Marianna began her career leading customer and operations teams in Australia over 20 years ago.  After holding various in-house business leadership and transformation roles, she took the skills and experience she gained and put them to use helping organisations through change. She has a particular passion for and expertise in improving people’s Engagement and Experience at work, shifting Company Culture & Behaviours, Leading people through Change and Coaching for Performance.

Marianna has developed an acute sense of what makes change stick and how to create the appropriate mindset to enable this within individuals, teams and organisations.

Happiest when: travelling and exploring new places, eating great food at a cool restaurant, cooking up a storm, spending all day at the beach, mountains and lakes combined, D&M’s (Deep & Meaningful conversations), getting into bed on a cold winter’s night with the electric blanket on, drinking a great glass of red… she could go!

Jonathan began his career in food retail, joining Tesco as a store management trainee where he learnt, amongst other things, to bake bread, fillet fish and cut meat.  He moved into financial services, working in both retail and corporate banking.  These experiences formed his passionate belief that people are the differentiating factor in organisational life.  Jonathan has worked in operational leadership, organisation development and organisation effectiveness roles, focusing on strategy decode, change leadership and execution.   Specific assignments and interests include  integration post acquisition,  translating strategy into practice (including organisation design) and the human performance side of change.   Jonathan has worked extensively across Europe, the Middle East and Asia and he and his wife, Nicky, have lived in Dubai and South Korea – where their daughter was born.

Jonathan recently decided to fulfil a life time ambition, turning a hobby into a career by qualifying as a commercial pilot.  He now splits his time between consulting, piloting corporate jets, and teaching as a flying instructor.

Happiest when: going for a walk with Nicky, Sophie and the two mini schnauzers.

Miriam is a positive psychologist, author, wellbeing consultant, and coach. She is one of 100 global experts invited to contribute to The World Book of Happiness and The World Book of Hope, given to world leaders with a request to put wellbeing on their national agenda.

Miriam’s day-to-day work is as a trainer, coach, and consultant, delivering wellbeing and resilience programmes.  She is an educator, engaged in training up the next generation of positive psychology practitioners, and is on the faculty of the Executive MAPP at the University of Lisbon.

An author of six books including the ground-breaking Positive Psychology for Overcoming Depression. Her most recent is the best-selling Little Book of Happiness, which has 12 scientifically grounded habits of happiness.

Happiest when: Sharing good food, good wine and good conversation with friends.

Lindsey works with people to help them find practical, workable approaches to relationship and organisational challenges. After university, she taught in Paris for a year before qualifying as a solicitor in London. Lindsey’s desire to understand and get involved in the dynamics of business relationships meant that she moved out of law and for the last 20 or so years, has worked as a consultant, specialising in using applied psychology. She has an undergraduate degree in psychology, a postgraduate certificate in Counselling Psychology, a variety of psychometric licences and is currently studying for a Masters in Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Happiest when: I’ve had a good night’s sleep, am laughing in the company of friends and Muttley, my dog, is nearby – most likely on my lap!

Christina works with people, teams and organisations as they navigate life’s ups and downs.  She believes in keeping things simple, getting one thing to do many things, and uses her experience in HR, learning and development, and psychology to support clients with figuring out what that one thing is for them.  Christina began her career in HR working with the professional services.  She draws on her broad academic background, training as a psychodynamic psychotherapist, and commercial experience to think creatively about the types of solutions that might work best for her clients.

Happiest when: I’m sitting somewhere warm (even if it’s cold outside) with a good book on my lap, a great glass of wine in my hand and a snoring dog by my side.

Pam’s career in business spans thirty years in project management, HR, organisational development and, for the past fifteen years, as an independent consultant and executive coach. She believes greater self-awareness and a willingness to develop our skills are attributes that affect our whole lives not just work and that we all have the capacity to raise our game that provides a payoff to both individuals and their organisations. She has lived and worked in a number of different countries and has a particular interest in cross cultural issues and the value of diversity. Pam is a certified executive coach, is a Master Practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming and is qualified to use a wide range of psychometric tools.

Happiest when: travelling to new places or pottering in the garden.

Liz has been with WDI since its inception some 20+ years ago. She is WDI’s office manager and acts as a base station for everything WDI. Her exceptional organisational skills, endless patience and can do attitude make her a huge asset. Previously, Liz’s working career was in the insurance industry.

Happiest when: I’m outdoors, with family and friends, or when I have a dog to walk and we are eating ice cream at the seaside.

Esther joined WDI in 2010, coming from a consultancy background and having emerged from a long training in psychotherapy. Drawing on this mix of experience, she works systemically with teams and organisations to bring about cultural and behavioural change. Her mission is to achieve a rebalancing of the ‘machine’ and ‘social system’ aspects of organisations. Esther has an MSc in Occupational Psychology, is a Certified Transactional Analyst and a UKCP-registered psychotherapist in private practice.

Happiest when: I’m under clear blue skies in a warm breeze. And reading to my kids. And enjoying a good (so really bad) pun!

Cleo has been supporting clients to design, introduce and embed new organisational structures, roles and ways of working for the past 25 years. She has been part of the WDI team for the last 12 and, prior to that was a senior consultant with PA Consulting Group. Her enthusiasm and experience has been developed in a wide range of private and public sector organisations in health-care, financial, high-tech and service industries. She enjoys understanding the different challenges each presents, and developing solutions to meet the client’s specific requirements, culture and business pressures.

Happiest when: I’m at home with my family, walking the dogs, gardening, playing tennis, making cakes with my daughter – but not all at the same time!