Leadership for Personalised Care

Our team

We are a unique, highly skilled specialist team working inside and outside the NHS but for the good of the wider system
Meet our team of leaders, activists and specialists (many with lived experience) in the field of co-production, community development, leadership development and personalised care

Programme Director

  • Deputy Director in the Personalised Care Group
  • Experienced executive coach and facilitator
  • Passionate about empowering people to take control over their lives and wellbeing
  • An elected member of Reading Borough council for eight years
Catherine Wilton

Programme tutor

  • Citizen leader
  • A convenor for #socialcarefuture
  • Passionate about people with long-term conditions being decision makers in their own care
  • Lived experience - “Living life, while navigating health and social care” is her bio on Twitter
Anna Severwright

Programme tutor

  • Coach and facilitator
  • Helps leaders to challenge themselves and the system they work in to improve their confidence and boost self-esteem
  • Her vision is that people and carers are empowered and respected, working alongside professionals
Kristi Adams

Programme tutor

  • Disability rights, equalities and diversity consultant and trainer
  • Pioneer in the development of independent living and direct payments in the UK and Europe
  • Active member of both the SCIE (Social Care Institute for Excellence) Co-Production steering group and the local Hampshire Co-Production group called PEP (Personalisation Expert Panel)
  • Lived experience
John Evans OBE

Programme tutor

  • Long-standing advocate for personalisation and co-production
  • Expert on accessibility issues based on his own lived experience of living with multiple long-term conditions
  • Chair of the TLAP programme partnership board
  • Ambassador for Disability Rights UK
Clenton Farquharson MBE

Programme tutor

  • Founder and Chair of South Asian Health Action, a patient, carer and community-led charity
  • Patient leader who chairs a number of support and advisory groups regionally and nationally
  • Trustee of Voice 4 Change England
  • Member of our alumni community
Kirit Mistry

Programme tutor

  • Prominent advocate and activist for disability rights
  • Advises the UK government, the Equality and Human Rights Commission and the European Commission on disability rights and services issues
  • Research Fellow at the University of Leeds
  • Lived experience
Dr Miro Griffiths

Programme tutor

  • Lived experience as parent to a child with a learning disability and autism, prompting her to take part in the Partners in Policymaking® programme in family leadership
  • Experienced in public sector management and learning and development
  • Accredited facilitator
Kate Sibthorp

Head of Programmes

  • Clinician with more than 25 years’ experience in leading, developing and coaching teams and individuals
  • Experienced leadership and OD practitioner, facilitator, educator and coach and passionate about everyone being enabled to live their best life
  • Health coach trainer supporting clinicians to have ‘better conversations’
  • Lived experience as parent to a child with multiple long-term conditions
Heather Simpson

Partnership lead and programme tutor

  • Founder member & CEO of In Control Partnerships, advancing self directed health & support so people & families have more choice and control
  • Passionate about inclusion and humanity
  • Convenor of #socialcarefuture & Be Human.org.uk
Julie Stansfield

Programme tutor

  • National director of Altogether Better an NHS network organisation
  • Described as a visionary by the Health Service Journal (HSJ), MBE in New Years Honours 21 for services to Collaborative Practice and NHS service development
  • Support GP practices to find a new way of organising involving local people called Collaborative Practice
Alyson McGregor MBE

Programme tutor

  • Started her career in nursing, moving to community and advocacy work in the 1990s
  • Lived experience – manages a personal health budget with her husband
  • Shares her knowledge with people who are new to personal health budgets
Karen Saville Croft

Programme tutor

  • Experienced Leadership and Organisational Development practitioner, educator, executive and team coach
  • Associate Dean for NHS Health Education England, Thames Valley
  • Deeply committed to facilitating outstanding educational and leadership interventions so that we deliver high quality services for the population that we serve
Maggie Woods

Programme tutor

  • Part of NHS England’s Personalised Care Group
  • Strong believer in empowering people with lived experience to work collaboratively within the health and care sector to effectively coproduce personalised care
  • Lived experience – carer for his late father, who was a recipient of a personal health budget
Colin Royle

Senior Programme Manager and Tutor

  • Background in governance, compliance and programme management
  • Passionate about personalised care, leadership facilitation and raising awareness of mental health
  • Works as a senior manager in the Leadership for Personalised Care team within NHS England & Improvement’s Personalised Care Group
Lynsey Oates

Programme Manager and Tutor

  • Previously project managed the School for Change Agents
  • Passionate about inclusion and is actively involved in the Disability and Wellbeing Network of NHSE/I and runs a Learning Difference Group
Rosie Redstone

Programme tutor

  • Member of the NHS England Strategic Co-production Group.
  • Background in oncology nursing
  • Lived experience as a carer has shown her the value of personalised care
  • Helped set up a mums’ peer support group at her local children’s hospice
Ali Smith

Programme tutor

  • Lived experience – describes his story of success and tragedy by overcoming the odds living with a high-level spinal injury after a diving accident
  • Runs an international consultancy organisation Challenges perceptions of what can be achieved
Andy Walker

Partnership support

  • Business manager at In Control, having supported its development into a successful organisation
  • 18years of organising training and development Utilises her organisational skills supporting the partnerships
Gaynor Cockayne

Programme tutor

  • Founded Touch Network CIC to enable people to tell and hear stories of moving forward with life challenges
  • Lived experience - shares her own story of severe depression
  • An advisor and coach to NHS and social care professionals
  • Member of our alumni community
Debs Carter

Programme tutor

  • Leadership coach, facilitator, consultant and behaviour change practitioner working to help leaders make positive social impact in complex systems
  • Former NHS commissioner who works extensively within health, government and the voluntary sector
  • Trustee of Dementia Carers Count and External Tutor at Henley Business School
Julie Flower

Programme tutor

  • Consultant, executive and team coach and action learning (ALS) facilitator and trainer
  • A recognised pioneer in the field of disabled-led leadership in arts, culture, heritage and media globally and co-founder of syncleadership.com
  • Lead designer for the ALS programme for Leadership for Personalised Care Online programme
Sarah Pickthall
The main learning was to explore greater collaboration
Kirit Mistry, South Asian Health Action