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Judy Oliver – Training Consultant

Judy specialises in leadership development, strategic thinking, transition planning and facilitation of multi-agency and multi-professional partnerships and teams and community consultations. Her portfolio of work includes executive coaching and development for directors and people in organisations across all sectors but particularly local government and the NHS.

In addition to providing bespoke development programmes for Boards and Executive Teams, she has successfully designed and delivered key strategic development programmes for clinical leaders in the NHS, including the new Clinical Commissioning Groups, clinical directors and consultants in hospitals and GP and specialist registrars. In the last twelve months, her clients have included the Health Ombudsmen's Office, the GMC, Royal Colleges, Deaneries, SHAs, hospitals and PCTs and catholic bishops.

Judy is an accredited assessor for the Myers Brigg Type Indicator and has qualified as a Thinking Environment Consultant with Nancy Kline and a Transitions Consultant with William Bridges in the US. For the last eight years, she has co-ordinated a successful women's leadership network which is researching A New Kind of Leadership for the 21st Century.

Judy was a non-executive director in the NHS for twelve years with two hospitals and a Primary Care Trust. Prior to starting her own business, she held senior roles in local government including Head of HR for Education in Kent County Council and Advisor to the Deputy Chief Executive. Before this, Judy worked for BP for seventeen years in a variety of personnel, industrial relations and legal roles across the spectrum of the oil industry from exploration to marketing