“Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you” – Russell Simmons
We met each other in June 2006 in France, delivering a core consulting skills programme. And that is where our story started. After working together for a number of years, we set up twyLa in 2012 to pursue our passion for learning.
I started my career as a strategy consultant working in Europe and Asia. While in China leading the Strategy & Transformation practice, I was asked to set up a Young Graduates Programme and this kindled my interest in learning. Upon my return to Europe, I joined a corporate university where I was responsible for designing, developing and maintaining the content of several curricula. I led the University facilitators programme and set up the Design Centre of Excellence to guide the development of next generation learning across a number of curricula. Currently, I facilitate leadership programmes and skills courses with various clients across industries. My colleagues know me for my strong interpersonal skills, my drive and passion, my ability to build authentic relationships and my robust problem-solving approach. I am passionate about bringing good design into learning and I am deeply interested in researching how neuroscientific insights will help to drive better learning. I love taking long walks with my dog, take a guilty pleasure in buying more books than I can ever read, and think the best way to explore a city is to get lost in its streets.
I started my career in product marketing and sales in Asia, moved on to work as a management consultant in Europe and then set up Twyla to focus on learning design, training and facilitation. I am affiliated to a corporate university as a faculty member. At the University and with other clients I help drive the design and development of curricula and learning programmes. I facilitates a number of core skill courses and leadership courses. I am passionate about business opportunities to accelerate learning and my focus is to make good design work for learners, and to do this with speed. My colleagues know me as a master facilitator and I enjoy complex facilitation gigs. I am persuasive, I build credibility quickly and I often am able to help drive a way forward. I love riding my bike, I have an emerging interest in everything to do with food and I spend most of his free time learning from my kids who for the moment happy to entertain that. And I continue with my attempts to reduce my golf handicap with not much to show yet!
OUR AFFILIATES
“We work with accomplished professionals from across disciplines who bring in their individual expertise and facilitate in line with the twyLa learning principles’
Sheryl Astrin Facilitator/Coach
Sheryl Astrin
Sheryl has worked with leaders of Fortune 500 companies collaborating with them to create a more engaging and inspiring company culture that bring out the best in individuals throughout the workforce. As an accomplished leader in her own right, consultant, executive coach and facilitator, Sheryl brings a high level of energy, connection and business savvy that rapidly builds alignment around business objectives through activating human potential. Sheryl has worked with over 1,500 leaders in companies including Procter & Gamble, Nestle, Adidas, Reuters, Vestas, Corbis, Tillamook, Ecolab and more. Sheryl is a master at bringing people together to generate collaborative learning environments where leaders can step into the best version of themselves as they fine tune leadership, communication skills and mindset.
Robert Bean Facilitator/Coach
Robert Bean
Robert has many year’s experience in brand strategy, brand management, advertising and communications. ('The Ultimate Driving Machine,' 'It's Good to Talk', 'The Power of Dreams', 'Make a House a Home', and more.) He is author of 'Winning in Your own Way; the nine and a half golden rules of branding’ and is current owner of a brand strategy consultancy, defining & articulating business’ ‘Single Organising Principle.’ He has experience with businesses of all sizes from all sectors and was previously worldwide Head of Advertising and Media Quality, BT, responsible for creating ‘It’s Good to Talk’ work. He specialised in facilitating CEOs and Boards to align their culture, products/services, and reputation around a clearly defined and well-articulated 'Single Organising Principle’ and brings great insight of how to make these principles work for your own Personal Brand.
Lizzie Broadbent Facilitator/Coach
Lizzie Broadbent
Lizzie is a practised consultant with extensive experience in the energy, retail and professional services sectors. She started her career in investment management, before spending seven years in consulting specialising in strategy and transformation. She worked for Shell for nine years leading diverse, global teams in marketing and customer operations. Lizzie has a Masters in Behavioural Science from the London School of Economics and is a qualified coach. A particular strength is working with leaders at all stages to build individual and team capabilities. Alongside her work, Lizzie is a researcher and writer, telling the stories of long-forgotten business women.
MANDY CHAPMAN Facilitator
MANDY CHAPMAN
Mandy is an experienced change leader and has spent over 20 years designing and leading major transformation programmes across global organisations, both in consulting and line roles.After a career in down-stream operations with Esso Petroleum, she went into consulting where she specialised in strategy and transformation. Mandy is a mentor and has run consulting courses in all aspects of programme management, managing teams and stakeholder engagement. Mandy enjoys spending time with friends and family, walking on the South Downs and is working on her trust and collaboration skills by tandeming around Sussex with her husband.
IAIN CHRISTIE Facilitator/Coach
IAIN CHRISTIE
Iain is an accredited mediator, certified coach and professional Imago and Dare to Lead Facilitator. He has worked in the UK and internationally and has industry experience in the legal, media and public sectors.His training as a professional actor and barrister equips him to teach effective communication and performance skills useful for presentations, business development and leadership roles. Iain models a courageous and confident personal style, with the empathy, authority and compassion required to allow people to be vulnerable and authentic. His primary focus is on creating a learning space in which this can happen and, in equal measure, to find creative and spontaneous ways of developing ourselves.
Andy Dunn Facilitator/Coach
Andy Dunn
Andy is an International Coach, Facilitator and Consultant working at the intersection of personal, team and culture change programmes. His mission is to empower people and organisations to lead with integrity, care for the world and evoke the drive within us all to make a positive difference in the places we live and work. As an accredited Human Synergistics consultant, Andy partners with clients to be an ally, champion and catalyst for positive change. He has worked with clients like Adidas, Santander, Amazon Web Service, Dyson, Ricoh, Shelter and the Kering Group with programmes covering innovation, diversity and inclusion, mental wellbeing, resilience and leadership development. Alongside his coaching business, Andy is also an author, speaker and founder of Creators Club, an organisation providing coaching and courses to propel the freelance creator economy. His passions also include volunteering for a local homeless shelter, swing dancing and playing squash.
Paul Z Jackson Facilitator/Coach
Paul Z Jackson
Paul engages groups with snappy activities designed to prompt instant insights and deep learning. His clients benefit from his expertise in applied improvisation and the solutions-focused approach. He draws on his experience in journalism, as a BBC comedy producer and best-selling author to keep things topical and relevant. As a facilitator, coach and trainer, he’s designed and delivered hundreds of events around the world, online and in person. In his spare time, he plays tennis, serves on various boards and runs Oxford’s Awkward Actors improv performing team.
Johan Ledeboer Facilitator/Coach
Johan Ledeboer
Johan is a workshop facilitator and consultant. Following a 20-year career in management consultancy, he joined a leadership training organization where he specialized in Strategy Execution. His passion is to provide leaders with the tools they need to successfully engage their teams in achieving strategic goals. In the end it is not the design of the future state but the role model of the leader which will drive results. Johan enjoys cooking, spending time with his family and friends, snowboarding and playing padél and golf. When chance presents itself, he is aiming to lower his golf handicap with focus, discipline, and right behaviour :)
Valerie McCabe Facilitator/Coach
Valerie McCabe
Valerie has been a Senior Executive Coach, Assessor and Trainer at a leading HR Consultancy. She supported C-suite and senior management teams in both global and GCC-based companies, through one-on-one coaching engagements as well as Assessment and Development Centres. Prior to her role in HR Consultancy, Valerie was Head of Human Capital6Development for a large luxury retailer and distributor. Earlier in her career, Val was a management consultant and she led numerous executive teams on strategic business engagements focused on new market entry, customer segmentation, M&A, balanced score-card, change management and leadership transformation. Valerie is home-based on the West Coast of Ireland. There, she spends a lot of time hiking and cycling in the Burren, as well as gardening in the 4 holiday cottages she owns with her husband. In these pursuits, she is typically accompanied by her sister͛s dogs (who need all the exercise they can get!).
Sarah Morgan Facilitator/Coach
Sarah Morgan
Sarah is a Consultant, Facilitator, Coach, and Speaker who assists leaders to achieve more in their career; improve operational performance in the workplace; drive greater employee engagement and satisfaction; transform organisational culture through business change; and dismantle toxic working practices. She has 25 years’ experience as an executive leader in a wide range of industries (from eCommerce to Utilities) that she brings into a coaching context to help individuals and teams thrive and shine at work. Sarah supports her clients with business change and leadership challenges; enabling them to break through performance barriers as individuals and as teams. She has a specialist interest in Imposter Syndrome and the Dark side of personality - focussing on the impact in the workplace and is certified in using Hogan psychometrics to support this focus. Based in North Somerset she is an avid hiker and full blown thalassophile - enjoying outdoor swimming all year round and scuba diving whenever possible.
Belina Raffy Facilitator/Coach
Belina Raffy
Belina Raffy is a consultant, workshop designer/facilitator, writer, and global speaker. She helps business executives, climate scientists, social entrepreneurs, activists, internal change agents, humanitarian workers, sustainable development professionals, and others to collaborate more joyfully and effectively to help business and humanity in a VUCA world and communicate important environmental and social issues using a compassionate form of comedy. Her passion is to align organisations with nature’s principles so organisations can shift their sustainable goal projects from being ‘less bad’ to ‘good’. Belina has an MBA from the Cranfield School of Management and has studied with some of the best improvisers on the planet. She is a global citizen based in Berlin, who giggles a lot because she loves her work.
G S Rajesh Coach
G S Rajesh
G S Rajesh took up Strengths-based coaching after 25 years of managerial experience. Having hands-on sales and marketing and having handled Profit & Loss responsibilities, he easily relates to challenges in the corporate context. Rajesh is a Gallup Certified Coach and specializes in Strengths-based leadership development. He is a designated Associate Certified Coach by the International Coach Federation (ICF) and is also Hogan Certified. He has deep faith in human potential, strongly believes that it is people and teamwork that is at the forefront of any success – be it in a professional context or in domestic relationships and wellbeing. This belief is what ignites his passion for strengths-based coaching. His top five strengths are Responsibility, Ideation, Positivity, Relator and Learner.
Rosine Suire Facilitator/Coach
Rosine Suire
Rosine is a trilingual international leadership coach and facilitator with 15 years’ experience as a managing consultant and global alliance director. She empowers her clients to take charge and thrive in their role, modelling what good leadership looks like so they can positively impact people in their life. She has worked with clients like Capgemini, Deloitte, TCS, Ralf Lauren, Amgen and Standard Chartered on leadership programmes, focussing particularly on confidence, executive presence, people management and emotional intelligence. She is accredited with the International Coaching Federation, Firework Career coaching and Positive Intelligence. She loves waking up at dawn to ‘bootcamp’ with a nice bunch of friends, walk the dog or just chill out before the rest of the family wakes up. Her passion is to travel the world and discover new cultures every day but for now she can be seen volunteering at her children’s primary school selling cakes at pick up time!
Chrissie Wanless Facilitator/Coach
Chrissie Wanless
Chrissie is a learning experience creator, facilitator and coach. With 20 years’ experience in human centred development she has partnered with some of the world’s leading brands creating and delivering leadership and team development programmes. She helps those she works with make a measurable difference for themselves, their families, schools, teams, organisations and consumers. Her approach helps unlock the self-belief, confidence and creativity of all, helping them ‘Be Seen’. Chrissie has trained with Gestalt, the Coaches Training Institute, & Organisation Relationship Systems Coaching in facilitation and coaching practice and is a practitioner in many psychometric assessments (incl. the Leadership Versatility Index and Hogan). Aside from her passion for learning and development, she loves interior design and architecture, walking her miniature schnauzer Frankie, playing football and tennis. She coaches an under 10s girls football team too.
Ralf Wetzel Facilitator