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The Three Hands team
The Three Hands team is made up of the many hands of our directors, associates and facilitators. Between us, we have a wealth of experience in the private and voluntary sectors, spanning corporate social responsibility, community engagement and learning & development, in the UK and overseas.
The Core Team
Simon Hamilton, Director and Founder
simon@threehands.co.uk
Having escaped from a twenty year business career as a Chartered Accountant I discovered the delights of working in the voluntary sector in the UK and overseas. It was this combination of experience of both sectors that led me to set up Three Hands in 1998. Since then, I've worked at the interface between the business and voluntary sectors, devising and implementing a series of pioneering programmes designed to benefit both. I'm lucky enough to have worked all over the UK and internationally, from Mongolia to the Kalahari Desert. One of the first Three Hands Socially Responsible Development™ programmes we devised, the Pfizer 'Children's Hospital Playbox Challenge', won a National Training Award.
Jan Levy, Director
jan@threehands.co.uk
I joined Three Hands in 2005 to help develop our relationships with companies and charities, and to devise and deliver innovative Socially Responsible Development™ programmes — all of which has kept me both very busy and very fulfilled! Prior to that I'd gained experience in both the private and voluntary sectors. I spent three years at Business in the Community, working on various corporate community involvement projects, including setting up and launching the Croydon Commitment, a local business-community partnership. I have an MBA from IESE Business School, Barcelona, and I've worked with NGOs in La Paz, Bolivia dedicated to assisting orphaned and deaf children. In an earlier part of my career I was a director of a successful publishing and marketing business.
Sean Nelson, International Director
sean@threehands.co.uk
I'm responsible for managing Three Hands' overseas projects. I used to be a Director of Raleigh International and I've spent over ten years developing and managing UK and overseas expeditions and projects. I have excellent experience of in-country organisation in many parts of the world, particularly specialising in Africa, central America and Asia.
Associates
Our associates bring expertise in specific areas, such as corporate responsibility, human resources, sustainability, charity engagement and learning & development. They are a critical part of the Three Hands team.
Jacqui Boardman, Associate and Non-executive Director
Jacqui Boardman is a Senior Partner and Director of Acona CMG AS which is an international consultancy specialising in Corporate Responsibility and Risk Management. She works as a strategic advisor on CR for many international clients dealing on a daily basis with complex environmental, social and ethical issues. She has a diverse range of clients, including hotels and leisure, betting and gaming, speciality finance, oil and gas, transport, and publishing. Outside Acona, Jacqui is dedicated to her own community, helping to raise the quality of life through cultural development. She is the chair of a multi-disciplinary Leisure and Culture Trust providing services for more than 300,000 people in the North-West of England. During 2007 she became a non-executive Director of Three Hands and sits on the Board.
Trevor Dahl, Associate
Trevor is Chief Executive of Woolworths Kids First, the registered charity for children in the UK that enables Woolworths' stakeholders to give in their local communities. Since launch over £5,000,000 has been raised. He set up Kids First in 1999, having joined Woolworths in 1987.
In 2004, the charity launched Playground Partnerships, a curriculum-based programme that enables UK primary school pupils to apply for grants to improve their playground facilities. Through this award winning scheme, he has administered over £1,200,000 of donations to UK Primary and Special Schools.
Robert Lane, Associate
Robert spent most of his full-time working life with Barclays Bank where his responsibilities varied from corporate lending to Human Resources Director. He has worked in mainland Europe, North America and the Caribbean where, for 6 years, he was Chief Operating Officer for a region-wide bank. Robert retired from Barclays in 2004 and now divides his time between consulting on executive development and voluntary work. He is also a keen sailor and a Royal Yachting Association approved instructor.
Dr Mark Wade, Associate
Mark offers a unique range of experiences and competencies to bring sustainable development thinking into the mainstream of major corporations.
Mark joined Shell in 1979 as a research biochemist, moving in 1997 to the Corporate Centre as a founder member of the Sustainable Development Group, and then in 2003 to Shell Learning's Leadership Development group, from where he led Shell's Sustainable Development Learning programme. Until his retirement from Shell in April 2006, he was Shell's Liaison Delegate to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and Chairman of the Business Network of the European Academy of Business in Society (EABiS). He is now a member of the Supervisory Board of EABiS.
During his time with Shell, Mark was recognised internally and externally as a key player and architect of Shell's sustainability journey.
FACILITATORS
Our facilitators are learning & development specialists who help individuals, teams and groups achieve their learning objectives on our programmes. Facilitating learning through real-life projects has different demands, and needs different methods, to facilitating learning through theoretical or simulated situations. Our team has built up invaluable and unique experience of working on Socially Responsible Development˜ programmes.
Andrew 'Scotty' Johnson, Facilitator
Scotty has worked in the field of experiential learning for over 10 years. From personal development programmes in expedition environments to interventions on Executive Leadership programmes with the business schools of INSEAD and Wharton, his informal yet challenging hands-on approach is one that maximises the learning opportunities on our Socially Responsible Development™ programmes. He has facilitated SRD programmes for the Department for Constitutional Affairs, Reuters, Direct Line, Kroll, Travelex and Sky.
Steve Quinn, Facilitator
Steve is a human resources specialist, focusing on helping people in organisations deal with the effects of change. He coaches, trains, facilitates and consults and has worked throughout the UK and internationally, having completed projects in the Middle East, Africa, USA, Egypt, Bermuda and in mainland Europe. Steve has worked with Three Hands on SRD programmes for Royal Bank of Scotland, Department for Work & Pensions, Reuters and Adam & Company.
Mark Taylor, Facilitator
Mark is an experienced facilitator and has worked with graduates and senior teams in areas including leadership, team development and business alignment. He has worked in the USA, Africa and Asia and recent delivery has included senior team development, coaching skills and modular based personal development. He has worked with companies such as Barclays, Environment Agency, and Sony and facilitated Three Hands Socially Responsible Development™ for Direct Line, Royal Bank of Scotland and a multi-company team on our open programme.
Toni Frost, Facilitator
For the last 12 years Toni has focused on the design and facilitation of management development training programmes for clients in the corporate financial sector. Prior to this her experience has been in human resources and learning. She has worked in the UK and Europe for clients such as Deloitte, Kroll and Accenture. In the last year Toni was delighted to work with Three Hands on the design and facilitation of an SRD programme for Kroll working with the children's charity, The Place2Be. Toni firmly believes that such tailored programmes have universal benefits to organisations, individuals and the wider community.
Jeff Jackson, Facilitator
Jeff is a Team Specialist and Personal Coach. His interest lies in helping teams and individuals improve their performance. He has been working in this field for most of his working life and is still dedicated to raising peoples awareness of life long learning and the importance of Personal Mastery.
He has worked with an extensive number of corporate clients as well as some high profile sports teams such as the British Lions, the BT Global Challenge Yacht Race, Scottish Rugby and England Cricket. With Three Hands he has worked on a number of Socially Responsible Development™ programmes, including the award-winning Pfizer project and Motorola's leadership development experience in Malawi.