PENINAH THOMSON is a partner of Praesta Partners LLP, the UK's leading executive coaching firm and sponsor of the FTSE 100 Cross-Company Mentoring Programme. She was formerly a director and then a partner of The Change Partnership, part of Whitehead Mann Group. Before that she was a director in the London office of Pricewaterhouse Coopers. She began her career in the UK Foreign Office working for the Board of National Delegates of NATO in Paris. She has worked extensively with chief executives and boards in the public and the private sectors on strategy, organzational change and culture, and leadership.
JACEY GRAHAM is a Partner and co-founder of Brook Graham LLP, which specializes in the strategic management of Diversity and Inclusion in global companies. She was formerly head of Diversity Strategy and Planning at Shell International. Her early career was in the banking sector where she held various corporate roles in talent and career management, leadership development and executive resourcing. Before joining Shell she was head of Executive Succession for the Lloyds TSB Group. With Peninah, Jacey is a co-founder of Women Directors on Boards, a consortium dedicated to increasing the number of women on UK boards.
TOM LLOYD is a management writer and author. He is a former editor of Financial Weekly and Management Today, was founder editor of Gemini Consulting's quarterly management journal Transformation and wrote the 'Working Brief' column in The Sunday Telegraph for several years. He was written five books, including Managing Knowhow, with Karl-Erik Sveiby, (Bloomsbury, 1987) and The 'nice' company (Bloomsbury, 1990).
