The delvers

Nicola has 20 years of experience across a wide range of industries, working with teams and leaders on change programmes, team diagnostics and performance and talent management.

Nicola's strength is to bring strategy to life and ensure that people and team dynamics are aligned to where an organisation needs it to be.

Nicola's approach is to inject vibrant, fresh thinking and smarter working into teams and organisations, developing leaders to have an adaptive mind-set. Her creative approach and impactful facilitation of leadership programmes and coaching creates conditions where leadership can flourish.

Nicola’s high energy approach has to sometimes be calmed with yoga sessions and occasional visits to the gym.

Sarah has a wealth of experience working with organisations to deliver a range of organisational development interventions. Sarah has strong facilitation skills, enhancing the learning experience, effectively working with leaders and teams to transform services.

Sarah takes an action oriented approach to ensure that the people she is working with can make tangible changes in the workplace. As an accredited coach, Sarah’s natural curiosity enables her to quickly adapt to any situation and create successful outcomes.

Sarah’s most recent role prior to joining Delve was Head of Organisational Development within the NHS where she received national recognition from the European Mentoring and Coaching Council for implementing a successful coaching strategy that made a real difference to the front line.

Sarah’s style is supportive, energetic and creative. Her strengths lie in working collaboratively with clients to develop pragmatic and engaging solutions that make a real difference.

Sarah is passionate about employee engagement and wellbeing and out of work you can find her volunteering with Park Run, walking in the hills or being a taxi driver to her teenage twins!

Our Business Administrator, Deb, is a catalyst for getting things started and creating momentum, setting up and improving processes and she loves meeting a deadline.

Deb has 25 years’ previous experience of leading legal, regulatory and compliance teams within the NHS.

Deb is qualified in strategic transformational leadership with demonstrable strategic transformation project achievements.

Deb is compassionate and effective in her approach, using skills obtained through formal coaching and mentoring training.

Deb has a positive can do attitude, is motivated by getting things done and making improvements to systems and processes. Deb gains immense satisfaction from seeing people develop and thrive.

Deb enjoys Yoga as a way of looking after her physical and mental well-being. Deb is interested in the beneficial qualities of holistic therapies generally and is qualified in Reiki and Seichem healing.

Deb loves the countryside and, with her family, visits the Lake District often.

Joanna is an experienced facilitator having delivered short-term and long-term development programmes to a variety of sectors including education, hospitality and health and social care.

She has strong communication skills, enabling her to work effectively with teams and leaders to create a valued and trusted learning experience.

Joanna’s style is energetic and engaging, with a focus on strengths to ensure that teams understand their dynamic and individual value, leading to more cohesive working, progression and simultaneous personal and team growth.

Joanna is supportive and encouraging whilst creatively and adaptively guiding teams and leaders through a bespoke process to develop tools to make an impact in their work.

When not in work, Joanna likes to head out of the city for some country air and a good view!

Chris’ career has spanned a number of disciplines: HR business partnership; learning and development; employee relations; management of business change programmes; and front line operational leadership.

Working with people in one-to-one and group situations in a variety of organisational contexts and development scenarios has increased Chris’ awareness of, and curiosity around, the organisational ‘system’.
Chris’ greatest passion is for working collaboratively, which for Chris is about ‘working with’ people rather than ‘doing unto’ in a high support, high challenge and high trust environment, using his knowledge, skills and experience to enable sustainable change and to positively impact the people, teams, organisations and communities he works with.

Chris approaches his work holding a mind-set that the best solutions to enable positive shift are most likely to come from the individuals and teams he is working with. Chris’ approach in his coaching and facilitation is typically non-directive and experiential, creating time and space for people to notice what’s happening in the moment, to increase their awareness of what they are in, to generate options for things to be different and to take responsibility for making them so.
Making a difference is a core value for Chris, so he will work with the client in ‘beginning with the end in mind’ to agree at the outset what will constitute a great outcome for any intervention.

Subhiksha is passionate about helping organisations create happy and healthy work environments by identifying, studying and addressing challenges that drastically impact everyday life.

She adapts a holistic approach to empower individuals of an organisation to become leaders in all aspects of their lives.

Her aim is to see leaders have the knowledge and confidence to tackle difficult issues themselves, creating inclusive and diverse workplaces where they and their teams can thrive and shine.

With a Master’s in Occupational and Business Psychology, her areas of expertise include leadership profiling and development, team effectiveness, digital marketing and talent strategy implementation. She also has a diploma in Human Resources and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology.

Amongst a range of projects, Sue enjoys facilitating and assisting leadership and coaching programmes. She also aids managing our social media presence, marketing campaigns and our website by implementing Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) strategies.

Sue loves travel, meeting new people and has been an avid Go-Kart driver and has competed in many off-roading and motorsport competitions. She speaks English, Tamil, Hindi and Malayalam.

Kelly has over 20 years experience working within diverse industries across the public, private sector as well as once owning her own business. Kelly's early career began in the Cruise industry where she had the pleasure of working for Disney Cruise Line. Kelly's time here was invaluable and very much shaped her leadership journey.

Kelly moved into Learning and Development following a strength based conversation with her manager. This conversation was life changing and set Kelly on her career path for the next 10 years.

Kelly is a natural at developing relationships, building trust and engaging audiences. She also loves having coaching conversations and helping people to thrive. Her ability to help people to connect, share and bring knowledge to life served her well when she set up a learning and development business for parents and their babies. After almost 7 years of building and growing her successful business she has returned to the world of organisational development.

Carys uses an evidence-based and impact-driven approach to culture change, employee engagement and leadership development, focusing predominantly on senior leadership and board-level directorship. Her work utilises behavioural science and insight for sustainable results.

She is skilfully responsive to delegates, ensuring inclusion is lived and breathed through each and every programme, and has a breadth of experience running programmes to maximise the impact from all phases of the employee lifecycle.