Your facilitators
Jo Houchin
Karen Panksztelo
Karen is a management consultant and executive coach with over 20 years in management and HR positions. She has extensive experience of leading, assessing and developing people and teams in a variety of business contexts. She is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development and has an indepth knowledge of HR management processes and their application to continuously engage and inspire people to achieve their best work. As well as leading the design and development of leadership and team development programmes, assessment centres and creative development interventions, using a variety of interactive activities, psychometric tools, coaching and facilitation, Karen has introduced talent management techniques and process improvements that transform individual and team performance.
Karen has an engaging and down to earth style that enables her clients to relax and focus on their personal goals. She is skilled in raising self-awareness and helping clients to discard limiting beliefs. This allows them to focus on the beliefs that serve them best and expand the possibilities available to them. Karen applies her knowledge of maths and psychology to analyse and improve individual and team behaviour in a pragmatic and structured way.
Angela Armstrong
Angela has over 20 years experience in senior HR roles within blue chip organisations and is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD. She is a qualified and accredited Executive and Team coach and Master Practitioner in Neuro Linguistic Programming.
Angela combines experience of leading organisational performance improvement, with the ability to design and deliver tailored development solutions. Working at organisation, team or individual level she has worked with senior, middle and first line managers to support sustained behavioural change: with a focus on performance improvement outcomes. Her main areas of focus are leadership and management development, personal impact, talent development, building high performance team- working and the leadership of change.
Meg Burton
Jo is a Learning and Development professional with over 20 years’ experience in developing people, teams and organisations. Having extensive experience across a variety of sectors, Jo has built a depth of understanding of different cultures and the organisational challenges faced by them. Her passion is helping people become more aware of how they can help themselves and providing them with the tools and motivation to achieve real performance improvements.
Jo is a Level 7 qualified coach with a Post Graduate Diploma in Coaching Psychology. This gives her a diverse and pragmatic tool kit to suit a broad range of coaching needs and preferences. Her approach is both reflective and challenging, drawing on her psychological training to identify unhelpful patterns of behaviour, and unravel barriers to personal and organisational change.
Underpinning all of this, is Jo’s belief that learning should never be dull! Fun, curiosity and engagement are essential ingredients for a successful outcome.
Meg has over 12 years’ experience in learning and development in a blue chip organisation with a further 5 years in consultancy working with a variety of corporate and third sector clients.
She has worked with teams and individuals in partnership to help grow and develop skills and improve business performance and results. She has experience in delivering a variety of Management Development training for all levels of employees. She is an experienced coach, supporting Senior Leaders in their management roles and also as a Career Coach helping individuals with their career development and personal aspirations.
Above all, she is a supportive, enthusiastic character who has a real passion for learning and development and a desire to make a difference to individuals.
