Meet the team
Hazel Showell – Chief Executive & Founder, FCIPD
Experience
Hazel works at board and SVP level in high profile corporations ranging from Professional services, finance and pharmaceuticals, to film & TV production, Elite Sport and manufacturers of steel, elevators and precision components. Working across the defence sector and in digital transformation, Hazel loves technology (with a soft spot for coders and nuclear physicists). She supports senior leaders in the public sector, NHS and across Whitehall, including three UK parliaments. Regardless of sector, people trust Hazel with their hearts, minds, secrets and strategy – a responsibility she takes seriously.
Hazel is supported by an associate faculty of talented psychologists and coaches.
A founding Director of Carter Corson, with over 25 years’ experience of executive coaching and development, advisory and executive recruitment, Hazel is a graduate in business and psychology, Fellow of the CIPD, and an expert in human behaviour at work. She has a record of major transformation in high profile organisations, focusing on leadership, emotional intelligence, board behaviours and complex change.
As a highly experienced facilitator, Hazel uses conversational intelligence skills to enable conversations that matter, to be had sensitively. She works with boards and senior teams in challenging phases of change and team growth, and with organisations in conflict or with challenging relationships to resolve, bringing her trademark warmth and humour.
Qualifications and Memberships
Hazel is registered disabled and obsessed with finding the perfect margarita (cocktail not pizza), and if you want to find out more about her – Follow the links below to Hazel’s latest blogs, YouTube Channel, Linkedin profile and her Podcast. Or get in touch by email.
John Shinnick – Non Executive Director
John joined the team in 2017 as a non-executive Director, bringing with him a wealth of experience in professional services, and as an advisor to small businesses. One of the deciding factors in joining the Board was his experience with Carter Corson several years ago, when he saw the work we were doing to create behavioural change in the organisation he was working in at the time.
John’s role focuses on governance and finance. He qualified as a chartered accountant in the early 80’s and was a partner in an international accounting firm for over 20 years – eventually coming out of full-time practice in 2013. His focus has always been on the entrepreneurial mindset, in all its guises and to support this, he is an NLP practitioner and an EMCC-qualified coach and mentor.
He also holds non-executive roles in fintech, finance, property funding and humanitarian relief and coach-mentors in the FTSE 100 and professional services sectors.
Hannah Jepson – Facilitator
Hannah is a qualified Business Psychologist and champion of diversity and inclusion. Formerly a Director of a leading national education charity, Hannah led a range of large-scale projects to ensure the pipeline of future leaders for challenging schools. With overall accountability for the charity’s national selection strategy, she managed a team of over 100 internal and external assessors throughout the recruitment lifecycle and led a team of Occupational Psychologists to develop and deliver large-scale assessment centres and training.
Hannah is the founder and director of a social enterprise, LGBTed, which is committed to driving social change by helping organisations become more inclusive. Her passion is in supporting individuals, businesses, and organisations to embrace diversity and inclusion, with a key focus on intersectionality. She is a member of the National Equality and Diversity Forum, currently working with DfE to develop the national LGBT education strategy.
She is also a published academic author, and her work on the career experiences of gay women in the UK has been featured in an international research handbook exploring diversity and careers. She was recently appointed as an associate member of Carnegie School of Education’s LGBTQ Centre for inclusion. All that said, she’s also a fantastic leadership development facilitator and has run programmes focused on creating more emotionally informed leaders in a highly competitive commercial market.
Jane Viljoen – Facilitator and Coach
Jane is a Multi Award Winning Coaching Psychologist and the only Executive Coach in the UK qualified with her unique credentials. A member of Forbes Coaches Council, she has a strong affiliation to positive psychology and an expertise in helping people to reach their potential. Her coaching and speaking style are influenced by the belief that everyone can improve their level of performance, and life satisfaction by applying tried and tested behavioural change techniques.
Jane utilises the practice of Conversational Intelligence™ which uses emerging research from neuroscience to increase challenge, engagement and to build organisational and interpersonal trust, helping leaders and teams reach their true potential. Jane regularly delivers webinars, keynote speaking events and facilitates engaging workshops both virtually and in-house.
Audra Lee – Facilitator, Coach, Counsellor
Audra is a Business Psychologist, Executive Coach and Counsellor with over 23 years’ experience in human resource management including learning and development, organisational development and as a business consultant. Her coaching and facilitation style is influenced by the belief that everyone can achieve their potential by applying tried and tested behavioural change techniques.
Audra’s passion and interest lies in human behaviour and has led and facilitated change and talent projects Internationally. She has a pragmatic style and uses a mix of emerging research from psychology and neuroscience to increase challenge, engagement and encourage leaders, teams, and individuals to adapt and think differently to accelerate performance and achieve their true potential. Audra regularly facilitates engaging workshops both virtually and in-house.
Janice Clare – Facilitator, Coach, Supervisor
Janice is highly self-motivated Executive Performance Coach / Learning and Development professional, with previous experience in a range of demanding roles within an international blue-chip organisation. Janice is passionate about coaching and enabling others to achieve their full potential. She is committed to designing and delivering coaching and training interventions which meet strategic objectives and clearly deliver a return on investment, both from the organisational, team and individual development perspective.
Alyson Hollway- Facilitator and coach
She brings understanding, positivity, and pragmatic approaches to help organisations and individuals make the best of differences so that everyone is empowered and fulfilled in their careers, and businesses perform better. Her specialisms include, Positive diagnostic neuro assessments, neurodivergent strategy coaching, executive coaching, and career coaching.
Alyson is a Registered and Chartered Occupational Psychologist and Coach. She is a disability and neurodiversity specialist, and an experienced speaker, facilitator, and trainer. She has a breadth and depth of experience working, leading, training, and supervising in the field of Occupational Psychology.
Charlotte Jones – Leadership Consultant and Coach
With over 20 years’ experience, Charlotte has worked both internally as a senior manager in the public sector and externally as a consultant, across all sectors. As a leader in a large public sector organisation, she has assessed and developed leaders, and guided and managed change, both as a Client Manager and as an Internal Consultant advising the Management Board.
As an Independent Consultant, she has used her technical and interpersonal skills to advise companies in making the best recruitment, talent management and promotion decisions. She specialises in using psychometrics and interview techniques to understand and evoke leadership in others. With International business and development experience, she adapts to context and culture to ensure the best fit solutions for each organisation.
Harri Demetrios – Business Psychologist
Harri is a qualified business psychologist and leadership development consultant with over a decade of experience in the design, development and delivery of innovative people management solutions with leading consultancies. Her expertise lies in executive coaching, assessment, development and talent strategy incorporating executive profiling for selection and promotion, leadership development, and high potential identification and acceleration.
Her work includes executive coaching with coaching over 200 hours a year for Senior Executives and high performing professionals to support their personal development and aid career progression.
Roger Williams – Executive Coach
An experienced coach and facilitator, Roger has over 30 years extensive strategic and practical experience at a senior level in Human Resource Management and Operations. Roger has spent many years working with the management of change and transformation at all levels from strategic change programs to the impact of change at individual and team level. Roger is a strong advocate of leaders and managers using a coaching style and developing a culture of coaching to improve their individual and team relationships to creating even higher performance.
Roger has worked with and coached many teams and individuals who are experiencing change and has extensive experience of strategic change and the organisational, people, performance and Human Resource issues associated with it. Roger’s individual coaching clients include senior executives and academics from the NHS, Education, Universities, Local Government, and the private sector. He also has extensive experience of telephone coaching internationally with a large United Nations agency. A significant piece of work over the last 8 years has been to work with a major NHS client for whom he designed and delivered a coaching culture program based on developing the culture and enhancing leadership skills for senior executives, non-executives, clinicians and all 350 senior leaders across the organisation.
Siân Taylor – Executive Coach
Siân quickly and effectively builds rapport and collaborative working relationships with her coachees, focusing on their goals and objectives within the wider organisational context, to deliver results. She works with senior leaders, managers, and individuals in a broad range of roles, specialising in leadership, systems thinking and enhancing self-confidence working in complex environments, having difficult conversations, managing stakeholder expectations, influencing colleagues and making decisions when faced with uncertainty.
Siân had over 15 years management experience during which she developed and utilised a coaching approach with her team and colleagues.
Siân has been a professional coach for over 5 years and has accumulated over 300 hours of one-to-one coaching and more recently coached both teams and groups. Siân has delivered coach qualification programmes including ILM5 and EMCC accredited programmes, and facilitated on a major culture change programme ‘Coaching for Culture’ within the NHS.
Therese Harvey – Executive Coach
Therese is a qualified HR professional and a former HR Director in the NHS before she joined PwC as a Principal Consultant. She is a fellow of the CIPD and has a Diploma in Personal Performance Coaching. Therese has run her own consultancy business since 2013 working on senior level consulting assignments within the NHS. Her business now focuses on working with individuals to help them make a step change in their career, communications, and confidence empowering them to see changes, transitions and challenges as a positive experience which can transform and improve their life.
Much of Therese’s working career has been focused on supporting people and organisations to manage change. She has dealt some of the most sensitive and difficult challenges including major workforce restructuring, large turnaround projects, improving dysfunctional teams and managing complex communications. Her wealth of experience in the people world have given her a unique set of skills which she now uses in her coaching business to help clients in the career management/communication skills/confidence building.
