Team
Dr Russell Rook CEO
has spent the past three years working with central and local government exploring possibilities for public social reform, policy innovation and local project delivery. He has eighteen years experience within The Salvation Army and until recently served as the Director of ALOVE overseeing the provision of services to young people and young adults in the UK and Republic of Ireland. Russell helped to found Youthwork the Partnership and holds a PhD from the University of St Andrews. Married to Charlotte, a cellist, he has two young boys who love football nearly as much as their Dad!
Andrew Miles Director
co-founded TalentSpan, a web 2.0 recruitment solutions company that works with both European business schools and private clients. Based in London, he has experience running a leadership development consultancy and publishing business that operated in 6 countries. Married to Janet, with a toddler and recent baby, he can normally be found drinking very strong coffee!
Phil Wall Director
is the founder of Signify, a leadership development company working with senior corporate executives in the UK and US to increase business performance and maximise impact on staff, clients and their communities. He is the founder of the international charity HOPE HIV and advises numerous organisation on the creation and development of Corporate Responsibility Strategies.
Max Coates Educational Design Consultant
is senior lecturer in education at St. Mary's University College. A secondary headteacher for twelve years, Max has also worked for the London Centre for Leadership in Learning (as Team Programme Manager), The Innovation Unit, The National College for School Leadership and the University of Bristol. In addition, he works extensively in the area of leadership, emotional intelligence and mentoring and coaching both in the UK and abroad. Recently he has published two books on personalising learning with Professor John West Burnham and has subsequently developed a distance learning package on the same subject for Teachers TV. His latest book, ‘The Constant Leader’, explores surviving and thriving in leadership. He is currently also studying for a doctorate in leadership and spirituality and writing a further book on the future of education. He and his wife Sally, a senior practice sister, have three allegedly grown-up sons and live in Dorset.
Adrian Gosling Education Development Manager
has over twenty years experience as an educationalist. Adrian was the inaugural director of the charity HOPE HIV, which runs education and economic empowerment programmes for young people across Africa. He has pioneered social enterprise education initiatives and has developed a range of educational services in deprived communities. Adrian and his wife Anne are new parents to a daughter, Sarah.
Advisors
Chapel St is privileged to have the support and expertise of many great leaders around the UK. In particular, The Chapel St Advisory Board is helping us to refine and develop the Chapel St brand and strategy.
Maeve Sherlock OBE
has spent much of her career in the third sector and has headed three national charities, most recently The Refugee Council. She has also worked in central government, spending three years advising Gordon Brown as Chancellor on a portfolio of issues which included the voluntary sector and family policy issues. During the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review, Maeve was asked by ministers to chair a high-level advisory group exploring the future role of the Third Sector in economic and social regeneration. Maeve holds a number of non-executive appointments: she is a Commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission and a member of the Board of the Financial Ombudsman Service. Maeve is also undertaking doctoral research at Durham University.
Sir David Bell
has been a Director of Pearson, the largest educational publisher in the world, since 1996, and has been Chairman of the Financial Times, having been Chief Executive of the Financial Times since 1993. His current responsibilities as Pearson's Director for People include the recruitment, motivation, development and reward of employees across the Pearson Group. In addition to this, he is a Non-Executive Director of The Economist and actively supports a diverse range of organisations, currently including Chairmanships of Crisis, the International Youth Foundation and Roehampton University.
Educated at Cambridge University and the University of Pennsylvania, Sir David received his knighthood for services to industry, the arts and charity. He has recently been appointed Chair of the Building Schools for the Future Foundation, is married with three children and lives in Islington.
John Newbigin
works as a free lance journalist, and a strategic consultant for the cultural industries. He joined Channel 4 Television as Head of Corporate Relations in January 2000. Prior to that, John was Special Adviser to Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Rt Hon Chris Smith MP. His previous jobs have included working as an executive for David Puttnam's film company Enigma (1992-97), Policy Adviser to Neil Kinnock, then Leader of the Labour Party (1986-92), journalist and youth worker.
John is also Chairman of the 24 Hour Museum, which provides an online gateway to Britain's cultural sector including news and listings for more than 3,500 museum, galleries and heritage sites. In addition, he is a board member of First Light, an organisation funded with National Lottery money from the UK Film Council that gives young people between the ages of 5 and 18 the opportunity to make films – 700 have been made in the last 4 years.
Dr Luke Bretherton
is Senior Lecturer in Theology & Politics and Convenor of the Faith and Public Policy Forum at King's College London. He was previously Research Director of the St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace and has worked with a variety of NGOs and faith-based organisations in a wide range of cultural contexts both in the UK and abroad (notably, East Africa, Central and Eastern Europe and Russia). His book 'Hospitality as Holiness: Christian Witness Amid Moral Diversity' explores the churches response to moral pluralism, and he has also published academic articles on a range of topics related to church-state relations in a multi-faith society.