about kev

I started my career as an audiologist in 1989. Thirty-six years later I'm still in the same world, just from a different angle - helping the people who do the work find out that they are also leaders, and that this matters.

I describe myself as a Leadership Developer and Thinking Partner. The first part covers what I do: designing and delivering development programmes, facilitating teams, coaching individuals, building faculty and community. The second part is how I do it best: alongside people, in proper conversation, thinking through the things that are genuinely hard rather than delivering answers to questions nobody asked.

The work I'm most proud of creates conditions rather than content. Individuals who rediscover their curiosity and their confidence. Teams who find conversations they weren't having before. Organisations that remember why the work matters. People have described working with me as calm, thoughtful, and surprisingly fun. Someone recently called it inspirational, and I'm still getting used to owning that.

My heartland is Healthcare Science,  a workforce carrying enormous clinical responsibility that has historically been asked to get on with the job rather than invest in its own leadership. I care about that fight. I helped build the British Academy of Audiology from three separate professional bodies, I lead the AHCS Leadership Faculty, and I've spent years working with paediatric audiology teams and clinical scientists across the NHS who are doing remarkable work in difficult conditions.

But the human dynamics I work with are the same whatever the context. I also work with organisations navigating major transitions, the fog of a restructure, the uncertainty of a carve-out, the moment when a team needs to find its footing again. When what's needed is more space to think, not more certainty about what to think, that's where I do my best work.

I'm at my most useful when I'm involved from the beginning, when there's a real problem rather than a prescribed solution, and when the people I work with are ready to be surprised by what they find.