c o r e  t e a m

Graham Seabrook

 

Having worked in many technical and senior management appointments for IBM for 24 years, Graham now brings 12 years management consultancy experience to the Insight Centre. He has worked with the boards of many top companies in the areas of strategic planning, problem solving, programme management and change management. He has recently managed three >£15m projects in the EU, as well as smaller projects. He specialises in programme and project management, taking a holistic view to the delivery of strategic projects on time, on budget, and to user delight.

 

Beryl Badger

B.Sc Soc Hons, FCIPD, MAMED

 

Beryl’s passion is enabling individuals and organisations to identify and work towards realising their potential. To do this she has worked as an external consultant, an internal consultant, lecturer and mentor/coach for over 30years. The particular tools she uses include: organisational and individual learning, mental modelling, change management, visualisation, communities of practice, opinion leaders and sources of learning. She has received many accolades including the Distinguished Badge of Merit from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. Her current focus is on sustaining change, using organisational learning to increase good infection control practices in hospitals, development of multi disciplinary workers and maximising the output of the over 50s.

 

Janine Edge

MA, MSc

 

Janine brings her skills of conflict management and negotiation to the Insight Centre, as this is often the first step in change management in many organisations. Her background as a senior London lawyer for many years (a partner of law firm Slaughter and May) brings the clarity, communication and fairness required to generate trust in an often emotional atmosphere. Janine’s supplementary background as a Visiting Fellow (Nottingham Trent University) in organisational psychology furthers the strong credibility in her proficiency.

 

 

 

Paul Filmore

PhD, MBA, FRSA, MInstP, ILTM, CPhys

 

Paul has years of experience in education and training, developing the personal, professional, research & creative skills of graduates. He has tutored companies in TRIZ and is the UK partner leader with CREAX in an EU Framework 6 proposal on disseminating TRIZ. He is a physicist-engineer and joint course leader and tutor on an RDA funded Programme for developing entrepreneurs (part of a three-year programme called Knowledge Exploitation South West). He offers organisational and technical guidance on innovation, to many companies.

 

 

 

 

 Pete Thomond

PhD

Pete Thomond co-ordinated the British involvement in the "Disrupt-it" project; a 3 million Euro project under the 5th Framework Program of the European Union. The project was established to investigate disruptive innovation, in part to provide help to industrialists wanting to understand how disruptive innovation can be fostered as part of a major competitive strategy. His main interests are in strategy execution and the enabling of radical innovation. This positions him as the driving force behind the collaborative approach toward the co-creation of new knowledge and understanding that will create competitive advantage for tomorrow's top enterprises.

Guido Bugmann

Member of eight national/ international professional bodies

Dr Guido Bugmann brings excellence in research consultancy to the Insight Centre. He is a Reader in Intelligent Systems and heads the Robotics Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Plymouth. He trained in physics and has been investigating computational neuroscience, interactive intelligent robotics (spoken interfaces, vision, planning, control) and artificial neural networks since 1987. He has worked at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (photovoltaic cells, plasma physics, ultrasound sensing), at the Fundamental Research Laboratories of NEC in Japan and at King's College London. He has 3 patents and over 100 publications.


 Catherine Thom

MMus, FTCL, LTCL, LRAM

 

Details pending.