Although our base is in the north of England, we draw on a core team of staff and close associates from around the world, each with different cultural backgrounds and distinctive areas of expertise.
Jon Burns
Director
Director
Having played the saxophone on and off during his youth, Jon reacquainted himself with it on the beach in Accra and was further re-enthused when taking time out to get involved in the live jazz scene in Cape Town and Johannesburg.
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Kate Fogelberg
Senior Associate
Senior Associate
While counting cockles on a beach in New Zealand, Kate realised that the hard sciences were better left to others, and turned her focus towards the social sciences.
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Jane Gisin
Senior Associate
Senior Associate
After years of working in and for the Swiss legal system and enjoying occasional extended snowboard and surfing trips, it was clear Jane was going to become neither a lawyer, nor a professional athlete.
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Rob Hitchins
Director
Director
Rob has been with the Springfield Centre since 1997. An economist by training, Rob worked for the accountancy and audit firm KPMG, before setting up his own tourism business in Indonesia.
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Mike Klassen
Senior Associate
Senior Associate
Mike’s obsession with organisational and institutional change started in an unlikely place, as an engineering student at the University of Toronto keen to change the curriculum he was studying in favour of a systems view of sustainability.
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Roger Oakeley
Associate Director of Training
Associate Director of Training
Roger’s ambitions to take on the family farm were brutally crushed by a Hmong rice farmer in northern Thailand pointing out such a career might not be the best choice given his inability with the basics (i.e. hand-threshing rice).
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Rachel Burns
Business Development Co-ordinator
Business Development Co-ordinator
Pursuits of derring-do at Silverstone Rally School and parachuting with the RAF did not result in Rachel achieving her day dream of becoming a stunt woman.
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Angela McGhin
Administrator
Administrator
Having an affinity for spreadsheets, and a love of all things furry and four-legged, Angela has chosen to combine these two passions and joined Springfield with the aim of organising our group of unruly consultants, a task akin to herding cats.
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