Breda Flaherty
Breda Flaherty is an experienced organisation development consultant, leadership programme designer and director, and individual coach. Breda is intrigued by professional cultures at work, and how these impact on the ways services change and develop.
In 1992 she founded the consultancy BFA Development through which she and colleagues offer high quality continuing development for Medical Leaders, Executives, Clinicians and Practitioners across the UK NHS and for local authority leaders and practitioners across the social care sector. Breda holds a Leadership Associateship at the Kings Fund, and a Senior Lectureship at Brighton & Sussex Medical School.
Breda leads leadership development programmes, and leads service change projects in local services; she works with service leads and staff on service management, and quality issues.
Breda coaches individual leaders and practitioners on individual professional and career development issues, and on their individual leadership approach to the service issues facing their organisations and services.
Breda teaches at Masters level at the Institute of Postgraduate Medicine, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, where she is MSc Course Leader for Commissioning in Health & Social Care, and joint course leader for the MSc in Leadership and Management in Health Care, including the Management & Leadership for Doctors postgraduate modules.
Breda holds Masters & Bachelors Degrees from Cambridge University, and is pursuing doctoral research on service change. She is a member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council, the Chartered Institute for Professional Development, and the Association for Management Education and Development.
Associate Consultants
BFA Associate Consultants work with us to create teams tailored to our clients’ needs.
Our Associates’ additional areas of expertise include:
- Using Diagnostic and self-assessment tools
- Open Space, and World Café formats for large-scale events
- Action learning and small group learning processes
- Expertise in coaching and developing medical specialists
BFA Office Manager – Janice Quested
Janice Quested leads the BFA office, manages diaries, event bookings, and project timetables, and acts as contact point and information service for our clients’ enquiries.
Virginia Morley BA Hons, MSc
Virginia is a healthcare consultant and executive coach with more than 20 years experience of working with the health service primarily in primary care, community services and public health. She has published widely on issues pertinent to the development of primary care since the 1980s. As an experienced consultant she is used to working with and learning from clinicians and managers in the design, planning and enabling of interventions to develop leadership capacity and strengthen strategic approaches. She uses a relational model of coaching with clients and works with GPs, senior executives and managers in the health service.
Elaine Sutton BA Hons, MSc, Member Association for Coaching
Elaine has worked in organisation development for over 20 years specialising in leadership, team and personal development. Prior to setting up her consultancy she was Training and OD Manager for a large teaching hospital and OD advisor for the (then) London Regional Office. In her consultancy practice she works with a wide range of NHS and other public sector organisations. She is a highly skilled practitioner, accustomed to working with groups of clinicians and managers, with the ability to design and facilitate a wide range of effective leadership and management development interventions, including taught courses, team development programmes, one-to-one coaching and action learning sets. Her particular experience and interest lies in effectively using methodologies such as action learning to improve individual and organisational performance.
Penny Lock BA (Hons), MSc.
Penny is an organisation consultant specialising in team and leadership development and change management. With over ten years experience in consulting to the public and private sectors, she has expertise in working with clients to design and deliver a range of tailored interventions including team coaching and facilitation, action learning, board development, large group facilitation, leadership and management development and executive coaching. She is a creative and credible practitioner, used to working with clinicians of different disciplines, senior managers and board members. She has a solid understanding of different parts of the health system – she worked in the NHS for over twenty years in public health, commissioning authorities and acute and mental health trusts and she directed the merger of two acute trusts. Her particular interest is in developing team performance and in facilitating effective working across organisations and teams.
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