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Executive Committee |
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE VACANCIES
IFAL is urgently looking for two additional colleagues to join its friendly and active executive committee. To apply you will need to be an IFAL current member and UK resident, the latter in order to comply with UK banking requirements. Please contact us at admin@ifal.org.uk to register your interest. We look forward to hearing from you.
IFAL executive committee
Jafar Akhavan-Moossavi Chair Jafar has been privileged to serve as senior leader, coach, coach supervisor, mentor, independent practitioner, chair, executive board member and learning and development specialist in a variety of different roles and contexts; from leading civil society bodies to central and local government, police, education, non governmental organisations, think tanks, international bodies to school governor, working with young people deciding on their educational and career paths and advocating the cause of rough sleepers. Jafar established his independent coaching, mentoring, leadership and people development practice some 20 years ago. Jafar's practice and approach is underpinned by his fundamental commitment to promote and practice values based, inclusive and collaborative approach to people, organisational and societal development. He is motivated by commitment to harness our individual and human potential in the service of our collective humanities and achieving 'public good'... Jafar has been able to successfully integrate Action Learning in his diverse international practice. |  Jane Garnham Jane joined the IFAL Executive in 2016 although she has been associated with IFAL for a number of years initially as a member and also contributing to workshops and the annual conferences in 2013 and 2016. Jane first experienced action learning in 1999 and was so struck by its power and value that she trained as a facilitator and began facilitating sets in 2003. She was part of a self-facilitated set for almost eight years, an experience that continually strengthened and developed her practice and is about to start a virtual action learning contract with peer facilitators and consultants. She recently facilitated a number of large action learning programmes, one for social workers where there is a focus on improving safeguarding practice and one for leaders and managers of a large provider of housing and care and support services as part of a leadership programme. She has also piloted action learning for people using mental health services and remains delighted by one comment from a set member when he said, “action learning helps me do better at living”. Currently she is facilitating a large number of sets for newly qualified nurses in health trust as part of their preceptorship programme, working with a national mental health charity developing leadership capability and working with front line managers delivering services for homeless young people in south London. A qualified coach and accredited action learning set facilitator she continue to learn, is part way through her End of Life Doula training and soon to train in Nancy Kline’s Thinking Partnership approach. |
Dr Chandana Sanyal Chandana is an academic, researcher and consultant, specialising in individual and organisational learning. She is an Associate Professor in Human Resource Management and Development at Middlesex University and a Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and Higher Education Academy. She is an EMCC Global Master Practitioner Coach, Mentor and Team Coach as well as an accredited Supervisor. Her doctoral thesis is on the pedagogy of Action Leaning, focusing on the role of the facilitator in an organisational leadership programme. She has over 20 years’ experience as a human resource practitioner and a senior manager in the Public Sector. She teaches on several undergraduate and postgraduate programmes; her specialist teaching areas include individual, team and organisational learning organisational behaviour, coaching, mentoring, action learning and leadership development. Her recent consultancy and research projects with organisations include longitudinal research on entrepreneurship mentoring with Youth Business International, impact evaluation of coaching with Médecins Sans Frontières, mentoring programme evaluation with National Institute of Health Research and action learning in leadership development with London Ambulance Service. Her experience of action learning facilitation spans over 15 years, particularly within leadership programmes for participants to explore their leadership and/or management issues to gain deeper and new insights and address real work problems. She is an Editorial Board Member for the Action Learning: Research and Practice Journal. She has published several peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters in the areas of professional development and management education, including action learning. |
Suri Patel Suri Patel is an Action learning (AL) Consultant, Coach & Facilitator, bringing a range of experience, from project, stakeholder and volunteer management across the international development, sustainability and social enterprise sector, she is passionate about supporting the development of people to make a real difference in their communities. Suri has been delivering action learning since 2014 and believes in making it an accessible tool for change and in developing leadership skills. Suri has facilitated AL and delivered AL facilitator training across a variety of sectors, including within NHS, local authority, charity and social enterprise. Examples include working with women of colour in leadership positions in the UK, UAE and Canada and US and with senior academics and researchers in universities across Africa, UK and Scotland. She has worked extensively with social entrepreneurs, community business leaders and creative arts leaders. Suri also has experience of designing and delivering learning programmes to help social entrepreneurs and leaders of heritage organisations to build leadership and business skills. Her work spans face to face, virtual, and internationally and, on the rare occasion, a combination of all three! |
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