About Us

Sally Bibb is the Founder and Managing Director of Engaging Minds. She is an expert in employee engagement, communications and organisational change, with a practitioner’s understanding of how to engage people, what works and what doesn’t. Sally is also an expert and author on the subject of organisational trust. She has spent 20 years developing organisations and working with people from different generations and cultures in Europe, USA and Asia.

Sally is an award-winning author of four books exploring the relationship between people and the organisations they work for and she regularly writes for the management and general press. Sally is also a lively and engaging speaker and frequently speaks at conferences, seminars and dinner engagements.

Before she set up Engaging Minds, Sally held senior roles in organisational change, HR, and learning and development at The Economist Group, publisher of The Economist newspaper, BT and Cable and Wireless. Sally is also a co-founder and director of talentsmoothie, a specialist Generation Y and organisational change consultancy. Sally’s first degree was in Psychology, Sociology and Economics. She has an MSc in Organisational Change from the University of Surrey. She is a Member of CIPD, NLP Practitioner, Erikson trained coach and MBTI certified.

 

Jan Abbey

Jan’s background is in leadership development and executive coaching in a wide range of sectors. The combination of her consultancy, coaching and her operational experience (in the aviation industry) provide an excellent platform for helping organisations improve their level of employee engagement. She has hands-on experience of what works and what doesn’t and has a very pragmatic approach to engagement.

Central to Jan’s approach and practice is the understanding of how to engage each person’s strengths and do it across the organisation. By adopting a strengths-based approach in her coaching, Jan helps her clients discover ways in which they can enjoy their work, lead more effectively, engage with their people and gain commitment to achieving company goals. She has a special interest in the psychology of performance excellence and personal impact, and is passionate in helping people succeed in all aspects of their lives.

Jan holds a BA Honours degree in Business and IT and is an active member for the Association for Coaching. She is accredited in the Schroder leadership competency model and is a qualified MBTI® practitioner. Her multi-sector experience along with her extensive international work enables her to coach leaders and teams for the challenges that face global business today.

 

Fiona Hickman-Taylor

Fiona is a stress resilience coach, consultant and trainer. During her career she has worked with hundreds of individuals as a teacher, coach, consultant and mentor. She is an NLP practitioner and specialises in one-to-one change facilitation sessions that enable her clients to achieve peak performance and enjoy greater success and happiness. She works with organisations and individuals and her clients come from the private, public and third sectors.

Her interpersonal, communication and leadership skills are built on ten years experience as a lecturer and Head of Department in a Further Education college. She has a degree in architecture and post-graduate Certificate of Education from Southampton University.

As well as her work with Engaging Minds Fiona runs her own consultancy business and is also a writer, speaker and author of personal development books.

 

Dave Freeman

With over 12 years experience in the creative industry Dave is a designer of print and digital media. He has worked in the telecommunications, professional services, property, retail and financial sectors for a number of blue chip clients including, Ericsson, Goldman Sachs and Mrs Beeton’s. His work includes a huge range of internal and external communications collateral including digital and print campaigns, corporate identity, brand identity, sales literature, direct mail, annual reports, exhibitions, packaging, illustration, Powerpoint presentations and website design.

He was nominated by London Planning Awards for ‘Funding London’s Transport Needs Report’; Marketing Effectiveness Awards for RICS Brand Revitalization and has received a Commended for RICS Brand Revitalization at the Marketing Society Awards and a Highly Commended at the Robert Horne Shout Awards for the RICS Awards literature pack.

Dave has been working with Engaging Minds since 2008 and is the creator of the 'Eric' character. He is a talented designer as well as an excellent visual interpreter of communications messages.

 

Contact: +44 (0)7721 000 095    Email: sallybibb@engagingminds.co.uk

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