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Meet the team

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Melanie Shearer

Partner

Health

Melanie brings over 20 years’ experience of supporting Boards, Executives, Governors, and Members with senior appointments across the UK.  She specialises in recruiting senior Executives and Non-Executives to a range of Health and Social Care settings in the NHS, regulators, private healthcare, government, social enterprise, and the Not-for-Profit sector, including appointments across organisations to support joint and cross agency working.

She has particular expertise in working with organisations undergoing major transition or merger, regularly appointing whole Boards, and facilitating complex stakeholder events. Additionally, she brings significant experience of transitioning individuals across sectors and bringing commercial skills into the public sector.

Melanie is also an experienced career coach working with senior leaders across the NHS and broader public sector. She has led on the design and delivery of many large-scale complex projects including new exec or NED teams for start-ups and major transformation.

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Other team members

Alison Sortwell

Principal Consultant

Emily Perry

Principal Researcher

Emily Smith

Associate Delivery Consultant

Emma Pickup

Partner

Helen Barkham

Principal Researcher

Jim Canning

Delivery Consultant

Joanna Riley

Principal Research Consultant

Julia St Clare

Associate Consultant & Research Lead

Dr Melanie West

Senior Consultant

Michelle Atkinson

Principal Consultant

Niamh Blair

Delivery Consultant

Nick Ogden

Senior Consultant

Robin Staveley MBE

Practice Lead

Serena Dobson

Senior Consultant and Lead for Primary Care

Sophie Pringle

Project Co-ordinator

Will McAlpine

Principal Researcher

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