Chairperson - Sandra Wilson TSTA O
I am a human resources management professional with over twenty-five years experience gained from grass roots to senior management posts. My successful consultancy experience is in working with large organisations. Specialising in change management, organisation design, leadership and team development, I work with individuals and teams to promote change, increase competence and improve performance in the workplace. In May 2017 was awarded Doctor of Professional Studies (Coaching Psychology), based on research where I explored the influence of the coach's unconscious mind on the coaching process.
Chair Training Standards Committee - Lynda Tongue TSTA O
I work primarily within organisations, specialising in leadership development programmes, and coaching on a one-to-one and team basis. I was part of a team that won a National Training Award for a programme teaching TA to leaders in 2005. I am also Deputy Programme Director for an MSc in Developmental TA. I am Chair of Training Standards Committee on the IDTA Council. I was also UK delegate to EATA 2014-2017, where I represented the 4 UK-based associations.
Treasurer - Mary Tobin
I previously worked as a pupil counsellor in a secondary school in Hemel Hempstead and used TA with a number of the pupils I saw. I first became interested in TA when I studied it as part of my counselling diploma. I have been attending TA training now for several years and I am looking forward to my roles on IDTA Council as National Coordinator for the TA Proficiency Awards in the UK, and looking after the IDTA website.
Council Member - Shane Evans
I was excited to have been co-opted into IDTA Council in May 2017 and then elected a couple of months later. I enjoyed being a presenter at the IDTA online Community Gathering Event on 16 September 2017.
I currently work in one of the world’s largest family-owned businesses in the food sector, where I am responsible for talent acquisition and development, including L&D and coaching.
I have been using TA to transform the culture of the business since 2003.
I currently work in one of the world’s largest family-owned businesses in the food sector, where I am responsible for talent acquisition and development, including L&D and coaching.
I have been using TA to transform the culture of the business since 2003.
Committee Member - Lindsay Ainger
I spent 20 years in banking before starting my own consultancy business, where I specialise in leadership, cross-cultural coaching and creating cultures that deliver results. I am a Trainer and Master Practitioner in Neuro-linguistic programming and Neuro-strategies, a certified coach in Spiral Dynamics, and I use MBTI, Belbin, DISC and Insights in my work. My specialist areas include executive coaching, consultation & advice, executive facilitation, strategic planning & visioning, improving employee engagement, cultural development, building successful teams, reputational risk, business development, and commercial acumen.
Council Member - Diane Richardson
I am a Management Consultant specialising in Change Management with experience of Corporate Communications, Stakeholder Engagement and Cultural & Behavioural change. I have extensive brand, change and operations experience in the Third Sector, IT and Financial Communications sectors. I have lived in 8 countries, spent significant periods of time in another 8 and run projects in 72 different countries, whilst managing multiple stakeholders and working one to one with Director/CEO level clients. I have worked both ‘client-side’ (within large organisations) and for consultancies including Landor Associates and Wolff Olins. I use TA as part of the process in establishing a client’s brand values and management style.
Council Member - Leona Bishop
Leona is a CTA trainee in the Organisational field.
She is the CEO of Dare to Care Leadership, Functional Fluency Coordinator Caribbean and TIFF Provider. Leona lives in Curacao.
She is the National Coordinator for the Caribbean for the TA Proficiency and Personal/Professional Awards, and the translator into English from Dutch of Lieuwe Koopman’s recent TA book This Is Me!
She is the CEO of Dare to Care Leadership, Functional Fluency Coordinator Caribbean and TIFF Provider. Leona lives in Curacao.
She is the National Coordinator for the Caribbean for the TA Proficiency and Personal/Professional Awards, and the translator into English from Dutch of Lieuwe Koopman’s recent TA book This Is Me!
Council Member - Jianqiao Chen BA Economics, MA Psychology
My interest in TA is around applying TA to both therapy and education fields, especially in parenting and family relationships and developmental psychology.
I volunteered for the IDTA council because, through the window of developmental TA, I can see a broader view of TA and can see more possible ways to apply TA in various life arena. Developmental TA is now not well transmitted in China, and I want to gather the attention of more professionals and normal people to the potential and utility of it, so as to promote public understanding of DTA.
Jianqiao is based in China and serves as the liaison and representative of the many members of IDTA in China, allowing effective communication across the English/ Chinese language boundary.
I volunteered for the IDTA council because, through the window of developmental TA, I can see a broader view of TA and can see more possible ways to apply TA in various life arena. Developmental TA is now not well transmitted in China, and I want to gather the attention of more professionals and normal people to the potential and utility of it, so as to promote public understanding of DTA.
Jianqiao is based in China and serves as the liaison and representative of the many members of IDTA in China, allowing effective communication across the English/ Chinese language boundary.
Executive Director - Julie Hay TSTA OPE
I was one of the three founder members and the inaugural Chair of IDTA, a former president of ITAA and EATA, and of the EMCC (European Mentoring & Coaching Council). I was until recently the Editor of IJTAR (International Journal of TA Research) and I am Project Manager of the TA Proficiency Awards. I have many years’ experience as ‘ordinary employee’, manager, trainer and consultant in the public and private sectors and of teaching TA around the world. I am keen for IDTA to reach out across cultures, sharing what we know and being enriched by different perspectives. I coined the term ‘developmental TA’ back in the 1990s as a way to describe those of us who apply TA in non-therapy contexts, to develop rather than to cure, and am now Academic Dean of an MSc in Developmental TA.
