Michele Lockwood-Edwards
Consultant

Michelle helps organisations to become more effective and thereby successful. She does this by working with teams and individuals to address issues around communications and culture within the organisation.

“I am particularly interested in working with clients to enable them to take a positive approach to change. I enjoy the challenge of working with people to empower them when they are ‘stuck’ or de-motivated.”

Michelle recently collaborated with staff in a GP practice to organise themselves more productively to meet patient needs and PCT targets. This involved not just supporting staff to find solutions and implement change, but also helping them to build confidence that change could be achieved.

Throughout 2003-2005, she has also been engaged as a NatPaCT learning set facilitator, working with senior PCT and NHS Trust managers. The programme covered a range of strategic issues and the Action Learning proved particularly powerful when it came to creating time to come up with and test ideas interactively before implementing. The end result is the creation of more and better options around complex change agendas.

Michelle also works on coaching projects for senior managers who have been promoted into new roles. And as a management development specialist, she has considerable experience of running training and development in the NHS.

Michelle has an MSc in Organisation Development and Consultancy (Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University) and is a chartered MCIPD. Her academic qualifications are postgraduate Certificate in Education (Cambridge University), BA Hons in English and German, and City and Guilds Certificate in Adult Teaching 730.