our people
nowhere is made up of core teams of creative-catalysts, a global network of specialist associates, and a wider group of strategic partners.
Dr Sue Abbotson
Sue is a co-founder of nowhere and co-principal of the nowhereacademy. She works across all sectors connecting leadership development, culture and organisational change.
With a PhD in Management, Sue explored the creative process in radio and theatre. This focused on the leadership dynamics of the creative processes and the relationship between the actors, the sub text and the audience. Sue is interested in co-creative meaning making and making visible the hidden dynamics that both support and constrain organisations.
Sue uses various field-based practices for working at deeper levels of organisational consciousness and with different ways of knowing about our experiences to foster change at an individual, team and organisational level.
Sue has worked in a variety of sectors including researching and lecturing for Business Schools in the UK, working as a manager in Local Government and and as a Director of Bath Consultancy Group where she specialised in whole system change.
She lives in Bath with her husband and her three children.
Alison Bell
Alison leads marketing and development in nowherefoundation. She works with colleagues and clients to envision their commercial journey and then formulate the programmes, communications and brands that take services and products out into the world.
With an MA degree in Modern Languages (Cantab), Alison initially trained in Marketing and Commercial development. She later specialised in e-Marketing and online communications - enabling campaigns, communities and online services - and worked extensively with Database Marketing and Branding. Whilst setting up a joint venture in New York in 1999, an extraordinary series of encounters led her to a set of consciousness teachings that she has been exploring ever since.
She left a career role at Microsoft UK in 2002 and set off into the unknown - acquiring new skills in psychotherapy, systemic constellations and mentoring (young people and business owners) that she integrated into her consulting practice. Alison has delighted in supporting innovation and start-up projects, leading brand transformation in large organisations and SMEs, and in working on breakthrough programmes in social and commercial arenas.
Alison began working with nowhere in 2005 and joined the nowherefoundation in 2007.
She lives in Hertfordshire, England, with her partner Neil, and young daughter Arianna.
Matt Clarke
Matt is a director of nowhere and co-founder and managing director of beyondnowhere UK. He supports senior leadership teams and their (typically) global remit to re-orient their work to what is most purposeful and naturally energizing.
Inspired by a life-changing cure from chronic asthma, Matt went on to study Naturopathic Medicine, lectured in Naturopathic clinical medicine and in Ethics and Jurisprudence, and practiced in a multidisciplinary medical center treating individuals, families and organisations.
He moved to London in May 1997 and worked first with a company called Corporate Vision, and then with Hanson Associates, developing his practice as an executive coach and facilitator of senior leadership teams and functions. In 2002 he joined beyondnowhere as a director and creative-catalyst.
A trustee of the Baale Mane hostel for girl children in Bangalore, India, Matt lives in London with his wife Eileen and their two sons, Jackson and Coleman.
Marc Cornwell
Marc is co-founder and managing director of enternowhere.
The son of a professional footballer, Marc spent his early years playing football until an injury in his teens curtailed his blossoming sporting career. This change in his life led him to the practice of design.
He followed this path into his late teens and early twenties eventually graduating in with a First Class degree. Marc then chose to join a new design consultancy led by a former partner of Pentagram. Here he pioneered the use of 3D CAD to create consumer products for major UK brands, working with marketeers, engineers and manufacturers across Europe, Asia and the Far East until leaving to co-found enternowhere in 2000.
He now works in organisations as an integral part of large strategic culture change programmes, using his design practice to bring to life and embed organisational purpose, values, brand, vision and strategy.
Marc lives in the Cotswolds, England with his wife Sal and two children Charlie and Albie.
Gaye Donaldson
Gaye is the Learning Coordinator and Business Manager for the Centre for the Study of Intimate and Social Systems (CSISS), she is also one of the teachers on the Foundation and Professional Training courses in Systemic Constellations. CSISS is part of the nowherefoundation.
Her early career was spent largely in the organic food and farming sector. Gaye was Public Affairs Director of the Soil Association, leaving the organisation in 1993 to set up and run a successful and award-winning organic herb trading business in Somerset. In 2003 Gaye was awarded the prestigious Heart in Business Award in recognition of her long-standing contribution to organic sector development.
As well as working as a trainer, Gaye is also a movingconstellations constellator, facilitating workshops in the South West of England.
Gaye lives on an organic farm in Somerset with her husband Mike, five children, a herd of Red Devon cows, pigs, four horses and a fluctuating number of Indian Runner ducks.
Tracy Draffan
Tracy is the Finance assistant to all five nowhere companies.
Tracy graduated from University in 1992 with a degree in fashion marketing. She worked as a ladies-wear buyer in the North-East before spending a number of years living and teaching in Venezuela and Hong Kong. Upon her return to the UK she went on to study and practice 3D AutoCAD design and continues to do so along side her work with nowhere.
Tracy lives in Derby with her husband, Paul and son Callum.
David Hansen
David is a director of nowherenz and passionate about researching, designing and facilitating breakthrough interventions for individuals, groups and organisations.
With degrees in Sociology and Psychology he started his professional career as a rugby player and coach in England, Italy, and the USA. This experience fuelled his interest in individual and team performance and lead to him complete a Masters in Organisational Behaviour.
In the early 90's David opened the Australian operation of a global psychometrics supplier. From there he moved to a London based consultancy to lead research and consulting on a series of global projects. Following his passion for discovering new and more powerful ways to catalyse change and performance he started his own business and co-founded the nowheregroup in 2001.
He now has over twenty years experience in organisational development and business transformation working with leading organisations in over twenty countries.
He lives in Auckland with his wife Suzanne, children Joshua and Georgia.
Judith Hemming
I am a Director of the nowherefoundation and co-founder of both movingconstellations and CSISS. My main focus is to explore, innovate and teach the use of systemic and phenomenological approaches in families, organisations and wider social systems.
I am also a faculty member of both the International Organisational Constellations Intensive initiative and the Family Intensive with Hunter Beaumont. I also run a psychotherapy practice in London.
With an MA (Oxon) in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, my previous experience as included being a teacher and lecturer at University of London, deputy editor of the British Gestalt Journal, working with families and small systems, and in the development of theory; founding practitioner and teacher of systemic constellations in UK, Europe and North America.
Liam Hinshelwood
Liam joined enternowhere as a creative-catalyst in 2005 after graduating from Falmouth College of Art and a short spell teaching design. He brought with him a passion for designing in both three dimensions and digital media along with expertise in the increasingly important field of sustainable design. With enternowhere his skills have helped businesses explore, express and connect to their futures in exciting and meaningful ways.
Liam lives in North-West London although he can often be found sat on his board looking out to sea waiting for the next wave.
Terry Ingham
Terry is the managing director of the nowherefoundation with responsibility for developing a range of research and innovation programmes to meet pressing social and organisational needs.
With qualifications in education, design and management, including a Masters in Education, he has taught design in secondary schools and was also Head of Corporate Development in a County Council in the south of England where he held responsibilities for social policy implementation and organisational change initiatives.
With over 20 years experience of leading and catalysing organizational change, Terry is particularly interested in the development and use of systemic and creative methodologies, applying them in both his leadership of the foundation, as well as in his work with projects and assignments in education, government, business and health sectors.
He lives in Bath, UK with his wife Sue and three children.
Chris Jacobs
Chris is a creative catalyst in limitednowhere. He works with leadership teams to help release their creative and strategic potential. He specialises in working with teams that are responsible for generating breakthrough strategies and innovatively putting them into practice.
With a first degree in History, Chris started his career with Bain and Company. With this background in the development of strategy Chris has worked for a number of different businesses leading, developing and delivering new strategies. Before joining nowhere he was Director of European Strategy for Capital One Bank in Europe.
Chris lives in North Norfolk with his wife Diana, his two children Emma and Nick and his two stepsons Ross and Sam.
Jane James
Jane is programme manager of enhancingchildren'slearning working with constellators, teachers, and educational professionals to support families and schools to enable children to learn and live fully.
Originally a secondary teacher, Jane has worked in all sectors of education including early years and universities and has been a school governor for more than ten years. She has been working with systemic approaches in schools since 2003 and has taken part in three major projects funded by the UK central government Department for Children Schools and Families.
Jane is also a visiting lecturer with the School of Organisational Studies at University of the West of England. She works extensively in individual and organisational development as both a consultant and is a qualified leadership and executive coach.
Jane lives in Bath with her husband Chris. She has four children who no longer live at home but who are welcomed back with their partners and friends on every possible occasion.
Bozwell Kay
Boz is the web developer for nowhere. He works with the latest technology to produce innovative web systems, that support and promote the work of nowhere and it's group of companies.
Boz studied art, photography & music. Inspired by the birth of the internet, he saw its creative potential and became a web developer. He set up one of the first commercial websites making webpages for small businesses. Since then he has worked on hundreds of websites and has a wide range of experience in programming languages and web techniques.
From the early age of 16, Boz has practised Aikido and Buddhist meditation. He is inspired by the guiding principles of harmony, stillness and awareness; this has lead Boz to work with nowhere to explore the role of technology as a support to consciousness practices.
Boz lives in Devon, England with his wife Yasmin and his three sons Seren, Manu and Jago.
Andy Kitt
Andy is a creative-catalyst in beyondnowhere, whose work centres upon liberating the creative potential of individuals, teams and leadership communities.
After completing a BSc in Behavioural Science and an MSc in Applied Psychology Andy's early career was as an Occupational Psychologist. After spending 4 years in Strategic Development he became fascinated in the interplay between individual and organisational purpose and in the conditions that create purposeful, fulfilling and stimulating places to work.
He spent a decade heading learning and organisational development functions in some of the UK's largest retail and financial organisations. This phase was interwoven with a relationship with nowhere which ultimately lead to him going on a PurposeQuest in 2004. The experience was a seminal moment in his life leading him into consultancy and then joining beyondnowhere later that year.
Andy loves to spend his time with his wife Diane and his three children Adam, Rosie and Oli.
Andrew Leith
Andrew is an associate of enternowhere. While his background was in engineering and industrial design, he has worked in fields as diverse as virtual set design for television and systems planning.
Formally a creative director of media agency Deepend, Andrew has many years experience in developing consumer engagement strategies, & communication packages for a wide range of companies and brands. He is passionate about developing a mastery of visual and experiential storytelling techniques- that inspire teams and individuals to see information from a new perspective.
He lives in London with his wife Aase and his two young children.
Mike Malig
Mike is a director of enternowhere and a director of nowheregroup, leading the development of products and artefacts. This role involves supporting some of the worlds largest companies to create meaningful products and experiences.
With a first degree in design from Ravensbourne College and a masters in furniture design from the Royal College of Art, Mike began his practice as a furniture designer. His passion for people and products has led him to quest, develop and pioneer co-creative objects. Mike has years of experience working with major businesses and has revealed insights into the way three dimensions can help to inspire people, teams and departments to unlock intangible assets and help move people towards their desired future.
He pioneered the creative-catalyst role in the late nineties and then joined enternowhere in 2002.
Mike lives in Cambridgeshire in a house he built for his wife Rachel and three children Jas, Mica and Mateusz.
Jenny MacKewn
Jenny Mackewn is a creative-catalyst in limitednowhere. She enables leaders and Leadership teams to review and transform their ways of working in order to achieve personal and business targets.
In this contrext she supports and challenges catalysts facilitators and business leaders to form strategic partnerships in the service of the business imperatives. She specialises in integrating innovative approaches to awaken purpose and build energetic commitment around key strategic goals.
Her work is an ongoing experiment in consciousness and commerciality and the relationship between the two. She has worked as mentor, coach, university fellow, college lecturer, manager, director, sales girl, mother, author and now finds that all aspects of her life experience contribute in equal measure to what she offers.
Jenny lives in Bath with her husband.
Ed Rowland
Edward works in the nowherefoundation as a systemic consultant, senior executive coach and constellations practitioner for both intimate and organisational systems, helping leaders and organisations in all sectors to unfold their potential and creativity. He also tutors for CSISS training programmes in systemic constellations.
His vocational journey has embraced rational, creative and 'invisible' depth disciplines; after Masters degrees in History and Law, he trained as a barrister, theatre actor and family systems/ creative arts therapist. His work also integrates almost two decades' exploration of different consciousness practices.
His early career included work as an actor/director, researcher in a think-tank on international environmental law and product director of a multinational publishing and software company. He began consulting to organisations in 1995, briefly specialising in sustainability and corporate social responsibility, before devoting himself to leadership transformation and systemic change. He has worked with a host of well-known international companies and UK Government departments and charities.
He lives south of Bath with his partner Susanna and their baby daughter Blossom Tara.
Andrea Turner
Andrea is the finance manager of all five nowhere Companies.
Andrea started work in 1993 as an accounts and payroll clerk at a Chartered Accountants in Derby . She worked and trained there for seven years. She then went onto work for an international Logistics Company as Management accountant and then took a similar role at a Training Company two years later.
Andrea Joined nowhere in 2005 as finance manager which was a new role in the company at that time due to expansion of the business. Working in nowhere has introduced her to Tai Chi, meditation and number of other techniques and wisdoms to become focused and to understand and embrace the creative process.
Andrea lives in Derby, England with her husband Ian and two young children, Lucas and Mattie.
Susie Turner
Susie has been the nowheregroup business manager since 2003. She is also a qualified Gestalt psychotherapist.
Her background includes: travelling and working in Asia, Australia, and the Middle East; twelve years in the UK fitness industry as instructor and personal trainer; and voluntary work with people with mental health issues.
After gaining her MSc she worked with teenagers in the voluntary sector in addition to establishing her private psychotherapy practice. She also developed classes integrating movement and dance with Gestalt therapy and has an ongoing interest in the relationship between movement and consciousness.
She has two sons aged 21 and 17, and lives in Derby with her husband, Nic.
Nic Turner
Nic is the managing director of limitednowhere supporting leaders and developing catalysts in some of the world's largest companies to inspire strategic and cultural innovation.
With a first degree in English and Sociology, Nic initially became a teacher. In his early twenties he became fascinated by different consciousness practices and studied yoga and meditation in India. In 1983 he joined a US oil company to work in curriculum design and language teaching in Saudi Arabia, which enabled him to do a Masters in Psycholinguistics and Instructional Design. Nic returned to the UK and became one of the UKs foremost Organisational Development practitioners. He founded Energy in Organisations and Community Building in Business, led the cultural change programme that brought Do It All back to profit and was Head of OD for Boots the Chemist before co-founding limitednowhere in 2000.
Nic lives in Derbyshire, England with his wife Susie and his two sons Ben and Jamie.
Dr Nick Udall
Dr Nick Udall is a co-founder and the CEO of the nowheregroup. Originally trained in Product Design, Nick became fascinated by the nature of the creative process. He went on to undertake a PhD with the University of Surrey in Consciousness and Creativity where he had the opportunity to integrate the disciplines of art, design, consciousness, and personal and organisational transformation with the psychology, philosophy and phenomenology of creative breakthrough. Nick took his research further with a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Roehampton Institute, and as a Visiting Fellow at Goldsmiths College.
Throughout the nineties, Nick began consulting with executive leaders of global corporations on how to unlock the creative potential of their organisations. He also spent a large portion of time as a visiting lecturer teaching design, drawing and creativity at numerous colleges and universities in the UK and the Netherlands.
In 1994 Nick co-founded the Design Transformation Group, a community of international designers, artists, futurologists, educationalists, philosophers, consultants and other practitioners who were interesting in exploring design as an act of meaning-making. This led to two international events andpublications.
In the late nineties, Nick co-founded nowhere.
Nick lives in Surrey, England, with his wife Caroline, and two young children, Kaia and Zen.
Victoria Udall
Tor works with the nowherefoundation as Programme Manager for movingconstellations. She manages the team of eight constellators and plans and coordinates workshops and training events in London, Oxfordshire, Hertfordshire, Scotland and the South-West.
With a BA (Hons) degree in Theatre, Film and TV from Bristol University, Tor spent her early career as a theatre director, choreographer and performer, devising and delivering productions for The National Theatre, The Royal Festival Hall, Sadlers Wells and The Royal College of Music. She was also director of theatre and dance at a sixth form college and was guest teacher of drama at Surrey University.
She first worked with the nowherefoundation in 2003, researching the methods and practices of co-creation within the nowheregroup. She has been in her current role since 2005 and enjoys the opportunity to learn about systemic perspectives and immerse herself in constellation work. With her background in creative arts, she is interested in assisting people in their journey to expression and health so that they can release their full potential and take their place in the world.
Tor works part-time and finds that constellations support and fuel her other passion, which is writing. At present she is completing a novel exploring man's relationship to his soul.
Tor lives in London, England with her partner, Tom.