FOUNDER | CO-DIRECTOR | FACILITATOR | COACH | DESIGNER

Breaking with expectations of a ‘consultant’, Simon is known for his charisma, passion, and openness. He approaches even the largest organisations on a human level, helping them evolve by building internal capability and connection. Always responsive to the needs of people and situations, he can adapt from giving one-on-one coaching sessions to facilitating rooms of up to 3,000 programme participants. Simon’s dedication to creating interventions that spark ongoing impact and evolution is what fuelled him to found Purposeful Change. Here, he plays a uniquely holistic role, feeding his expertise from a career spanning theatre, consulting, and diversity and inclusion leadership into everything we do.

CO-DIRECTOR | FACULTY LEAD | HR CONSULTANT | ACCOUNTS & OPERATIONS MANAGER

An extensively experienced manager of projects and people, Monica joined Purposeful Change as a Co-Director 2020. With 15 years of HR leadership with the BBC, British American Tobacco and British Telecom under her belt, Monica is well-versed in implementing large-scale learning programmes and ensuring that transformational models work for participants. Monica is always calmly action-focussed – an anchor and motivator of our whole team. As a future-forward systems thinker, she is someone we all rely upon to map out paths to making our wildest plans into reality. Monica is particularly talented at finding sustainable solutions to challenges and bringing a wealth of HR understanding to all of our work.

PROJECT MANAGER | TECHNICAL SUPPORT | DESIGNER

A recent Mathematics graduate, Harvey’s strong problem solving mindset provides him with an excellent ability to quickly understand the issue at hand and possible next steps that are needed, supporting his playful and adaptable style to make him a super engaged and incredibly dynamic member of our community. His deep understanding and passion for our work allows him to provide excellent support on our projects and our sessions, including being known as our ‘Resident DJ’ by many of our clients. His desire to support people to become who they truly want to be really highlights Harvey’s deep care and understanding for other people.

PROJECT MANAGER | TECHNICAL PROGRAM MANAGER

When Helen manages your project, she is quietly focused, listening for all the perspectives the team share so she can create a thorough plan that supports everyone. She upholds quality of work to a high standard, supporting the internal PC team with compassion and fairness and she represents her clients fiercely!​ She is approachable, warm and good humoured as well as doggedly tenacious about timelines, pushing through the most complicated projects with multiple moving parts.​ She offers end-to-end support, providing input into the early design and planning stages all the way through to technical moderation to ensure an optimal virtual learning experience for clients.​ Her background as a Senior Buyer has helped her shape strong communication and negotiation skills – she keeps it real and says it like it is.

COACH | FACILITATOR | DESIGNER | CONSULTANT | INCLUSIVE LEADERSHIP SPECIALIST

An empowering coaching approach is the common thread that runs through the many roles Nina holds with her clients. She is intuitive, warm, empathetic and able to connect at a human level quickly, so that people can have more meaningful conversations about the things that really matter. She creates transformative experiences that help people expand their personal and professional range. She knows how to frame them in credible, relevant and practical ways so that people can use what they have learned about themselves to make positive changes in their life immediately. She designs and facilitates heart-led development experiences for individuals, teams and large-scale global events as well as creating ‘self-serve’ programmes for graduates and leaders to utilise at their pace, on demand. She believes in demystifying and democratising personal development, to help increase human connection in the world.

COACH | FACILITATOR | DESIGNER | CONSULTANT | INCLUSIVE LEADERSHIP SPECIALIST

Hannah’s background in Anthropology and her career as a therapist give her a potent starting point as a facilitator and coach. She brings an immediacy and authenticity into any environment which support teams to fully open up to the work.Her style is warm, direct and challenging. Her approach is intelligent, researched and thorough. Her experience covers graduate progression to large- scale culture change, Leadership work to Diversity and Inclusion training. She is an ICF qualified Careers Coach.

PA | ACCOUNT MANAGER

Leyla is a highly organised, driven and goal orientated professional with financial and commercial experience. She has a proven ability to enter new environments and produce immediate results through hard work, determination and exceptional interpersonal skills. She is committed to supporting those who need it, getting a job done properly and without fuss.

FACILITATOR & DESIGNER | THOUGHT LEADER | PARTNER

Fiona has an extensive track record of partnering with organisations to deliver individual, team and system wide interventions which shift awareness, challenge perception and inspire change. Her purpose is to help others ‘realise’ their potential: in their thinking and through their actions. She is a skilled and creative designer, who over the last 10 years, has taken the lead in designing and deploying culture transformation, D&I and leadership development programs for Microsoft, McDonald’s, and HSBC. She is an experienced and empathetic lead facilitator, global faculty mentor, and systemic coach (ORSC practitioner). Fiona is equally comfortable and effective working with small and large groups, in person and virtually.

ACCOUNT DIRECTOR

Before joining Purposeful Change, Melinda worked in the creative events industry. Her experience has mainly been in Account Management and Event Production working with a variety of major brands, non-profit and public sector clients.​ ​ A passionate people person, Melinda cares deeply for the team around her. She loves to dig deep into the details on projects, and by working closely with clients, she pushes boundaries to ensure their aims and ambitions are achieved. Her ability to zoom out and look at the bigger picture really helps everyone to keep focused on what’s important, as well as allowing the space for a project to emerge. Melinda always gets the best out of the team knowing how to balance creative exploration with tangible output. She regularly checks in with the team around her and encourages others to consider how they can be their best selves, creating a healthy ethos of balance and wellbeing.​

FACILITATOR | ‘TIME TO THINK’ COACH | MENTOR

I love the opportunity to coach and work with individuals and teams, supporting them to think for themselves & uncover new possibilities for their lives and businesses. I’m committed to a ‘Time to Think’ approach, https://bit.ly/2Sro5ns I’m pragmatic whilst at the same time encouraging access to high level thinking, radical ideas etc. I believe that clarity of purpose, identity & values are crucial for individuals, teams and organisations. I love to engage in building true transparency, resulting in brilliant solutions to the seemingly unsolvable, and often unspeakable.​