Our team is made up of experienced professionals who bring a wealth of knowledge, diverse perspectives, and a commitment to helping leaders thrive.
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Jo Bostock MBE
Jo specialises in supporting leaders and senior teams to realise the value of inclusive, high performing organisations. She creates space for decision-makers to explore what drives them, the choices they make and how they want to use their influence.
Jo has run her own consultancy since 2005 with engagements ranging from global brands operating in multiple geographies, through to SMEs, not-for-profit organisations and entrepreneurial start-ups. Her expertise is grounded in her skill as an Executive Coach, which is underpinned by a Masters in Professional Development.
Jo’s cross-sector experience encompasses the Media, Charities, Insurance, Maritime, Finance, Professional Services, Technology, Law, Construction, Sport and the Arts. She has also collaborated with leading academic institutions, including publishing “The Meaning of Success – Insights from Women at Cambridge” with the University of Cambridge. She conducted in-depth research with the RIBA to look at the value of diverse role models and the characteristics of inclusive work environments.
Jo’s aim is to generate a powerful pause in which leaders have the oxygen, stretch and support to help them navigate complexity, hold steady amidst uncertainty and learn from experience. Throughout this process there is a focus on pragmatism and live organisational priorities. Jo’s systemic approach factors in the real-world context experienced by leaders and the politics of interpersonal engagement. This stimulates leaders to generate options for action that align with their values, ambitions and the needs of their organisations.
Jo’s interest in the dynamics of effective, inclusive leadership led her to co-found the Women’s Sport Trust, a leading charity dedicated to using the power of sport to accelerate gender inclusion. This saw her recognised as one of the top 20 most influential women in British sport. Jo was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to gender equality in sport.
Areas of expertise:
• Executive Coaching
• Facilitation
• Leadership development
• Team dynamics and performance
• Inclusive cultures
What 5 words…how clients describe Jo
• Curious
• Insightful
• Encouraging
• Influential
• Imaginative
Monica Juneja
Monica is a Talent, Culture & Leadership Advisor, Executive Coach and Psychotherapist. Monica integrates her extensive corporate savviness, with the power of executive coaching and a deep understanding of human behaviour through psychotherapy, providing a unique combination of experience to her clients, that few in her field can offer. Her approach helps clients break through both strategic and emotional barriers, addressing not just the "what" but also the "why" behind personal and professional struggles.
Monica’s approach is designed to lead clients from deep self-reflection to strategic action. Her passion is to help individuals in both personal and professional settings, identify unconscious patterns, gain clarity, and translate that insight into powerful, actionable goals. In doing so, Monica provides a safe, non-judgmental and reflective space where confidentiality is paramount. She tailors her methods to each client, drawing on a wide range of coaching, consulting, and psychotherapeutic tools.
With more than 20 years of corporate experience, Monica was a Managing Director at Accenture. Notably, she led their Human Capital practice for Financial Services in the UK, managing a portfolio of 30+ key clients and overseeing a team of over 100 employees, all while driving a $120 million sales and revenue strategy. Monica has extensive experience partnering with organisations to deliver human capital strategies, develop and implement leadership development programmes, provide expertise on enhancing team performance and culture, and design and deliver DEI programmes.
Monica earned her MSc in Psychotherapy a decade ago and is a qualified therapist and a member of the BACP. She is also an ICF accredited coach.
Areas of expertise:
• Executive Coaching
• Therapeutic Coaching
• Talent Advisory
• Leadership Development
• Facilitation
What 5 words…how clients describe Monica
• Savvy
• Encouraging
• Safe
• Perceptive
• Pragmatic
Martin Gash
Martin has over twenty-five years of experience working successfully as the HR Director for some large well known multi-site organisations with workforces of up to 50,000 within the UK and Europe. All of these businesses have been complex in structure, consisting of multiple Divisions covering different sectors and products.
Martin has a reputation for delivery and an acknowledged record of change facilitation and business improvement across a range of sectors including Manufacturing, Logistics, Travel, Healthcare and Hospitality. His success in these environments has been attributed not only to his commercial focus, but also his ability to work with and through individuals and teams at all levels.
Martin is a strong communicator with very well developed relationship building and stakeholder management skills. He has successfully devised and implemented People Strategies through his career encompassing all areas of the People agenda including: Organisational Development, Mergers and Acquisitions, Employee Relations, Resourcing, Talent Management and Development, Reward and Recognition. He has also facilitated wider business initiatives in each of the organisations in which he has worked, drawing on his past experience. These range from the introduction of branded service offers, to organisational redesign and the launching of business process improvement initiatives to achieve cost, efficiency, quality improvement benefits. Martin’s work in these areas has been supported by a Masters in Change Management.
While being naturally strategic, Martin is also a pragmatic and energetic individual who is used to working in fast paced lower margin environments where there is plenty of change and a focus on ensuring that all elements of the People Strategy are prioritised and add real value to and support the business.
As well as directly leading and managing large teams of over one hundred people himself, Martin has frequently mentored and coached senior individuals across both operational and functional areas. Here he has been able to bring his own experience to the growth and development of others, often at important points in their own careers.
Areas of expertise:
• Strategy and implementation
• Change facilitation and business improvement
• Mentoring and coaching
• Talent Management and development
• Project Management.
What 5 words…how clients describe Martin
• Strategic
• Experienced
• Perceptive
• Completer/Finisher
• Supportive
Pari Naderi
Pari has long experience in the visual and performance arts. With a background in Contemporary Dance, she has worked alongside some of the country’s leading artists over three decades. She transitioned to photography in 2001, specialising in shooting performances in theatres and rehearsal studios, photographing site specific portraits in fields, beach front promenades, abandoned buildings and everything in between. Her finely tuned creative malleability allows her to respond quickly and imaginatively to shifting needs and parameters.
Pari has written and facilitated photography courses for children, amateurs and professional photographers culminating in exhibitions at Siobhan Davies Studios, City Hall and the Garden Museum at Lambeth Palace.
Pari’s work and method are rooted in authenticity and empathy and the belief that a photograph is a collaboration between subject and photographer. With her innate understanding of movement and the delicacy of expression she has a unique ability to put the sitter at ease, understanding how the act of being looked at can affect us. She creates a relaxed and generous environment dissipating tension and apprehension, allowing the sitter to feel at ease and able to express the best version of themselves.
Pari has worked with Jo Bostock since 2014. Collaborating on projects with a focus on equality, diversity and inclusivity she has created powerful and personal portraits that support the interviews and research behind these projects
Pari aims to provide a seamless and enjoyable photographic experience that helps the sitter find calm clarity, thus enabling us to create authentic and striking images with depth, meaning and which tells the story of that moment in time.
Areas of expertise:
• Image creation
• Creative flexibility
• Interpersonal skills
• Composition and storytelling
• Photo editing and retouching
What 5 words…how clients describe Pari
• Curious
• Adaptable
• Generous
• Empathetic
• Thoughtful
Jenny Barrow
Jenny Barrow has been working in the field of Diversity & Inclusion for nearly 20 years. Throughout her career, she has worked with senior leaders, managers and teams to equip them to build inclusive cultures, ultimately leading to improved organisational performance.
Jenny’s strengths lie in senior stakeholder management, working with executives to build inclusion into their leadership and operational cultures. She is a highly experienced leader in designing and delivering diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI) strategies with an action-oriented, outcomes focused approach. She is also involved in producing several DEI-related benchmarks across the finance, maritime and engineering sectors.
Jenny’s clients include a wide range of financial services, insurance, maritime and media firms as well as public sector, academia and not-for-profit organisations.
Work includes developing DEI strategies, group facilitation, public speaking, inclusive leadership and management development, DEI diagnosis to help organisations assess the DEI opportunities open to them, as well as research and writing.
She is the co-author of several reports and thought papers including:
• HM Treasury’s Women in Finance Charter Annual Reviews, from 2018 – present
• Royal Academy of Engineering Progression Framework Report, 2021
• Updating the Business Case for DEI
• Accelerating Black Inclusion in Financial Services
• A Renewed Focus on Social Mobility in Financial Services
• Diversity Study Group’s Annual Reviews, from 2020 – present
• Global Maritime’s Forum All Aboard Alliance Insights Report, from 2023 - present
• Lloyd’s Data Collection Toolkit
Jenny was Head of Corporate Responsibility for the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority, a role she held for over 4 years. She developed and implemented the regulator’s DEI strategy which included responsibility for discharging the FCA’s duties under the Public Sector Equality Duty.
Previously, Jenny spearheaded Diversity & Inclusion at the global law firm Baker McKenzie
Jenny is a member of Fair By Design’s Advisory Group, a movement dedicated to ending the poverty premium and is the DEI advisor to the Shipping & Maritime sector’s Diversity Study Group. She is also a Trustee of the Alternative Learning Trust, a multi-academy trust for Pupil Referral Units (PRUs), Alternative Provision, and specialist settings.
Areas of expertise:
• Strategy and Governance
• Data and Insights
• Coach-Mentoring
• Facilitation
• Leadership development
What 5 words…how clients describe Jen
• Insightful
• Knowledgeable
• Determined
• Pragmatic
• Engaging
Liz Grant OBE
Liz focuses on inclusion in the workplace. She works across organisations and especially at senior leadership level, helping them to build their leadership capabilities by embedding inclusion into their culture and operational activities.
Her own experience as a leader in a large corporate context provides valuable insights to the day-to-day challenges of managing complex, matrix managed organisations.
Liz has worked internationally in line of business roles within the technology sector. She is a highly experienced sales and marketing leader with a particular expertise in business development and operational effectiveness. She has worked in Australia, France, Hong Kong, as well as her original home, New Zealand. She has led teams by country, geographical and global units.
Her clients include a wide range of financial services, insurance, technology and media companies as well as academia and not-for-profit organisations. Liz spent time working as interim Head of Diversity & Inclusion for Lloyd’s Corporation and she designed and led the first insurance sector’s global ‘Dive In Festival’. She was also an interim executive at the Financial Conduct Authority as Head of Corporate Responsibility.
She was recognised in the 2013 New Year’s Honours when she was made an OBE - Officer of the Order of the British Empire - for services to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender equality in the workplace
Areas of expertise:
• Inclusive cultures
• Strategy development
• Business advisory
• Coach-Mentoring
• Leadership development
What 5 words…how clients describe Liz
• Commercially astute
• Wise
• Fun
• Influential
• Generous
Heidi Heseltine
Heidi specialises in the maritime industry, a truly global sector incorporating shipping, oil & gas, sustainability, insurance, construction, engineering, trading, global people solutions and much more.
Heidi has extensive experience of leading companies within the people and culture space since 2007. Her primary focus is on supporting clients to forge more inclusive, high-performance business environments.
Heidi has played an innovative and award-winning role in encouraging the sector’s need to make progress in relation to inclusion. She is well-known for her expertise in helping clients to leverage a competitive advantage through talent retention and attraction.
With a rapidly evolving inclusion-focused service portfolio, Heidi works with a range of global stakeholders across a number of areas including data gathering and benchmarking, building and maintaining a community of inclusion-focused maritime industry leaders, strategy development and implementation, inclusive leadership and all-colleague cascades, employee engagement surveys, an annual DEI in Maritime Conference and, most recently, spearheaded the launch of Crest, a global cross industry mentoring programme.
Heidi has over 30 years’ experience within the maritime industry. Her early career was in vessel operations before transitioning to focus on talent retention and attraction for the sector and subsequently concentrating on inclusion.
Areas of expertise:
• Inclusive cultures
• Talent advisory
• Data and insights
• Coach-mentoring
• Leadership engagement
What 5 words…how clients describe Heidi
• Inquisitive
• Knowledgeable
• Entrepreneurial
• Empathetic
• Innovative
Tammy Parlour MBE
Tammy is the CEO and co-founder of the Women’s Sport Trust, and is one of the UK’s most influential advocates for women’s professional sport. For over a decade, she has been a driving force behind efforts to elevate women’s sport—working to ensure it is visible, commercially viable, and valued in its own right.
Beyond her leadership at the Women’s Sport Trust, Tammy brings a unique blend of strategic vision and hands-on expertise. With a professional background in learning and development, she is committed to creating systems and cultures that enable people and organisations to grow. A Master of the Korean martial art Hapkido, she runs a thriving club in central London, and also contributes to football governance as a board director at AFC Wimbledon Women. Since 2023, she has served on The FA Women’s National League Board as a club representative assigned to the Southern Premier Division (Tier 3)—a critical pathway in the women’s football pyramid that supports the development and progression of players, coaches, and clubs.
In recognition of her outstanding contributions to gender equality in sport, Tammy was awarded an MBE in 2019.
Areas of expertise:
• Leadership development
• Strategy and visioning
• Facilitation
• Systemic change
• Inclusion cultures
What 5 words…how clients describe Tammy
• Curious
• Supportive
• Experienced
• Influential
• Pragmatic