Leadership staff
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.
Richard Giordano
Richard has 25 years experience in information system design and implementation, programme and process evaluation, and research in inter-group knowledge generation and knowledge sharing. Before coming to The Kings Fund, Richard was a lecturer in Management at the School of Management and Organisational Psychology at Birkbeck College.
Lorraine King
Lorraine is the Business Manager for Leadership at The Kings Fund where she is currently leading on internal systems redesign and process improvement. She is also involved in business generation including responding to tenders, researching market opportunities and linking with the marketing department to promote The Kings Fund leadership development portfolio.
Chris Lake
Chris joined The King’s Fund in 2009 with a history of leadership and organisation development (OD) preceded by a line management career in retail. He was Executive MBA Director and Assistant Director for OD and leadership at Roffey Park, and remains visiting faculty on the institute’s MSc in People and Organisation Development.
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 Nath is a Senior Consultant at The King’s Fund with significant experience in the design and development of innovative leadership programmes and of senior organisational development consultancy assignments. Vijaya joined The King’s Fund after eleven years of developing leadership strategy and associated activity for multi-professional leaders in the NHS from individuals to teams, ward to board, clinical and non-clinical.
Liz Saunders
Liz Saunders joined The King’s Fund in September 2008 following seven years in management roles in the NHS. She has experience in working across a variety of services and specialities within the NHS from acute sector operational management to commissioning and working within an SHA.
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.
