Rick Huntley is a highly skilled leadership, organization and equity and inclusion change consultant, coach, facilitator and teacher with demonstrated ability to successfully facilitate organizational learning, skill development and system-wide change using organization development theory, experiential learning and individual growth.

He is the President and Chief Consultant with Rick Huntley Consulting.  His firm comes with extensive experience providing midsize to large organizations with a clear snapshot of their current state then developing a strategic organizational roadmap for system-wide change, using a “Power, Leadership & Change” framework.

Rick was on the instructional team at the American University, Masters of Organization Development Program, and currently an adjunct lecturer at Georgetown University’s Institute for Transformational Learning, teaching in its Executive Certificate in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

He recently co-authored “Journeys of Race, Color and Culture: From Racial Inequality to Equity and Inclusion.

Rick completed graduate study at Howard University in Washington, DC, and earned post-graduate certificates in Organization and Systems Development from the Gestalt OSD Center in Cleveland and the International Gestalt Organization Leadership and Development Program.

Rick is also a member, and past Chair of the Board, of NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science

I think of myself as a practitioner-scholar, specializing in holistic perspectives to enhance organizational performance. My coaching and consulting portfolio reflects a global practice across sectors in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa.

Leadership is my current passion --- underscoring the significance of use-of-self and executive presence and bringing more attention to the role of leadership in Organization Development (OD), which seems to have become a lost science in the field. I, too, am keen on theory and artistry of working with groups and teams.

I have both practical experience and education to inform my work. As a former corporate Vice-President and former Vice-City Manager, I have first-hand knowledge of challenges and benefits of leadership. My teaching includes Adjunct Professor in the Executive MBA Program at Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois; the Nurse Manager Leadership Development Program of Yale New Haven Hospital; and, NTL Institute’s Organization Development Certificate Programs in Oxford, England; Mumbai, India; and Singapore. I have taught in management, doctoral, and leadership development programs at several universities and Fortune 100 companies.

My education includes Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and Gestalt clinical, group, and OD practice. I am co-founder of GestaltOD Partners LLC and the International Gestalt Organization & Leadership Development (iGOLD) Program.

My writings cover organizational change and resistance, leadership development, use-of-self and personal presence, experiential learning theory, Gestalt practice in organizations, and Appreciative Inquiry (AI). I am fortunate to have been part of the pioneering application of AI theory to whole system change, a methodology that is now known as the AI Summit. My husband Elias and I live in Chicago and are proud parents to two sons.  

Professionally I describe my as ODD, as I do Organisation Design and Development.  This dates back to 1995 when I ran VISTA Consulting with the specific intention of specialising in whole system approaches to leadership and organisational transformation.  Over the years, working with a vast range of clients, I have found that combining the speed and power of large group working, with innovative and participative development tools, creates high levels of engagement, commitment and involvement within organisations.  It is my belief that the work should be done by the organisation and the role of the consultant is to bring expertise about what it is possible for them to do and achieve.

My specific skill set includes designing and facilitating large scale interactive processes, strategy development and implementation, team development (often with smaller leadership teams before beginning any large scale transformation within organisations) system leadership development and organisational design. I am known world-wide as one of the few leading proponents able to bring the best of large scale methodologies to a bespoke design for organisations.  My meeting facilitation and design expertise means nothing is left to chance and extraordinary results can be achieved in short time frames.  My energy and enthusiasm is as infectious as my knowledge and commitment.

I co-authored the book You Don’t Have to Do It Alone with Robert (Jake) Jacobs, creator of Real Time Strategic Change, and Dick and Emily Axelrod, creators of The Conference Model.  I also co-authored ‘Meetings by Design’ – a survival guide for anyone and everyone who has ever endured a meeting!

I have been a member of the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioural Science since 2011 and I previously served on the Board of ODN Europe with responsibility for the Conference Portfolio.

I have my own organization development consulting practice where my main focus is working with executive and leadership teams to help them develop habits of reflective learning as a core capability for improving results and creating operational and strategic breakthroughs.

I’ve lately become interested in organizations as complex adaptive systems and have been exploring ways to create what we’re learning about complexity to create more connected, courageous, and effective organizations.

Prior to starting down this path in 2002, I ran Organization Integration at Merrill Lynch in NYC and before that was head of J.P. Morgan’s Leadership and Organization Development function for Europe, based in London. I also had 10 years as an investment banker while at J.P. Morgan before discovering OD.

In addition to my experience in the US and UK, I have worked across Europe, Asia, and Africa. I have expertise building effective working groups (whether at the project, executive, or Board level), formulating organizational strategies, and transforming individuals and groups into more productive, integrated, and self-sustaining systems. My work incorporates the use of self-awareness and emergence principles to create clarity, commitment, and improved interaction.

I just finished my part in a three year long global culture change and restructuring effort with NTL, playing key leadership roles on various committees throughout the project. Working with colleagues, we developed influential recommendations and insights to support the organization’s Board of Directors and other decision makers.

I did my undergraduate work at Dartmouth College and received a masters in OD from American University / NTL. I hold numerous qualifications and certifications including the Certificate in Principles and Practices in Organization Development from Teachers College, Columbia University (NY), the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), the Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i), and the California Psychological Inventory (CPI) among others. I am a member of the OD Network in the US and Europe and NTL Institute.

Karen has over 25 years of demonstrated experience leading, facilitating, and supporting change in education systems in the United States. Presently, she works with state departments of education, organizations, and government agencies, focusing on leadership and organization development and advancing EDIB.

Karen began her career in education as a parent advocating for her and other people’s children. Soon after, she was recruited by Alexandria City Public Schools (ACPS) to establish and lead the Office of Family Engagement and Community Resources, tasked with the engagement and creation of effective and meaningful partnerships between families, community members, businesses, and school and district staff. A memorable achievement during her tenure at ACPS was a collaboration with over 125 families, staff from school and city agencies, and community and business leaders across Alexandria to create and lead “The Family Academy” with over 85 courses in four languages, in multiple locations throughout Alexandria. Before beginning her career in education, Karen worked for many years in the television industry, producing, directing, editing, and providing telecommunication needs for local, national, and global programming.

With a master’s degree in Organization Development from American University’s AU-NTL program, she is skilled in working with complex systems to examine organizational culture, human and group behaviors and dynamics, and systems, structures, and processes. She uses various intervention methods, strategies, and tools to facilitate change. In addition, as a member of NTL Institute, Karen designs and facilitates experiential learning in laboratory settings designed to advance human systems development.

Karen is known for her deftness in developing trust and creating collaborative and inclusive spaces to facilitate change across various dimensions of diversity. She is passionate about ensuring that black and brown learners have access to academic and personal opportunities and resources that will allow them to succeed and thrive! She has established herself as a respected expert in her profession. As Audre Lorde said, “It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”

Karen resides in Alexandria, Virginia, with her husband, Stuart. They have three daughters, Shannon, 37, Ariell, 31, and Sierra, 30. She loves laughing, traveling, reading and listening to books, watching movies, and spending time with family and friends. However, her most precious past-time is spending time with her grandchildren, Robert, 13, and Victoria Eliza, 13-weeks.

Shelly Hossain BA PGDIP MBA is an Organisational Development consultant. She specialises in Leadership development, Change Management and Personal Effectiveness. She originally trained as a town planner and has over 15 years local government experience, holding a variety of senior positions.  She has been a development specialist for the last 20 years.  Her work has involved designing and delivering local, national and international leadership programmes.

Shelly is an Associate with leading development specialists: Roffey Park Management Institute; Real World Group; Society of Local Government Chief Executives; and the MiL Institute in Sweden and Berkshire consultancy. Her work includes running Masters level programmes, creating and delivering positive action initiatives and bespoke leadership development programmes in the private, public and charity sectors.

Shelly works with the Strategic /Top Teams in organisation focusing on individual, team and organisation wide development. This has involved Executive coaching, supporting and guiding top teams on change projects and working with partner public sector organisation on broader issues such as Community Engagement and partnership working. She brings a strong academic and experienced based grounding to her work. Shelly is experienced in using a variety of 360 degree feedback tools including LQF, TLQ and HPI, she is also accredited to use MBTI.

Recent / Current Projects:

• Facilitator on many NHS initiatives, this includes development centre activities for senior leaders, NHS graduate scheme, Top Talent Programme and the Breaking Through Programme.

• Set Advisor for inter-agency sets for SOLACE and various Cross Sector Learning sets. These are one year programmes aimed at Chief Executive/Director level participants in the public sector which provides an opportunity for robust, supportive and challenging dialogue amongst peers in a non-judgemental setting.

• Set advisor on the MSc in ‘People and Organisational Development’ at Roffey Park Management Institute. These two year academic programmes are based on self-managed learning principles using learning sets as a core component of the programme. As Set Advisor Shelly acts as the main point of contact for the post-graduate participants.

• Programme Manager for the National Probation Service on a two-year Leadership programme for potential Chief Officers and Directors. This is an innovative programme which has been short listed twice for Personnel Today Awards

• Joint facilitator for a Department of Transport programme “Green Light”, a positive action Programme for BME staff, which has won Gold Standard at the Diversity Awards.

• Joint Programme lead on the District Vision Project in the North East of England on Community Engagement. This brought together 13 Councils (officers and members) to review and enhance community engagement work .The project blended input, discussions and practical application.

• Facilitator on the Police Service Leadership programmes inputting on Transformational Leadership and currently working with the Metropolitan Police on the ‘Equip to Achieve Programme’.

As an established practitioner and academic in organisational development and change (BA, MA, PhD), I enjoy a blend of three inter-connected activities. I operate a private consultancy practice, teach on courses for consultants and change agents, and conduct action research that integrates theory and practice for workable approaches to real life change.

 I consider myself as having a foot in each of the two camps essential to the field of applied social science. My early formation as an organisational development consultant (1972-1985) was based on a progressive USA orientation mostly shaped by NTL Institute. After being recruited to The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations in London (1987), I learned to appreciate how regressive aspects of human behaviour underpin consultancy and change practice. I still serve The Tavistock Institute as Senior Fellow in Scholarly Practice and as a devoted Professional Partner.

 I express my ongoing commitment to NTL Institute as a Professional Member (since 1993), an Associate Editor of its Journal of Applied Behavioral Science (JABS), a member of the coordinating body for the recent NTL UK-European Hub, and through involvement with the NTL OD Certificate in the UK.

 My professional aims include: (1) practicing “good” organisational change as demonstrated by over 450 projects; (2) improving the quality of consultancy and change management available to organisations as substantiated by extensive consultation with OD practitioners individually and in groups; (3) undertaking shamelessly practical R&D as shown through my web-articles on Kurt Lewin’s principles of action research plus over 25 refereed publications.

 My private practice trades as “Dr Jean Neumann: professional advice and development for organisational consultants and change managers”. In my experience, responding to immediate and emerging needs requires, at minimum, a blend of: shadow consultancy, intervention design, role analysis, clinical supervision, business development and practice improvement.

Harold Hill BS MBA, is an Organization Development (OD) professional and Executive Coach with the passion and expertise to enable organizations, teams and leaders improve their effectiveness and increase their capacity. With over 20 years of experience, he has designed, delivered and measured the effectiveness of leadership training and development programs both as an internal and external resource, ensuring client success in strategic and operational initiatives. His work includes training and work sessions in process consultation, diversity and inclusion, change management and leadership development.

Harold holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and an MBA in Operations Management. He earned a Professional Human Resources Certificate from Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and has completed the Principles & Practices of Organization Development Program at Columbia University.

He has studied at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland where he earned certificates in both the US and international Organization & Systems Development (OSD) Programs and a certificate in Working with Groups. He has served as faculty for the international Gestalt program. Harold has attended courses in Tavistock group process and is ICF ACC certified in executive coaching with the Teleos Leadership Institute. 

Harold has managed his own OD consultancy since 2009 and was a Senior Consultant with North Highland Consulting. Prior to that he was an OD Manager with Walt Disney Parks & Resorts in Orlando, Florida for nearly 10 years. Harold’s clients range across many sectors and include The Walt Disney Company, University of Miami, Zebra Technology, Merrill Lynch, Cox Automotive, Janssen Pharmaceutical, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ComCast, Bank of America and University of Texas A&M.

Lennox E. Joseph, PhD. a native of Trinidad, West Indies, is an educator, organization development specialist and change management authority recognized for his expertise in impacting the “managerial mind” of corporations and for forging new frontiers in organizational development through change implementation procedures and practices. 

Dr. Joseph has over thirty years’ experience in the advising, consulting, training and teaching fields. He has worked internationally as an internal change agent, an external consultant, an executive leader and a program administrator. He held prominent positions in the OD field including the President and Chair of the Board of Directors of The Lewin Center for Social Change, Action and Research (ME), the Organizational Development and Effectiveness Advisor of The World Bank Group, (Washington, DC) and President and CEO of NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science (VA).  In addition to his university faculty appointments, he received numerous awards and honors with his most esteemed being recipient of the Herman Stein Award from his alma mater, Case Western Reserve University (OH), for his contributions to International Social Change, and the first honoree by the Human Resource Management Association of Trinidad and Tobago (HRMATT) for his work with the Trinidad and Tobago government in managing their 1990 Parliamentary hostage crisis. 

Lennox considers himself a life-long learner of organizational dynamics and social systems. He currently resides in Brussels, Belgium. 

Gwen (she/her) is a practitioner-educator in organisation development (OD) and applied behavioural science. A former executive leader in commercial and charitable organizations, she is an experienced consultant, educator and author who has been consulting in different industries and sectors for 21 years.  

Her recently published book on virtual Dialogic OD, ‘From Physical Place to Virtual Space’ was an Amazon best-selling Business Consulting book in the UK, US and Japan (February 2021), awarded ‘Best New Leadership Book of 2021’, and a finalist in the Business Book Awards 2022 – Change & Sustainability Category.

Formerly an Executive Director of OD in a UK consultancy, Gwen now runs her own consulting business, Seeds Of Transformation, based in the UK, and works with global clients in different industries and sectors. She has experience consulting within primary and secondary healthcare systems, pharma, meditech, utilities, media, digital solutions, and education.

Key Areas of Expertise:

Gwen’s consulting approach is built on relational, dialogic, participatory, and systemic principles.  Her work focuses on:

·         Shaping and guiding organisational transformation and culture change initiatives

·         Developing collaborative partnering within and across organisational systems

·         Executive + Senior Leader Development (Individual + Team)

·         Facilitating critical conversations

·         Developing OD and transformation skills in others

Gwen has a range of OD qualifications including the NTL OD Cert (2009), NTL HI Lab & T Group Facilitator Training (2019), Relational Organisational Gestalt (2021), Ecological Constellations (2015), NLP Master Practitioner & Coach (2007), and holds an MSc in Organizational Consulting (2013) and MBA (2000) from Ashridge Hult Business School.  She is a member of Association of Business Psychologists and ODN Europe (Board member 2018-2020)

Gwen is visiting faculty for Leeds University Business School MSc in Management Consulting and for The Cape Cod Institute in the US.

Since the Summer of 2020, I have been lucky enough to have turned a decade-long passion for anti-racism and the critical examination of whiteness, into professional practice as an Associate of brap, the equality and human rights charity brap (https://www.brap.org.uk/). This work feeds my soul and requires that I bring all of myself, drawing on all areas of my life and previous work:

• My learning as a UK Home Office and Cabinet Office senior civil servant about public policy and private cynicism, and the weak links between leaders’ desires and systemic results, even when those leaders have a panoply of State power to draw upon.

• As a governance consultant in Afghanistan, Libya, Palestine, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Syria (based in Turkey) and Tunisia, I learned experientially of the global nature of white privilege; the long after-effects of colonialism; and the tendency for ‘help’ to come in a form that allows the helper to feel better about themself more often than it helps the ‘helped’.

• As Barnardo’s Director of Policy and Research from 2006 to 2010, I led an organisational race equality and diversity programme and was given Peggy McIntosh’s ‘White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack’ by one of my team. This began both my journey of exploration into white identity, privilege and power, and my indebtedness to women of colour whose generosity and brilliance, emotional and intellectual labour has supported my own development and practice.

I’m a graduate of both the NTL OD certificate programme (2012) and the iGOLD Gestalt OD and leadership programme (2018).

I moved to Leicester in 2015 and take great joy in the miracle that was Leicester City FC’s triumph in the English Premier League in 2016, augmented in 2021 by victory in the FA Cup.

Fadi has over twenty-five years of diverse experience in leading change, and supporting leaders lead themselves and others through change. His passion is to support teams and individuals to pursue an authentic and meaningful life.

Fadi began his career as a group facilitator, working with groups of Palestinians and Israelis around trust and relationship building. Facilitating dialogue across divides and tension lines, and leading conflict resolution and trust-building programs. As a result of his experience working with issues of difference, inclusion and leadership, he began working with teams in the corporate setting. Late in his journey, Fadi held the role of HR Director; four years with a leading financial institution, and another four with a Pharmaceutical Group, both in the Middle East. After his HR experience, he established his own business as an Organisational and Leadership Development Consultant and Executive Coach. Working with clients in Europe, United States, and the Middle East.

Fadi is a T-group facilitator, Gestalt Coach (GPCC), and systemic constellation practitioner. Leadership Circle (360 LCP), and FIRO-B administrator. He is a Fulbright Scholar, has two Master Degrees; Organisational Behavior & Development, and Conflict Resolution, Negotiation & Leadership. NTL member since 2017, and ODC program graduate.

Paul’s passion and energy are for helping people transform themselves and their organisations. Paul is an experienced leader in reshaping organisations and systems to deliver outstanding results and growth. A systems thinker, experienced coach, Non-Exec Director and previous participant in the NTL programme.

Paul has a broad background in organisation leadership, consulting, coaching and educating; having delivered as a consultant across the private, public and charitable sectors, as a national leader in the NHS and as a senior leader and internal consultant in the private sector including international leadership roles. Paul has worked in technology, health, defence, transport, housing, NGOs, and central and local government sectors and includes roles in all aspects of the organisation.

As a consultant, Paul works regularly with executive teams and boards helping them improve performance, enhance and develop culture, and establish organisations and teams that are adaptive, collaborative and achieve outstanding results. Paul runs his own consultancy, SKIPTA Consulting, and lives in Kent in the UK. He is married with three daughters.