Sharon's familiarity with organisations of all shapes and sizes comes from 20 years of independent HR consulting for charities, SMEs, membership and faith-based organisations, combined with a corporate career at Hilton Hotels, Sony Music and Diageo. She has experience of dispute resolution in large multi-national as well as small not-for-profit organisations. Sharon regularly mediates disputes between board members, trustees, colleagues and members of different kinds of communities. She facilitates workshops and hosts conversations between people who are struggling to communicate, to understand each other, or to get things done. Sharon volunteers as a Community Mediator and Trustee of Wandsworth Mediation Service and as a member of the Council of the Corrymeela Community. She has an MA in Conflict Resolution in Divided Societies from King’s College London and is a Fellow of the CIPD.

With a background in law and film production, he is an experienced negotiator and trouble shooter used to brokering agreement, building consensus and helping people develop a shared vision or goal. As a mediator, he works to build rapport, instil confidence in the process, and hold the space for transformative conversations. He helps small and agile organisations manage change, reassess objectives, and resolve internal conflict. Les has advised, mediated and helped resolve disputes in the arts, film and television sectors, partnership break-ups, neighbour disputes and situations involving workplace and organisational disfunction. Trained in community mediation by TIDES in Belfast, he is a community mediator with CALM in west London and trained as an inter-faith dispute mediator with ADR-ODR. Les is a trustee of BIMA, the inter-faith dialogue and dispute resolution charity, and is a member of the Diocese of London Mediation and Reconciliation Network. He has an MPhil in Conflict Resolution from Trinity College Dublin (taught at its Belfast campus) and a graduate certificate in Psychodynamic Practice from Birkbeck, University of London.

Alex specialises in facilitating small groups and teams as well as individual leaders, supporting them to look at the dynamics which underlie work-based challenges and which can get in the way of effective working. As an independent consultant her clients include local authorities, charities and the education sector. Her approach is grounded in the Tavistock model of systems psychodynamics, integrating group process theory and open systems thinking. The methodology takes account of the many forces which influence work life at the level of the individual, group and organisation, helping to make sense of their effects and facilitating improvements in both intergroup and intragroup functioning. Alex holds an MA in Consulting and Leading in Organisations: Psychodynamic and Systemic Approaches from the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust/University of East London and an MSc in Psychodynamics of Human Development from Birkbeck, University of London as well as a Graduate Diploma in Psychology from University of West London. 

Stephen has been shaped by working as a member of corporate executive leadership teams, being a charity trustee and consulting independently over recent years. He has a track record of business leadership across several disciplines including sales, strategy, marketing and communications. This enables him to translate complex business and financial issues into easy-to-understand language, and support parties in mediation to explore realistic solutions, as well as to support C-level executives to rebuild damaged relationships. Stephen has mediated in commercial and workplace disputes with settlement values up to €10,000,000 as well as mediating in ecumenical and community settings. Working in different global contexts for over 30 years has given Stephen a deep understanding of cross-cultural working which he brings to bear in mediation, including the application of Middle Eastern Sulha conflict resolution techniques. Stephen holds an MSc in Middle East in Global Politics: Islam, Conflict and Development from Birkbeck, University of London