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Founder
Jane literally wrote the book on culture – which then gave our company its name. She is a highly respected expert on culture, change and performance – working with C-level boards on these, and other topics. A frequent commentator on the wider working world, Jane regularly delivers keynote material and media comment on a range of topics. Recently, a CEO that Jane regularly works with summed her impact up perfectly, saying “This happened, and the first thing we did was dial 0800-Jane.”
Founder
Chris is the brains behind our operation. His focus is the technical and structural aspects of our approach – researching and developing our thinking on a range of topics – most notably the recent complex landscape that is flex working. He’s also involved in delivering our leadership programmes, and our values and behaviours work, and… in fact, he’s involved in everything we do.
Owen Cook
Head of Programmes
Owen is the one everyone asks for. His knowledge, style and approach just seem to fit, no matter where he is. A highly experienced facilitator and programme creator, Owen works right across our client pool – bringing ideas, approaches and growth opportunities to life, for groups of every shape and size. He cut his teeth working with disaffected youths on engagement programmes, and has used this experience to drive our thinking and ethos around group learning.
Emma Boswell
SEnior consultant
Emma is an executive coaching and organisational development expert, through-and-through. She works with a range of senior leadership teams, helping them navigate complex challenges and drive sustainable cultural change. She’s also an expert in systemic team coaching, service transformation, and leadership development. Alongside all this, Emma holds an MSc in Occupational and Organisational Psychology, blending evidence-based research with over 25 years of hands-on executive experience.
Michael Pheasant
SEnior consultant
Michael is a culture transformation and people development expert, through-and-through. He works with a range of organisations and leadership teams, helping them navigate complex change and build supportive environments where people feel heard and empowered to thrive. He’s also an expert in psychological safety, team coaching, and profiling tools like Insights Discovery and NLP. Alongside all this, Michael holds a Master’s in Public Health with distinction from King’s College London, blending strategic policy insight with an extensive background in global health workforce development.
Katie-Jo YEOMAN
head of operations
Katie is one of our longest serving team members, and it shows. Not in a bad way, far from it. She understands the intricacies of our work, and is always one step ahead of everyone else. It puts us in pole position to do our best work, to look glamorous on social media and to find things exactly where they need to be.
Laura Beech
Head of Design
Laura makes us look astounding. We know what you’re thinking: “The Culture Builders is looking pretty slick these days.” Yes, yes we are. And it’s because of Laura. She’s swept through our brand presence and given it a whole new breath of life. She’s a massively talented designer that takes an immense amount of pride in her work. Clients constantly ask for her work and we’ve yet to hear anyone say ‘I don’t like it’ about any of her outputs.
Izzy Ruth
Junior consultant
Izzy is a culture research and project development expert, through-and-through. She works with a range of client teams and organisations, helping them gather meaningful workplace insights and turn research into practical, engaging culture tools. She’s also an expert in 360-degree feedback, qualitative interviewing, and session capture. Alongside all this, Izzy brings strong emotional awareness and a keen focus on team dynamics, driving seamless execution across complex culture transformation projects
Luca herko
Junior consultant
Luca is a business psychology and culture transformation expert, through-and-through. She works with a range of leadership teams and organisations, helping them navigate complex change, enhance capability, and translate people data into practical insights. She’s also an expert in psychometric assessment, agile HR frameworks, and 360-degree feedback. Alongside all this, Luca holds an MSc in Occupational Psychology, blending scientific rigour with hands-on consulting experience across diverse global environments.
Kelly Gauld
Operations Executive
Laura is an operations and administration expert, through-and-through. She works with a range of teams across the business, helping them maintain organisational capacity, manage logistics, and keep every day running smoothly. She’s also an expert in event planning, office administration, and project coordination. Alongside all this, Laura brings over 35 years of administrative experience and a reassuring, calming presence that helps the whole team be at their best.
laura Dewberry
Administration Assistant
Laura is an operations and administration expert, through-and-through. She works with a range of teams across the business, helping them maintain organizational capacity, manage logistics, and keep every day running smoothly. She’s also an expert in event planning, office administration, and project coordination. Alongside all this, Laura brings over 35 years of administrative experience and a reassuring, calming presence that helps the whole team be at their best.
Jo Moore
Associate Consultant
Jo works with many of our non-profit clients, and has the necessary perspectives to ensure we can deliver programmes that account for their unique needs and approaches. That’s not to say she goes easy on them – she is also adept at giving tough love when needed, and helping teams cut down to the clarity needed for resolution and progression. She mixes her organisational work with a coaching role that draws on the same skill-set developed over many years running businesses in IBM, Motorola and Ericsson.
Annie Hazlerigg
ASSOCIATE Consultant
Annie keeps us real. She’s one of our most experienced team members, and boy does it show. Her insight into organisational practices is razor sharp, and it used to great effect when she undertakes our culture audit work. Working with Annie is like having the text book ‘on how to do it’ open on your desk – learning, guidance, stories and reassurance. She’s also seriously lovely (and likes dogs).
Maria Glasscock
Associate Consultant
Maria is an executive people and organisational culture expert, through-and-through. She works with a range of executive boards and senior leaders, helping them transform organisations from the inside out and align people strategy directly with business purpose. She’s also an expert in diversity, equity, and inclusion, workplace culture, and large-scale organisational change. Alongside all this, Maria brings over two decades of commercial HR leadership – including over 12 years at Selfridges – combining deep strategic vision with a passionate commitment to helping people become their best selves.
Phil Rumbol
Associate Consultant
Phil is a business leadership and brand strategy expert, through-and-through. He works with a range of boardrooms and senior executive teams, helping them navigate major change, spearhead innovation, and build high-performance, growth-focused cultures. He’s also an expert in marketing strategy, brand positioning, and executive coaching. Alongside all this, Phil brings over 35 years of senior commercial experience – including roles as CEO of Bahlsen and Marketing Director at Cadbury – combining deep industry wisdom with practical, transformational leadership.
STEVE Williams OBE
Associate Consultant
Steve is a high-performance culture and leadership development expert, through-and-through. He works with a range of leadership teams and organisations across all sectors and international regions, helping them build elite squad mentalities, master feedback, and navigate high-stakes challenge. He’s also an expert in executive coaching, marginal gains, and building peer-to-peer accountability. Alongside all this, Steve is a double Olympic Gold medallist, four-time World Champion rower, Everest climber, and North Pole skier, bringing stress-tested, elite-level mindsets directly into the business world.
Lizzy Yarnold
Associate Consultant
Lizzy is a high-performance mindset and executive coaching expert, through-and-through. She works with a range of passionate, driven leaders and teams, helping them build resilience, navigate setbacks, and sustain excellence under pressure. She’s also an expert in psychological safety, customisable communication, and team stretch mindsets. Alongside all this, Lizzy is a two-time Olympic Gold medallist and an EMCC Level 7 qualified Executive Coach, bringing elite sporting determination and deep coaching rigour directly to the business world.
“We are proud of the diversity within our team, and view it as a major success enabler for us. We constantly look to include new voices into our work and thinking. Alongside this, we try our best to present a welcoming, inclusive company. To achieve this, we use images throughout the site that bring to our material a rich mix of people. Many of these images are from stock libraries – they look so much better than the ones we would take, and we see them as a statement of our advocacy. We felt it important to be honest about this.”