Our team
Our practitioner network is growing to meet the increasing demand for our services, and covers a wider range of sectors. Many of our practitioners have their own consulting practice in addition to their TTandC commitments. Meet some of our team below:
Fiona Ward, MSc.
Fiona
has over 20 years of consulting experience with a range of blue chip
clients. In her roles with consultancies Deloitte and SAP, she worked
with boards and senior executives to deliver business transformation
strategies. Fiona also led major implementation programmes that combine
technology, people and process change to achieve the desired outcomes.
Her strong organisation, communication and knowledge-transfer skills
have been developed through experience with many different clients and
industries, and at all levels of organisations in the UK and the USA.
In 2005 Fiona completed a Masters degree in Applied Environmental Science and then moved from London to South Devon. She worked within the not-for-profit sector, helping local small businesses to improve their environmental performance while cutting costs. For the last 3 years Fiona has played a key role within Transition Town Totnes (TTT), the flagship of the transition movement, initiating various business resilience-building projects, and developing the innovative Energy Resilience Assessment service. Fiona also manages some of TTT's key community-based transition projects, which enables her to bring learnings about effective resilience-building into her work with organisations and their employees. She is the co-founder of TTandC.
Shane Hughes, Msc.
Shane
is the Director of Carbon Accounting Systems and an accredited Carbon
Trust consultant who has consulted to business and organisations for
over 10 years. He works directly with clients and also through partners
such as the Bedfordshire Green Business Network and Thames Renewables.
Shane is an energy and emissions expert specialising in carbon
footprinting and life cycle assessments on companies, products and
services, as well as energy saving and renewable energy assessments and
carbon reduction strategies. His clients have energy budgets ranging
from £ millions to £1,000s for a local restaurant. He has guest lectured
on sustainability for Brighton, New Oxfordshire and Leeds universities,
writes environment-driven articles for the local press and initiated
community groups Zero Carbon Castle and Transition Bedford.
At the age of 17, he decided to travel the world, leading to a 7-year stay in Brazil. Before returning, in 2000 and 2001, Shane coordinated, in partnership with the Amazonian Local Government and Greenpeace Amazonas, the build of an eco-park and the environmental festival Ecosystem1.0. Upon his return, he completed, at the Centre for Alternative Technology, the first Msc of its kind in Architecture - Advanced Energy and Environmental Studies. He was highly commended in the 2008 Pride of Bedford environment awards for his voluntary work.
Gerri Smyth
Gerri
has over 25 years of commercial experience with a diverse range of
clients - from high-tech, high-growth start-ups to major brands within
the financial services sector. Her achievements have included leading
successful, large scale transformation projects, developing service
products, and implementing new or re-engineered systems and processes.
She has worked in highly volatile and challenging business environments
and is adept at delivering both long range, systemic change and
pragmatic solutions to immediate business imperatives.
Gerri
completed an MSc in Human Ecology in 2007, which enabled her to
consolidate and deepen her understanding of the need for increased
resilience in both natural and human systems. She has been a member of
the Centre of Human Ecology's teaching team since autumn 2008, at which
time she relocated from Surrey to Scotland. Since this move she has been
engaged with raising awareness of Transition in Edinburgh, and playing
an active role in her local community as a board member of the Greener
Leith group. She has also been involved in the development of Transition
across Scotland as part of the Transition Scotland Support team, in
particular facilitating communities to create positive, viable post-peak
oil visions. Gerri is an accredited Transition Trainer.
Graham Truscott
Graham
is a highly experienced, blue-chip marketing, communications and
corporate responsibility professional, yet also a passionate and
knowledgeable environmentalist. His business pedigree includes
significantly changing the reputation of international engineering giant
IMI plc. As the company’s Communications (and Investor Relations)
Director for more than seven years, Graham changed attitudes inside and
outside the business and placed Corporate and Social Responsibility
(CSR) at the heart of the company’s decision making and public
reporting.
He was previously global Head of Brand for Rolls-Royce
plc, where his achievements include the repositioning of one of the
world’s most iconic brands and publication of The Rolls-Royce Magazine.
Earlier, as a senior editor with HarperCollins he published more than
160 high quality non-fiction books. As a Fellow of the Chartered
Institute of Marketing (CIM), he contributed to the ‘Canon of Marketing
knowledge’.
He began his career with the National Geographic
Magazine, where he first helped to draw popular attention to critical
energy and resource issues. Today, through Brandactive Ltd he provides
strategic communications insight to other eco-minded businesses. He is a
practitioner with the Transition Network, recently completed a
permaculture design course and is the sustainability advisor to a school
of 500 pupils.
Klaudia van Gool BSc, MIEMA, CEnv
Klaudia
has worked in the environmental business sector for twelve years, most
of that time for national regeneration charity Groundwork, more recently
freelance. Her area of expertise has been Environmental Management
Systems to standards ISO 14001 and BS8555, general environmental
auditing and a variety of environmental training.
Clients have
included a variety of sectors and sizes including: B&Q, Cornwall
County Council, the Environment Agency, Business Link, Jaspers Abattoir,
E &JW Glendinning, Pepper Communications, Trevalon, Woodland Valley
Farm, Bond Pearce LLP, MPG Books Ltd, Lynher Dairies.
Klaudia
has a degree in Environmental Science, a management Diploma, is a Lead
Environmental Management Auditor and has done a variety of teaching
qualifications. More recently Klaudia has trained as a Permaculture
designer and teacher and she brings this system of design for
sustainability to her work with businesses. Klaudia has co-ordinated
Transition Liskeard since July 2007 and also supports budding Transition
groups in East Cornwall.
Nick Osborne, MSc.
Over
the last 15 years, Nick has worked in a variety of management,
leadership, training, consultancy or activist roles with a range of
organisations including Changemakers, Shell, Amnesty International, the
Ecovillage Network and Transition Network. Nick has a BSc in Social
Philosophy and MSc in Management Development and Social Responsibility.
He now works freelance as a Trainer & Consultant, as a founder of
Response-Ability, working to help people enhance their ability to
respond creatively and flexibly to today’s challenging change and
complexity.
Nick has been an active member of Transition
Glastonbury since mid 2007, helped develop a network of Transition
groups in Somerset and delivered and developed several courses for
TT&C nationally to communities and organisations since late 2008. He
has a written a course on developing group skills to support transition
in communities. Nick is currently developing ways to support all kinds
of organisations to make a paradigm shift; to become resilient
organisations which sustain the social and ecological sytems on which
they depend. Nick lives in Glastonbury, Somerset and is passionate about
his family, social change and surfing.
Jenny Mackewn, MA MSc.
Jenny is a creative catalyst, consultant, trainer and author. She has
worked with Bath Consultancy, Harthill and Nowhere Consultancy Groups in
large and small companies to develop transformative innovation and
change projects; to empower leaders and employees to shift their
organisational culture in order to unlock their creativity and
effectiveness in the human and technical system. She is currently a
creative catalyst with Nowhere and a trainer with the Transition
Network, City and Business movement.
She has initiated and led several environmental projects including an Action Research group for managers in public services in Wales, an Eco Constellations workshop and training development days for transition trainers; a transition action research project and training in ecological facilitation and in Joanna Macey's deep ecology. As well as working with passion, purpose and commitment, Jenny is learning to manage a small acre of woodland and to be a grandmother.
