Blacklight Advisory was founded in 2013 with a vision to build an advisory practice that is fresh, innovative and willing to stray away from the conventional path. We have backgrounds in academia, with practical experience working across industries and extensive experience in the field of professional services.

My formative years were in India and in profound ways that experience shapes and guides a lot of my thinking today. I trained as a psychologist and have used this learning to work in organisations. Over my career I have worked with organisations of various sizes and complexities around the world. From government, healthcare, media to financial services on all sorts of challenges from changing organisational culture to developing leaders. These varied experiences have contributed to my learning and understanding of organisations and the strategic challenges that they face.

I specialise in leadership development; I am an expert facilitator and work with leadership teams and groups. I work with organisational culture; supporting leaders in building a strong culture that will help their businesses adapt and thrive. I am also an expert organisation development professional having worked for many years helping organisations with strategic issues.

I believe that one cannot stop learning and am currently in the throes of completing a doctoral programme. At the same time, I also believe that teaching is the best way to learn and I have been visiting faculty in a number of institutions including the London School of Economics and the Tavistock and Portman Trust.

My first job out of University was working thousands of miles from home, in bandit country… on a tiny island in the Philippines. Whilst my subsequent 18 years in consulting have not always been so tropical – it has been characterised by working collaboratively with clients, under challenging conditions, to achieve exceptional results. My career has been spent with the world’s biggest consulting firms and businesses – my last role being a Director with a big 4 professional service firm where I co-led the organisation change consultancy team across Financial Services in the UK. During that time I have directed some exceptional programmes to the benefit of thousands of employees. I have extensive experience of culture change, organisation design and programme & change management.

Originally I am from The Netherlands but feel like a Londoner now as I have been living here since 2002. I have had over 15 years of global working experience in industry in a senior management capacity in different sectors. I have led large, multi-jurisdictional teams and understand the leadership challenges associated with those roles. Over this time, I have gained tremendous knowledge of work-related issues from stress, performance anxiety to leadership issues and team development.

I offer group facilitation, organisation development with a focus on leadership development, change management and executive coaching. As lead of our systemic coaching offering, I have the pleasure to work with our global coaching panel made up of highly experienced and talented coaches. The coaching work I do ranges from individual, pair, group to team coaching.

I hold an MSc in Psychotherapy and I am a Certified Transactional Analyst, accredited by the UKCP and a member of the BACP coaching division. I am a psychotherapist in private practice and examiner on the MSc programme at Metanoia Institute in London.

I am an Organisation Development consultant and registered Clinical Psychologist. I specialise in organisational development & design, facilitation, change management, cultural articulation & communication, leadership development and executive coaching. I hold over 18 years of experience in human dynamics, combining my clinical knowledge with that of organisational systems and business strategy. I have helped many companies to accurately articulate and communicate their underlying culture in order to drive performance, talent retention and competitive advantage. My belief is that a strong and well understood culture is at heart of the worlds most successful organisations.

I am an experienced organisational consultant and coach, specialising in group dynamics, leadership and organisational development. I have worked as in-house consultant and as organisational practice leader with an international consulting firm. I facilitate interventions for leaders to address their strategic imperatives and help them expand their awareness and capacity for impactful collaboration.

Due to the increasingly virtual nature of work, I have been able to split my time between studies at the University of Bath whilst still supporting and delivering work at Blacklight. I have successfully implemented global leadership development programmes with the aim of instilling organisational capacity for change. I believe it has never been more important for organisations to be flexible and adaptive when operating in the modern business environment.

I hold a degree in Management and Organisational Psychology. It is my firm belief that only a healthy organisation with a strong culture can lead through sustainable growth. At Blacklight, I have been working on multiple initiatives around learning and organisation development. I am also involved in the facilitation of workshops and supporting large leadership development programmes.

I joined the Blacklight team after relocating from London to Wales, where I live with my family. I come with a wealth of experience having worked in various global organisations before. Whist studying to become a Chartered Accountant I am supporting the Blacklight team with remote administrative assistance. For years, while working through different finance roles, I became fascinated by different management and leadership styles. I enjoy good company and being surrounded by inspiring people.

I am an established HR leader with over 25 years of experience across a range of sectors in large, medium and small organisations. I have a strong orientation towards transforming organisations and through my career, have gained a great deal of knowledge as both a HR technician, and a the leader of large teams managing major change programmes. I am fascinated by the power of creating benchmark employee experience and engagement through innovative frameworks that create the environment where leaders can lead and talent can flourish. My passion is spotting, harnessing and nurturing young talent and I regularly work with a number of schools, colleges, charities and youth development organisations to support young people into further education and jobs.