Who is Who at New Intermediaries First Birthday Party

15 Claremont Road Teddington

Friday 17th November 2000

 

Alan Mitchell

Who is this mystery man at the top of the list? We know he’s David Archer’s guest and Fiona remembers him having lots of contacts in Government, involved in projects to do with modernising government, working with LCD and the Cabinet Office. But are those his main interests? What else might he be looking for here?

Andy Harmon

Ask Andy about heroes and mentors and which role he plays in his work as theatre director, improviser, consultant, writer and trainer. How does Andy use Theatre Games in his work? Get the latest on his change sponsor research and his struggles in working with Tony!

Anita Harmon

Find out Anita's recent pilot of new Here Be Dragons course on conflict. Did Anita enjoy being the only female learning to stage fight with eight men? What was it like meditating up a mountain in California during the millennium celebrations?

Colston Sanger

Has Colston disappeared, or has he just got immersed in an exciting new contract? What has been been giving and getting from his enthusiastic involvement with NI, both face to face and online during the last 12 months?

Dave Barker

What was it like to turn up out of the blue, unknown to anyone, at the NI storytelling day last month? What’s made Dave come back for more? Where does he see his work taking him next year? What was it like working with Julie B for 10 years?

David Archer

How has David been involved in providing coaching and leadership for the Courts Service? What was the consortium he put together to tackle this work? What opportunities might there be for you and others in future consortium bids?

David Carter

Ask David about how his mentor business is developing across the world. What is his vision? What are the latest exciting developments in making this vision tangible and real? How has he been able to adapt his business to play a fuller role as a father and partner without compromising his personal path in life?

Deborah Tom

What is the new business venture Deborah has embarked on this year? How is she involved with Paul McKenna? Why was she on TV? How many networks does she belong to? Where does she get all that sparkling energy from?

Eva Beazley

Find out about Eva's work with Telos and her impressions of insider-outsider dialogues, storytelling and online discussion with NI. What WAS she talking so animatedly about with Rabbi Julia Neuberger on Monday night? Has she recovered OK from that terrible car crash in Italy this summer and what is the aftermath of a near death experience?

Fiona Coffey

Is the work gang system working so that Fiona can really get into the party instead of just slaving over a hot oven? How does Fiona feel about 30-40 people invading her home like this? Is she hanging in there with her Pyschosynthesis classes? How does she feel about the role she is taking in shaping the New Intermediaries happening? What's next?

Garth Spiers

Find out about Garth's diverse interests form working with Disney to United Nations, acting, Chinese medicine and Buddhism. Is he finally putting together that exciting, profound development programme he keeps talking about?

Gill Nicholson

What is it like dipping into this NI community? What does Gill take from this back into her business change work in the Home Office? Does she have any embarrassing stories about government ministers for your next dinner party? Who is fluffy gigglesnorts (or something)?

Helena Molyneux

How is Helena enjoying life since her brave decision to leave her job as Personnel Director of the British Council? How is she getting on with constructing her portfolio career? Which party guest did she once make redundant?! And as this is her first NI gathering, what might she be hoping for this morning?

Ian Holder

Ian isn’t sure if he’ll make it, but he told Fiona he wanted to be up on the wall anyway! How is he enjoying his Psychosynthesis journey? What’s it like to be a Finance Director during the week and running relationship workshops at the weekend? Is he prepared to host an NI gathering at his house in the Egyptian desert?!

 

Jackie Hart

In which of her previous jobs did Jackie encounter mass murderers, Butlins Holiday Camps and thousands of pairs of prison-issue underpants? How does she use this experience in her current role with the Fire and Emergency Planning Directorate of the Home Office? How does she see her internal consultant role changing over the next few years?

Jane Heritage

What’s it like developing Tax and Legal Directors in PWC? Is it all too touchy feely for them? What did Jane get out of her recent consulting course at Ashridge? What’s it like working with Julie and Malcolm? How on earth does she find the time to train for triathlons as well?

Jane Humby

Find out about the interesting networking Jane does, involving swapping projects between internal consultants, taking her into various different organisations although employed in the Civil Service. Is she enjoying her MSc course in Surrey?

Jean-Marc LeTissier

How is Jean-Marc enjoying independent life after 16 years with Coopers as a trainer, then head of training? Ask him about his huge experience with experiential and creative training. Might he be tempted to join in some NI events next year?

Jeremy Raymond

Is Jeremy still working hard with the Internet start up company he’s been so involved with this year? How is life after the Piper School? How does he see his work developing over the next year? Does he think Sainsbury’s is finally getting its act together?

Jill Fairbairns

She paints, she gardens, she coaches, facilitates and consults. But who is the real Jill? How does she know Eva's husband? Does she really like this networking environment? What is she really after? And how does she balance all these interests?

Jo McHale

What is Jo's relationship to Non-violent Communication, People Management and Bill Tate? How does she want to develop her work in prisons? What did she think of the feedback she got from the NI online dialogue?

John Wilson

First time we've seen John since February. How is John? How is Lloyds TSB? Does he have a new job yet? What is he looking for today? Maybe John just wants to enjoy the uplifting party fun.

 

Julian Burton

Ask Julian about Visual Dialogue and let him show you the picture he drew of our September meeting. Give him your feedback about the picture and find out how Julian uses pictures as a support to dialogue.

Julie Bickerton

Ask Julie about her experiences of NI meetings and online so far. Ask her about Julian's picture of our September meeting and see if she recognises any part of it that is hers. Find out why she pulled out of a major project after the September meeting and what she's doing now.

Karen Lee

How did Karen enjoy the theatre games last April? What has she been up to since? Ask her about conflict, international teamwork and her approach to teambuilding and group process.

Malcolm Tulloch

Ask Malcolm about his part in leading our storytelling experiment in October. Surely he doesn't use such expressive and experimental methods with hard-headed tax and audit partners in one of the big accounting firms? What is he researching at Bath?

Nic Shugar

Is Nic feeling nervous about the parachute jump scheduled for later today? What kind of work does he do in communications and change? What made him accept Jane’s invitation to come to this party? How is he enjoying the Msc at Surrey?

Paul Osborne

Paul Osborne is a landscape, panorama and portrait painter who has travelled the world, and published a book of a visual pilgrimage from Mt Athos to Tibet. So how does that experience connect with an interest in people, change and organisations? Ask him about his work with Julian in developing visual tools for leadership/visioning workshops.

Paul Pivcevic

Did Paul enjoy coming along to New Intermediaries insider-outsider dialogue in May? Is he still working at Tomorrow's Company? How does he know Jeremy Keeley? What's in his bag of goodies?

Peter Desmond

What is Peter doing with Tomorrow's Company? What takes him to Africa? What attracted him to our party today?

Richard Chapman

What has been Richard personal and professional journey over the last 12 months? How is Devon suiting him and his family? Is he still writing, painting, composing music? Is he enjoying his client work? How does he manage his work-life balance?

Roddy Maud-Roxby

Ask Roddy about Improvisation, Theatre Games, Keith Johnstone and Andy Harmon. Ask him about his incredible experiences in Santa Cruz and how he is bringing NLP into acting (or the other way around!)

Stephen Leybourne

Stephen used to be in Lloyds TSB. What made him move to Cardiff Business School? How many people has he interviewed so far in his research? What is he learning about project management, change management and improvisation?

Terri McNerny

Ask Terri about Ashridge, NLP, Servant Leadership and Storytelling….is she finding a common thread running through all these? What happened during her recent trip to Hawaii?

Tony Page

How is Tony enjoying all his new ventures and activities - Gestalt group, working with Andy on a theory of improvisation and change, and stage fighting with PWC and Mckinsey consultants? Is his vision of New Intermediaries unfolding as expected? Is the party admin easier second time around? And how is he coping with being a single parent this week while Helen’s in Turkey?

Uly Ma

Uly works a lot in collaborative change and with trade unions and has some strong links into various Government departments. Jeremy, who introduced him, says he's a good guy who wants a wider consultancy network. So how can we help him?