Senior Associates

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Ruth Hunt

Ruth Hunt has over 20 years’ experience in leadership, organisational culture and complex people issues. She is a CEDR-accredited mediator and director of Deeds and Words, working with employers on workplace investigations, culture reviews and difficult team dynamics. A Crossbench member of the House of Lords and Civil Service Commissioner, Ruth was formerly chief executive […]

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Jodie Miller

Jodie Miller is a senior leader with 28 years’ law enforcement experience in the Metropolitan Police Service, specialising in governance, organisational review and assurance in high-risk, high-threat and highly scrutinised environments. She remains nationally accredited as a College of Policing senior investigating officer (SIO PIP3), and strategic investigator (PIP4), and served as an accredited Kidnap

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Matt Lewsey

Matt Lewsey is a former senior civil servant and specialist in inquiries and investigations. Over more than twenty years in the Civil Service he led or supported the delivery of some of the most high-profile public inquiries of the period. He was Secretary of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry; the lead official on the design and

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Patricia Wright

Patricia Wright is an accomplished senior strategic leader with over 40 years’ experience in healthcare, including more than two decades at Board level and extensive CEO tenure. She has a professional background in pharmacy, with a broad portfolio spanning NHS acute, primary, and community care, strategic commissioning, private and public sector consultancy, and third sector

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Thea Walton

Thea Walton is a senior leader and consultant with over 25 years’ experience overseeing the handling complaints, and serious incident investigations as well as professional standards, ethics and cultural transformation. She also has built and overseen assurance systems. This has been undertaken across some of the UK’s most complex public sector environments. Her career spans

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Alexis Jay

Professor Alexis Jay was appointed to the Panel of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in 2015.  She was appointed as Chair of the Inquiry by the Home Secretary in August 2016. Alexis Jay is a visiting Professor at Strathclyde University, where she chairs the Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children in Scotland.

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Stephen Webb

Stephen Webb is a board-level communications advisor with over 20 years of experience and a successful track record of leadership, delivery and innovation in demanding corporate affairs roles. Previous roles include executive director of communications and public affairs for NHS London from 2008-13 and director of communication for Transport for London. Stephen is responsible for

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Christopher Stephens

Christopher Stephens CBE is a corporate governance consultant. He is an experienced chairman and NED with public, private and third sector bodies. In addition, Christopher has had worldwide business experience working for a variety of multinational companies. Currently, he is chairman of the Sarasin Climate Active Board, managing funds on behalf of UK based charities.

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Lucy Scott-Moncrieff

Lucy Scott-Moncrieff CBE is a mental health and human rights solicitor, a Mental Health Tribunal and Court of Protection judge and a long-standing Verita associate. She is Chair of the Administrative Justice Council’s working group on addressing disadvantage in the administrative justice system. Her previous roles include President of the Law Society of England and

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