Simon Bird
Simon Bird joined the King’s Fund in May 2007 from a career in the NHS that included both general management roles and a specialist national leadership development portfolio at the NHS Leadership Centre.
Nicholas Bradbury
Nicholas works with clinicians and senior managers, helping leaders to develop their creativity and wisdom. Ordained in 1973, he has wide experience of consultancy work with organisations, groups and individuals in the statutory and voluntary sectors.
Paul England
Paul England joined The King’s Fund in July 2008 having worked as a freelance trainer and consultant for the past 10 years. He has been involved in both designing and delivering leadership development programmes using a variety of delivery methods from formal training settings to action learning and coaching.
Pippa Gough
Pippa directs the NHS Human Resource Management Trainee programme and co-directs Personal Impact and Integrity and Successful Nurse Leader. She has a high profile nationally as a nurse and as an expert in the facilitation of whole-system events and whole-system change. She has a particular interest in the workforce implications of new ways of delivering care, particularly those that are not hospital based.
Valerie James
Valerie has two clinical trainings, has been an NHS regional head of quality and a research fellow in medical sociology. She has a particular interest in executive coaching, and emotional and political literacy. Her focus has been helping leaders and organisations understand and manage conflict and change creatively.
Karen Lynas
Karen is the director of Leadership Development at the King's Fund and responsible for the strategic direction of Leadership Development. Karen held senior management positions across acute and specialist services before moving into management and leadership development. Karen has formerly worked for the NHS Management Training Scheme, the NHS Leadership Centre and NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement.
Sue Machell
Sue joined the King's Fund in 1999 after eight years in Croydon as Director of Nursing and subsequently Chief Executive of an NHS trust providing primary, community and public health services. Having worked as both a clinician and a manager, her interests lie in developing clinical leaders and managers who can use reflection and creativity to make a sustained impact on service quality.
Gerard McGuickin
Gerard McGuickin joined the King’s Fund in May 2007 as a Leadership Development Consultant. Gerard has an educational background in psychology and has worked with the Greater London Authority as an equalities co-ordinator and with the Terrence Higgins Trust as their sector development manager.
Vijaya Nath
Vijaya joined The King’s Fund in August 2008 from Barts and The London NHS Trust where she was Head of Leadership Development & People Management Coaches. She is experienced in designing and delivering medical leadership programmes and interventions for consultants and allied health professionals. Prior to joining the NHS, Vijaya had a successful career as a manager and management trainer/consultant in the private sector.
David Naylor
David undertakes work with public sector and community-based leadership. He has worked in the voluntary and public sectors as a senior manager and practitioner. David trained in consultancy at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, counseling at Birkbeck and has an MA in organisational change. He works on the King's Fund's Top Manager programme.
Katy Steward
Katy Steward directs the Board Leadership Programme for chairs and non-executive directors in the London region and the national Foundation Trust Governors’ Forum. Formerly she worked at Monitor on governance policy and worked closely on the governance code for foundation trusts. Katy’s role at the Kings Fund is to identify ways to support and strengthen boards and their governance.
Judy Taylor
Judy directs the King's Fund's leadership programmes for consultants and clinical directors. She also directs a programme for Irish specialist registrars, co-directs a mixed clinicians programme and provides 1:1 executive coaching and team development. In the past, she has designed and run a European clinical leadership programme and a wide range of programmes for senior managers and senior women leaders.
Liz Thiebe
Liz Thiebe joined the King's Fund in March 2008 after leading the Productive Series at the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement. This work included leading the national programme to improve patient experience/patient safety and the efficiencies of wards, theatres and community hospitals. A frequent lecturer, she also acts as a planning consultant for surgery, anaesthesia, endoscopy, and capital planning programmes in the US and the UK.
Alan Warr
Alan leads the consultancy activities at the King's Fund. He was the Head of Business Consultancy for the Bupa Group and has also consulted within the strategy and transformation practices of major consultancies (PA Consulting and BT). Alan is currently an honorary member of the Institute of Management Consultancy's Council and the Chair of the Institute's Working Group on Internal Consulting.
Mitzi Wyman
Mitzi Wyman joined The King’s Fund in 2008 after several years as a consultant in the corporate and not-for-profit sectors. Her professional background is as a solicitor with a particular interest in professional negligence and risk management. In recent years she has specialised in designing video-based e-learning programmes.
