Jackie Keeley

Jackie holds first and post-graduate degrees from the University of Bath, most recently qualifying in Action Learning methodologies with the Centre for Action Research in Professional Practice. In 1985 Jackie co-founded Harthill, building on her career as an independent consultant and her work at Roffey Park Management College. She quickly gained a broad ranging portfolio including Volvo, Hewlett Packard, Norwich Union, Fujitsu and The National Trust, many of whom she still retains as clients.

The current focus of her work is with senior individuals, supporting them to expand their capability and performance as leaders and managers.

She is co-author of several papers and a contributing author to ‘Action Inquiry: The Secret of Timely and Transforming Leadership’ (Berrett-Koehler, 2004).

David Rooke

David holds a degree in Politics and History (Kent) and an MA in Management Learning (Lancaster). He has been consulting with executives and their organisations for more than 20 years.

He co-founded Harthill in 1985, before which he worked as a manager and then at Bristol Business School (University of the West of England). David has consulted with organisations such as Shell, Volvo, HP, Nortel, Aviva, Fujitsu and the BG Group.

David has published several books (with Bill Torbert) and has been published (April 2005) in the Harvard Business Review. He is highly regarded for his work applying the Leadership Development Framework to leadership, team and organisational transformation.

Jane Allen

Jane graduated after studying Sociology and Politics and then qualified and worked in Social Services. Jane has been an associate of Harthill for a number of years and joined as a Director in January 2005. In a consulting career spanning more than 20 years, her particular interests are in coaching, facilitating action learning groups and working with organisations facing change.

Jane’s talent is to get alongside individuals, groups and organisations encouraging the development of potential. She has particular expertise in working with Senior Executives in Public Service and the issues inherent in those roles.

She is author of ‘The Art of Mentoring’ in the series ‘Revealing the Power of Mentoring’.

 

Bill Torbert

Bill received his BA in Political Science & Economics and his PhD in Administrative Sciences from Yale University. He has directed the Yale Upward Bound War on Poverty Program and the Theatre of Inquiry, has taught at Yale, Southern Methodist University, and Harvard and has served as Graduate Dean of the Carroll School of Management at Boston College (raising the school from below the top 100 to be ranked 25 during his deanship).  

Bill has consulted internationally in the automobile, construction, energy, investment finance, health care, software, and education sectors as well as serving on the Boards of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Trillium Asset Management. As a scholar, he has published many books and articles, including his award-wining Managing the Corporate Dream (Dow Jones-Irwin, 1987) and Action Inquiry: The Secret of Timely and Transforming Leadership (Berrett-Koehler, 2004).

Bill is responsible for the research programme at Harthill.

Nelisha Wickremasinghe

Nelisha graduated from Sussex with honours in Social Psychology and went on to train as a clinical psychologist and family therapist.  She holds a Masters in Public Service Management and is part of the Doctorate programme in Organisational Consulting at Ashridge Business School.

Prior to her consulting career Nelisha built and sold a successful restaurant business, worked as a non executive director on national and local boards and has developed and delivered leadership programmes for Common Purpose UK.

She joined Harthill as a Director in 2009.  Her areas of expertise are enabling senior teams to develop their potential and deliver exceptional performance, and coaching leaders. She has a particular focus on how groups ‘think together’ and the choices leaders make as they frame problems and 'create solutions'.