Faculty Biographies
Martin Fischer
Martin is an associate of the Centre for Innovation in Health management and an
independent organisational/management development consultant.
Until recently he worked for Sg2 – an American health intelligence organisation where he led on the development of Sg2’s offerings for the UK and Ireland. His focus
was to use shape its core competencies and expertise to add value to the public and
private health care system in the UK. He worked closely with Global Intelligence and
Sg2U to develop new models of leadership and organizational change.
Before joining Sg2, Martin spent 16 years at the Kings Fund (a charitable foundation
established in England in 1897 to carry out research, policy analysis and
development activities for health care professionals). There he worked with health
systems around the world, though is experience is primarily the NHS. Working with
all elements of the NHS system, his particular expertise is leadership development
(for both clinicians and managers) and organisational development. His
Executive Leadership programs (including leading groups of CEOs to South Africa,
India and soon Vietnam) are designed around the premise that the most powerful
change results when leaders see the whole system differently. He has enormous
expertise and experience in developing senior leaders having designed and
facilitated programmes for around 100 NHS chief executives (including the
Experienced CEO programme for the Modernisation Agency/Institute) and hundreds
of NHS directors. He has worked with many organisations to develop strong
leadership throughout the organisation. Equally he works on service redesign with
diverse teams from many organisations that have to achieve a common purpose
(e.g. services for older people in a particular city). He has worked successfully with
just about every type of stakeholder in the NHS – from the Select Committee through
to Boards and exec teams to development programmes for Practice managers.
He speaks widely at conferences and publishes intermittently. He is co-author with
Becky Malby of Tools for Change: An invitation to dance, a handbook providing
background knowledge, tools and techniques for sustaining organizational change in
complex systems. He spent a year on secondment to the Performance and
Innovation unit in the Cabinet Office. I was working on a Public Sector leadership
project which involved regular contact with Ministers and Permanent Secretaries
Outside the NHS, he has worked in a range of other contexts ranging from the
Probation Service to the Muslim Council of Britain. I have worked with the Boards of
Arts organisations (on governance and diversity) and for the World Bank in clarifying
their role in sub-Saharan Africa.
I have significant experience of working with Local Authorities (both officers and
elected members). Common Purpose invited me to design and facilitate their process
to grow a civil society network. I enjoy bringing multiple stakeholders together around
complex issues and get all the viewpoints heard so they are enabled to work out
what an effective intervention would be and how to bring it about.
Prior to his Senior Fellowship at the King's Fund, Martin was involved in the start up
of the Open College (where he was the Commissioning Editor for management
programmes) and also worked at the World ORT UNION, where he headed their
Resource Centre.
Martin grew up in South Africa and received his BSc in Mathematics and Economics
from the University of Manchester and his MSc in Economics for the London School
of Economics. He works with refugee organisations and the Muslim community in his
(less than copious) spare time.
Telephone: 07972403321
Email: mkfischer99@yahoo.co.uk
Ms Jane Keep
Jane Keep is an Independent Practitioner who brings a philosophical consciousness
into:
 Organisational Development and Change
 Organisational and Personal Learning – and specifically coaching
 Development HR and organisational futures
 Enabling integrity, wellbeing, health and harmony in organisations, teams and
individuals
through coaching, facilitating, research and writing.
She is currently studying a doctorate to look at philosophically conscious coaching
methods working with a cohort of coaches to research their current coaching
practices, and look beyond to a more conscious coaching practice which is coupled
with personal harmony and awareness.
1. Short Summary Profile:
Jane is a leading practitioner on the processes of strategic and personal change.
She has studied, researched, taught and practised HR and OD for over 19 years at a
senior as well as at strategic/national level in the NHS (having been working in and
around the NHS for 29 years). In recent years she has also worked in the wider
public sector, voluntary and private sector.
Her portfolio emphasises organisational development, change, strategic human
resources and personal development through coaching, and facilitating. She is
interested in whole systems (and whole person) approaches. She is working on
moving organisations from diversity into individuality in the workplace, and creating
healthier, harmonious workplaces. She acts as a 'critical friend' consciously
challenging theory and practice for deeper behavioural or cultural change and on
implementing values. Also designing and delivering complex learning methodologies
for building personal capability and capacity. Jane is highly experienced in working
with individuals, teams and groups to Chief Executives, non-Executives and Boards,
as well as to multidisciplinary professionals.
As an external consultant for the last 8 years, she has also undertaken a number of
research and action research projects, and written key HR papers, and OD research
evaluation papers and published papers in journals and books. She has worked in a
number of key NHS policy arenas including currently working with NHS Foundation
Trusts. She has worked overseas in Hong Kong, Africa and Europe, and fairly
extensively in Ireland.
She has an Mphil in Critical Management where she studied ethics and values, and a
master’s degree in Strategic HRD. As well as running her own freelance practice,
she is an Associate at CIHM, Leeds University Business School.
Jane practices an esoteric (innermost) style to her work and practice and uses this
within her life coaching practice, as well as in her organisational coaching practices
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Pioneered and ran the largest network for organisational development (including
HR) specialists in the NHS across the UK – leading to 450 members, (outcome: a
number of highly evaluated, well reputed events, and changes in working practice
amongst many individual members).
Facilitated numerous action learning sets within development programmes and
stand alone forums for managers and clinicians/professionals (outcome: through
formal external evaluation and many written confirmations from showing actual
working practice and behaviour changes).
Regularly facilitate, HR, OD, learning specialists and manager’s
action/experiential learning skills to enable them to develop their own action
learning practices for work within healthcare settings. (Outcome: feedback from
individuals as to their change in working practice.)
Team development - over 400+ team development interventions/conflict
resolution across for instance, all NHS professions at all levels in the NHS
including board level and many different ward and service delivery teams as well
as in the voluntary sector/wider public sector.
Worked as an ‘expert’ contractor to the Department of Health NHS Foundation
Trust Implementation Team since the introduction of NHSFTs in the NHS,
facilitating, and assessing the HR/OD aspect of the NHSFT submissions and
changes required prior to authorisation.
Has run individual and workshop series, national events and seminars on ‘HR
and OD futures’ to look at the next 5 years and beyond (to 2050) in terms of NHS
and public service, HR workforce issues and changes in society, climate,
technology, demographics.
Developed and lead OD and change strategies in 15 healthcare organisations
including management structure reviews, service changes, implementing values,
communication and involvement strategies.
Led research, and with managers and clinicians for example, undertook the
practical development of mainstreaming OD and HR working practices into a
number of organisations.
Developed and evaluated National and local HR policy and practice across the
whole ambit of HR management within large NHS organisations, and other public
sector organisations.
Have a number of coaching clients who I regularly coach/mentor on life issues,
emotional issues, career coaching, and workplace/issue coaching – from wider
public sector/voluntary sector. This makes up 40% of my freelance working
practice.
Led many leadership programmes in Welsh and English healthcare
organisations, and action learning, mentoring and coaching advice for leaders in
healthcare.
Presented and facilitated at many large and small management developments,
leadership and team events as a process facilitator – or a content presenter on a
wide range of topics related to learning.
Co-led a large learning network, with a complex knowledge management
infrastructure, for 380+ Primary Care Trust’s in England with a membership of
over 2,000 managers, clinicians, and associates (from policy, or other
voluntary/public sector organisations) working on engaging and involving
communities/social partnership, chronic disease management, tackling health
inequalities/public health issues.
Email: jk1@janekeep.co.uk
Website: www.janekeep.co.uk