Our Team

We are a team of results-oriented, highly qualified and experienced business psychologists with the mission to help our clients choose, develop and engage winning talent to maximise their organisation’s success.

Wendy Lyons

Managing Partner

Dr Charles Woodruffe

Managing Partner

Nicola Shergold

Trisha Cochrane

David Tong

Julie Verdon

Jackie Barber

Sarah Bonner

Samantha Ward

Lindsay Corrigan

Jo Cammell

Jo Baker

CONTACT US

Wendy  Lyons

Managing Partner

Wendy is a chartered occupational psychologist and owner of Human Assets.  Wendy helps organisations with all aspects of talent assessment, development and engagement.  Specialist areas include bespoke inclusive assessments for high potentials, leadership development and social mobility strategy. Diversity, equity and inclusion are at the heart of Wendy’s work and her views and articles in this area have featured in The Times, Sky News and the Observer along with industry publications.  

Wendy has experience across a wide range of public, private and third-sector organisations (e.g. HSBC, NHS, Exxon-Mobil, the Prince’s Trust, The Security Service, The Legal Services Board) and has worked in Hong Kong and China as well as Europe.
Wendy is a member of the British Psychological Society and is HCPC registered.

Contact Wendy: wendy.lyons@humanassets.co.uk

Dr Charles Woodruffe

Managing Partner

Charles is the UK’s expert on assessment and development centres (and author of Development and assessment centres, 4th edition, 2007). He has also written books and articles on talent management (Winning the talent war, Wiley 1999) and leadership. He has consulted to a wide range of organisations including many household names in the private sector (e.g., RBS, HSBC, Ernst and Young, Shell, and Exxon-Mobil) and the public sector (e.g., The Cabinet Office, Department for Constitutional Affairs, The Security Service, Department for Transport and The BBC).

His consultancy activity covers the range of talent management and his particular current interests include developing the indicators of excellence concept, talent management strategy, executive assessment and coaching and applying the psychology of emotion to the workplace.

Charles is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, a Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and an Affiliate of the American Psychological Association.

Contact: charles.woodruffe@humanassets.co.uk

Nicola Shergold

Nicola is a Chartered Business Psychologist with over 17 years of experience working in selection, development and leadership for global clients. She is focused on delivering robust and practical solutions for clients, and is passionate about enabling individuals to reach their full potential, regardless of background and opportunity.

Contact Nicola Shergold:
nicola.shergold@humanassets.co.uk

Trisha Cochrane

Trisha is a fully qualified Business Psychologist with 20 years’ experience in talent assessment and development. She is qualified to use a very wide range of psychometrics and has a diploma in Performance Coaching. From a theoretical standpoint, Trisha draws on her knowledge and experience of psychology, including emotional intelligence, social identity theory (vital in building strong teams and organisational culture), positive psychology, and different leadership approaches. Trisha has worked in a wide range of industries, both public and private sector. Trisha’s expertise ranges from assessing high-potentials to facilitating leadership development workshops and providing coaching.

Contact Trisha Cochrane:
trisha.cochrane@humanassets.co.uk

David Tong

David has over 30 years of experience in business where he has worked as a talent management consultant and coach. As a consultant he grew successful international teams with leading consulting firms. He now specialises in coaching and has a track record of helping clients find ways to improve their performance, overcome obstacles and achieve positive outcomes.

As a coach David combines a warm, personal style with clear, practical thinking. His goal is to provide a supportive environment for clients to explore their unique goals and feelings about work and life. He helps clients develop insight into their current situation and find options for the future. He makes this process thought-provoking and fulfilling so that clients are confident in their decisions and willing to experiment with new ways of tackling the challenges they face.

For people who are new to coaching David’s simple explanation is that it helps in three areas: Do, Learn, Become.

• Do - increase your effectiveness, make plans and decisions and stick to them!

• Learn - find new approaches to work and problem solving and unlearn old habits that no longer serve you.

• Become - explore new goals to help you achieve personal growth and reach your full potential.

David has a masters degree in psychology and trained as an Executive Coach in 2009 at Ashridge, part of Hult International Business School. He is an accredited Senior Practitioner with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC). In addition to his coaching work, David volunteers for the mental health charity The Listening Place.

Julie Verdon

Julie is a registered occupational psychologist, who specialises in the assessment and development of leaders. She also provides executive and career coaching services to her clients. Over the last 19 years, she has helped organisations to identify and develop their current and future leaders, up to and including C-suite. She has a post-graduate certificate in career management and coaching and helps individual leaders to raise their self-awareness, to manage their strengths, address their leadership challenges and to work through career transitions. She has also been a coach on leadership development programmes at Said Business School, Oxford University.

Her experience spans a wide range of industries, professions, and organisational settings across the public and private sector. She has worked nationally and internationally and is quick to appreciate her client’s history, current context, and future aspirations.

Julie’s work across different sectors and cultures, her natural curiosity, her interest in learning and development and ability to quickly spot patterns, enables her to provide clients with fresh perspectives and valuable insights.

Jackie Barber

Jackie is a Business Psychologist and Executive Coach specialising in leadership assessment, development and workplace wellbeing. She delivers assessments, coaching and workshops to a broad range of organisations, from large multinationals to fast-moving start-ups, as well as public sector and not-for-profit organisations.

Jackie has a diploma in executive coaching and is a certified practitioner and trainer in a range of psychometric tools, including those measuring personality and emotional intelligence. She was heavily involved in developing the world’s first psychometric tool to assess resilience and the impact on workplace wellbeing.

With over 20 years’ experience, Jackie has also worked in corporate leadership roles and was previously communications director in a global risk management company. She is passionate about helping individuals to increase their self-awareness, maximise their potential and achieve sustainable high performance.

Contact Jackie Barber:
jackie.barber@humanassets.co.uk

Sarah Bonner

Sarah is an organisational psychologist who specialises in leadership development and executive coaching. She is also an experienced equality, diversity and inclusion consultant and helps organisations to focus on team behaviour and inclusive leadership.

Sarah’s experience ranges from the design and delivery of assessment centres to embedding cultural change strategies within the public and private sector. She takes an evidence-based approach to her work, providing clients with targeted solutions which not only address organisational challenges, but also support the growth and development of inclusive workplace cultures. Sarah is an advanced Hogan practitioner and an ICF approved coach.

Samantha Ward

Samantha is a HCPC registered and chartered Occupational Psychologist with over twenty years of experience in talent and leadership assessment and development. She has worked internationally across many business sectors and industries including finance, legal, pharmaceutical, retail, telecommunications, energy and transport. She is qualified in a wide range of assessment methodologies and tools that identify and support leadership potential and has assisted many organisations in making informed and rigorous decisions in relation to recruitment, succession, transitions and reorganisations.

As an experienced coach she is skilled at working with people at different developmental stages of their careers. She works with a range of coaching models and frameworks, tending to adopt an integrative approach depending on the unique needs of each client with a particular focus on emotional intelligence, self-awareness and building resilience. Samantha also has considerable experience in working with intact and cross-functional teams in order to support collaboration and decision-making. She draws on methodologies that are underpinned by psychological expertise and up-to-date research.

Contact Samantha Ward:
samantha.ward@humanassets.co.uk

Lindsay Corrigan

Lindsay has worked with Human Assets over the last twenty five years, designing and delivering bespoke assessment and development solutions for a wide range of public and private sector organisations. Lindsay has a particular expertise in individual and team development, delivering experiential workshops and tailored team and one-to-one coaching interventions.

Contact Lindsay Corrigan:
lindsay.corrigan@humanassets.co.uk

Jo Cammell

Jo is a Chartered Psychologist with 25 years’ experience helping individuals and organisations maximise potential through leadership development and assessment activities. She has worked with Human Assets since the early days of her career and has built international experience across varied clients and sectors. Jo works predominantly in the fields of coaching, in-depth interviewing, leadership development programmes, 360° feedback programmes and the design and delivery of assessment and development centres. Jo has a Postgraduate qualification in Executive Coaching and is currently extending her skills through an Advanced Diploma. She is passionate about her coaching, in which she works to effect lasting and powerful change, and has particular interests in cognitive behavioural and relational approaches. She is qualified and experienced in a range of well-regarded psychometric tests produced by major test publishers.

Contact Jo Cammell:
jo.cammell@humanassets.co.uk

Jo Baker

Jo is a highly experienced Project Manager and a member of the CIPD. She supports Human Assets and our clients with project and event management as well as coordination of training and workshops. Jo has managed projects with the public, private and third sector and has worked with a wide range of industries.
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