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Our people

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Directors

Peter Dixon
Peter chairs our board of directors, and brings particular experience from housing, health and local government.
Hilary Thompson
Hilary's main focus is on improvement in services, including strategy, commissioning and organisational development.
Lesley Campbell
Lesley leads our people and organisational development division.
John Kellas
John is our finance director, who also leads our human resources and IT.
Ewan King
Ewan heads our business development division and leads OPM's work on social cohesion and preventing extremism.
Kai leads our work on evaluation, research and engagement.

Principals

Helen Brown
Helen brings her interest in diversity and equality to her management, organisational and personal development work.
Phil Copestake
Phil leads our communications team and works with clients in local government.
Sue Goss
Sue specialises in leadership, governance and strategy development at all levels of government.
David Love
David works on leadership development projects with a range of public services.
Clive Miller
Clive leads our work on children’s and adults’ services, specialising in innovative practice.
An expert in health policy and public health, Deborah leads OPM’s health sector work.
An experienced mixed-methods researcher with a background in equalities and diversity, Chih Hoong leads our evaluation work.
Judith's special areas of expertise are in commissioning, children's services and governance.
Paul Tarplett
Paul works with organisations on strategy, values and behaviours; and how to change structures, systems and cultures.

Evaluation, research and engagement

Sophie is an experienced policy analyst specialising in the public and not-for-profit sectors.
Kate’s particular interest is in working directly with service users to ensure their views contribute to service improvement.
Diane leads our deliberative work and specialises in public and stakeholder engagement and evaluation.
Robin’s areas of expertise include public involvement, particularly new deliberative methods.
Natasha has experience of social research and is skilled in a number of qualitative and quantitative research techniques.
Shelley has a particular interest in public health policy; community and public engagement; and children and young people’s issues.
Satdeep has a background in social policy research and has worked closely with children and young people.
Annie’s special interests are engaging harder-to-reach groups and research with children and young people.
Linda is skilled qualitative researcher with interests in community cohesion strategies and youth justice.
Leigh is an experienced mixed methods researcher with particular interest in evidence based policy and practice.
Mohini is particularly interested in issues related to equality and diversity, community cohesion, welfare and education.
Sarah is a qualitative researcher with a special interest in involving stakeholders in research.
Elliot Manches
Elliot is an experienced ethnographer and filmmaker who documents people's stories
Lauren has a particular interest in developing evidence-based approaches to policy making.
Shama’s interests are in improving access to services, and policy in family provision, education and community cohesion.
Sanah is a qualitative researcher who uses focus groups and deliberative methods to promote collaboration.
Lucy’s research covers a broad range of quantitative and qualitative projects, aimed at improving services.
Jean specialises in qualitative research, stakeholder engagement and capacity building.
Rebecca is an experienced social researcher and project manager with a keen interest in evidence-based policy evaluation.
A sociology graduate from Goldsmith’s College, Tim takes a keen interest in the cultural and community life of cities.

Leadership and organisational development

Antonia Bunnin
Antonia has extensive experience in health, social care and the not-for-profit sector.
Bob is a leadership specialist with significant experience across the private and public sectors.
Rob is interested in local government, partnerships, community cohesion and 'sense of place'.
Gillian has extensive experience of strategy formulation, option appraisal, policy evaluation and performance management.
Liz is an organisation specialist, facilitator and coach with over 20 years experience in the public and voluntary sectors.
Particular interests: evidence based policy and practice; putting individuals at the heart of service provision.
Sharon has long experience in research and organisational development in children's services, housing and community safety.
Claire has expertise in services for children and young people with special educational needs or disabilities, or who are in care.
Hywel is expert in strategic understanding – particularly across issues of sustainability, local service delivery and place making.
Catherine improves efficient working across partnerships and ensures governance structures result in improved outcomes for communities.
Munira is interested in developing leadership to build people’s capacity to make a real difference.
Tim supports organisations to design and deliver joined-up public services.

Communications

Events and project support

Corporate support