We’re an experienced team of leadership development experts, learning designers, coaches and world class faculty.
Thompson Harrison is a team of leadership development experts, learning designers, coaches and world class faculty led by Tracey Camilleri (Oxford Saïd Business School Associate Fellow 2008 - 2026), Samantha Rockey and Gavin Weeks, both of whom are Associate Fellows at Oxford Said Business School.
We draw upon decades of experience in organisations across sectors, industries and geographies to bring our clients bespoke and unusual experiences you will not find elsewhere. All our work is experiential, engaging, intellectually rigorous and, above all, creative.
We are pragmatists and so ultimately our focus lies with helping leaders and managers to deliver strategy collectively, to have impact personally and to embrace technology where it is most useful, whilst remaining deeply human.
How we work
We have deep expertise but no off the shelf products. Every project is unique. We take care to match our tone, lexicon & ways of working to our clients’.
At the same time, we encourage them to be bold and to try new approaches.
Meet our team
We work with exceptional people.
All of our consultants combine intellectual rigour with real commercial experience, an understanding of how smart people learn and an ability to help clients to make change that sticks.
Tracey Camilleri
Biography
Tracey is the co-founder of Thompson Harrison. Her experience spans industries: she has worked variously in New York for the private investment bank, Allen and Company, as new business director for the publishing company, Marshall Cavendish, at Bain and Company in London and as a teacher of English literature at St Paul’s Girls’ School. All roles that granted invaluable insight not only into ways that groups can be optimally structured but also how they can be enabled to thrive.
Tracey’s leadership development credentials include 18 years as an associate fellow at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School (2008-2026) where she designed and directed leadership programmes for both private and public sectors. From 2012 to 2022 she was the director of OSBS’s flagship Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme where she had the privilege of working with leaders from all over the world in the private and public sectors.
Optimism and curiosity are at the core of Tracey’s work. She takes an orthogonal approach to leadership design, thinking innovatively not only of why businesses should bring out the best in their people, but how. A designer by nature, she draws on her background as an Oxford English graduate to bring a very human perspective to bear on creating healthy organisations.
Tracey wrote her first book, published by Penguin Random House, in Spring 2023. The Social Brain: The Psychology of Successful Groups is co-written by Thompson Harrison co-founder Samantha Rockey and Oxford evolutionary psychologist Professor Robin Dunbar. It signals a profoundly human approach to leadership and group development.
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Samantha Rockey
Biography
Sam is the co-founder of Thompson Harrison. Her approach to leadership centres on the structural and interpersonal dynamics in organisations that are so critical to performance and impact. The secret sauce behind successful organisations, she believes, is an openness to learning and a focus on present performance as well as future orientation.
Sam's very human approach is exemplified in her first book, The Social Brain: The Psychology of Successful Groups, published by Penguin Random House in Spring 2023, and co-written with Thompson Harrison co-founder Tracey Camilleri and evolutionary psychologist Professor Robin Dunbar.
Having graduated with two Master’s degrees from the University of Witswatersrand – one in Development Planning and one in Human Resources - Sam started her career in government, working on issues of post-apartheid public policy. Sam made the transition from the public to private sector when she moved to SABMiller.
At the time, SABMiller had just begun its global aspirations. Sam’s career tracked its growth from leading South African business headquartered in Johannesburg to a FTSE Top 10 company, a process that saw her relocate first to Switzerland and then to the United Kingdom as Global Head of Leadership Development. She credits her work at SABMiller with instilling an incisive understanding of organisations undergoing large-scale transformation.
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Gavin Weeks, Dr
Biography
Gavin is an Associate Partner at Thompson Harrison. He is in equal parts a designer, coach, and psychologist. He develops and delivers our leadership programmes alongside founders Sam and Tracey. He leads culture diagnostics, works with senior teams around leadership and change, and guides our content creation. More broadly, he is at the forefront of our partnerships, seeking out the most exciting and dynamic individuals, institutions, and businesses to work with.
With a doctorate in Clinical Psychology – and a professional portfolio spanning corporate talent roles, leadership development in multiple industries, and elite sports – Gavin balances a deep focus on the individual with a broad understanding of the strategic challenges clients face.
Coaching – with individual leaders and teams – is foundational to his approach, focusing particularly on the challenge of sustaining energy, performance, and growth in complex and high-performance environments. Influenced by his background as a national-level rower, Gavin seeks to balance individual ambition and collective impact. He helps people develop greater awareness of their motivations and behaviour, and a deeper understanding of the drivers of team performance.
In his work with Thompson Harrison, and as an Associate Fellow of Oxford Said Business School, Gavin draws on an ability to focus on individuals within systems, weaving together the people the business, and the wider context. He balances depth and pragmatism, helping clients see beneath the surface of immediate issues whilst also helping define short-term actions and longer-term strategies to develop and – ultimately – realise their full potential.
Elly Kennedy
Biography
As our Head of Operations, Elly is our port of call for anything logistical – she underpins the day-to-day running of Thompson Harrison. Elly has worked in a number of sectors, including education and non-profit, and has a diverse professional portfolio, drawing on her experience as a teacher and law graduate to inform her operational approach. She has also held several project manager roles, and remains drawn to projects that require a high level of facilitation.
Our client-led programmes, for example, are built from Elly’s logistical foundations. Not only does she inform their broad structure, but she is present behind the scenes, working to ensure that the smallest details are taken care of.
Coming from a strong learning-focused background, Elly is conscious that her pragmatism doesn’t become rigidity. She prides herself on her fluid and context-dependent ability to problem-solve and, while unflappable in the face of last-minute issues and unforeseen changes, bring to her work at Thompson Harrison a fundamental curiosity and openness to change.
Debbie Risk
Biography
Debbie has a diverse business background, having worked most recently in project management and for over a decade as a partner in an education consultancy. Her prior roles include human resources management research at the Human Sciences Research Council in South Africa and then in business research and information dissemination through compiling and marketing business conferences and training courses.
As such, she places an emphasis on the process of learning and teaching. Her diverse skills, as well as her global background, help inform her work today as our Communications and Programme Manager.
Decades of experience working with people, on a collective and individual level, ensures that Debbie is tuned into the nuances of assisting and coordinating our team. She derives purpose from supporting the realisation of big ideas, and brings a level of detail suggestive of her previous roles in research. She values understanding her colleagues and clients holistically, ensuring meaningful moments of human connection within her project and research work.
Our associates
We work with our brilliant associates to bring our clients bespoke and impactful experiences you won’t find elsewhere. We believe that the best work and ideas come from bringing together wide-ranging experiences, perspectives and expertise.
Annie Feng
Biography
Annie Feng’s human resources career has spanned more than two decades of leadership in multinational companies with iconic brands such as Nike Inc., Johnson & Johnson, Unilever and Mars Inc., holding various senior roles at national, regional and global levels across Asia-Pacific, Europe and the Americas.
Her extensive professional experience, expertise, and insight centres around Strategy Development, Leadership and Organisation Development, Capability Building, Succession Planning, Change Management and Culture Transformation. She is widely respected for her deep understanding of leadership and human resources in a complex world—influencing seamlessly across multiple cultures and geographies, contributing to more inclusive and engaged work cultures.
Annie’s deepest professional ambition is to live out her personal values and purpose through her work. She is committed to using her considerable energy to help create a world where harmony, dignity and equitable abundance are the rule, not the exception. In the human resources arena, she has been dedicated to creating work environments that enable people to fully bring their gifts and passions to their work, while being in service to the global community and the world at large. To this end, Annie runs her own coaching and consultancy business, in addition to working as a tutor for the Economics of Mutuality Executive Education Programme with the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford. As a dynamic, resourceful and creative coach, Annie provides a safe and rich opportunity for coachees to step into a much larger story and bolder actions than they would on their own, and supports their transformation that lasts a lifetime.
Annie holds a BA in English Literature from Jinan University in China and an MBA from McMaster University in Canada. She lives in Vancouver, Canada with her husband. When not at work, she enjoys reading, travelling, hiking and cooking for her family.
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Claus Jacobs, Professor
Biography
Claus Jacobs specialises in creative strategising and strategic change, and is Professor of Strategy at the University of Bern.
Claus is director and founder of critical junctures, a Swiss-based consultancy that offers process consultation for strategy formation, organisational development and change. He holds a PhD from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and a Master's degree in Business and Economic Studies from Witten/Herdecke University, Germany.
He has worked as a management consultant and executive educator with the Imagination Lab Foundation, Lausanne, the Universities of St Gallen and Bern as well as with Gemini Consulting.
As a consultant and educator, his collaborations include Arvato, Bombardier, Celgene, CERN, LGT Venture Philanthropy, UNICEF Germany and University Children's Hospital Zurich, among others. He is also a co-director of University of Bern's KPM Centre for Public Management.
Claus has been contributing to the Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme (OSLP) since 2005 as faculty and tutor. Together with his OSLP colleagues, he has explored the role of critical thinking for leadership development in the Oxford Answers series. He has also reflected on the pivotal role of metaphorical reasoning in strategy work in 'Crafting Strategy: Embodied Metaphors in Practice' (Cambridge).
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Donnacadh O'Briain
Biography
Donnacadh is a writer, director and experience designer specialising in live theatre, immersive experiences and experiential learning.
He is an expert in story and narrative across entertainment, learning and guest experience, who works across a surprising range of industries.
His career has seen him direct at The Royal Shakespeare Company, in the West End and internationally, alongside creating large scale immersive attractions and learning experiences for global IP's and major companies. Award-winning works include Rotterdam (Olivier Award Winner), Operation Mincemeat (Offie Award Winner), and The Docks Project (Learning Award Winner).
He has spoken on story, innovation and creativity at international conferences as well as for TEDx, and has lectured and mentored at major Universities and drama schools, including Cambridge, RADA and Warwick, where he spent a year as Associate Fellow of Creativity.
Donnacadh has partnered with Thompson Harrison on numerous immersive theatre workshops, including the project that earned us the External Learning Solution of the Year 2026 Award. He has developed bespoke scenarios in partnership with our clients, which are played by experienced actors and are designed to provoke leadership learning in a visceral, experiential way.
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Faried Chopdat
Biography
Faried is an experienced and dynamic global leader with proven audit, risk management, finance, and business transformation capability grounded in 25+ years of first-hand experience in the corporate world. Faried's career included international experience in multinational organisations such as SABMiller plc, Travelex, and Deloitte. He is a Non-Executive Director on the Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust board, several sub-committees, and an Independent Non-Executive Director at Grant Thornton UK.
He is known for his ability to lead global teams through diversity and inclusion, understanding the importance of empathy in collaborative work with people in matrix organisations. He was nominated 18th out of 100 LGBTQ+ leaders in the Financial Times in 2014.
His passion for coaching and mentoring others to reach their full potential led him to professional and executive coaching. Faried founded equarius8coaching, helping Rising Stars/ Future Leaders and professionals from the LGBTQ+ and BAME communities and allies recognise and harness their unique gifts, gaining clarity to focus on what matters most and achieving success and prosperity.
Faried is a qualified Chartered Accountant with several degrees and certifications.
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Fiona Lehane
Biography
Fiona is a human capital management professional who is passionate about the world of work, people development and learning (her own, and others). She has spent her career attracting, recruiting and developing talented people.
Fiona works to deliver tangible outcomes to individuals (through coaching), or groups (through facilitation). She has designed and facilitated leadership, relationship management, talent development and interpersonal skills interventions for financial and professional services organisations globally. Fiona has worked with senior teams to establish new values/operating practices, and with Boards to establish strategy. Additionally, Fiona provides career coaching for students at London School of Economics, as well as professional skills sessions for Masters programmes.
Her prior roles have included 4 years at HSBC, initially as Global Learning Manager then as Regional Head of Learning and Talent Development (EMEA) Global Functions and GBM. She was also Vice President at Lehman Brothers as Director of Leadership and Learning.
Fiona has an MSc in Occupational Psychology from the University of London and is a qualified coach.
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Georgina Fekete
Biography
Georgina Fekete is a seasoned leadership specialist with 28 years' experience across the public, private, and social sectors. She has held senior roles with the Forward Institute, the United Nations and CIFF, and is an accredited workplace, civil, and commercial mediator. She specialises in responsible leadership, organisational change, and practical solutions to complex systemic challenges.
At the Forward Institute, Georgina has facilitated a network of 700+ senior leaders across 30 of the UK's most influential institutions, driving collective action on sustainability, health,and the cost-of-living crisis. She is passionate about helping leaders and teams build psychologically safe, collaborative, and purpose-driven cultures that enable lasting change — drawing on her mediation skills to bridge difference, navigate tension, and unlock more effective collaboration.
Georgina also serves as a Non-Executive Member of the NHS South East London Integrated Care Board.
She holds a MA/BA in Geography from the University of Cambridge and a MSc in Health Policy, Financing and Planning from LSE/LSHTM.
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Grant Liversage
Biography
Grant is passionate about leadership and people development through executive coaching. He is a member of the Association for Coaching and the European Mentoring and Coaching Council, and he tutors in the Oxford University Said Business School's Economics of Mutuality programme, assisting leaders in implementing purposeful practices.
Grant is a former international CEO and now executive coach who works with senior leaders to navigate complexity, transformation and growth. His experience gives him a practical understanding of leadership in multinational and culturally diverse environments.
His leadership career at SABMiller included CEO roles across multiple international markets, where he specialised in business turnaround and leading large scale organisational change.
Grant has lived and worked across Europe, Asia and Africa, most recently leading businesses in Germany, Austria, Slovakia and the Czech Republic and contributing significantly to international growth and performance.
He now works with senior leaders through coaching and executive education, supporting strategic thinking, leadership effectiveness and long term organisational performance.
He is a member of the Association for Coaching and the European Mentoring and Coaching Council, and he tutors in the Oxford University Said Business School's Economics of Mutuality Programme, assisting leaders in implementing purposeful practices.
Grant is a qualified accountant and has completed executive education at Harvard Business School, The Wharton School, the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge where he earned his executive coaching qualification.
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Jack Barron, Dr
Biography
Jack Barron is the curator of our Leadership Arts series where we explore what – and how – leaders can learn from the humanities. Each month he looks at leadership through the lens of various disciplines, from writing and painting to sculpture and dance, to find new ways of thinking.
Jack grew up in the northeast of England, and has a PhD in English from the University of Cambridge, where he now teaches. His writing about literature has appeared in various magazines and academic journals, including The London Magazine, PNReview, and Textual Practice. His own poetry has been published by StillPoint, Shearsman Magazine, and CounterText.
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Kate Skinstad
Biography
Kate is a behavioural design and facilitation specialist with over 15 years' experience leading behavioural and culture transformation programmes across Africa and EMEA. She has held senior roles at Ernst & Young and Deloitte, where she led multi-year behavioural change initiatives for clients in mining, healthcare, government, retail, and financial services. Her programmes often spanned thousands of employees, combining diagnostic insight with immersive, measurable implementation.
Her distinctive approach is grounded in behavioural science and informed by a background in the creative industries. Kate draws on experience in design, advertising, and television production to bring programmes to life through gamified solutions, visual storytelling, and data-led experimentation. She is known for co-creating innovative ways to engage employees, shift deeply embedded behaviours, and drive meaningful outcomes.
Kate has led a five-year safety programme for a bulk freight organisation of 60,000 people, designed to shift frontline behaviour and improve operational outcomes. She created a behaviour-based engagement platform across more than 500 health facilities to improve patient experience. For a global mining client, she led a two-year initiative to reduce diamond loss by changing behaviours around operational controls.
She holds a BA in Fine Arts and an MBA, both from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She is based in London.
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Langley Sharp
Biography
Langley Sharp is an accomplished leader with a distinguished career in both the military and civilian sectors. He has commanded a Parachute Regiment battalion, led the Centre for Army Leadership, and authored a bestselling book on leadership.
Langley Sharp is an accomplished leader with a distinguished career in both military and civilian sectors. A proven builder of high-performing teams, Langley has held key leadership roles in defence, including commanding a Parachute Regiment battalion and, as Head of the Centre for Army Leadership, driving strategic change across the UK military.
Author of the bestselling book *The Habit of Excellence: Why British Army Leadership Works*, he has also led influential programmes shaping leadership development and organisational culture. With extensive experience in international stakeholder engagement, leadership consultancy, and public-private sector collaborations, Langley is now focused on driving success through coaching and strategic leadership across diverse industries.
Langley has been awarded a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) and has an MA International Security Studies and a Master of Defence Studies. He is a Meyler Campbell trained executive coach accredited by the Association for Coaching and European Mentoring and Coaching Council.
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Laura Eeles
Biography
Laura Eeles spent 15 years working in Private Equity, leading finance teams to deliver in fast paced, high pressure environments. Whilst managing more than $15bn in assets and leading all aspects of the Finance and Investor Relations functions, she realised that the key to success was not just in the numbers but also in understanding the people around her.
By taking the time to understand the individuals in her team and what made them special, she found she was able to maximise their potential both as employees and for their future career.
She now draws on this corporate leadership experience (as well as a BSc in Psychology) in her own coaching and consulting practice, working with businesses to effectively develop their people. Laura gained her coaching qualification at Optimus Coach Academy and is Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with the International Coaching Federation as well as retaining her Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA) qualification with the ICAEW.
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Mike Stopforth
Biography
Mike Stopforth is an entrepreneur, writer and speaker, passionate about transformational leadership and organisational change with a focus on the digital context. He works with fellow business owners, executive teams and CEOs to get the best out of their people, and the technologies those people use to do their work, in the midst of rapid political, technological and socio-economic change. In this line of work, Mike's often invited to offer business commentary for industry publications, on TV and on radio.
Mike took the entrepreneurial plunge to start a company called Cerebra in 2006. With a specialist focus on digital content and engagement, Cerebra won numerous multinational accounts and grew quickly to become Africa’s leading social media agency. In his role as CEO of the business, he worked with executive teams in Coca-Cola, Samsung, Toyota, Vodafone, AB InBev, Ford, Huawei, Barclays, and more to build digital capability and agility, and to equip their leaders for success in the social and digital era of business. Cerebra was acquired by global advertising giant WPP in 2013.
In 2007 he co-founded a web start-up called Afrigator.com that was acquired by Naspers just 18 months later. Around the same time, Mike began hosting a popular networking event called the 27dinners, which went on to catalyse business collaborations and relationships through hundreds of successful events.
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Naomi Thomas
Biography
Naomi Thomas is a highly accomplished commercial strategist and board advisor, known for getting the best from senior executives and their teams, driving business transformation, leadership effectiveness, and sustained growth. A former McKinsey consultant with extensive executive and non-executive experience, Naomi specialises in helping organisations navigate complex transitions, unlock growth, and build resilient leadership.
Strategic & Commercial Expertise
Naomi works closely with C-suite and board-level leaders across industries including FMCG, professional services, defence, and manufacturing. She has held non-executive roles at Stuart Turner Ltd. and SVGC Ltd., bringing commercial and strategic direction to organisations undergoing major change.
Executive & Board Impact
1. Boardroom Leadership: Influencing corporate strategy, governance, and leadership development.
2. Growth & Turnaround: Leading transformational initiatives at organisations like Caradon PLC and Black & Decker.
3. Cultural Change: Enabling leadership teams from a wide range of industreis to embed sustainable performance and resilience.
Transformational Coaching & Consulting
Through her DIPSS framework (Diagnostics, Insights, Pinpoint, Solve, Sustain), Naomi delivers tailored leadership development interventions that drive behavioural transformation and foster high-performance culture. Bringing the non-Exec mindset to coaching led interventions for C-suite leaders and their teams.
Innovation & Thought Leadership
An advocate for strategic agility, Naomi advises boards and leadership teams on how to future-proof their organisations in an increasingly complex world.
Naomi holds a Master’s degree from the University of St Andrews and a Master's in Non-Executive Directorship from the FT Board Director Programme.
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Oliver Cox, Dr
Biography
Dr Oliver Cox is Head of Academic Partnerships at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), where he is responsible for building a global network of higher education partners to support the V&A’s mission to champion design and creativity in all its forms, advance cultural knowledge, and inspire makers, creators and innovators everywhere.
This includes responsibility for the V&A’s Collaborative Doctoral programmes, PhD placements, Fellowships and Exchanges, alongside the development of new teaching and research opportunities across the V&A’s family of sites. He is also the national lead for the Collaborative Doctoral Partnership consortium, which comprises 15 cultural and heritage organisations and consortia across the UK.
He joined the V&A from the University of Oxford where he was Heritage Engagement Fellow and Co-Lead of the Oxford University Heritage Network responsible for the University’s research and engagement projects with partners in the UK and international heritage sector.
Olly is a historian by training, and received his undergraduate, masters and doctoral degrees from the University of Oxford. He is a Faculty Member for both the Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme and Orchestrating Major Projects programmes at the Said Business School.
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Pireeni Sundaralingam, Professor
Biography
Pireeni is Interdisciplinary Catalyst at Oxford, a business consultant, and an award-winning cognitive scientist whose work bridges multiple fields including neuroscience, human performance and architecture, focusing on using the latest neuroscience research to boost innovation, decision-making and cognitive agility. Trained at Oxford in cognitive neuroscience, Pireeni has held scientific research posts at MIT’s Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences and at UCLA, among others.
She led the research programme of Silicon Valley’s Center for Humane Technology, where her work on algorithmic-driven harms was featured in an award-winning documentary.
Pireeni co-authored the Oxford University white paper on creativity, AI, and intellectual property law, and is the inaugural Interdisciplinary Catalyst at University College, Oxford, tasked with catalysing collaborations across disciplinary research teams.
Pireeni’s research work on behaviour change and how the built environment can impact human cognition and collaboration, has led to collaborations with architects and a range of science museums and festivals from Berlin and Washington DC to Denmark, where she has pioneered the use of neuroscience-informed design to create installations that support behaviour change and help people “think differently”. She served on the UN founding committee for the UN Museum, and was Principal Advisor on Human Potential, tasked with researching how to change human behaviour in different regions and cultures, in relation to the the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Through applying neuroscience to catalyse behaviour change, Pireeni's consulting work includes leading strategy for a range of global organisations, optimising for human problem-solving and radical innovation.
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Reima Shakeir, Dr
Biography
Dr. Reima Shakeir is an international scholar, author, former executive, consultant, and executive coach who drives systemic sensemaking for cultural and inclusive excellence through enacting sustainable organisational change. She has spent 8 years coaching impact entrepreneurs to create business plans, pitching to investors, and maximising operational performance for their start-ups. Reima has coached companies and executives in strategic impactful communication for over 15 years.
She teaches Management Communication at Wharton and serves as Associate Director on the Communication Program at the Wharton Business School. Her leadership experience spans continents, countries, and cultures.
Reima specialises in building communities of belonging within organisations.
Her current interests centre on management and higher education, specifically organisational culture and communication, innovation in education and business innovations, sustainability, and the complex relationship between business and society. She is a brand strategist for artists in the music and performing arts industries. Reima’s extensive leadership experience in business, organisational research design, organisational change, DEIB (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging), and execution informed the strategic roadmap and operating model for one of the world’s most recognisable global organizations, the Edmond de Rothschild Foundations, where she served as Chief Operating Officer for one of their flagship programmes: The Ariane de Rothschild Fellowship. Through her formal academic research and practical on-the-ground execution, Reima is committed to creating more inclusive, high-quality education systems and corporate spaces at large.
Reima’s doctoral research focused on the lived experiences of minority women in higher education and corporate spaces. She earned her ALM (English) from Harvard University, where she was awarded the Dean’s Academic Achievement Award and the Derek Bok Public Service Award. She has a BA in English and Comparative Literature from Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt. Reima completed Executive Education with Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK, Essec Business School in France and Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management (in Innovation and Design Thinking), Cornell University. She earned her doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education with double distinction.
She is also a published poet and author.
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Robert Rowland Smith, Dr
Biography
Robert Rowland Smith is a British author and philosopher. His books include Derrida and Autobiography (Cambridge University Press, 1995), Breakfast with Socrates: The philosophy of everyday life (Profile Books, 2009) and AutoBioPhilosophy: An intimate story of what it means to be human (4th Estate, 2018). He is a regular speaker at public and private events, addressing a wide range of topics that includes philosophy, psychology, politics and art.
Robert was elected to a Fellowship by Examination (‘Prize Fellowship’) at All Souls College, Oxford and was awarded a Doctorate in Philosophy in 1991. While a Fellow of All Souls, he also held lectureships at both Mansfield College, Oxford, and Hertford College, Oxford, as a member of the English Faculty. Robert sits on the board of the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology and of the Institute of Art and Ideas.
He is a founding faculty member of The School of Life. Robert is the founder of Dynamics of Power - focusing on power dynamics in business, family, government, society and relationships.
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Sarah Babb, Dr
Biography
Sarah is a passionate leadership and organisational development specialist, bringing over 25 years experience to her role. Her expertise is in scenarios and strategy development, change and organisational development, and executive team and leadership development.
Sarah has deep experience in leading remote cross functional teams on large scale complex change programmes. Sarah has worked across countries ranging from South Africa, India, Kenya, Malawi, to UK and Saudi Arabia and across sectors from financial services, manufacturing, retail, public sector to mining.
Her clients have included GLC (Lufthansa), SABIC, Reserve Bank, ABSA Barclays, Volkswagen Africa, Shoprite, Cape Town Tourism, amongst many more.
She is part time faculty with leading business schools and enjoys the combination of real world impact with research and publishing. Sarah has an entrepreneurial flair, and with systemic thinking and an adaptive mindset, she thrives in working to find impactful lasting solutions with clients.
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Shruthi Vijayakumar
Biography
Shruthi Vijayakumar is passionate about education, leadership development, and enabling businesses to be more purpose-driven and contribute to social and environmental outcomes. To this end, she runs her own coaching and facilitation business, in addition to working for the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University, running impact and leadership programmes for MBA students.
She began her career as a management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, advising large corporate and government clients in Australia. She has since led operations for an education start up in India, managed a social enterprise accelerator in New Zealand and run various environmental campaigns.
Shruthi has been recognised as a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum, and was a semi-finalist for the Young New Zealander of the Year Award. She completed her Masters in Business Administration on full scholarship at Oxford University.
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Thami Schweichler
Biography
Thami Schweichler is a social designer and entrepreneur based in Amsterdam. He is the founder of United Repair Centre (URC), established in 2022 through a collaboration with outdoor brand Patagonia and the Amsterdam Economic Board. URC is a B2B repair business aimed at empowering fashion and apparel brands to prioritise repair, thereby catalysing collective social and environmental impact.
Prior to URC, Thami co-founded Makers Unite in 2016, an award-winning social enterprise dedicated to fostering the inclusion of refugees in The Netherlands and Turkey.
A TEDx speaker, Thami's journey in social innovation stems from his background in product design, with education from the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, ENSCI-Les Ateliers in France, and Santa Clara University in the USA. Before co-founding Makers Unite, he played a pivotal role in developing Kibo Africa, a social venture providing moto-taxi services and products in Kenya.
Thami's work revolves around fostering collaborations among individuals, organisations, and stakeholders, all towards realising a sustainable and socially responsible future.
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Our partners
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V&A Museum
The V & A Academy has over 170 years of experience inspiring creativity, culture and collaboration. Thompson Harrison entered into a partnership with them to deliver a series of workshops around the theme of Belonging – working with V & A curators and external experts to explore questions like:
How can we mend what’s broken (involved sewing with a V & A costumes expert)?
How do we reward and celebrate people (with a medals expert)?
How can defend ourselves when under attack (with Keeper of Arms and Armour)?
We are extending this partnership to think together about designing a Leadership and Performance programme to coincide with the opening of V & A East in 2025 incorporating the David Bowie Centre for Performance.
Partnering with the V&A to design and deliver eight days of ‘Belonging’ workshops was a joy from the first. They met ideas with ideas, the curators and artists we worked with were prepared to adapt their approaches for new audiences, they were responsive, generous-spirited and pragmatic throughout.
Douglas Knowledge Partners
Thompson Harrison works closely with Douglas Knowledge Partners (DKP), a knowledge partner consultancy serving clients on six continents – including some of the world’s leading companies, nonprofits, philanthropies, universities, publishers and professional services firms. DKP helps clients communicate the value of their services through thought leadership, but always through the lens of their broader purpose – ideas that advance humanity’s progress, and the research, analysis and dialogue that underpins those ideas.
At appropriate moments in Thompson Harrison projects, DKP is able to pick up the thought leadership and communication baton ensuring that the intervention continues to achieve meaningful impact, both internally and externally.
JLL
Our partnership with JLL Design Labs brings together the social and spatial science behind the performance of successful groups. ‘Tuning’ physical and cultural environments in sync can help organisations to deliver their strategy more effectively and for workspaces to increase their ROI.
V&A Museum
The V & A Academy has over 170 years of experience inspiring creativity, culture and collaboration. Thompson Harrison entered into a partnership with them to deliver a series of workshops around the theme of Belonging – working with V & A curators and external experts to explore questions like:
How can we mend what’s broken (involved sewing with a V & A costumes expert)?
How do we reward and celebrate people (with a medals expert)?
How can defend ourselves when under attack (with Keeper of Arms and Armour)?
We are extending this partnership to think together about designing a Leadership and Performance programme to coincide with the opening of V & A East in 2025 incorporating the David Bowie Centre for Performance.
Partnering with the V&A to design and deliver eight days of ‘Belonging’ workshops was a joy from the first. They met ideas with ideas, the curators and artists we worked with were prepared to adapt their approaches for new audiences, they were responsive, generous-spirited and pragmatic throughout.
Our story
Thompson Harrison came about as a meeting of minds between the two co-founders Tracey Camilleri and Samantha Rockey. They originally met as client and supplier and spent a seminal period designing and delivering a leadership programme for the FTSE top 10 company where Samantha was Head of Leadership and Tracey was the programme director at Oxford Saïd Business School.
That first programme had all the ingredients that still enliven the work we do. The spirit of bringing different perspectives together to imagine, reflect, think and dare has been the governing impulse for the development of Thompson Harrison.
Having worked with leaders and organisations all over the world in her work at Oxford Saïd Business School, Tracey’s understanding of the challenges, frustrations and opportunities facing leaders, and the possible ways leaders can be encouraged, informs all aspects of the TH approach.
Sam comes from the other side of the table and brings with her a deep awareness of the organisational cultural drivers and group dynamics that either block or encourage performance.
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