Our team comprises a diverse mix of consulting academics, leadership and management trainers and advisors, economic experts, business leaders and skilled facilitators.
Our work with organisations involves a range of staff from the Business School. A selection of regular consulting academics and specialist associates are shown below. To find out more about all our staff and their expertise please explore the full staff list.
Director of the International Centre for Coaching & Mentoring Studies
Tatiana is an award winning and internationally respected researcher, author and thought leader around coaching practice and supervision.
Business and Management
With a research background in SMEs, particularly family run businesses, Shelley offers new ideas and perspective for the UK context in business and management from South Africa.
Human Resource Management, Coaching and Mentoring
Judie is an experienced consulting academic, working with the service industry on mentoring and human resource related assignments. She is an award winning researcher and advisor on these topics.
Human Resource Management, Coaching and Mentoring
Ioanna works with organisations to support coaching as a developmental tool in management learning and education. She conducts multidisciplinary research, drawing on a range of disciplines to bring new insights to her work.
Coaching and Lifelong Learning
Peter is a professional coach, facilitator and supervisor with experience of delivering step-change performance improvement. His coaching practice has a particular focus on the challenges of general management and the dynamics of individual change within organisations.
Tourism and Finance
Kate is an experienced consulting academic, who has worked on a range of tourism projects for national clients and has been conducting research on the viability and productivity of the tourism and hospitality sector during the pandemic.
Entrepreneurship, Business and Management
Ross brings to his work on entrepreneurship a wealth of industry experience gained from 20 years working in commercial property, retail, and the music industry. Ross is highly collaborative and enjoys working closely with clients to improve practice and resolve complex issues.
Leadership and Management Development
Barbara is an HR professional with over 10 years’ experience in HR management and twenty years in consultancy. She is a qualified coach, and delivers on leadership and management development programmes; working with clients including BRITA, the Metropolitan Police, HSBC and Elsevier.
Coaching, Change Management
Adrian works with organisations to set up internal coaching schemes, helping managers acquire coaching skills and working with change. He supports managers acquiring formal qualifications in coaching. Adrian is a chartered occupational psychologist and has been an ILM and CMI assessor.
Business and Management
Kate has over 25 years of experience within the automotive sector, most recently as Director of Continuous Improvement for Harley Davidson. Following her career change into higher education, Kate works with MBAs and other professionals, supporting international business consultancy.
Marketing, Nonprofits
Sarah-Louise is a consultant and academic specialising in understanding consumer behaviour and the role of brand in the nonprofit sector. She is an experienced practitioner having held senior positions across manufacturing, retail and non-profit sectors, mostly recently in HFT and RVS.
Consultancy, CPD, Business Engagement
Giles is Head of Business & External Engagement. A Chartered Public Finance Accountant, his background is in formal professional development for public sector organisations, having worked with local, national and international governmental bodies, most recently as CIPFA’s Director of Education.
Leadership & Management, Business Growth, Sustainability
Nic has over 10 years of management consultancy in SMEs, local and national government, preceded by work in policy and political advice. Nic brings experience of designing, managing and delivering high profile projects with clients including the Welsh Government and Department of Health.
Applied Accounting, Corporate Social Responsibility
Kate is a Chartered Accountant with a consultancy and academic specialism in Corporate Social Responsibility in addition to financial and non-financial reporting. Kate is the academic lead for the Help to Grow programme.
Economic Impact, Decision Making in Ambiguity
Sara leads on our economic impact assessment projects,. These include advising organisations on ways in which they can maximise their impact on local stakeholders, their local economy as well as the UK GDP with clients including Blenheim Palace and Radley College.
Human Resource Management, Employment Relations
Nick is an experienced consulting academic, working and publishing widely around the themes of labour markets, employability, and career decision-making. Clients have included TUC Commission on Vulnerable Employment, Department for Education and Skills and European Social Fund.
Tourism, Hospitality, Services Marketing
Robert specialises in quantitative research methods, survey design, index benchmarking and structural equation modelling. His work in understanding tourist behaviour has been widely published and has been supported by various national and international research grants.
Corporate Social Responsibility, Marketing
Clive is a researcher around the themes of globalisation and corporate social responsibility. Prior to joining Brookes, he worked in marketing, project management and business development.
Entrepreneurship, Performance, Applied Statistics
Jeremy has worked on projects considering innovation, business intelligence and using Big Data to create enhanced value to organisations, leadership for cybersecurity within organisations, and assessing DIY spaces and the resource uses for entrepreneurs to develop and work on their projects.