People we work with

Bill Best

Bill Best is an executive assessor and coach with over twenty-five years experience providing consultancy services as a business psychologist. He is a Director of ECP-360 Ltd, a specialist provider of 360° appraisal and survey tools. Earlier in his career, Bill held senior roles the consulting firms  Advanced Personnel Technology Limited and Personnel Decisions International. Bill is also co-author of the book Executive Coaching: Exploding the Myths.

Bill Best and Kevin Money designed and deliver the unique strengths-based 360° assessment process which all new Fellows go through at the start of their Fellowship.

Ruth Cook

Ruth is Director of Action Learning Associates (ALA) which she established in 1998. With the support of a team of around 20 highly experienced Associates throughout the UK, Ruth works with organisations in the public, voluntary, arts and corporate sectors on organisational and leadership development, both in the UK and internationally.  Ruth is passionate about developing Action Learning, whilst keeping its essence careful listening, open questioning and thoughtful feedback. Widely recognised as a thought leader in the field of Action Learning, Ruth is also a highly experienced management consultant and  MBTI assessor.

Ruth has worked to embed Action Learning as a core element of the programme, facilitating an introductory session at the January residential followed by regular Action Learning set meetings through the first year of the programme. A number of Clore Social Fellows have trained with Action Learning Associates as accredited Action Learning facilitators.

Jeremy Keeley

Jeremy is  facilitator and works on enhancing self-awareness, self-confidence, internal relationships and Action Learning. He helps teams improve the way they work with each other and deal with conflicts; supervises coaches and facilitators;  and offers facilitation and change leadership programmes.

Jeremy Keeley runs a key session on emotional intelligence at the January residential, and also acts as a coach to some of the Clore Social Fellows.   

Kevin Money

Kevin is the Director of the Positive Psychology Forum, a network of academics and practitioners who aim to develop  and apply insights from positive psychology into organisations. Kevin is a member of the academic faculty at Henley Business School where he teaches on the MBA programme, and is also a mentor and tutor on Henley's Executive Development Programme. He also supervises DBA and PhD Research Associates, and is a Fellow of think-tank the Sunningdale Institute.

Kevin is a Chartered Psychologist and  a member of the British Society of Clinical Hypnosis . He is also a Trustee of the Safer South Africa Trust (UK) and has acted as a consultant to major companies and voluntary organisations in the UK, USA and South Africa.

Kevin Money and Bill Best Bill designed and deliver the unique strengths-based 360° assessment process which all new Fellows go through at the start of their Fellowship. 

Bev Morton

Bev Morton has studied and worked in the cultural sector for over 30 years. She was a Fellow on the Clore Leadership Programme in 2005/6. She has founded three for-profit and two not-for- profit organizations, including the highly successful Bradford based arts and regeneration charity, Artworks Creative Communities and the 1980s Manchester based accessories design-company, Blubber.

After completing her Clore Fellowship, Bev set up The Art of Possibility in 2007, which specialises in personal and professional development through coaching, mentoring, facilitation, action learning facilitation and mediation.

Bev works closely with the Programme, providing support and coaching to the Fellows at the January residential. Bev also acts as a coach to some of the Clore Social Fellows.

Georgina Noakes

Georgina has worked as a performance coach and facilitator in the corporate arena for twenty years.  In 1997 she set up Bright Side Productions to help CEOs with their leadership styles, and how it impacts on the organisations they serve.

Georgina was born and brought up in the Yorkshire Dales and Cumbria.  She now lives with her husband in Hampshire, where she breeds donkeys and sheep. She has recently  published her first book of poetry.

Georgina Noakes runs a key session on courageous conversations and active listening at the autumn residential, and also acts as a coach to some of the Clore Social Fellows.