Cheryl Brodie, Lead's Learning & Organisation Development Consultant

Cheryl Brodie is an independent consultant working in learning, development and organisation development.  Her career has been in the public and private sector in diverse organisations including advertising, banks, education and NHS.

Her passion is changing organisations and individuals so that the work is more productive, customer focussed and satisfying.  She has done this through strategy development, education management, leadership programmes and business improvement teams, never underestimating complexity and the role of conversation.  She has set up Learning and Development departments and held Assistant Director OD positions, most recently in a Mental Health Organisation which had 60 hospitals across the UK.   Her task was to align and oversee all education and training ensuring it led to real outcomes for the patients.  To achieve this she led a major IT project to implement e-learning for staff and patients that they could get excited about.  As well as making business cases and project management Cheryl also designed and wrote programmes always with an emotional connection to the delegates. She also coaches aspiring leaders.

Currently Cheryl works with charities. She founded and runs a Refugee charity, holds a Trustee position with a Hospice and also runs programmes to improve charity effectiveness. This has included a programme for JLC  ‘Follow the Leader’, a certificated programme focusing on the finances, budgeting and strategy of charities as well as the softer skills   

Cheryl is deeply committed to work that enables people to develop themselves and in turn, serve in supporting the development of others. She holds a B.ED and MSc in Education Management.  She also has post-graduate qualifications in Advanced Process Consultancy (Tavistock) and Coaching. In addition she is qualified Level A & B psychometric tests and MBTI.