Good Leadership starts with trust

Aamer Naeem OBE

Aamer has over two decades of senior leadership experience. He has held Directorships and Chief Executive positions of multi-national and multi-million-pound organisations. A pharmacist by original training, he completed his Master's in Business Administration, with distinction from Nottingham University Business School. He sat as a Fitness to Practice Committee Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council of Great Britain and the General Teaching Council for England. Having trained and coached hundreds of leaders, he has vast experience across private, public and voluntary sectors. His work in building leaders and organisations has allowed him to deliver his Leadership Development Programmes and coaching globally across five continents. In 2019 he was awarded an OBE in the Queen's New Year Honours List and featured in the Green Park BAME 100 Business Leaders Index.

Maria Pattinson

Maria is an Ethical Leadership specialist. She has thirty years of experience coaching individuals and teams to become the best versions of themselves. Maria brings expertise in mental health and wellbeing and has delivered projects to improve mental health outcomes for communities in the UK and internationally. Maria has a first class Master's degree in Ethical Leadership from King's College London. Her research was in evaluating the impact of leadership development programmes in communities across three global regions. Maria's voluntary work is in Tanzania where she trains local people to deliver mental health awareness courses in community contexts. Maria currently coaches a team of African volunteers across three countries in the East Africa region.

Maria is also a Communication Specialist. For more than twenty years, she worked with top leaders in the NHS flagship programmes run by The King's Fund on developing their capacity to communicate authentically and effectively in public. Her coaching and facilitation draws upon an equally long career as a theatre director and producer of new plays in some of England's leading theatre organisations, including Chichester Festival Theatre, Glyndebourne and Hampstead Theatre. Maria has written about the intersection of leadership, the arts and transformation and is trained in Systemic Constellations Coaching and Family Constellations as developed by Bert Hellinger through the Centre For Systemic Constellations and The Whole Partnership.