Our Team
Danny Morris, Managing Director & Coach
Danny is a coach and confidential sounding-board to leaders. His core passion is helping clients realise their dreams and survive in the crucible of leadership. His aim is to help each client to thrive in business AND life.
Danny is known for helping leaders generate new ideas and consider alternative possibilities. He has a knack of enabling clients to get really clear about their goals, strengths, problems and plans. This results in leaders being able to think differently and act decisively.
Leaders warm to the precision of his encouragement and his commitment to them and their development. They value his genuinely relational approach and his ability to resource their growth and success.
Danny has been coaching leaders for over 13 years. He has worked with large organisations such as Yahoo, Cadbury, Boehringer Ingelheim and the BBC. He works extenisvely with SMEs and also social housing, charities, churches and the public sector.
He has various commercial interests and is chair of the anti-slavery charity, Unseen. He's also co-chair of the London Leadership Club and an associate consultant of Grant Thornton. He’s a contributing author to the Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology & Work and is a certified Human Systems Dynamics Professional.
Jonathan Frank, Director of Strategic Planning & Coach
Jonathan works with leaders particularly in times of change and transition. As a strategic adviser and coach, he loves helping others to create paths through what is often messy and thorny territory.
Jonathan has a decade of experience as a Chief Executive, and years more as a manager, working in not-for-profit, large commercial, and public settings. He has a talent for seeing how the "big picture" fits together, and can often bring insight to how best to arrange the various components, both conceptually and pragmatically.
One of his priorities is to bring simplicity. If people are going to buy into strategy, complexity is your enemy. It is this straightforward and open approach, blended with deep insight, that has built great relationships with leaders over the years, and has delivered value in their organisations.
Prior to joining Headlamp Associates Jonathan led a multi-million pound global charity, managed a start-up team in the NHS, and modernised a faith-based children's charity, having first worked for IBM in various technical, management and consultancy roles. He also worked for Caret as a consultant and coach to leaders in businesses, social housing, charities, churches and the public sector, including facilitating annual strategic planning for top teams in large public services.
He is a charity trustee and has a maths degree from Oxford University, having served as organ scholar at Jesus College.
Richard Izard, Coach & Leadership Specialist
Richard helps clients solve their most important problems by helping them to be commercially savvy and profoundly creative in their thinking. Yet far beyond helping leaders achieve business results his enduirng impact is helping clients to grow as individuals, becoming the very best version of themselves.
Whether facilitating joint ventures between boards of large corporations or simply working one-to-one with individuals, leaders are strengthened by having Richard at their side.
Following years managing large retail businesses Richard is now a successful coach, writer and speaker. He is also CEO of Organic Leadership and a trustee of World Vision.
"Richard's work with the board of the Official Charts Company has been hugely influential. He has facilitated senior executives from major record companies with the most powerful retailers in the country and enabled them to find a united way forward which has resulted in the OCC having its most profitable period ever." Rob Salter, Chair of the Official Charts Company & Trading Director, Tesco
Rob Taylor, Coach & Interim CEO/Executive Director Specialist
Rob brings an unusual mix of executive management experience and Board leadership from both the creative industries and charitable, not-for-profit social enterprise sector. He is an experienced interim manager who has worked successfully in a variety of business recovery/turnaround roles at CEO or Executive Director level, and sometimes as a statutory appointee on boards. Governance is an area he has a particular interest in.
He provides advice, training, consultancy, and organisational development/review work across a number of sectors from “not for profit” (Housing Association; Voluntary Sector Organisations; Registered Charities) to the commercial sector (creative industries – music management/record labels, video & film companies, and community based theatre and arts organisations), helping formulate strategy and advising on good practice and policy development.
He currently chairs a large supported housing provider, a media charity, a spirituality and culture charity, and a leading arts development organisation with UK and international commitments.
Alison Bird, Coach & Family & Relationship Specialist
Alison specialises in helping those with demanding leadership roles to build healthy personal relationships and strong family life.
She supports clients on a range of issues including: parenting strategies; nurturing strong relationships with life partners; families with children with disability; coping with major life changes such as divorce and separation or the serious illness or loss of a significant family member.
Her approach is observational, bespoke and highly practical which all combine to equip clients with the insights, plans and confidence to help nourish their most important relationships.
Alison is a Cambridge University Graduate, trained teacher, wife, mother and grandmother. She has a passion to see life working well and to help people develop a resilient lifestyle.
She has long experience of working with individuals and couples as well as writing and delivering parenting and relationship materials. Alison also works as a facilitator with Sharing Parenting, a nationally recognised parenting education organisation, and runs one-to-one parenting drop-in sessions for Cambridgeshire County Council.
Steve Botham, Coach & Leadership Specialist
Steve brings a wide consultancy expertise having working for Caret for fifteen years, latterly as CEO. He has worked across a broad range of sectors including Professional Service firms, Hospitals, Local Government, Housing and Charities. His specialist expertise lies in leadership and strategy development and he works as an executive coaching and with leadership teams to develop vision and focus and strengthen team working. He has led a range of successful training teams and brings a passion for results focused leadership training.
Steve is currently the Executive Director of a charity that serves the church across the UK and globally working closely with national leaders. He also brings experience as the Chair of a community development think tank, Vice Chair of Governors at a school with a national reputation for adding value for our pupils and a Director of Movement Day bringing Christian activity and support together in cities.
Steve lives in Birmingham - he has a passion for working with individuals and teams to stimulate fresh thinking and create sustainable change.
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