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About us

At Jones Consulting our values are our guiding principles that shape the way we work with clients.

We value: Diversity, Creativity, Flexibility, Communication, Trust, Integrity and Sustainability.

We believe that leaders are those who empower others, our mission is to bring leadership skills and knowledge to individuals, organisations and communities alike. We draw upon diverse experience across industries & countries, which continually keeps our knowledge fresh and our methodologies and ways of working up to date.  We seek to act as catalysts for positive change in everything we do.

We gain our work primarily from recommendation.  We have excellent connections with academic institutions and thought leaders through membership of The Change Leaders, a global community of change management practitioners linked to Said Business School, University of Oxford, and HEC Paris, the FT no 1 European Business School.

Deborah Jones

Deborah Jones is a leadership development consultant and systemic team coach, with a background in business transformation and innovation. Her focus is on supporting leaders and teams to boost their energy, wellbeing and performance.

Deborah specialises in designing and delivering leadership development and team coaching programmes across the public and private sectors.   Assignments with Universities, Healthcare (NHS), Police, Financial Services, Retail, Telco and Advisory Services clients have led her to design development programmes for executives, high potentials, women and grass roots leaders; along with specific team coaching and wider organisational cultural change programmes.

Deborah started her career in Financial Services, developing new products and services and launching them to market with egg – the dot.com start up.   She qualified as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation and a Master practitioner in Systemic Team Coaching  with the Academy of Executive Coaching.   She holds an MSc. in Consulting and Coaching for Change from HEC Paris and the University of Oxford (Said Business School) and is accredited to use Physical Intelligence tools in her coaching with the Physical Intelligence Institute.

Lynne Walley

Lynne Walley is a qualified executive coach and psychometric administrator with thirty years experience gained largely within the Higher Education and public sector in the UK.

An academic lawyer by discipline after gaining an LLB(Hons) and Masters Degree in Criminology Lynne moved to Staffordshire University where she worked in the Business and Law faculty lecturing in law and criminology. Latterly moving on to become Head of Corporate Programmes in the Business School where she ran a successful leadership development team who delivered programmes in the NHS, the RAF, the Police and Local Authorities. She qualified as a coach in 2004 and worked with senior leaders coaching and undertaking leadership development facilitation including administrating psychometrics tests for large groups of senior leaders in the public sector.  Lynne is a Master practitioner with the European Mentoring & Coaching Council (EMCC), holds ILM Level 7 Diploma in Coaching & Mentoring and is an accredited practitioner in MBTI, 16pf , OPQ32 and is BPS level A and B qualified.

Sandra Pollock OBE

Sandra is a multi-award-winning leadership and management expert who, as well as having worked for over three decades in the corporate arena, is heavily engaged with community, voluntary and charitable work.

Sandra was awarded an OBE for services to Equality in 2021.  She has developed both bespoke and accredited programmes for ILM and CMI in Leadership Management and Coaching, as well as numerous other personal development and community focused programmes. Sandra holds a Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Business Coaching.  She attained the status of Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), Chartered Manager (CMgr), Fellow of the Institute of Consulting, having headed up this organisation for several years.  Sandra is Founder of the Women’s Awards which covers the East and West Midlands in the UK and works to identify and celebrate the contribution of women at all levels of society and across all sectors.

Mark Clark MBE

Mark is passionate about transformational change in individuals, organisations and communities. He has 30 years’ experience at the intersection of leadership, complexity and conflict, working with different governments and NGOs, the Olympic movement, and private sector in the UK, India, Iraq, Democratic Republic of Congo, Papua New Guinea, and Jordan, where he served as CEO of a global peacebuilding organization for 12 years.

Mark graduated magna cum laude from University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School & HEC Paris (MSc); Université Lyon 1 (MA); University of Edinburgh (LLB-Hons; DipLP); and Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He has additional certificates in Transformative Dialogue from the Nansen Centre for Peace and Dialogue in Norway; in Community Dispute Resolution from Colorado State University; in Non-Violent Communication from the Centre for Nonviolent Communication, and in Conflict Resolution, Transformation and Peacebuilding from the International Centre for Parliamentary Studies.

Mark served as a British Army Officer for 10 years, and with the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office. He was awarded MBE by HM Queen Elizabeth II for his work in Iraq 2003-2005; CEO of the Year 2022 by CEO Monthly, and the 2022 Peacemaker Award by Brigham Young University Centre for Peace & Conflict Resolution. He is a Member of The Change Leaders and the Law Society of Scotland, and a Writer to His Majesty’s Signet.

Rebecca Hill

Rebecca has 25 years experience leading global change programmes in international professional services organisations, latterly as a Global Director at EY.

Rebecca is now firmly embedded in the entrepreneurial space having successfully launched several businesses. Through her company, Wise Sherpa, Rebecca is collaborating with a number of Start Ups, Scale Ups, and SMEs as well as working with more established businesses as a consultant, facilitator, and coach working across geographies and cultures. She also sits on a range of boards and committees and is a keen advocate of Women’s Economic Empowerment. She co-authored her first book published in 2022 www.fromworklifetonewlife.com.

Rebecca holds an MSc. in Consulting and Coaching for Change from HEC Paris and University of Oxford.

Tim Morton

Tim is an experienced and qualified trainer with a PTLLS Level 4 and over 30 years’ experience of working with community groups in a wide range of settings.

Tim’s mission is to engage local people to own their own positive change initiatives in the public and voluntary sectors.  In his work he focusses on people, considering their needs and placing an emphasis on action.

Tim has worked as a Neighbourhood Renewal Adviser delivering assignments as varied as facilitating Local Strategic Partnership meetings and Community Empowerment Networks events, delivering residential events for the National Community Forum and NRU-GO community participation team and supporting the successful design and delivery of the Leicester Community Cohesion Pathfinder programme.  He was a trustee of Diversity Hub for 20 years and has recently become a trustee of B-Inspired in Leicester, UK.  Tim is very active on social media and is known for his light touch, humour and knowledgeable style.

Ian Sellick

Ian has been a Professional Coach for 14 years following a successful career in high technology industries where his experience, in leading people and change, both within his organization and that of clients and partners across both international commercial and Public Sector, helped shape his love of human development.

He is passionate about wanting to help in making a difference in the world, making it a better place for individuals, teams, organisations and communities. He does that through helping those entities to create outstanding performance through the ongoing development of reflective thinking, behaviour change and applied emotional intelligence. Encouraging individuals and teams to really understand who their key stakeholders are, their needs and to take a systemic approach to their work and the positive impact they can make on the system in which they operate.

His work in the Executive Coaching field has led to him being invited to Join the Marshal Goldsmith 100 Coaches programme in Europe.

Ian uses a whole person and systemic approach to his coaching conversations and draws on a number of recognised models to fit the needs of his clients when and where appropriate.  He holds an MBA from Bristol Business School (UWE), is a PCC level coach with the ICF and a certified European Neuro Linguistic Coach, as well as a Master practitioner in Systemic Team Coaching with the AoEC.   He works with several psychometric tools including: Emotional Intelligence Assessment (JCA, Genos and EBW) and Bill Torbert’s Leadership Development Framework.

Ian has worked with clients in Technology, Finance, Pharmaceutical, Energy, Healthcare, NGO, Not for Profits and Local Government.

Carla Hilber

Carla’s mission is to bring clarity, focus, motivation to take action and achieve superior results to clients. With a focus on leadership, communication, career growth, she works with clients to unlock existing resources and expand them for greater impact.

Carla has been coaching since 2009, after a 20+ years career, leading communication teams and talented individuals through a range of transformations.  She has coached executives across industries (private and non-profit), in Europe, the Middle East, America, and China, in person and remotely.  Carla is accredited in various assessment tools (Hogan, Saville, BIP, Birkman).

Of Swiss and Colombian origins, Carla works in French, English, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, learnt living in 9 countries, in a variety of political regimes, including a revolution and a civil war.  She holds an MSc in Consulting and Coaching for Change (Oxford Saïd Business School and HEC Paris), a training in coaching teams and individuals (IDC Geneva), an MA in History from University of Geneva and is ICF certified. As a registered journalist, she has published articles about leadership, career, communication in her blog in the Swiss leading newspaper in French “Le Temps”.

Carla is a member of The Change Leaders, a community of practitioners, graduated from Oxford Saïd Business School and HEC Paris, with whom we share best practices and knowledge. As the Vice Chair of the International Circle of Geneva, she belongs to an international community that brings together Directors of UN agencies and International Organizations, Ambassadors to the UN, CEOs of multinational companies, and Swiss decision makers.

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