Hemsley Fraser's Leadership Team

The Hemsley Fraser leadership team have a wide range of backgrounds and experience. However, they all have one thing in common… a solid belief in the positive impact learning and people development can have on organisational performance and results. They are highly focused on providing clients with insightful, high quality, high value innovative programmes that deliver measurable impact and results.

Jo Casson - Head of Managed Services

Jo Casson

Jo is a highly skilled Client Services professional with extensive senior management experience in Client Support Services.

A key member of Hemsley Fraser’s management team, Jo contributes to creating and maintaining a client centric environment where going the extra mile is all in a day’s work for the extremely committed and dedicated client services team.

Jo is driven by ensuring clients receive the highest quality service and this passion has led her to work on a variety of large key client engagements. This includes taking a lead role in highly complex outsourcing projects where getting it right first time is crucial. Her ability to work both strategically as well as operationally have helped to ensure both smooth implementation and on-going high quality service delivery.

Jo is a Member of the Institute of Linguists and much of her experience prior to joining Hemsley Fraser was gained working internationally for the United Nations and NATO as well as a number of blue chip organisations, such as L’Oréal.

“As a full-time working mum with two young children, my spare time is precious! What little there is I like to spend in the kitchen trying out new recipes although I would have to admit I prefer to eat out!”

Karen Hulme - Head of Capability Development and UK Design

Karen Hulme

Karen worked in learning and development in both the private and public sectors prior to joining Hemsley Fraser in 2001. During her previous roles she has designed and delivered group-wide management development programmes for all levels of managers. At First National (a GE company) she designed, managed and delivered the Graduate Placement Scheme and the company Management Development Programme. Karen has extensive experience of designing and rolling out performance management systems across a business.

Karen's key expertise is the design and delivery of management development programmes that meet the business needs of the client. Since joining Hemsley Fraser 5 years ago, Karen has worked with a multitude of high profile organisations such as The Royal Bank of Scotland, Norwich Union, Cambridge University Press, Channel 4 and McAfee.

Karen is also experienced in the use of a variety of psychometric tools to aid personal and team development.

Daniel Morgan - Head of Marketing

Daniel Morgan

Daniel joined Hemsley Fraser’s marketing department and leadership team in March 2005. He brings with him over 14 years of experience in the learning and development industry. Following a Business degree, Daniel held marketing and business management roles at a number of companies including QA (now QA-IQ) and Xpertise.

Understanding clients' learning challenges is Daniel's strength and he ensures that Hemsley Fraser remain market leading experts in learning. He is passionate about promoting Hemsley Fraser’s creative and innovative learning programmes to customers globally. Daniel works closely with the business development and learning delivery teams to ensure customers enjoy a highly refreshing and insightful experience with Hemsley Fraser.

When not working, Daniel spends his time renovating his home, enjoying long walks, biking or relaxing with a glass of wine.

Linda Pugh - Head of Training Delivery Services

Linda Pugh

Linda is a Senior Manager with over 20 years experience of both managing people and operations. She has a generalist HR background, and has chosen to specialise in the area of Learning and Development.

As a member of the Hemsley Fraser leadership team, Linda’s principal role is to enable the delivery of flawless and cost effective learning solutions. She is responsible for the effective management and organisation of all learning and development resources required to meet client needs, ensuring that this supports and delivers the business strategy.

Linda is a Fellow of the CIPD. She joined Hemsley Fraser in 1998, bringing with her extensive training experience gained through a variety of roles within both the public and private sectors. She has held a variety of management and leadership roles working with organisations as diverse as the NHS, Accountancy and the American Department of Defence. In addition she has been Chair of Northwest London Education and Partnership Advisory Board as well as being a member of the Weald College National Record of Achievement Validating Board.

Linda believes that development of people within organisations must be truly business focussed, meeting the requirements of both the employee and the organisation. She enjoys working with people and helping them understand their needs and solutions in a way that is both effective and enjoyable. Working within a service environment, quality initiatives and value for money also rate highly on her agenda.

When not working (or helping her husband run his Home Maintenance business) Linda takes every opportunity to escape the hustle and bustle of London life and return ‘home’ to the hills and valleys of the beautiful Lake District.

Kerry Johnson - Head of US Client Delivery

Dr. Johnson has over 30 years experience in the learning and development field. He specialises in creating and delivering customised approaches for learning, leadership, collaboration, and team productivity. In this role he has helped leaders at all levels of the organisation drive innovation and change through teamwork.

Dr. Johnson is also a pioneer in the design and use of new approaches that support leadership development, team development, and strategy execution. These approaches include action and team-based learning, knowledge management systems, and collaborative decision making and team productivity processes. He has consulted with, coached and delivered programs to senior audiences in the areas of leadership, sales, collaboration, customer-focus, and process improvement. His clients have included: Merck, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Pfizer, KPMG, DuPont, GE, Coca-Cola, Rite Aid, Dow Corning, Citicorp, Chase Manhattan Bank, PNC, Merrill-Lynch, American Express, Microsoft, Intel, United Technologies and several agencies of the U.S. Government.

Dr. Johnson has previously worked for the Forum Corporation. He held a professorship at The University of Maryland, where, in addition to teaching, he managed the Center for Instructional Design and Evaluation. The Center pioneered the use of interactive media and technology-enabled distance learning. He has also taught at Syracuse University and the University of Hawaii.

Larry McCullough - Head of US Design

Larry McCullough is an Executive Consultant at Hemsley Fraser responsible for design and development of learning offerings as well as contributing to the development of Hemsley Fraser’s leadership competency models and points of view on leadership and learning.

Larry has over 25 years experience consulting with a wide variety of organisations in areas of learning design and development, business process improvement, change management and human resource management. He has worked with corporate, governmental and non-profit organisations and has designed or developed leadership and service competency models in more than 25 organisations.

Larry has specifically developed his career to work across a wide range of industries and specialisation areas. Some clients Larry has worked with include AT&T, Coca Cola, DHS (Dept. of Homeland Security), Digital, Disney, Douwe Egbert, DuPont/DuPont Mexico, Fidelity, GE, Hewlett-Packard, Irving Oil, KPMG, Lotus, MIT, MassPort, Motorola/Motorola University, MTU/Deutsch Aerospace, NYNEX (now Verizon), Pratt & Whitney, UTC, PayPal, Prudential, Polaroid, State Street Boston Corp., Sara Lee, SKF, Traveler’s, TJX Corp., U.S. Postal Service, Wyeth, Xerox and many other governmental, non-profit and international organisations.

Immediately prior to his work with Hemsley Fraser, Larry worked as an independent consultant specialising in change management, competency modelling, learning system design and organisational improvement. In the early part of his career, Larry was founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Human Services, a semi-autonomous institute for training and development at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. Following this he was Founder and President of Integrated Management Systems, a consulting firm in Wellesley, MA. This led to a position of Senior Consultant in Change Management at the Forum Corporation followed by a Director-level position in the Change Management Group at Coopers & Lybrand Consulting (now PWC).

Larry received a Doctorate in Applied Behavioural Sciences from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1978. He also completed post-graduate courses and seminars in Global Political Economy at Harvard University. He has a special interest in using organisation skills to support business leaders and corporations in addressing issues of concern to the global community and has been very active in projects related to global sustainability.

Marc Hutchings - Strategic Account Director

Following an early career in publishing and advertising Marc joined Hemsley Fraser at its inception in 1991. Initially involved in course production and operations roles Marc moved into a direct customer relationship position 10 years ago and is now one of the Strategic Account Director team.

Marc has worked with customers on a range of different projects from one off coaching assignments to multi modular development programmes aimed at target audiences of more than 2,000. He has a particular interest in finding simple solutions that enable the full Hemsley Fraser capability to be brought to play on a customers learning and development challenges.

Marc has worked on projects involving delivery throughout the UK and in more than 12 countries around the world. He has considerable experience of working with customers from the financial services industry but has also worked with professional firms, local and national government organisations, major FMCG companies and a variety of small and medium sized enterprises.

Away from work Marc still maintains he was a rugby player and enjoys trying to play golf, when allowed by his young and growing family.

Matthew Walker - Head of IT

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