Simon Martin

Associate Partner

Simon is a strategic organisation development and design consultant who works internationally supporting clients in transforming their organisations and developing learning cultures. Common areas of focus for his work include strategy engagement, organization design, leadership, executive team development and culture change.

He is based in the UK and Germany, and works extensively across Central Europe, in English and German (and enthusiastic Polish…).

Simon has led consulting projects for a wide range of public, private and third sector clients. These have included organisations such as Barclays, Siemens, Bayer, Shell, British Council, VW, Telefónica,, Mann+Hummel, Eakin Healthcare, UK Government, Scottish Government, the NHS, and Novartis, amongst others.

He is particularly interested in the role organizational language, metaphor, story and narrative play in shaping, perpetuating, or changing cultures and organizational systems. He works with individuals and senior functional and leadership teams to help them explore these patterns and their implications for their success.

He is a CIPD qualified L&D practitioner, holds the Ashridge Masters in Organizational Change, and has a first degree in English and German Literature from The Queen’s College, Oxford. He is accredited to administer the FIRO-B and SDI psychometric instruments.

He lives with his wife and two children between Görlitz, Eastern Germany and Oxford. When not with clients, you might find him playing trumpet in a street band…

The Team

Sophy Pern

Partner

Sophy is an international consultant, facilitator and executive coach. Working with executive leaders and teams on strategy engagement, organisation design and operating models, culture change and team development. She develops Organisation Development and Design capability in-house in client organisations, and with professional bodies across Europe.

Andrew Day

Partner

Andrew is a consultant, facilitator and coach with over 30 years of international experience, both as an internal and external consultant. He helps leaders design and develop their organizations strategically, specializing in leadership team facilitation, executive coaching, and participative organisational development.

Mark Emdin

Partner

Mark brings a rare mix of rigour, warmth, and practical insight to the complex work of aligning leadership, structure, and culture. A consultant, facilitator, and team coach, he specialises in untangling organisational complexity, redesigning operating models, and enabling senior teams to perform at their best.

Tim Haynes

Associate Partner

Tim is a skilled consultant, group facilitator, coach, and accomplished data-driven Organisational Design & Development leader with close to three decades of experience in FTSE Top 10 as well as high-growth global companies. Tim has operated as an internal organisational consultant and leader on numerous major change efforts over the years.

Lindsey Masson

Associate Partner

Lindsey is an international OD Consultant & Coach. She particularly works in the areas of change, leadership, team and one-to-one coaching. Lindsey has a wide range of consulting and facilitation experience partnering with organisations and teams that need to become more effective in creating and delivering on strategy and enabling greater ownership of change.

Hélène Casanova

Associate Partner

Hélène Casanova is a seasoned expert in organisational transformation, cultural change, and leadership development, with a distinctive background in finance that brings a data-driven, business-oriented approach to HR and OD strategy. She has led large-scale change management, M&A integrations, and talent development initiatives across multiple industries.

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Sander van Muijen

Associate Partner

Sander van Muijen is a seasoned consultant in leadership & change, executive coach, senior leadership team coach, as well as researcher and lecturer. He specialises in top team effectiveness, adaptive leadership, and large-scale culture and change programs. His work blends organisational insight with deep personal inquiry.

Olivia Margo

Associate Partner

Olivia specialises in organisational dynamics and leadership. She offers executive coaching, supervision, and exec team coaching. Clients present with a wide range of challenges related to the complexity of large-scale operations, an uncertain context, shifting paradigms of leadership, and personal dilemmas.