Balance At Work's
Consultants and Facilitators

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Angela Bann
Lucy Daniels
Lucy McCarraher
Sally Muir
Jo Reynolds
Michael Wilkins
Gillian Wing

Angela Bann

Following a portfolio career spanning retail management with BAT industries, and voluntary sector management, Angela now works as an independent training consultant, specialising in work - life balance and management development. She has worked with local authorities, public bodies, voluntary organisations, and small businesses and is involved with Working Families' voluntary sector project, 'Balancing Work and Home in the Voluntary Sector'. As well as facilitating workshops on a range of work - life issues, Angela works with individual managers to help them manage flexible workers.

Angela develops written resources on the subject of work - life balance. She is a co-author of the Working Families' development pack for voluntary sector organisations. Other recent publications include a toolkit to help business advisors identify work - life balance needs and solutions in small and medium enterprises and a training kit for Early Years Development and Childcare workers. She has also written for a website for small business owners.

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Lucy Daniels

Lucy Daniels' work includes consultancy, training and research concerning the development of corporate work-life strategies, management of flexible and teleworkers in small and large firms, pan-European policies and practices, childcare and elder care provision in the UK.

She was founding Director of the national charity, Parents At Work and is an associate director of the Work Life Research Centre which brings together academics and practitioners concerned with this issue. She also writes extensively on the subject of work-life balance, flexible working and childcare.

Organisations for whom she has undertaken consultancy and training include the National Audit Office,Ford Motor Company, Hewlett Packard, CfBT, IBM, Littlejohn Frazer, NEC, Peak District National Park and Rolls Royce.

In 2003 she received the lifetime achievement award from the National Work-Life Trust for her contribution to this field.

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Lucy McCarraher

As an independent expert in work-life balance and flexible working, Lucy McCarraher has co-written The Book of Balanced Living, the Work Life Manual and the video Get the Balance Right. She has worked for the Work-Life Research Centre, National Work-Life Forum, Employers for Work-Life Balance and judges Working Families annual Employer of the Year and Best Boss Awards.

Lucy is an experienced trainer and consultant and has worked with a range of clients including: Microsoft, Virgin Management Ltd, GlaxoSmithKline, Linklaters, BP and many local authorities and NHS Trusts.

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Sally Muir

Sally is a freelance counsellor and facilitator, working in the parenting and work-life balance fields.

While working with Working Families, she built up an in-house advisory service for BP, offering a comprehensive range of support that covered childcare, work-life and diversity issues. She devised and wrote a quarterly newsletter for parents and ran STEP (Systematic Training for Effective Parenting) and STEP Teen courses. These services were instrumental in BP winning an Opportunity 2000 award for demonstrating commitment.

Sally has worked with a wide range of clients including Barts and the Royal London, various ACT, PCT and NHS trusts,Nestle, BP, Ford and the BBC.

Sally is sometimes invited to speak at conferences and on radio. Her radio broadcasts include All in the Mind with Professor Anthony Clare, Education Matters, and Woman's Hour.

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Jo Reynolds, FCIPD

Jo Reynolds, BA (Hons), Chartered FCIPD, a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, is an independent consultant following an extensive career in Human Resources with Eli Lilly and Company Limited , the global pharmaceutical organisation. She was part of the team that led Eli Lilly to the 1996 Parents at Work "UK Employer of the Year" award for innovative flexible working policies.

She now specialises in this area in major businesses, with clients from both public and private sectors, bringing a broader expertise and understanding of HR issues into the practical solutions she provides. Some of her recent clients are: Camelot Group plc, Virgin Management Ltd, Linklaters, The Princes's Trust and several NHS Trusts. She also has an extensive practice in personal coaching, the skills for which she finds useful in supporting managers introducing flexible working. She is also Branch Chair of the Central Southern Branch of the CIPD, and sits on the Institute's UK steering committee on Career Management. To keep her own life in balance, she plays competitive golf.

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Michael Wilkins

Michael Wilkins has ten years consultancy experience working with organisations of all sizes in different sectors. He specialises in helping organisations improve their effectiveness through developing processes that reduce stress and increase employee performance and motivation. He is an experienced mentor of senior managers and executives.

Prior to becoming a consultant Michael had worked extensively in the financial services, voluntary, health and local authority organisations. He is also an accredited user of several ethical, validated, psychometric profiling tools and a licensed Investor in People adviser.

He is also a visiting lecturer and facilitator at the Civil Service College, working with senior managers to develop their personal power and influencing skills, and has been a course tutor and co-ordinator at Birkbeck College, University of London.

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Gillian Wing

Gillian Wing is a successful leader with proven skills in organisation development and change management. During the 1990's, as Chief Executive of an NHS Trust, she delivered consistently high performance across all aspects of the Trust's services meeting exacting financial targets. Her ability to bring out the best in people by supporting creativity and innovation, combined with effective teamwork and performance management ensured a strong focus on the provision of excellent customer service.

Gillian has brought her skills and experience to consultancy in the fields of flexible working, service quality and organisational culture in both public and private sector assignments. Her senior management experience ensures a thorough understanding of the opportunities and challenges faced by managers when implementing flexible working, together with an appreciation of the culture needed for success and the importance of a strong customer focus.

A recent flexible working project with an NHS client gained highly commended recognition in the National NHS Management Awards.

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