Jane Speller
Consultant

Jane has worked for 15 years as a leadership development and change management consultant in the UK and overseas. She has a strong track record working in the private, public and voluntary sectors. Her main skills are in: creating organisational culture shifts to enhance business performance; developing distributed leadership; and supporting and embedding organisational change.

Driving her work is the desire to create more effective leadership cultures and to make places of work happier and more productive places for people to be.

“My work is all about helping people better understand the tapestry of the human side of organisational life so that individuals are enabled to give of their best, teams work together effectively and creatively and the organisation is more successful as a result. Key to achieving these results is the ability to develop effective and productive relationships for and with my clients.”

Jane specialises in the design and facilitation of activities which:

• Support individuals by consultation that encourages reflection of difficult, often emotional issues, so they develop better understanding and a wider repertoire of possible responses.

• Develop people, through new approaches to organisational learning, and creative methods of in-house leadership and manager development.

• Build teams, as the result of strong analytical and group work skills, valuing difference, and the ability to manage conflict. 

• Develop cultures for improved organisational performance by developing strong yet distributed leadership, by using different forms of meeting and workshop design, and by being thoughtful, perceptive and creative.

• Enable organisational integration, by developing good relationships quickly, and by inspiring and creating trust, so building strong networks and alliances.

Prior to her consultancy work, Jane’s career had been in Social Services and in voluntary sector housing, where latterly she was Director of Conferences Training & Development at the National Housing Federation. She started working as an organisation development consultant in the early 90’s having obtained a Masters degree in Human Resource Development at London University. At the same time she took on a core tutor role on the personal development programme for senior managers at Roffey Park Management Institute.

Between 1998 and 2005 Jane lived abroad in southern Europe and South East Asia. Assignments during this time included: partner development at PriceWaterhouseCoopers; change consultancy for DFID SE Asia; supporting a global change programme for Barclays Capital in Singapore; designing and facilitating strategic planning, leadership development and change management at Save the Children in Indonesia and the USA; and redesigning the business and recruitment of senior consultants at PT Consulting Services, formerly KPMG Jakarta.

Since returning to live in London Jane continues to work with a wide client base, which includes the Department of Work and Pensions, the Centre for Excellence in Leadership, and several International NGOs.

Jane completed the first year of a PhD in professional practice and organisation development through Participatory Action Research at Bath University; she has an MSc in Human Resource Development (University of London), an MSc in Social Administration and Social Work Studies (London School of Economics) and a BSc Joint Honours Degree in Psychology and Sociology (University of Bristol)