Consultancy

Gareth has over a 15-year career in central government. 

Gareth’s experience includes a consultancy project with the Department for International Trade to report on capability requirements to support their levelling up agenda, directed at Midlands Engine and Northern Powerhouse Overseas Officers. 

During his time working at the Home Office, Gareth held several senior positions ranging from Private Secretary to the Head of Immigration, Head of Governance and Planning and Head of Learning, where he was responsible for managing multi-million pound learning budgets, including c.£3m to accelerate departmental transformation plans. His experience includes: 
 

• Designing, building, and launching a new Home Office corporate learning function to serve c.20,000. Gareth developed a common curriculum to reduce duplication, raise standards and improve flexibility, and introduced governance measures to link training delivery with corporate priorities. 
• Leading a Home Office team of 20 across multiple UK sites with responsibility for the health, safety and wellbeing of c.28,000. Gareth delivered improved people survey scores in leadership and change management (+30%), engagement (+14%) and discrimination, bullying and harassment (-42% overall, down to zero) within a 6 month period. 
• Most recently, Gareth has co-designed and delivered virtual leadership support circles for more than 3,000 people managers across the wider NHS system in a programme recognised in the Personnel Today and Learning and Performance Institute awards. 

 
Gareth holds a CIPD Level 5 Certificate in Human Resource Development, is an Accredited Foundation Executive Coach with the Association for Coaching and a Myers-Briggs MBTI Certified Practitioner (Step I).

Amanda is a personal development coach, consultant, trainer, and criminal justice specialist working across the public, private and voluntary sectors. 

She started her working life as an actress and drama coach before retraining as a criminologist in 1992. Today she combines her experience as a senior strategic development manager for London Probation with her skills as a coach and facilitator, to provide dynamic, engaging and solution-focused, training and consultancy. 

Working with a broad cross-section of organisations, teams, partnerships and individuals, helping them to identify and achieve their full potential and to increase performance and productivity. Her skills and experience as an actress, coach, strategic public sector manager, Licenced NLP practitioner, Emotional Intelligence practitioner and Motivational Interviewing practitioner, provide a unique range of progressive and effective tools. 

Working across the UK and internationally, including extensive experience of working in the Gulf region where she specialises in organisational, management and leadership development training. 

Permjeet Panesar has developed a formidable reputation over 30 years’ experience in social justice, social responsibility and community development programmes focussing on rights-based, equalities and cohesion activities.  

He held senior level positions in public, private and charitable sectors, providing equality and diversity advisory input to a variety of national and local government led education, employment and community safety initiatives, inclusion of equality principles in national legislation, policy design, research, monitoring and impact assessments.  

Permjeet has produced practical guidance materials to support effective implementation of equality and diversity policies, practices, audits, and consultancy support and tailored training programmes. 

He is currently delivering Race, Equality, Accessibility, Diversity, Inclusion Programme for the London Borough of Havering. Previously, he was CEO of Rights and Equality Sandwell for 9 years, and formerly Head of Children and Young People strategy at the former Commission for Racial Equality, Equalities Development Manager for Learning and Skills Development Agency and is a trainer and speaker on rights, inclusion and cohesion issues.