Thinking Global, Acting Local

Sile has been working with individuals and organisations since 2008 across a number of sectors both nationally and internationally with clients in the USA, UK and Europe. Sile is experienced in supporting leadership development, values and behavioural alignment, organisational development, cultural development, individual and team performance and supporting tailored solutions to barriers that impact wellbeing and performance. Sile is passionate and experienced in designing, training, supervising and facilitating interventions cross sectors.

Sile’s formal education includes the HDip in Coaching Psychology and MSc in Personal and Management coaching from University College Cork. Alongside additional qualifications in Leadership, Participatory Management and Professional Supervision. Sile is a registered member of the Association of Coaching, a coaching and organisational member of Psychological Society of Ireland and a psychometric tester with the British Psychological Society.

Sile completed her MSc thesis in “Understanding the Barriers and Facilitators to Systemic Psychodynamic Coaching in Organisational Development” with a nod to Dialogical Organisational Development and is currently in the early stages of utilising the qualitative research to author a book on the effective use of coaching within organisational development.

At Roffey Park Institute, Sile works with HR professionals and leadership teams to promote coaching psychology and dialogic approaches in organisational development and change strategies for the improvement of performance and wellbeing across all levels of an organisation.

Sile works with developing capacity across organisations through facilitation, coaching and shadow consulting. She has worked within a range of sectors including tourism, food, education, healthcare, tech, finance, not for profits and within the social sector nationally and internationally.

Rob is an award winning and highly experienced academic, researcher and consultant in leadership, collaboration and innovation, working at levels from emerging leaders to Board level. Rob has designed and developed leader and leadership development programmes specifically across the public, private and not for profit sectors. Rob is an expert in leader and leadership development, intra and inter-organisational collaboration, creativity, innovation and working with conflict and complex systemic challenges in public, private and not for profit sectors.

His cutting-edge and evidence-based collaborative PhD research and practice on place-based leadership development, has been highly impactful in developing the collaborative capability of local leaders working on complex challenges such as urban violence in Kenya, Uganda, Guatemala and Morocco. Other international activities include a range of strategic policy initiatives in the EU, China and South Africa, research consultancy in Kenya, Uganda and Guatemala, as well as collaborations with co-authors in Europe, the US and Australia

Using his unique philosophy and design model, Rob has also designed and delivered leadership development and collaboration initiatives such as ‘Essential Skills for Innovation’ and ‘Collaboration, Creativity and Social Innovation’ for a wide range of range of government agencies and departments such as DEPR and the DRCD, the Criminal Justice Sector, Ordnance Survey Ireland, the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Transport and local authorities and their partner networks and agencies.

Rob’s previous roles include Leadership and Management Specialist at the IPA, Dublin; Principal Lecturer – External Engagement, University of Sunderland. Programme Director for Leaders UK, Strategic Relationship Manager at the National School of Government. Prior to this, Rob also had 15 years’ experience in regional, national and international public sector senior level roles including Assistant Chief Executive of a Regional Assembly and Strategic Policy Adviser to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, UK.

Rob, who now lives in Bandon, West Cork, Ireland has four children between the ages of 10 and 30.  He is currently working on memoir about identity, love, loss and belonging as part of an MA in Creative Writing at UCC. He is also committed to developing his craft as a storyteller, poet and spoken word artist.

Jesse Segers is Partner at Ginkgo Consulting and also Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Exeter, UK. Jesse teaches leadership and develops leaders at executive and board levels. He is also a visiting faculty member at the Stichting Bedrijfskunde, Netherlands. He serves and has served in several board member functions.

Jesse has published 6 books and more than 200 papers in both top academic journals as well as practitioners’ journals. He held hundreds of academic or business presentations around the globe for (inter)national organisations and is mentioned regularly in the media. His research interests are linked to how individuals, leaders, teams, organisations and societies can change. Specific attention is given to leadership and middle managers.

Jesse is the former Associate Dean of Education & Master Programs and Co-director of the Expertise Centre on Leadership and Academic Director of the Masterclass Leadership for Advanced Leadership at the Antwerp Management School, Belgium. He is a former visiting professor at the Northern Illinois University, USA, the University of Calgary, Canada and AOG School of Management, the Netherlands.

Jesse received his Ph.D. in Applied Economics from the University of Antwerpen in Belgium. He has a master’s in industrial psychology from the Vrije Universiteit Brussels and studied two years of gestalt therapy and 1 year of gestalt counselling. In 2013 he was elected as a distinguished practitioner by the European Association of Work and Organisational Psychology.

Before pursuing a career where he (re)builds educational institutes, Jesse worked in several national and international HR-roles.

Kuʻulani Keohokalole (she/her/ʻo ia) established People Strategies Hawaiʻi in 2019 with the vision of growing the capacity of organizations to foster community-minded and people-oriented leaders. She trains, consults, and supports organizations across sectors and industries who are looking to transform around the ways they engage people to achieve their mission.

Kuʻulani was grounded in the traditional Native Hawaiian cultural practice of ho`oponopono by her grandmother, who was a community-based practitioner. The art of reconciliation, and making things right, guides her approach to facilitation and consultation with organizations, stemming from the belief that clients hold the answers to their own challenges, that who shows up and how they show up matters, and that waiting for the moment is key.

Ku’ulani received the distinctions of Pacific Business News’s “40 Under 40” in 2020 and Hawaiʻi Business Magazine’s “20 People To Watch for the Next 20 Years” in 2023. She is a sought-after speaker on topics of diversity, equity and inclusion, Hawaiian & indigenous values, organizational culture and leadership, and psychological safety in the workplace. Past speaking engagements have included clients such as 3M, Amazon, Microsoft, New York University, Georgetown University, the East-West Center and the YWCA.

Kuʻulani is a trained coach with the Co-Active Institute. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Ethnic Studies and Women’s Studies from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, a Master’s of Arts degree in Education Leadership, Politics and Advocacy from New York University, an Executive Certificate in Organizational Consulting & Change Leadership from Georgetown University. 

Emma’s extensive transformation and change leadership experience as an internal and external consultant spans various sectors including Higher Education, Financial Services, Technology and Retail. She has worked on large-scale change projects at The Open University, Ministry of Defence, Boots and other large, complex organisations. A qualified adult educator and coach, Emma has led executive and professional education, training and qualification programmes at the University of Cambridge, professional body The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport and Anglia Ruskin University.

The golden thread throughout her varied career and entrepreneurial journey is transforming workplaces for the better. She is a strong advocate for the power of social learning, and since joining the Roffey Park Institute team in March 2023, is excited about the possibilities for enabling and encouraging future generations of leaders operating digitally and globally in times of unprecedented pace of change, ambiguity and uncertainty.

With an operational cross-industry, cross-functional leadership background, developing, nurturing and managing the performance of professionals with diverse backgrounds, strengths and talents in large, matrixed organisations, she holds tight to principles of openness and respect. A curious and energetic collaborator, she strives to create inclusive and empowering conditions for innovation and learning, as well as encouraging healthy disagreement, which is a natural consequence of diversity.

Emma holds postgraduate qualifications in Personal & Business Coaching and in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education. Earlier in her career she was a Chartered Management Accountant, working at The Boots Company, Arcadia and IBM.