Highly articulate and forward thinking champion of Personal & Organisational Learning, & Development using up to date learning and communication techniques such as eLearning, Blogging, Open Space Technology, discussion forums and other Knowledge Management principles in training design and delivery.

Skilled as a communicator , learning practitioner and networking professional, adept at building communities and developing links across professional boundaries. Key strengths include: entrepreneurial; innovative; energetic and pragmatic, skills that have been well used in overcoming resistance to change in many different organisational settings. Experience spreads across a wide range of Organisational Learning & Development, Management Development and Training areas, with networking links to fellow professionals across UK, Europe and US.

With a career that spans some 29 years, her work has taken her from make-up artist to promotional consultant, sales executive to recruitment consultant and then on to a range of management, training and development roles across the private and the public sector.

Her deep interest is in the interrelationship between individuals, teams and the organisational culture and systems they work in. She seeks to help others develop an understanding of the value of existing organisational knowledge, seeing this as fundamental and ultimately leading to successful performance management, information and knowledge-sharing and Organisational Learning and Development (OL&D).

She has published in a series of practitioner journals and is also an enthusiastic and experienced speaker in subjects such as Knowledge Development, eLearning and Shared Services. She has chaired and presented at many domestic UK and European seminars and conferences and held numerous pre and post-conference workshops.

As a part time Lecturer at a London University she teaches on the CIPD Post-Graduate Masters programme in Personnel & Development specialising in Learning and Development, Training Delivery & Design and Management Development.

She is a Member of the Chartered Insititute of Personnel & Development (CIPD), the Institute of Healthcare Management (IHM), the Institute for Leadership & Management (InstLM) and the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC).

She is an Executive Board member of the European Consortium for the Learning Organisation (ECLO), Vice Chair of the (IHM) London Regional Council, and a regular contributor to various online networking and discussion groups spanning UK, Europe and US.