Profiles of Attendees in 2009

 

MIKE ZEIDLER - Organiser

 

Mike is a director of modoto (www.modoto.co.uk), a consultancy offering support for 21st century leaders. Connecting work with purpose, he helps build cultures of inspired, loyal, effective people with shared purpose, clear vision and great communication skills.  Mike, his wife and a range of associates aim to help people 'Lead by Example' to become powerful change makers for a better, more sustainable world.

 

Mike's chief purpose at this particular Walk Your Talk is to gather a strong group of leaders to plan how best to work together and dramatically increase our collective impact.

 

Mike is Chairman of the Hub in Bristol, a founder of the Association of Sustainability Practitioners and part of the team responsible for the Walk Your Talk gathering since 2006.

 

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KATHERINE JONES - Organiser

 

Kate is a professional coach and the founder of Inspired Lives (www.inspiredlives.com). Called to bring heart and soul into business (whilst still honouring mind and body), she has a strong sense of the 'corporate soul'. She holds that business, as the dominant institution on the planet, must take responsibility for the evolution of the whole. She believes it is imperative that business leaders start modelling a new way of being (i.e. profitable and responsible) and work in alignment with deeper spiritual values, conscious of our inter-connectedness, inclusive, socially responsible and globally aware.

 

She is a solicitor and organisational psychologist. She has previously held senior executive and board roles with international HR consultancies, Granada Television and Kellogg's. She has been a visiting lecturer at Manchester's Federal Business Schools.

 

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PATRICK ANDREWS

 

Patrick is Company Secretary to Riversimple, a revolutionary transport company aiming to create a cleaner world through the design, manufacture and ownership of hydrogen vehicles. He's been actively exploring alternative business structures since 2002, working with cooperatives, charities, fair trade companies and a broad range of social enterprises.

 

In his earlier career as a solicitor, Patrick specialised in cross-border transactions. He worked for Pratt & Whitney in Canada, and with Kingfisher plc he helped establish the first B&Q stores in China and Turkey.  He also led a team which acquired Europe's second biggest DIY chain.

 

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ARVID WOODS

 

Arvid is an Inspired Lives facilitator and coach. He works one-to-one and with teams and organisations to increase awareness of values, self and others, leading to informed choices and lasting change.

 

He is a chartered engineer with extensive experience in commercial and technical roles, having worked with global companies, SMEs, local government and the not-for-profit sector.

 

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LIZ ZEIDLER

 

Liz is a director of modoto (www.modoto.co.uk), a consultancy offering support for 21st century leaders. Connecting work with purpose, she helps build cultures of inspired, loyal, effective people with shared purpose, clear vision and great communication skills.  Liz, her husband and a range of associates aim to help people 'Lead by Example' to become powerful change makers for a better, more sustainable world.

 

Liz currently does a lot of work in Northern Africa, Europe and the Near East as a leading facilitator and leadership programme designer for the British Council and UN related agencies.

 

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LIZ HARPER

 

Liz is a facilitator who offers a range of consultancy services to organizations and individuals who operate or work in the youth and community work sector, mostly but not exclusively in Dublin. She spent many years working with young people from disadvantaged areas prior to becoming self employed in 2000.

 

She attended WYT 08, when she was engaged in delivering Core Skills training to groups of unemployed adults, two mornings a week, alongside supervision, coaching and mentoring to youth workers, project leaders and managers. She was also evaluating a number of initiatives designed to give seldom heard groups (young people, adults with mental health challenges) a voice. Liz is also a Reiki master.

 

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ALISON CROWTHER

 

Alison Crowther is a consultant and trainer of facilitation and public engagement with over 15 years experience in the environment and science sector.   Working freelance as the Dialogue Development Manager for Sciencewise at BIS , she manages a team of 18 noted facilitators to mentor and support those in government who wish to run public dialogue projects.  Previously at The Environment Council, she learned her trade working on hugely complex conflict situations and later worked in Peru with indigenous people in the mountains and jungles.  Alison was a founding member of InterAct, the participation strategy group, works for Future Focus at BIS and is an Associate of The Environment Council, Dialogue by Design and Demos.   In her spare time she helped to found and now run Transition Town Peckham, is a street rep for Food up Front and has been on the board of and helped out with numerous environmental charities.  Escaping London and moving to Bristol in the very near future?

 

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JAMES WALLACE

 

Upon awakening from the corporate dream, I studied a Masters Degree in ‘how to make the world a better place’ and then set about co-founding various green enterprises. I now find myself employed for the first time in 9 years: helping Alastair Sawday build a green hotel in Bristol. We are passionate about creating something beautiful and sustainable for the city. Our journey began with searching for the right home for our hotel; we are now considering being a lead developer of a mixed use green community in the heart of Bristol. I am facing many challenges, dominated by the need to integrate bold new ways of doing things in a traditional world of developers, planners, legislators and investors up to their necks in treacle. I wonder what enlightened surprises WYT will provide this year...

 

 

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NATASHA STANLEY

 

After graduating from university last year, I spent a year running the Big Issue office in Bath and a further four months managing a caseload in a domestic violence refuge. Frustrated by third sector bureaucracy and over-reliance on government funding, I am particularly interested in the application of business principles to the third sector and the creation of a genuinely holistic approach to service provision.

On a more personal level, I am currently blissfully unemployed, and thoroughly enjoying creating the next stage of my career. I am coming to Walk Your Talk looking for inspiration, guidance, and a space to take my commitment to dynamic and lasting change in the third sector to the next level.

 

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DAVID SAUNDERS

 

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DAVE HAMPTON

 

I'm an ordinary guy, who has been amazingly lucky in almost every aspect of my life. I’m married with four lovely children. I've had a good education, a good career, and a good life so far. In June this year I left my job as a company director in order to pursue my passion of helping people to reduce their carbon emissions.

 

The Carbon Coach will be joining us for Tuesday and Wednesday. Personal details to come

 

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ELAINE BROOKE

 

Elaine will be joining us for Monday and Tuesday. Personal details to come

 

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LESLEY SEYMOUR

 

I'm a passionate sustainable development devote, I worked in all sectors private, public and third focused on transforming the built environment and the construction sector to help realise the SD goal. I'm a chartered civil engineer - yep that means I can design drains and roads and bridges, I now sit on their national policy panel informing central government on sustianable infrastructure. I'm a real action person, I've run parterships for goverment in the SW, been a expert witness at house of lords and can seem to get enough of emergent change management. I working with SDC, M&S, Dorset County Council and SW REIP and chair future foundations - Bh was set up by a quaker and its great to have that legacy to build the new 10 year strategy upon with our ceo. The firms 44 partners are at their annual conference and I'm going to wales - all to return refreshed...... and enlivened as to the possibilities of more change for sd.

 

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STEPHEN CLARKE

 

I am currently a commercial lawyer working as a partner in a sizeable (500+) law practice in Bristol. I have had previous lives before the law and hope to afterwards as well.  I want to be a social entrepreneur (happy to explain that term to anyone who is not familiar with it) but am struggling to know how to do that. I have lots of idea but need more application and inspiration. I have a wife, 2 daughters and love football and poker. Love and peace to all

 

 

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After this year's main event, we intend to list those interested in our next Walk Your Talk adventure here...