Meet the Ingenious team
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Kev founded Ingenious Performance on the belief that performance and learning in any discipline come through the experiences we have. We learn in service of what we care about, and incorporate improved habits based on incremental practice, feedback, reflection and refinement. At Ingenious Performance, this philosophy underpins everything we do, to create world class performance experiences. This deep understanding has led to working with tens of thousands of leaders in large scale global businesses, assisting them to take their performance to the next level.
Luke brings a set of skills to the field of performance development, one that is rooted in psychology, performance and behavioural change, acquired over 25 years worth of experience. His mantra is to ‘learn by doing’ and always enjoys the challenge of working with participants to help facilitate this.
Victoria works as a behavioural coach with her expertise focusing on the skills to navigate difficult conversations, promote inclusive leadership, tackle implicit bias and raise self awareness of how micro-behaviours impact on performance
Over the last 15 years, she has led work in local and national government, media, technology and retail. Seeing the transformative change in delegates' resilience and confidence when they challenge themselves in the IP learning space is a huge personal driver for her.
Shelley is an actor and screenwriter, who has worked with IP for many years as a Business Role Player. Past clients include Zaha Hadid Architects, TalkTalk, Greenpeace and the Civil Service.
As IP's Head of Scenario Design, Shelley combines her writing and role playing experience, in close collaboration with our clients. This ensures that all content we create is tailored, nuanced and specific, providing a realistic and challenging practice environment for delegates.
Lizzie is a Business Role Player and facilitator with 10 years experience across a wide range of industries. She has a realistic style, enabling bespoke scenarios to be bought to life, allowing participants to immerse themselves in the training. Lizzie is highly skilled in giving supportive, constructive and evidence based feedback, giving our clients a real insight into their communication styles and the impact they have.
Alex is a facilitator, OD professional and coach with a background working at senior management level in charities and international non-Governmental organisations. She works with managers and leadership teams to develop presence and performance and balances high levels of support and challenge to enable individuals, teams and organisations to have the difficult conversations they need to, in order to get important work done.
Mark works as an executive coach, leadership consultant and behavioural change expert with a deep expertise working in Pharmaceuticals, Retail, Government and Consulting in a career spanning 30 years. He believes that everyone has the right to be inspired by what they do and brings intense curiosity, backed up by decades of experience working in big, fast moving, complex, global organisations to deliver results for our clients.
Tom is a senior leadership development specialist with 25 years experience in a range of global business environments. He offers high challenge coaching and consultancy focused on providing unique insights to leaders through behavioural observation. Specialisms include: behaviour and brand; clarifying purpose, vision and values; engaging others in embedding strategy; behavioural assessment for recruitment and performance. He researches leadership approaches from a range of conventional and unconventional disciplines – world presidents; movie directors; air crash investigations - to help his clients think more broadly about what leadership is.
Claire partners with organisations to create and facilitate impactful leadership development and behavioural change programmes. She focuses on asking great questions that really challenge thinking and lead to in-depth understanding. This is foundation for her solutions that make development part of the way things are done to get results for individuals, teams and whole organisations. Claire’s career has led her to work with a huge range of diverse companies and people, each one helping to build their own and her capability.
Catrina is a facilitator, coach and leadership consultant with a rich range of experience gained from working with leaders at board level through to first appointments. She loves helping individuals develop the quality of their thinking, judgement, skills and confidence and believes that once people find their leadership courage and purpose, anything is possible.
Kate has worked as Business Role Player since 2001. She is also an Executive Coach and Facilitator and is passionate about creating lasting behavioural change through experiential learning, and believes in giving honest, supportive feedback in order to enable this. Learning is reciprocal and she relishes discovering more from every interaction with participants, at all levels of management and across many sectors.
Deji has over 10 years experience as an actor/ facilitator. His work centres predominantly on behavioural management and creating a culture where everyone's individual talents is acknowledged and respected. He very much see's experiential learning as the way forward if you want to see lasting cultural change within a business and is always on hand to give and receive feedback from clients.
Jerry has over 25 years experience as a Business Role Player and works with a passion for experiential learning & drama based development that delivers results. Jerry always brings energy to the experiences we create and prides himself on his ability to quickly understand the client & their culture.
Jide has worked as a Business role-player and trainer for 13 years. He has a lot of experience in Inclusive Leadership & Personal Impact. Jide is passionate about training and giving participants practical tools to help them raise their awareness, build their confidence and form stronger relationships with their colleagues. He has worked at with clients at all levels and across sectors on Feedback, Influencing & presentation skills.
Kirsten is a dynamic people & organisation development specialist, who is passionate about supporting and enabling people and teams to be the best they can be. As a facilitator and coach, she has been privileged to work internationally at all levels, and in a variety of sectors. She loves to enable others to create a change within themselves or their businesses and enhance their confidence to have the conversations that make the difference. She helps to unlock potential and develop high performing motivated teams who are able to work together effectively and creatively to achieve success.
Polly has been a Business Role Player and facilitator for 15 years. With over 30 years experience as a professional actress Polly really enjoys using her skills to help others experience real conversations, delivering developmental feedback that gives valuable insight and supports behavioural change. Every client brings new and interesting challenges and being part of the change process that learning and development brings is enormously satisfying.
Pooja has been a professional actor for over 20 years but has been a role-player, facilitator and coach for the past 17 years. She is passionate about making a difference in people's lives and loves the different types of sessions she is involved in. Based in London, she has been lucky enough to travel all over the world undertaking corporate training and development work; working at all levels - from shop floor through to board across a variety of public and private sectors. Pooja brings professionalism, skills, empathy and fun to all that she does and is a great addition to any team.
Sarah is an experienced executive business coach and facilitator, working across numerous sectors. Sarah has an engaging style of delivery supporting clients to achieve tangible results with authenticity and confidence. With a particular interest in Transactional Analysis, Sarah seeks to create an environment where people can openly examine their individual and collective impact on those around them, acknowledge their challenges, devise their own solutions and, in so doing, become the heroines and heroes of their own stories.