Our Team
Bill Hargreaves
Trained in business, Bill won the Nat West Bank business appraisal and remodelling prize whilst at university. Bill has studied at the Universities of Cambridge, Nottingham, Westminster, the Open Business School, INSEAD, The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, City Colleges Dublin, and on a variety of professional body CPD courses.
Bill is a member of the ISPSO and the Institute of Eco-Leadership, and certified as an advanced practitioner in Analytic-Network Coaching, as well as holding a wealth of other professional and academic qualifications.
The middle son of a farmer father and an artist/academic mother, Bill is a prizewinning coach and trainer, and has worked in consultancy since the 1990s.
Consultancy clients have included multinationals, FTSE250s, SMEs, FMCG and service sector companies, venture capital portfolio companies, retail chains, food and beer suppliers and suppliers to and operators within the energy and petroleum industry sectors.
Early projects were operational in nature but developed to include the strategic analysis of market places to develop high value opportunities, aligning the organisation to take advantage of developing or developed opportunities within a market, and the strategic development of teams and individuals for the improved performance of an organisation.
Bill is at the forefront of developing new technologies for the improvement of organisations that combine aspects of workplace psychology, emotional intelligence, psychoanalytic techniques, coaching and psychotherapeutic techniques, and management science. The approaches are underpinned by understanding from neuroscience and neuroplasticity, evolution theory (e.g. social brain and general intelligence theories) and applied to the strategic needs of modern, highly-networked, knowledge-based organisations in rapidly-evolving environments.
Bill also has experience leading organisations through change and growth.
Elaine Gold
Elaine is a business consultant and coach with over 25 years’ experience across a range of private, public and not for profit sectors. Working in international consultancies designing and delivering training and coaching programmes, Elaine has focused on individual, team and organisational change. During this time Elaine has held senior roles as Director and Board member and has also founded 3 startups.
For the past 11 years, Elaine has been working extensively in the global entrepreneurship ecosystem, and worked for 8 years in the Middle East. Now based in the UK, Elaine still works on international projects and is frequently asked to speak on the subject of women’s leadership and creativity and innovation.
Elaine is a qualified coach, is licensed to deliver a number of psychometric tools and has an MBA from The Open University.
Taj Heer
Taj has a background in corporate transformation, cultural change, performance improvement, growth and turnaround, with a firm understanding of VC/PE and Corporate Financing.
Taj has led growth and turnaround projects for Rothschild's, Charterhouse's and 3i's investment portfolio companies, a variety of international consultancies, and Alchemy Partners, where he worked across the portfolio in a turn-around, growth and exit role.
Taj was the MD of an energy sector multi-national that operated in over 12 countries under both a PE and Plc corporate structure.
Taj operates across a portfolio including renewable energy (power stations), software, children's pre-school nurseries, adult training and development, water treatment technology, facilities management, recruitment, and a variety of on-line service providers.
Taj is currently studying for a doctorate in the cognitive neuroscience of organisations at the Aston Business School.
Hedley Charlton
Hedley has considerable experience in consultancy, as well as in leading teams and running organisations. He has worked extensively in the food production and marketing sector, for example, and currently carries out consultancy services for the University of Cambridge, amongst other clients.
Hedley’s well-developed intersubjective people skills are extremely valuable in the processing of change, in particular where clients are experiencing anxiety related to change.
Hedley has an MBA from the Royal Agricultural University at Cirencester.
Dr. Finian Fallon (CPsychol)
Dr. Fallon provides psychotherapeutic back-up and people centred coaching services for Aspiory. Finian is able to supervise our activity and advise on psychological matters, on our research programmes, and assist with training.
Finian also has extremely valuable experience in the financial and strategic direction of organisations, having been the Ireland CFO of a multinational organisation in a former life.
Jana Rudzinska
Jana manages the accounts and administration of the organisation.
Associates
We also have a team of associates with whom we have studied and worked and in whom we trust to deliver specific elements of our projects.