deep experience in family business leadership and behavioural and cultural change.

Alexandra began her career in change consulting in the City of London before moving to Ashridge Business School where she built the successful sustainability consulting practice. She developed the Talik model through her action research based doctorate focused on engagement with sustainability.

Natural habitat: Dog-walking in local woods or singing and dancing at open mic evenings.

Ann is an Organization Development Consultant and Executive Coach with 20 years experience working with leaders and influencers to develop their capacity to lead and support sustainable, meaningful, change.

Ann’s real passion and expertise is in creating environments for challenge, experimentation, reflection and learning and then translating this into daily organisational life. Leaders of organizations, which have been stuck in repeating cycles of so-called transformation, come to Ann, when they want to discover a way to genuinely make a shift in their culture and ways of working. She develops novel leadership development and culture change processes, which break the mould.

She believes deeply in the power of connected groups in organizations and is a skilled (if somewhat challenging) group facilitator.

She is dedicated to building internal coaching or OD capacity within organisations – she has led accredited programmes for internal coaches and change consultants She is a member of faculty on the highly respected Ashridge Masters in Executive Coaching.

Natural habitat: with her shoes off.

Actor, storyteller, guide.

Specialising in presentational confidence building, Larry helps people to communicate with free, self-assured voices and unfettered physicality.

Larry spent 16 years “in the trenches” of the theatre and education sectors – facilitation the hard way! - and has capitalised on his acting, teaching and artistic experience to bring a unique perspective to Presentation Coaching, Facilitating and Graphic Facilitation.

He works at Executive and Board level in international business, non-profits and foundations, creating Graphics, facilitating at all levels, coaching groups and individuals to develop presentational skill and equipping speakers for the professional conference circuit.

Larry holds Postgraduate qualifications in Teaching and Acting. He has a mellifluous voice and a ready smile.

Natural Habitat: On Stage. On Screen. On it

Paul helps people in organisations think and converse better, whether working strategically at Board level, engaging the wider organisation or coaching on a one-to-one basis.

He is hard to beat at helping executives maintain rigour whilst engaging in the complex social dynamics of any significant personal or organisational development. His analytical skills from McKinsey & Company and Accenture support the relational approaches he developed at Ashridge Business School. Serving Ambassadors, Directors, Partners and Senior Civil Servants, he is often a ‘consultant to the consultants.’

His work is grounded in experience of Founding CXO roles at charities including Teach First. His perspective is enriched by recent years at Taoist kung fu schools in China, Buddhist temples in SE Asia and teaching on international MBA and MPP programmes.

Natural habitats: sitting down as a meditator or standing up as a comedian.

Bill is an Organisation Psychologist specialising in developing organisations' capacity for change and innovation. After an early career in marketing, he completed an MBA at Cranfield and discovered a love for Organisation Behaviour and OD. He began his OD career at Sheppard Moscow before moving to Hay Management Consultants and then to Ashridge Business School where he was a founder of Ashridge Consulting. He pursued his psychological training at Metanoia in Gestalt and Transactional Analysis and has an MSc in Gestalt Psychotherapy from Middlesex University.

Bill founded the Ashridge MSc in Organisation Consulting and Doctorate in Organisational Change, plus the Coaching for Organisation Consultants programme. He is a Visiting Professor at Middlesex University. He has a particularly deep knowledge of Complexity Theory and its application in OD. He specialises in coaching and facilitating Executive Boards and supervising coaches and OD consultants. He has used dialogic OD practices to address gender imbalance at Board level and has facilitated cultural change in the local authorities. His clients appreciate his ability to be frank and courageous yet reflective and humble in expressing his keen insights. He enjoys working with OD practitioners to help them find their unique voice, express diverse views and minimise power differentials, address cultural norms and develop comfort with working in ambiguity.

Sian is a leadership development consultant, facilitator and coach. She specialises in designing & delivering experiential leadership development interventions that develop leadership capacity whilst encouraging leaders to explore their role in creating workplaces, communities and societies where both people and the natural world can flourish. She has worked internationally and is known for her ability to partner with organizations to deliver creative leadership development solutions that are relevant to their current & future business.

Sian began her career in the financial services sector and has since worked with organizations from a variety of sectors including telecoms, FMCG, entertainment, insurance and technology. Her current focus is on helping organizations and leaders rise to the challenge of leading for a sustainable world.

Natural habitat: Watching big waves on a beach or enjoying the social life of the local community-owned pub.

Carrie is Talik's office manager, administrator and all round team organiser. The go-to person for accounts, event organisation and diary management, she also makes a mean muffin.

Natural habitat: lost in the woods, up to her knees in mud and surrounded by dogs.

Andrew has over 25 years experience of consulting, coaching and facilitation. He leads ProReal Ltd which delivers technology-enabled leadership and coaching interventions, and is a facilitator on IBM’s Cornerstone Programme for new executives. As a Partner with PwC and an Executive in IBM’s Global Services business he spent five years in a senior account leadership role with Shell, including global upstream engineering programme design and governance; programme leadership with EDF Energy in their supply chain and innovation programme; helping clients (British Airways Engineering, Cadbury Schweppes, others) with their strategic narrative and process excellence journeys.

David Tinker is an ex-Army officer and helicopter pilot. Trained in systemic thinking, organizational psychodynamics and narrative leadership, he has been a consultant for 20 years. He has led projects including Siemens and Nokia leadership team merger and integration across Europe and Middle East; Senior leadership team coaching in Sandvik; Vauxhall UK car manufacture reorganisation.
Among the others roles David supervises on the Oxford Brookes coaching MA and speaks about the role of technology as a force for personal and organisational change. He is one of the founders of ProReal and continues to influence its design and application.

Andy is a coach, speaker, facilitator and environmental campaigner. He is Co-Founder and Director of Change in Nature, where he facilitates leadership and personal development programmes in nature. He has trained with Cambridge University, Schumacher College (Call of the Wild), The Living Leader and Sussex Wildlife Trust.

For over seven years, Andy was the Executive Director of the Aldersgate Group, working in the corridors of power with CEOs, Government Ministers and thought leaders to drive action for a more sustainable world, influencing policy development and corporate strategy.

He is a certified coach (accredited with the Association of Coaching), helping clients to identify, create and sustain personal and professional change. He specialises in coaching in nature to help provide creative inspiration, shift perspectives and connect to the bigger picture.