Organisational Development Advisor

Professor Sharon Turnbull is a leadership development specialist and academic who has published widely in the field of leadership, and whose interests include organisational culture and change. Sharon has a PhD in Management and an MBA. She is currently Cycle Director of the International Masters Program in Practicing Management, and she has experience of being a Visiting Professor at various academic institutions. She was also Research Director at The Leadeship Trust. Sharon has been actively involved with Caplor Horizons since it was established.

Web & IT Systems Advisor

Deven leads on the technical aspects of website and IT systems design, development and implementation for Caplor Horizons and The Commitment. He is an IT systems professional with a strong track in the establishment and scale up of cutting edge on-line businesses. He currently works as Lead Developer at Handbag Clinic. Prior to this he worked for many years as an IT, Graphic Design and General Manager at KD and Jay, an online retail business. Deven is also committed to social and environmental sustainability within business and society.

Leaderful Advisor

Lynne held 3 CEO roles within the UK Further Education sector over a period of 17 years. She is currently an executive coach and organisational consultant. Lynne has worked in 15 countries on developing leadership and is an experienced board member having held 20 non-executive posts. She has been awarded the CBE, was named one of Debrett's ‘500 most influential people in the UK’ and one of the ‘UK’s 100 women of Spirit’. Lynne holds a PhD. She is actively involved as an Advisor with Caplor Horizons, including having written a paper called ‘The Leaderful Way’.

Leadership Advisor

Chandra is an experienced coach, mentor, trainer and educationalist with a track record in challenging and supporting improved outcomes for young people and their families. His deep awareness of how inequalities and disadvantage operate permeates all his thinking and work. He currently co-leads ELS Education: this is an innovative provider of high quality, alternative education provision and flexible tuition in a deprived and multi-racial area of London. Chandra has carried out a wide spectrum of work-streams with Caplor Horizons: for instance, facilitating a capacity development programme in West Africa.

Leadership Advisor

Saf is an experienced coach, mentor, trainer and educationalist. He currently co-leads ELS Education: this is an innovative provider of high quality, alternative education provision and flexible tuition in a deprived and multi-racial area of London. Saf’s holistic approach, experience of inter-agency work, and passion for lifelong learning has made a unique contribution to turning around the lives of young people. As an Advisor, Saf has carried out many work-streams: for instance, facilitating a strategy renewal process of a UK based international NGO; or carrying out a organisational development programme with a NGO focusing on children in Goa, India.

Facilitator and Experiential Learning Advisor

Ann is a highly experienced and skilled facilitator, coach and designer of experiential learning. She specialises in transferring knowledge and skills, gained over 30 years in learning and development, to other professionals through her writing, coaching, mentoring and delivery of highly regarded international trainer of training workshops. Ann is the author of 'Pattern-Making, Pattern Breaking', a practical guide to designing and facilitating learning. As a long-standing Advisor at Caplor Horizons, Ann has been pivotal to the creation and delivery of various highly distinctive tools. Also she has generated many of the resources that help form the organisation’s backbone in terms of its creative approach to experiential learning.

Strategy Advisor

Formerly long-standing CEO of AVIVA, and Chair of PZ Cussons, Richard has had a highly successful career in business. Other major roles included chairing the Advisory Board of an innovative healthcare investment fund for the World Bank and acting as a non-executive director of Jardine Lloyd Thompson. Richard has been involved with many not for profit organisations; for instance he was Patron of United Purpose (formally called Concern Universal). Richard and his wife Kay have been very actively involved with Caplor Horizons since it was established. They now live in New Zealand where they are involved with various community activities there too.

Neuroscience Advisor

Clive applies insights from neuroscience as the central core of his work. He has focused on coaching business leaders. Having studied both psychology and sociology, and having been a CEO within the business sector, Clive now concentrates on neuroscience to bring a fresh and powerful understanding of what it really takes to get the best out of people and organisations. He is the author of two books on the subject, the latest is titled: ‘The Neuro-Edge’. As a long-standing Advisor at Caplor Horizons, he has been instrumental in various ways, including creating ‘Human Horizons’, a neuroscience based profiling tool.

Design and Delivery Advisor

Denise is a freelance leadership development coach / facilitator working with individuals and teams across private, public and not-for-profit sectors.

She has worked with Caplor Horizons since 2015 and enjoys designing programmes, as well as facilitating / coaching individuals and teams.

She also works as an Associate Coach / Facilitator for The Leadership Trust, developing and delivering bespoke and experiential programmes and delivers the Coaching Skills for Leaders programme for leaders who wish to develop their leadership skills through coaching.

Her own work includes coaching elected Student Officers in Student Unions who take time out from study to lead the Unions, support student led activities and represent the student voice at university.

International Development Advisor

Samson is a highly experienced international development specialist. He has experience and expertise in all functions essential for the effective running of an international development organisation. For a period of over 30 years Samson has worked in more than 20 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and Oceania. Samson has a BA degree in Accounting, a PG Dip in Business Analysis and an MBA. He first worked for the Ethiopian Government. After this he has worked with various NGOs, including a period as CEO of The Pharo Foundation. Samson has been a Advisor with Caplor Horizons since it was first established.

Financial Advisor

Blaise has considerable experience in the not for profit sector at staff and board levels. As our Financial Advisor he contributes internally within Caplor Horizons whilst also supporting organisations that we work with, such as Hope for the Future, a UK focused environmental advocacy charity.

Blaise started work during the 1980s at Gillygate Wholefood Bakery in York (in the north of England), a pioneering social business employing adults with disabilities. Following that he pursued a career in the charity and social business sectors. He has held a number of charity trusteeships in the past 30 years including at Brunswick Organic Nursery, a charity in York; this provides horticultural and craft opportunities for adults with a learning disability; and more recently at ECHO for Extra Choices in the West of England. He worked from 1999-2017 in different senior finance roles at United Purpose (formerly knows as Concern Universal), including as Director of Finance and Services; this is a large international development charity based in the UK. From 2017-20 he led finances for Hope Family Centre, a charity in the West of England. Blaise now works as a freelance financial advisor to a range of different charities.

HR Advisor

Bev is the Group HR Director at G’s, one of Europe’s leading producers of salads and vegetables. Appointed to the role in 2008, she champions sound ethical working practices and Human Rights throughout the G’s Fresh supply chain, and across industry, employing over 5,000 migrant workers internationally in the G’s Group. In her current role she supports the Executive Chairman, CEO and Group board of directors on corporate strategy, executive coaching and development, talent acquisition and succession. Additionally, Beverly is a founder of MSIN (Modern Slavery Intelligence Network) and holds non-executive directorships at Haygrove, MM Flowers and The Institute of Agriculture and Horticulture (TIAH). Bev supports Caplor Horizons as our HR Advisor.

Director of The Commitment

William had a career in private equity, combined increasingly with active roles in the education and environmental sectors. He has a lifelong passion for the natural world expressed seasonally through his love of leaf catching and butterflies.

For a number of years William worked with community-based conservation organisations around the world. Since 2018 he has focused on The Commitment, believing that accelerated government action on both biodiversity and climate change is essential for a healthy planet.