About us

EPI Associates Ltd is led by Peter Mumford who works with a number of highly experienced associates according to the needs of each project.

We have expert knowledge and many years’ experience of working with the distinctive attributes of professional cultures and the impact they can have on how people can exercise leadership, manage change and bring about improvements to services.

We draw on over 20 years’ experience of designing and delivering leadership and organisation development programmes, providing executive coaching and facilitation to boards and board members, co-designing and facilitating large participative conferences and supporting clinical leadership and engagement.

Peter Mumford

Peter is an independent consultant with over 20 years’ international experience of Leadership and Organisation Development primarily focused on health and social care in the statutory, private and voluntary sectors.

He is director of EPI Associates Ltd, Associate Fellow at the King’s Fund, Associate of BAMM, and Visiting Lecturer at Brighton and Sussex Medical School.

As well as Honorary Lecturer at City University and a preferred provider at the Institute of Innovation and Improvement for their Patient and Public Involvement Programme.

He holds an MBA from the Cranfield institute of Technology and is a member of the CIPD. He was a fellow at the King’s Fund for 12 years from 1984, and non-executive director at St George’s Hospital, South West London. He is a trained coach, MBTI and Firo-B practitioner. Recently he has begun working on restorative justice with prison inmates.

Associates include:

Breda Flaherty

Professional expertise: developing leaders and professionals, individually and in teams in service improvement and change. Experienced programme designer, facilitator, writer and coach.

Ray Flux

Professional expertise: building partnerships and ownership of complex problems and their solutions among service users, the public and service providers. Experienced programme designer and facilitator.

Sue Machell

Professional expertise: clinical leadership, board development and coaching. Experienced programme designer and facilitator.

David Naylor

Professional expertise: working with groups and in professional leadership. Experienced programme designer and facilitator.

Pippa Gough

Professional expertise: policy development and engagement. Experienced programme designer, writer and facilitator.

Liz Hewett

Professional expertise: leadership for healthcare professionals, licensed mediator, experienced coach and facilitator for team development/ team building, exploring ‘ways of working smarter not harder’.

How we work

After your initial contact with us, we will work closely with you to identify:

• What you want to achieve
• Key people to work with
• Your needs in relation to the changes you need to make

We will then tailor our approaches, in close collaboration with you, to make sure we can meet
your needs. Our services are always confidential.

We have a 4-dimension approach, which develops skills, knowledge, and self-insight about
leadership and change:

1 Making sense of the changing context and potential demands
2 Supporting an attitude shift: building up readiness to try something new and gain some
self-insights
3 Stretching: thinking ‘out-of the-box’, taking a fresh view and moving new thinking into real action
4 Exchanging and challenging ideas about successes and mistakes; improving practice as a result

Accessibility

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We aim to

be collaborative, influential and enabling