Sharon Pink

Sharon Pink

The founder of School Dynamics^® education-business partnership, Sharon has worked with school Heads, staff, students, Business Managers, Marketing Managers and Governors over many years to understand their requirements and to develop the portfolio of programmes our specialists now deliver.  She also manages our work supporting Kids Company charity.
Sharon’s background is in pre-sales, marketing, leadership and team development and she is an experienced business journalist and presentations coach.  While she is primarily engaged in developing and managing our relationships with schools and educational support organisations across the country, Sharon also delivers customised confidence-building and personal impact programmes for Sixth-Formers.

Malcolm Watson

Malcolm Watson

Malcolm was Head teacher of a large school for 10 years before moving into the corporate world. Initially as Training Manager for GSK and then Learning & Development manager for Barclays, Malcolm acquired key skills and experience in management and leadership development before setting up his own company in 2000 to deliver training and advice to decision-makers across a wide range of business sectors.
Malcolm is a qualified psychometric tester and has extensive experience of setting up and running businesses and delivering courses in leadership, people development, teambuilding, project management, organisational dynamics and recruitment. He has trained teams and individuals and gives talks on leadership, people development, marketing and time management. Malcolm has a Masters degree in Management and is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute. Malcolm is leading our Life Skills programmes for Camden Council.

Peter Oliver

Peter Oliver

Our founding training consultant, Peter designed, developed and delivered our inaugural ILM teamwork and leadership training and advises on the development of many other School Dynamics^® programmes.  Peter specialises in organisational development, leadership, change and personal development.  Accredited to use a range of psychometric instruments including OPQ, 16PF5 and the Apter Motivational Profile, Peter is an NLP Master Practitioner and Practitioner of Time-line Therapy.  He has extensive international experience, particularly in the financial services and public sectors, across the learning and development cycle from learning needs analysis through design and delivery to effective evaluation of sales training, management development and trainer training programmes.

Sue Wright

Sue Wright
Sue’s career began in secondary education teaching PE and Computer Studies as a Scale 2 Head of Department. She then worked as Training Manager for two PC companies before completing an MBA at the London Business School and working for Xerox for 10 years, with four years as Head of UK Customer Training. After a career break in 1998 to compete in a round-the-world yacht race, Sue joined an organisational behavioural consultancy, working with blue-chip companies in the UK and Europe, assessing and developing leadership teams and managers at all levels.  Sue’s coaching and development skills include helping individuals and teams to work co-operatively, identifying and developing leadership skills, streamlining and improving processes and driving effective change programmes.

David Pollak

David Pollak

The mastermind of our Real-Life Finance programme design and development, David is an entrepreneurial accountant and independent business adviser with experience in manufacturing, banking, wholesale and retail sectors and extensive experience of running his own businesses. He has also provided consultancy with Coopers & Lybrand (now PWC).
For the last 5 years, David has been a regular presenter at a Business School for independent consultants and advisers, delivering a widely-acclaimed course on Financial Awareness for Responsible Management. Working with school and college students across a wide range of age groups and assessing school curricula and OFSTED requirements, David has translated the key principles of his financial awareness courses into a practical, customised programme designed to improve our young people’s financial and budgeting skills and overall money management capability.
David is a Fellow of both the Institute for Certified and Corporate Accountants and the Institute for Independent Business.

Christine Juett

Christine Juett

Christine’s career has been in education, with over 20 years in senior leadership roles, first as a deputy and then as a Headteacher for 14 years. She has worked across both the maintained and independent sectors and across junior and senior phases. Her areas of experience span recruitment, strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation, project management, the training, development and appraisal of staff, marketing and the raising of standards. Christine’s approach is one which emphasises teamwork and collaboration, thereby facilitating the management of change. She is also able to mentor senior teams in schools so as to enhance their effectiveness as leaders.  Christine leads our younger-years’ economic awareness and Mini-Enterprise programmes.
Christine has been instrumental in establishing differentiators for schools in competitive markets, notably in the field of student leadership and ILM certification for Sixth-Formers. By providing skills training for students they are able to work effectively in teams and take on real life projects in the local community and in running their school, giving them a head start for university and for their future careers.

Linda Estruch

Linda Estruch

Linda’s career spans 30 years in education.  She has experience of transformational change and leadership in schools.  Linda has been involved in strategic leadership and management in an educational environment and has been instrumental in leadership development for schools management and teaching staff. Linda was a pioneer of Leadership training for school pupils and has successfully led a number of Leadership Development programmes for 16-18 year olds.  Her approach is to provide pupils with the opportunity to learn by taking on real projects in which they are entirely responsible for providing services to a community inside or outside of the school. This learning approach creates an environment in which the pupils are exposed to the risk of project failure and are encouraged to manage these risks “without a teacher to sort out the problems”.  This is supported by skills training, coaching and project reviews to help the pupils to identify issues and to manage the projects themselves.

Philippa Bowen

Philippa Bowen

Philippa has worked extensively with individuals and businesses to understand how social media can help them grow and develop. Now she brings her specialist knowledge to our schools programmes to our Social Media training team.  With a range of tailored workshops for students, parents, staff and governors, we explore how social media including LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and a host of corporate and individual broadcast and blog services have revolutionized how people of all ages communicate online and how these services interact with, target and sell to younger people in particular.  Then as those students head out of Sixth Form into university and the world of work, we help them understand how to use social media for their benefit and how to build, maximize and protect their Internet profiles to meet the needs of employers.

Dan Luxon

Dan Luxon

The son of the renowned international baritone Benjamin Luxon CBE, Dan is a professional Tenor who has performed in venues from the Royal Albert Hall and The Barbican to regional theatres and clubs around the UK and overseas. Dan also directs opera and has produced acclaimed operas at North London’s premier theatrical venue, Artsdepot. Dan teaches practical vocal and theatrical techniques to help people perform better when they have to “stand and deliver” and he runs a range of operatically-orientated training and events.  Dan has worked with schools and colleges teaching confidence- building techniques as well as introducing opera to students from the ages of 7-17.
Dan’s School Dynamics public speaking and presentation skills seminars, workshops and coaching programmes are of value to anyone – students or staff – who want to present themselves more dynamically and effectively.

Martin Norwood

Martin Norwood

Supporting the development and delivery of our financial and teamwork training programmes and our work with school business managers, Martin began his working life as an operational HR Manager and compensation specialist in organisations such as The Automobile Association and the old EMI Group and spent four years in HR in the music business with EMI Records and PolyGram Leisure.  He then changed career and went to work for a private commercial finance company, rising through the ranks to become Operations Director in charge of the day-to-day running of this multi-million pound turnover business.
The property collapse in the 1990s led to the closure of the company and Martin set up his own management consultancy providing assistance to smaller businesses in finance, HR and business strategy. Martin’s pro-bono work includes acting as a Trustee and Honorary Treasurer for Artsdepot community arts centre in Finchley and as a Board member of the North London Chamber of Commerce.

Marian Chapman

Marian Chapman

With a background including many years’ experience in wide-ranging marketing roles, including working in large corporate marketing departments, Marian is skilled at helping companies make effective use of marketing to develop and grow their business. Whether it’s is a bespoke plan for an individual marketing or promotional activity or a complete end-to-end programme from initial concept through to implementation and beyond, Marian and her team at Fusion Creative Marketing are the experts. They support clients from the initial branding and corporate identity ideas, through to website content, brochures, newsletters, advertising and direct marketing campaigns. With their in-house design, photography and print management, it’s all highly cost effective. Marian supports our schools campaigns and is an integral part of our Schools Marketing team.

Alison Richardson

Alison Richardson

A qualified coach with a Post Graduate Diploma in Strategic Business Coaching from the Chartered Management Institute, with a certificate in Lifelong Learning in Leadership from Coventry University, Alison is a Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), an NLP Master Coach, Master Practitioner of Time Line Therapy™ and an accredited Thomas International practitioner, authorised to deliver their behavioural and emotional intelligence psychometric assessments.  With a successful background in IT, including working as director of a training division for an international software company, Alison decided she preferred people to computers and in 2003 re-trained and began working in the business community, delivering support to business owners and senior executives.  Alison challenges and inspires clients to new ways of thinking, creating sustainable change and enabling them to achieve their outcomes, working either one-to-one or through workshops and training courses.  Alison is working on our ILM and student leadership and teamwork programmes.

Hil Gibb

Hil Gibb

With a Masters Degree in Leadership and consistently judged outstanding in her career as a teacher and Head Teacher, Hil is a successful Master Practitioner and Coach in NLP.  She works across business, education and the NHS, as a coach, facilitator and trainer, developing individuals and teams with a focus on communication, innovative thinking, coaching skills and strategic planning. Hil speaks at national conferences and is a Keynote Speaker for a national conference in Ireland.  She has worked with a range of business groups, the East Midland Adviser Group and an ‘Improving Intelligence National Steering Group’ for the Government in Westminster.  She is also a volunteer mentor for the Prince’s Trust and supports the Parent Carer Council.  Working with our Midlands regional team Hil is supporting our ILM and Sixth Form leadership and teamwork training programmes.

James Scouller

James Scouller

Before becoming an executive coach , James spent nearly 30 years in industry, the last 11 as a CEO of international companies. He holds two postgraduate qualifications in coaching, studied Applied Psychology for four years at the London Institute of Psychosynthesis and is an AC (Association for Coaching) accredited coach. He is also certified to use the FIRO Elements (B, F & S) and Belbin team role psychological tools.
Not many coaches have led organisations as a CEO.  Even fewer have undergone six years of technical and psychological training in preparing to become a coach.  This rare combination gives James unusual insight into the pressures leaders face, the beliefs they hold, what they feel about themselves and how to help them grow. His leadership experience, psychological training and knowhow in coaching leaders has led him to write a book, The Three Levels of Leadership, published in Spring 2011.

Phil Taylor

Phil Taylor

With extensive experience of implementing public relations programmes for organisations in a wide range of industries, Phil supports our programmes helping schools with marketing and PR. Phil is a successful marketer focused on developing profitable markets for small and medium sized enterprises.  He helps companies understand their markets and why customers really buy from them; planning the marketing strategically (the overall plan); tactical implementation, advising on the full range of activities from market analysis, product specification and management through to cost-effective communications programmes.  PR can be highly effective in raising schools’  profiles and awareness amongst their target market, often more effective than advertising.  We help schools develop a co-ordinated marketing and PR strategy linking all their marketing and online communications.

Veena Lidbetter

Veena Lidbetter

Veena is an experienced, knowledgeable and versatile Conference and Events Organiser; with proven leadership skills, managing, developing and motivating teams and coaching and mentoring senior operations and sales managers. With a long track record of success in hotel and agency operations, business development and as consultant to academic and professional associations, Veena helps organisations of all sizes with full service conference and event management including conference design, registration, site and venue selection, audiovisuals, IT support, logistics, marketing, printing and web services, sourcing speakers, funding and sponsorship. All these services are available to schools planning and organising individual events or seeking to outsource their event planning.