Our Team

Lesley Stephen

Lesley has a wealth of NHS director experience from leadership roles in acute, teaching, mental health, and regulatory organisations. Her director portfolios have included operations, planning and performance, strategy and quality and financial improvement (she is a qualified accountant). Consequently, Lesley understands the challenges and pressures of the responsibility for upholding standards that rests with the Board, and between managers and clinical professionals.

Lesley uses her experience to help new leadership teams successfully recognise and navigate the sometimes competing and contradictory political and regulatory demands driving system policies. Lesley’s collaborative approach to team working focuses on encouraging all partners to review their processes and share their experiences honestly with each other. She enjoys using qualitative and quantitative data sets to move teams beyond reliance on anecdote into analysis, to challenge orthodox thinking and create a sustained momentum for change.

Lesley recently completed a Masters at UCL affording her a new lens through which to view NHS policy and practice. Lesley’s dissertation “the harm in healing” exploring the moral injury of doctors, enabled her to examine one of the oft-cited drivers of low morale in the NHS, considering where moral injury sits on the continuum of workplace psychological harms, its causes, and possible mitigations at the system, organisational and team levels.

Fiona D’Arcy

Fiona is an experienced consultant, facilitator and coach who has led strategic leadership, talent development and organisation development projects both in the UK and internationally; from initial understanding through to ideation, design, delivery and evaluation. She has extensive experience in both the public and private sectors and clients include; RSA, Hitachi, KPMG, Allied Irish Bank, Kimberly Clarke, British Airways, MyLawyer, various Central Government Departments and NHS organisations.

She develops leadership within the themes of compassion, engagement, resilience, innovation and authenticity, and works with a specific psychological understanding to support people to access their talents and innate resilience.  She has a Bachelor of Science in Psychology, completed her masters in People and Organisation Development with Roffey Park and delivers transformational solutions with impact.

One of her leadership programmes was awarded the CIPD Learning Award for developing top talent, and another client achieved the highest positive shift in engagement scores ever recorded by Gallop in Europe. She is passionate about enabling individuals to maximise their achievements and reach their full potential and enjoys working in partnership to unleash innovative, fun, fast moving, informal and authentic work cultures, where delivering something exceptional drives individual and team performance.

Jyoti Grewal

Jyoti Grewal is a highly experienced and accredited HR professional with over 17 years working at senior and more recently, Board level. Her experience in the s public and more recently, 3rd sector , gives her an exceptional perspective as an HR generalist and strategist.. Particular
expertise includes general HR operations, complex cultural change, organisational development and staff engagement.

Jyoti is passionate about HR, its value to the business and the health and wellbeing aspect of people management. She is also a practising coach and a member of the Association of Coaching.

Sarah Warner

Following 18 years in the Defence, Aerospace & Security industry in various demanding managerial roles supporting senior business leadership, management and governance, Sarah had been working as a Business Psychologist since 2013. Her professional interests include the enhancement of individual and team performance, development and well-being.

As a coach, she draws on positive psychological theories and techniques to help identify and explore diverse workplace issues such as personality traits and behaviours, beliefs and values, work and non-work life conflict, resources and relationships, with a view to investigating options, solutions and actions for positive, sustained change. She has an MSc in Organisational Psychology from City University London, together with various coaching qualifications, and is accredited for the use of a range of psychometric tools for ability and personality testing and assessment, including MBTI.

Her current interests include the well-being of high potential performers, particularly mindfulness (being in the moment, paying full attention without judgement) and resilience (bouncing back and beyond from changes and challenges), two mental skills that can be “trained in” to protect and sustain mental health. As well as increasingly incorporating these skills into coaching sessions, she is currently designing and delivering mindfulness and resilience workshops for various teams to help to raise awareness and share practice of these skills, increasing team support and success.