We’re a team of leadership development experts, learning designers, coaches and world class faculty.
We help organisations, teams and leaders do what matters most.
How we work
Meet our team
Tracey Camilleri
Biography
One of our team’s leaders, Tracey is the co-founder of Thompson Harrison. Her experience spans industries: she has worked variously in New York for the private investment bank, Allen and Company, as new business director for the publishing company, Marshall Cavendish, at Bain and Company in London and as a teacher of English literature, all roles that granted invaluable insight not only into the way that groups are structured, but how they might, in an ever-changing world, thrive.
Tracey’s leadership development credentials include her time running her own consulting company, WMC Communications, as well as her role as Associate Fellow at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School (OSBS). From 2012 to 2022 she designed and directed OSBS’s flagship Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme, ranked first in the UK and fifth in the world in 2023 for quality of participant experience, as well as bespoke senior development programmes.
Optimism and curiosity are at the core of Tracey’s work. She takes an orthogonal approach to leadership design, thinking innovatively not only of why businesses should bring out the best in their people, but how. A designer by nature, she draws on her background as an Oxford English graduate to inform a humanist perspective on creating healthy organisations.
Opening up a discourse around the most urgent issues facing leaders today – and synthesising, with curiosity and warmth, potential solutions – Tracey wrote her first book, published by Penguin Random House, in Spring 2023. The Social Brain: The Psychology of Successful Groups is co-written by Thompson Harrison co-founder Samantha Rockey and evolutionary psychologist Professor Robin Dunbar. It signals a profoundly human approach to leadership and group development.
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Samantha Rockey
Biography
Sam is the co-founder of Thompson Harrison. Her approach to leadership centres on the structural and interpersonal dynamics in organisations that are so critical to performance and impact. The secret sauce behind successful organisations, she believes, is an openness to learning and a focus on present performance as well as future orientation.
Sam's very human approach is exemplified in her first book, The Social Brain: The Psychology of Successful Groups, published by Penguin Random House in Spring 2023, and co-written with Thompson Harrison co-founder Tracey Camilleri and evolutionary psychologist Professor Robin Dunbar.
Having graduated with two Master’s degrees from the University of Witswatersrand – one in Development Planning and one in Human Resources - Sam started her career in government, working on issues of post-apartheid public policy. Sam made the transition from the public to private sector when she moved to SABMiller.
At the time, SABMiller had just begun its global aspirations. Sam’s career tracked its growth from leading South African business headquartered in Johannesburg to a FTSE Top 10 company, a process that saw her relocate first to Switzerland and then to the United Kingdom as Global Head of Leadership Development. She credits her work at SABMiller with instilling an incisive understanding of organisations undergoing large-scale transformation.
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Dr Gavin Weeks
Biography
Gavin is an Associate Partner at Thompson Harrison. He is in equal parts a designer, coach, and psychologist. He develops and delivers our leadership programmes alongside founders Sam and Tracey. He leads culture diagnostics, works with senior teams around leadership and change, and guides our content creation. More broadly, he is at the forefront of our partnerships, seeking out the most exciting and dynamic individuals, institutions, and businesses to work with.
With a doctorate in Clinical Psychology – and a professional portfolio spanning corporate talent roles, leadership development in multiple industries, and elite sports – Gavin balances a deep focus on the individual with a broad understanding of the strategic challenges clients face.
Coaching – with individual leaders and teams – is foundational to his approach, focusing particularly on the challenge of sustaining energy, performance, and growth in complex and high-performance environments. Influenced by his background as a national-level rower, Gavin seeks to balance individual ambition and collective impact. He helps people develop greater awareness of their motivations and behaviour, and a deeper understanding of the drivers of team performance.
In his work with Thompson Harrison, and as an Associate Fellow of Oxford Said Business School, Gavin draws on an ability to focus on individuals within systems, weaving together the people the business, and the wider context. He balances depth and pragmatism, helping clients see beneath the surface of immediate issues whilst also helping define short-term actions and longer-term strategies to develop and – ultimately – realise their full potential.
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Elly Kennedy
Biography
As our Head of Operations, Elly is our port of call for anything logistical – she underpins the day-to-day running of Thompson Harrison. Elly has worked in a number of sectors, including education and non-profit, and has a diverse professional portfolio, drawing on her experience as a teacher and law graduate to inform her operational approach. She has also held several project manager roles, and remains drawn to projects that require a high level of facilitation.
Our client-led programmes, for example, are built from Elly’s logistical foundations. Not only does she inform their broad structure, but she is present behind the scenes, working to ensure that the smallest details are taken care of.
Coming from a strong learning-focused background, Elly is conscious that her pragmatism doesn’t become rigidity. She prides herself on her fluid and context-dependent ability to problem-solve and, while unflappable in the face of last-minute issues and unforeseen changes, bring to her work at Thompson Harrison a fundamental curiosity and openness to change.
Debbie Risk
Biography
Debbie is the newest member of the Thompson Harrison team. She comes from a pedagogical background, having worked for over a decade as a partner in an education consultancy, a position that followed her roles as researcher and consultant at the Human Sciences Research Council in South Africa and then in business research and business information dissemination through conferences and training courses.
As such, she places an emphasis on the process of learning and teaching. Her diverse skills, as well as her global background, help inform her work today as our Executive Assistant and Programme Manager.
Decades of experience working with people, on a collective and individual level, ensures that Debbie is tuned into the nuances of assisting and coordinating our team. She derives purpose from supporting the realisation of big ideas, and brings a level of detail suggestive of her previous roles in research. She places an emphasis on understanding her colleagues and clients holistically, ensuring meaningful moments of human connection within her project and research work.
Alistair Mokoena, Dr
Biography
Dr Alistair Mokoena is the former Country Director for Google Southern Africa where he was responsible for managing Google’s commercial operations and collaborating with customers and social partners in accelerating Africa’s digital transformation.
He is an Extraordinary Professor of Practice at the North-West University Business School, and author of a very popular personal effectiveness book, “Servings of self-mastery”. The book was featured in Exclusive Books’ prestigious HomeBru Campaign in May 2024.
His academic qualifications include BCom, LLB, MDP (Management Development Programme), EDP (Executive Development Programme), MBA, PhD, and he is in the process of completing a DBA (Doctor of Business Administration).
Alistair is a qualified Chartered Marketer with 26 years corporate experience. He’s a board member at the American Society of South Africa, a member of the Institute of Directors of South Africa, and a member of the Marketing Association of South Africa. He has received many industry awards over the years including the Runner-up in the MarkLives Agency Leader of the year award (2017), Global Brands Magazine’s Best Advertising and Marketing Leader Award in South Africa (2019), North-West University’s Alumni Excellence Award for Business Leadership (2023), and a Finalist in the IMM (Institute of Marketing Management) Marketing Excellence Awards (2023).
His previous roles include: Brand Manager at Unilever, Senior Brand Manager at Tiger Brands, Marketing Manager at SABMiller, Marketing Director at Mondelez, Head of Marketing at Absa Retail & Business Bank, Managing Director of FCB Advertising and Group CEO of Ogilvy South Africa where he spearheaded their digital transformation journey and presided over Ogilvy’s record-setting award wins.
Alistair is a member of Council and a member of the Institute for Intelligent Systems at the University of Johannesburg, member of the Advisory Board at North-West University Business School, a post-graduate supervisor and examiner at various universities. He previously served as Chairman of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and Vice-Chairman of the Association for Communication and Advertising (ACA).
Dr Mokoena is an international keynote speaker on topics such as Leadership, Self-mastery, Effective teams, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Transformation, Digital Marketing and Advertising.
He has published articles in academic journals, contributed book chapters, reviewed book manuscripts, delivered papers at international academic conferences, and given talks at prestigious business schools around the world such as The University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business, University of Washington’s Michael Foster School of Business, Pepperdine University’s Graziadio Business School, Harvard University Centre for African Studies and University of Oxford Said Business School.
Alistair is also a philanthropist. He recently established the Dr Alistair Mokoena Education Fund at Rhodes University, North-West University and the Universityof Johannesburg. He runs the Johnny Magwegwe Mokoena Football Foundation which invests in grassroots football in South African townships. He mentors young professionals and coaches small businesses. He is passionate about bridging the digital divide and is an advocate for the role that responsible Artificial Intelligence can play in making the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development oals a reality in our lifetime.
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Annie Feng
Biography
Annie Feng’s human resources career has spanned more than two decades of leadership in multinational companies with iconic brands such as Nike Inc., Johnson & Johnson, Unilever and Mars Inc., holding various senior roles at national, regional and global levels across Asia-Pacific, Europe and the Americas.
Her extensive professional experience, expertise, and insight centres around Strategy Development, Leadership and Organisation Development, Capability Building, Succession Planning, Change Management and Culture Transformation. She is widely respected for her deep understanding of leadership and human resources in a complex world—influencing seamlessly across multiple cultures and geographies, contributing to more inclusive and engaged work cultures.
Annie’s deepest professional ambition is to live out her personal values and purpose through her work. She is committed to using her considerable energy to help create a world where harmony, dignity and equitable abundance are the rule, not the exception. In the human resources arena, she has been dedicated to creating work environments that enable people to fully bring their gifts and passions to their work, while being in service to the global community and the world at large. To this end, Annie runs her own coaching and consultancy business, in addition to working as a tutor for the Economics of Mutuality Executive Education Programme with the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford. As a dynamic, resourceful and creative coach, Annie provides a safe and rich opportunity for coachees to step into a much larger story and bolder actions than they would on their own, and supports their transformation that lasts a lifetime.
Annie holds a BA in English Literature from Jinan University in China and an MBA from McMaster University in Canada. She lives in Vancouver, Canada with her husband. When not at work, she enjoys reading, travelling, hiking and cooking for her family.
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Claudia Bicen
Biography
Claudia is an artist and learning experience designer. As co-founder and head of design at Wayfinder, Claudia led the development of seven years of experiential curriculum to support young people to build lives of purpose and belonging. Incubated at Stanford University’s Design School, Wayfinder now serves over a 1,000,000 students around the world. She has designed and led workshops on purpose for organisations including Stanford University, Google, Facebook and the Chan Zuckerburg Initiative.
Claudia’s artwork has been exhibited at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery (Washington DC), the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (London), and the National Arts Club (New York). Thoughts in Passing, her multimedia portrait project of hospice patients has been shared in museums, hospitals, universities, and schools across the US and UK. The Forgotten Teachers, her illustrated book for adults telling a surreal science-meets-myth origin story, will be published by Unruly/Enchanted Lion Books at the end of 2024.
Claudia holds a BA in Philosophy & Psychology from the University of Oxford and an MSc in Social Anthropology from University College London.
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Claus Jacobs, Professor
Biography
Claus Jacobs specialises in creative strategising and strategic change, and is Professor of Strategy at the University of Bern.
Claus is director and founder of critical junctures, a Swiss-based consultancy that offers process consultation for strategy formation, organisational development and change. He holds a PhD from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and a Master's degree in Business and Economic Studies from Witten/Herdecke University, Germany.
He has worked as a management consultant and executive educator with the Imagination Lab Foundation, Lausanne, the Universities of St Gallen and Bern as well as with Gemini Consulting.
As a consultant and educator, his collaborations include Arvato, Bombardier, Celgene, CERN, LGT Venture Philanthropy, UNICEF Germany and University Children's Hospital Zurich, among others. He is also a co-director of University of Bern's KPM Centre for Public Management.
Claus has been contributing to the Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme (OSLP) since 2005 as faculty and tutor. Together with his OSLP colleagues, he has explored the role of critical thinking for leadership development in the Oxford Answers series. He has also reflected on the pivotal role of metaphorical reasoning in strategy work in 'Crafting Strategy: Embodied Metaphors in Practice' (Cambridge).
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Faried Chopdat
Biography
Faried is an experienced and dynamic global leader with proven audit, risk management, finance, and business transformation capability grounded in 25+ years of first-hand experience in the corporate world. Faried's career included international experience in multinational organisations such as SABMiller plc, Travelex, and Deloitte. He is a Non-Executive Director on the Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust board, several sub-committees, and an Independent Non-Executive Director at Grant Thornton UK.
He is known for his ability to lead global teams through diversity and inclusion, understanding the importance of empathy in collaborative work with people in matrix organisations. He was nominated 18th out of 100 LGBTQ+ leaders in the Financial Times in 2014.
His passion for coaching and mentoring others to reach their full potential led him to professional and executive coaching. Faried founded equarius8coaching, helping Rising Stars/ Future Leaders and professionals from the LGBTQ+ and BAME communities and allies recognise and harness their unique gifts, gaining clarity to focus on what matters most and achieving success and prosperity.
Faried is a qualified Chartered Accountant with several degrees and certifications.
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Fiona Lehane
Biography
Fiona is a human capital management professional who is passionate about the world of work, people development and learning (her own, and others). She has spent her career attracting, recruiting and developing talented people.
Fiona works to deliver tangible outcomes to individuals (through coaching), or groups (through facilitation). She has designed and facilitated leadership, relationship management, talent development and interpersonal skills interventions for financial and professional services organisations globally. Fiona has worked with senior teams to establish new values/operating practices, and with Boards to establish strategy. Additionally, Fiona provides career coaching for students at London School of Economics, as well as professional skills sessions for Masters programmes.
Her prior roles have included 4 years at HSBC, initially as Global Learning Manager then as Regional Head of Learning and Talent Development (EMEA) Global Functions and GBM. She was also Vice President at Lehman Brothers as Director of Leadership and Learning.
Fiona has an MSc in Occupational Psychology from the University of London and is a qualified coach.
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Grant Liversage
Biography
Grant lives in Lisbon and is passionate about leadership and people development which he pursues through executive and leadership coaching. He's a tutor on the Oxford University Saïd Business School Economics of Mutuality program which helps leaders put purpose into practice. Prior to this he was part of the process of growing SABMiller from its South African roots into a global business, recently he was part of the Asahi European operations looking after Germany, Austria, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
A native of South Africa, Grant has lived and worked in a number of geographies including Hong Kong, India, Mozambique and Zambia. In these geographies he has been exposed to business and social issues and was actively engaged in trying to solve social issues through business opportunities, such as the commercialisation of Cassava in Northern Mozambique, water harvesting in Rajasthan, supplier development in Africa and more recently, circular packaging in central Europe.
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Jack Barron, Dr
Biography
Jack Barron is our poet in residence. Our Poetry Corner looks at leadership through the lens of poetry. Each month Jack explores a poem on a theme of relevance to leaders today.
Jack Barron grew up in the NorthEast of England, and has a PhD in English from the University of Cambridge, where he now teaches. His writing about literature has appeared in various magazines and academic journals, including The London Magazine, PNReview, and Textual Practice. His own poetry has been published by StillPoint, Shearsman Magazine, and CounterText.
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Laura Eeles
Biography
Laura Eeles spent 15 years working in Private Equity, leading finance teams to deliver in fast paced, high pressure environments. Whilst managing more than $15bn in assets and leading all aspects of the Finance and Investor Relations functions, she realised that the key to success was not just in the numbers but also in understanding the people around her.
By taking the time to understand the individuals in her team and what made them special, she found she was able to maximise their potential both as employees and for their future career.
She now draws on this corporate leadership experience (as well as a BSc in Psychology) in her own coaching and consulting practice,working with businesses to effectively develop their people. Laura is Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with the International Coaching Federation as well as retaining her Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA) qualification with the ICAEW.
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Mike Stopforth
Biography
Mike Stopforth is an entrepreneur, writer and speaker, passionate about transformational leadership and organisational change with a focus on the digital context. He works with fellow business owners, executive teams and CEOs to get the best out of their people, and the technologies those people use to do their work, in the midst of rapid political, technological and socio-economic change. In this line of work, Mike's often invited to offer business commentary for industry publications, on TV and on radio.
Mike took the entrepreneurial plunge to start a company called Cerebra in 2006. With a specialist focus on digital content and engagement, Cerebra won numerous multinational accounts and grew quickly to become Africa’s leading social media agency. In his role as CEO of the business, he worked with executive teams in Coca-Cola, Samsung, Toyota, Vodafone, AB InBev, Ford, Huawei, Barclays, and more to build digital capability and agility, and to equip their leaders for success in the social and digital era of business. Cerebra was acquired by global advertising giant WPP in 2013.
In 2007 he co-founded a web start-up called Afrigator.com that was acquired by Naspers just 18 months later. Around the same time, Mike began hosting a popular networking event called the 27dinners, which went on to catalyse business collaborations and relationships through hundreds of successful events.
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Oliver Cox, Dr
Biography
Dr Oliver Cox is Head of Academic Partnerships at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), where he is responsible for building a global network of higher education partners to enable the V&A to deliver its mission to enrich people’s lives by promoting research, knowledge and enjoyment of the designed world to the widest possible audience.
He also holds a British Academy Innovation Fellowship through to June 2024, which will enable closer collaboration between the V&A and the National Trust.
He joined the V&A from the University of Oxford where he was Heritage Engagement Fellow and Co-Lead of the Oxford University Heritage Network responsible for the University’s research and engagement projects with partners in the UK and international heritage sector.
Olly is a historian by training, and received his undergraduate, masters and doctoral degrees from the University of Oxford. His recent publications include contributions to The Country House: Past, Present and Future, Sport and Leisure in the Irish and British Country House, along with journal articles exploring the politics of horseracing in eighteenth-century Britain, the importance of Jewish histories to country house studies, and the challenges of interpreting eighteenth-century spaces for twenty-first century visitors. He also writes regularly for Apollo and is a frequent contributor to television and radio programmes.
Outside of the V&A, he is a Trustee of the University College Oxford Old Members Trust and was appointed by Her Majesty the Queen as a Trustee of the Churches Conservation Trust in March 2022. He also sits on the Grants Committee for Historic Houses. He previously sat on Arts Council England’s Designation Panel, chaired The Heritage Alliance’s Digital Learning and Skills Advisory Group, and was a member of the ‘The Devonshire Inheritance: Unlocking the Chatsworth family papers’ Advisory Group for the Chatsworth House Trust and a Trustee of Compton Verney House Charity.
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Reima Shakeir, Dr
Biography
Dr. Reima Shakeir is an international scholar, author, former executive, consultant, and executive coach who drives systemic sensemaking for cultural and inclusive excellence through enacting sustainable organisational change. She has spent 8 years coaching impact entrepreneurs to create business plans, pitching to investors, and maximising operational performance for their start-ups. Reima has coached companies and executives in strategic impactful communication for over 15 years.
She teaches Management Communication at Wharton and serves as Associate Director on the Communication Program at the Wharton Business School. Her leadership experience spans continents, countries, and cultures.
Reima specialises in building communities of belonging within organisations.
Her current interests centre on management and higher education, specifically organisational culture and communication, innovation in education and business innovations, sustainability, and the complex relationship between business and society. She is a brand strategist for artists in the music and performing arts industries. Reima’s extensive leadership experience in business, organisational research design, organisational change, DEIB (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging), and execution informed the strategic roadmap and operating model for one of the world’s most recognisable global organizations, the Edmond de Rothschild Foundations, where she served as Chief Operating Officer for one of their flagship programmes: The Ariane de Rothschild Fellowship. Through her formal academic research and practical on-the-ground execution, Reima is committed to creating more inclusive, high-quality education systems and corporate spaces at large.
Reima’s doctoral research focused on the lived experiences of minority women in higher education and corporate spaces. She earned her ALM (English) from Harvard University, where she was awarded the Dean’s Academic Achievement Award and the Derek Bok Public Service Award. She has a BA in English and Comparative Literature from Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt. Reima completed Executive Education with Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK, Essec Business School in France and Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management (in Innovation and Design Thinking), Cornell University. She earned her doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education with double distinction.
She is also a published poet and author.
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Robert Rowland Smith, Dr
Biography
Robert Rowland Smith is a British author and philosopher. His books include Derrida and Autobiography (Cambridge University Press, 1995), Breakfast with Socrates: The philosophy of everyday life (Profile Books, 2009) and AutoBioPhilosophy: An intimate story of what it means to be human (4th Estate, 2018). He is a regular speaker at public and private events, addressing a wide range of topics that includes philosophy, psychology, politics and art.
Robert was elected to a Fellowship by Examination (‘Prize Fellowship’) at All Souls College, Oxford and was awarded a Doctorate in Philosophy in 1991. While a Fellow of All Souls, he also held lectureships at both Mansfield College, Oxford, and Hertford College, Oxford, as a member of the English Faculty. Robert sits on the board of the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology and of the Institute of Art and Ideas.
He is a founding faculty member of The School of Life. Robert is the founder of Dynamics of Power - focusing on power dynamics in business, family, government, society and relationships.
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Sarah Babb, Dr
Biography
Sarah is a passionate leadership and organisational development specialist, bringing over 25 years experience to her role. Her expertise is in scenarios and strategy development, change and organisational development, and executive team and leadership development.
Sarah has deep experience in leading remote cross functional teams on large scale complex change programmes. Sarah has worked across countries ranging from South Africa, India, Kenya, Malawi, to UK and Saudi Arabia and across sectors from financial services, manufacturing, retail, public sector to mining. Her clients have included GLC (Lufthansa), SABIC, Reserve Bank, ABSA Barclays, Volkswagen Africa, Shoprite, Cape Town Tourism, amongst many more. She is part time faculty with leading business schools and enjoys the combination of real world impact with research and publishing. Sarah has an entrepreneurial flair, and with systemic thinking and an adaptive mindset, she thrives in working to find impactful lasting solutions with clients.
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Shruthi Vijayakumar
Biography
Shruthi Vijayakumar is passionate about education, leadership development, and enabling businesses to be more purpose-driven and contribute to social and environmental outcomes. To this end, she runs her own coaching and facilitation business, in addition to working for the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University, running impact and leadership programmes for MBA students.
She began her career as a management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, advising large corporate and government clients in Australia. She has since led operations for an education start up in India, managed a social enterprise accelerator in New Zealand and run various environmental campaigns.
Shruthi has been recognised as a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum, and was a semi-finalist for the Young New Zealander of the Year Award. She completed her Masters in Business Administration on full scholarship at Oxford University.
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Thami Schweichler
Biography
Thami Schweichler is a social designer and entrepreneur based in Amsterdam. He is the founder of United Repair Centre (URC), established in 2022 through a collaboration with outdoor brand Patagonia and the Amsterdam Economic Board. URC is a B2B repair business aimed at empowering fashion and apparel brands to prioritise repair, thereby catalysing collective social and environmental impact.
Prior to URC, Thami co-founded Makers Unite in 2016, an award-winning social enterprise dedicated to fostering the inclusion of refugees in The Netherlands and Turkey.
A TEDx speaker, Thami's journey in social innovation stems from his background in product design, with education from the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, ENSCI-Les Ateliers in France, and Santa Clara University in the USA. Before co-founding Makers Unite, he played a pivotal role in developing Kibo Africa, a social venture providing moto-taxi services and products in Kenya.
Thami's work revolves around fostering collaborations among individuals, organisations, and stakeholders, all towards realising a sustainable and socially responsible future.
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Our story
The Social Brain
A unique blend of evolutionary psychology and strategic leadership insights, perfect for anyone interested in working in thriving groups.
Thompson Harrison co-founders, Tracey Camilleri and Samantha Rockey, along with renowned neuroscience and psychology expert, Robin Dunbar, come together to offer a primer on great team working. They explain why group size matters and how to shape groups according to the nature of the task at hand.
Speaking Engagements
Tracey Camilleri and Samantha Rockey are Thompson Harrison co-founders and co-authors of The Social Brain. As renowned leadership and organisational development experts, they share how to create thriving teams. Considering factors, such as how to diffuse tensions and encourage cooperation, the importance of balancing unity and the need for different views and outlooks. By explaining precisely how the ‘social brain’ works, Tracey and Samantha can help your audience understand the nuances of how human groups function to create great, high-performing teams.
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Our partners
V&A Museum
The V & A Academy has over 170 years of experience inspiring creativity, culture and collaboration. Thompson Harrison entered into a partnership with them to deliver a series of workshops around the theme of Belonging – working with V & A curators and external experts to explore questions like:
How can we mend what’s broken (involved sewing with a V & A costumes expert)?
How do we reward and celebrate people (with a medals expert)?
How can defend ourselves when under attack (with Keeper of Arms and Armour)?
We are extending this partnership to think together about designing a Leadership and Performance programme to coincide with the opening of V & A East in 2025 incorporating the David Bowie Centre for Performance.
Partnering with the V&A to design and deliver eight days of ‘Belonging’ workshops was a joy from the first. They met ideas with ideas, the curators and artists we worked with were prepared to adapt their approaches for new audiences, they were responsive, generous-spirited and pragmatic throughout.
Economics of Mutuality Alliance
Thompson Harrison works closely with EOM to provide senior leaders with the capability, confidence and commitment to implement the Economics of Mutuality operating model in their organisations.
The Economics of Mutuality Alliance is a partnership of two non-profits and two for-profits that works with companies, investors, universities, and NGOs around the world to advance stakeholder capitalism through the Economics of Mutuality operating model.
A better way of seeing and doing business, the model drives superior value creation through impact-led metrics and management practices. Powered by digital tools, it equips companies to generate enduring mutual value for the benefit of multiple stakeholders by addressing complex challenges in society.
Mutual Value Labs, a partner in the Alliance, is a forward-facing management consultancy that equips companies to implement the Economics of Mutuality through digitally enabled consulting, proprietary tools, and leadership development.
MeasureCo
MeasureCo, founded by Dr. Nigel Guenole, provides independent advisory services in leadership assessment, Artificial Intelligence (AI) for talent management, and people analytics.
They have an extensive record of delivering exceptional results for blue-chip clients including, among many others, Adobe, BMA, IBM, Heidrick, LHH, Microsoft, Motorola, and WPEngine.
Nigel is a leader in professional advisory services for psychological assessment, people analytics, and AI for talent management.
Nigel has been instrumental in promoting analytical approaches to HR decision making and his work has been featured in The Economist, Harvard Business Review, Forbes, European CEO, and European Business Review.
He is an elected fellow of APA’s Division 14, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, for outstanding career contributions to Assessment and HR analytics and he is a chartered psychologist.
Douglas Knowledge Partners
Thompson Harrison works closely with Douglas Knowledge Partners (DKP), a knowledge partner consultancy serving clients on six continents – including some of the world’s leading companies, nonprofits, philanthropies, universities, publishers and professional services firms. DKP helps clients communicate the value of their services through thought leadership, but always through the lens of their broader purpose – ideas that advance humanity’s progress, and the research, analysis and dialogue that underpins those ideas.
At appropriate moments in Thompson Harrison projects, DKP is able to pick up the thought leadership and communication baton ensuring that the intervention continues to achieve meaningful impact, both internally and externally.
V&A Museum
