ASSOCIATES
PHYLLIDA HANCOCK
Phyllida is a workshop designer and facilitator. She worked as an actress and singer for 12 years, including 2 years with the Royal Shakespeare Company and in various productions in the West End and around the country. She also taught a course on 'Women in Shakespeare' at Washington University in St Louis and participated in workshops and lectures on Shakespeare for several British universities. Since 1998 she has been working in the public sector designing and delivering workshops, including 18 months running race awareness and diversity courses across the Criminal Justice System. She then moved to the Department of Trade and Industry as a consultant in their futurefocus@dti facility working with DTI and its customers on scenario planning, performance management, business planning and project working between 2000 and 2003. This led to further involvement with the 'learning the habit of innovation' programme and subsequent involvement with the i-lab project working in universities across East Anglia. Since 2003 Phyllida has been an associate of Olivier Mythodrama, delivering workshops on inspirational leadership and change management. She continues to work with public sector clients on diversity policy and also runs creativity workshops for several public and private sector companies.
FIONA DAVIDSON
Fiona is an Executive Coach. Fiona began her career in Executive Search working with clients in a range of sectors and disciplines. She set up and managed new offices in Central/Eastern Europe, China and Latin America during rapid market expansion throughout the 90s. She trained and developed her own teams in these countries which led to her passion in coaching and talent development. In 2000 she qualified as an Executive Coach and has since build a portfolio of skills and tools that enable her clients to further enhance and develop their professional and personal potential in areas such as: Preparation for promotion, 1st 100 days in the new job, personal branding and gravitas, career review and transition, building confidence, relationship and influencing skills, making tough decisions at the top. She is a preferred supplier coach to clients in the private, public and not for profit sectors including Cadbury’s, Standard Chartered Bank and the London Development Agency. A Cambridge graduate, Fiona is a qualified Master in NLP and has worked extensively with tools such as MBTI and Strength Finders. She speaks Portuguese, Spanish and reasonable French and has lived in Brazil, Ethiopia, Tunisia and the USA. Married with 2 children she teaches yoga and is a performance member of a salsa troupe.
CAROL NOAKES
Carol is a facilitator and M.A. qualified voice coach.She has extensive experience of facilitation, learning and development, and arts based work in the private sector (large corporations and small business) and public sectors (Government, social services, community organisations, probation, education and government). She is also a Visiting Lecturer for Central School of Speech and Drama Short course and Business Unit. She has worked as a professional actor in theatre, television, forum theatre and role-play since 1985, and as an acting and voice lecturer in Higher Education. Carol is accredited as an associate of Insights Discovery profiling and has an NLP Diploma. Carol specialises in unlocking the communication potential of individuals and organisations using a variety of skills and tools including forum theatre, role play, individual presentation practise and understanding team dynamics. Her experience includes work with Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Credit Suisse, Axa Insurance, Training for Life and the National College of School Leadership.
PAUL BRADY
Paul graduated from Loughborough University and then took a post-graduate acting diploma. He worked as an actor for a number of years whilst developing specialist skills in corporate acting. For the past 13 years Paul has worked exclusively in interactive-theatre as a writer, designer, director and facilitator. Interactive theatre lends itself to the behavioural and many of the projects that Paul has been involved with have focused on the behavioural aspects of change in diversity, safety, performance management and communication. Working at all levels of organisations and across the public and private sector Paul uses a number of techniques to engage participants in scenarios: forum theatre, character feedback and coaching and roleplay. The emphasis is always on creating bespoke scenarios which reflect client organisations and enable participants to fully engage in a learning process. Interactive theatre allows participants to intellectually and emotionally engage with a subject in a way that enables skills transfer back to the workplace. For Mary-Louise Clark Associates, Paul has developed materials for the National School of Government, the Crown Prosecution Service and the London Development Agency.
ANDREW C WADSWORTH
Andrew has worked extensively as an actor and director. Nominated for an Olivier Award he has appeared in over a dozen major West End productions, toured Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Canada and was a member of the National Theatre Company for three years. He has also appeared in film, on television and radio. He directs for the theatre in London and the provinces. For Mary-Louise Clark Associates his work includes Event Management, Presentation, Creative Team Building Sessions, Acting and Direction for clients including LDV, UKTI, Cadbury Schweppes, Greenwoods Menswear, Daihatsu Cars, London Development Agency and Horniman Museum. He has directed future scenario films ‘Stories of 2016’ devised from material from DTI Strategy Unit (now BIS) and produced narration for the futurefocus facility. Andrew utilises his skills as a theatre director to create a safe environment where participants feel able to access their creativity and confidence. He challenges individuals and groups to take this learning back into the work place as a basis for new thinking about old issues.