Our faculty is made up highly experienced Action learning facilitators, who are also coaches, team development specialists, senior managers, clinicians, and organisational development practitioners.

Linda Keenan

Linda is a Director in the Elect Consulting team and has been with NHS Elect since 2015. She brings a background in counselling, organisation development, mediation, action-learning and team development to her coaching practice. With more than 20 years’ coaching experience she works with a range of individuals including, health sector managers, senior nurses, executives, and clinical directors. Linda has a distinct relational approach to her coaching practice, spending time at the beginning of a coaching relationship to establish rapport, understand the context, needs, drivers and best outcomes for her clients. Linda has a wide range of qualifications which support her work which include, an ILM level 7 Certificate in Executive Coaching and Mentoring, an MSc in Organisation Development from Roffey Park (University of Sussex), accredited diplomas in action learning facilitation and workplace mediation. Linda is also and a MBTI practitioner (step 1 and 2). Between 1994 and 1997 Linda undertook a post graduate qualification in person centred therapy and is a member of the Association for Coaching.

Dr Chris Hewitt

Chris has over 30 years’ experience working in health and with NHS professionals and leaders. He has worked as a GP, medical educator and in leadership positions in NHS Trusts and at the Department of Health. He was Chief Executive of a Local Medical Committee in the Midlands and has been an Associate Dean for Health Education England.

Chris believes it is important that patients and carers are directly involved in running health and social care and he has led work on the implementation of new services, building projects and reviews of corporate and clinical governance. Chris has also worked as a medico-legal adviser and clinical complaints advisers with a leading UK medical defence organisation and continues to enjoy coaching individuals and teams with complaints handling, governance and regulatory matters and in dealing with serious allegations.

Chris trained as a mediator with Regents University in London and works to resolve conflict by finding a golden path for all parties to walk away with dignity. Chris is an accredited professional coach with the International Coaching Federation and has regular professional supervision. Chris’s skills include team facilitation, service improvement, mediation and professional coaching. Chris understands the challenges for medical leaders and the context of their work.

Jan Samuel

Jan is an independent Leadership Consultant, qualified Coach, Team Coach and Action Learning Set facilitator with extensive senior leadership experience in the healthcare sector in both strategic and local settings.  A Chartered Physiotherapist by background, Jan has over 32 years' experience in healthcare. She has a track record of delivering results through excellent engagement and communication skills, leading large scale change across multiple settings, balancing business with quality targets, leading collaboration for successful partnership and building high performing, motivated teams. 

Jan is passionate about helping individuals and teams connect with their potential to achieve great results. She has extensive experience in supporting teams and organisations build purposeful cultures and draws on her experience in both clinical, operational and leadership roles to contextualise learning and support. Jan's last substantive NHS leadership role was Director of Service Transformation at a multi-site hospital leading system change built on strong engagement and partnership working.

Jude Goddard

Jude is a highly skilled facilitator, coach and organisational development consultant with over 30 years of public sector service. She was Executive Director of Strategic Development and Partnerships in the NHS, taking the leading in vital modernisation programmes in North Yorkshire. Jude's behavioural science and psychotherapy training enables a strong rapport with her clients. She understands how the NHS and the wider system operations and how people work within it.  Jude uses a wider systems approach to enable senior leaders to explore the power of their effect with colleagues and within their organisation. 

As an experienced Organisational Development consultant, Jude is particularly interested in working with groups and teams. She is interested in group images - ie how the individual carries the picture of themself and the group in their mind and how that works with the pictures that others have in their minds.

Luqman (Lucky) Rajput

Lucky started his medical career in A&E, however he eventually elected to train as a GP in Boston, Lincolnshire. He joined a practice as a partner in 2006 and has worked in the NHS as a clinician for over 20 years. During this time, Lucky completed a postgraduate training in medical education and has been inolved in supporting and training GPs, as well as holding leadership positions including as an executive GP in a PCT and subsequently the CCG. Lucky completed an MSc in Coaching and Mentoring and is registered as a master practitioner with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council.

Lucky's goal is to continue to develop himself and to help and support others who wish to develop themselves. He likes to work with leaders and enjoys working on strategy and planning problems. His mission in life is to work with people and teams so that they can be more productive.

Sheryl Pope

Sheryl has been professionally facilitating and coaching for about 15 years and has worked with NHS Elect on a number of leadership development and strategic review programmes since 2012. Working for the NHS for 30 years, Sheryl has worked from ward to board as a therapist, manager, executive director, coach, consultant and trainer.  She also holds a post graduate diploma in Executive Coaching and Leadership Mentoring.

Sheryl has always been drawn to work that involves creating better communication and connection, from her early days as a speech therapist, to becoming an executive director of communications and strategy, latterly as a coach and facilitator. Her approach is grounded in compassion, curiosity and a healthy sense of humour.