Our specialist team

In a world of big corporate consultancies, we are an accomplished team of change management professionals who work in alliance with our clients to help their organisations achieve real change and improvement.

Our clients benefit from our vast pool of knowledge, experience, and well-established expertise. Together, we have a unique set of skills, developed over many years, and we bring our collective experiences of working within both the public and private sectors to the table.

  • Alison Sarmiento

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    Alison Sarmiento has over 17 years experience delivering change and improvement projects working across both public and private sector.

    Alison is expert in using a collaborative data-driven approach to creative problem solving across organisations and teams to support the delivery of complex process and service development initiatives. Using the principles of lean thinking and improvement science with the use of business analysis tools and techniques Alison is able to drive change and improvement, delivering reduced resource utilisation and improved user and client/customer experience.

    Alison is a skilled communicator and uses her influencing skills to facilitate difficult conversations bringing different perspectives together to gain consensus. She is quickly able to gain the trust of those she works with, empowering teams to take ownership of their problems and supporting them to develop creative solutions.

  • Fran Varley

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    Fran has over 12 years’ experience working for both private and public sectors and has worked with clients with just a few employees, blue-chip companies and multi-national organisations.

    Fran really enjoys working in alliance with clients and their teams and has great stakeholder management skills. She is able to quickly make sense of complex situations and elicit requirements that get to the crux of what the business needs. Whilst she is thorough and detailed, she always remains focussed on the end goal.

    Fran’s skillset includes Business Analysis, Test Analysis and Project Management. Frans has delivered projects using varied methodology including waterfall, agile and prince 2.

  • Clare Gardner

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    Lead Project Consultant

  • Kelly Diamond

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    Lead Project Consultant

  • Simon Middleyard

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    Senior Project Consultant

  • Rachael Filby

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    Senior Project Consultant

  • Helen Priestley

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    Senior Project Consultant

  • Becci Crossland

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    Project Consultant

  • Donna Emmett

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    Business Support Manager

  • Amanda Nicol

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    Trainee Business Analyst