About Fiona
I first worked for a large organization when I joined Citibank in 1983 as a graduate trainee. It was a rude shock. Nothing in my business degree had prepared me for life at the bottom of mega-global plc. After a couple of years, I moved to British Airways to work on their privatization project team, and gained a Masters at the LSE specializing in Industrial Psychology.
In 1989, feeling restless, I joined Price Waterhouse Management Consultants, and realized after three days that consulting would give me enough pleasure and satisfaction to last the rest of my career. In 1992, PW challenged its consultants to 'Enter the Danger Zone' and it opened the door to a whole new world of creativity, experimentation and risk taking. However, I couldn't integrate what I'd learned within the confines of big firm consulting.so I left to set up my own business in 1993. My idea was to set up a consulting business that felt like a country vet practice; short term assignments, friendly service, and long term relationships. It would also give me the freedom to keep exploring and experimenting with new ideas and approaches.
Over the past fourteen years, I've had the satisfaction and the education that comes from helping people to initiate change in a whole range of public and private sector organizations. My work has involved facilitating hundreds of meetings, coaching leaders in many different settings and sometimes working in situations of extreme conflict and difficulty. I've particularly enjoyed projects that bring people together from very different backgrounds and discovering that new ideas and the confidence to change things can arise just from a different quality of conversation. My work has deepened over the years through extensive study of Psychosynthesis, Gestalt, Organisational Constellations and Voice-work. My own projects have included co-founding New Intermediaries in 1999, one of the UK's first virtual online communities exploring people, organizations and change, and organizing with two colleagues the first UK conference on Organisational Constellations in 2005. Last year, I set up to learning events - Experiments at Work with Malcolm Parlett, and Resonance at Work with Nikki Slade to help people work more powerfully with organisation change.
Outside work, I love spending time with my husband Ben and two sons aged 13 and 10. We live in Teddington, South West London.