PHYLLIDA HANCOCK

Phyllida is a workshop designer and facilitator.

She worked as an actress and singer for 12 years, including 2 years with the Royal Shakespeare Company and in various productions in the West End and around the country. She also taught a course on 'Women in Shakespeare' at Washington University in St Louis and participated in workshops and lectures on Shakespeare for several British universities.

Since 1998 she has been working in the public sector designing and delivering workshops, including 18 months running race awareness and diversity courses across the Criminal Justice System. She then moved to the Department of Trade and Industry as a consultant in their futurefocus@dti facility working with DTI and its customers on scenario planning, performance management, business planning and project working between 2000 and 2003.  This led to further involvement with the 'learning the habit of innovation' programme and subsequent involvement with the i-lab project working in universities across East Anglia.


Since 2003 Phyllida has been an associate of Olivier Mythodrama, delivering workshops on inspirational leadership and change management. She continues to work with public sector clients on diversity policy and also runs creativity workshops for several public and private sector companies.

 

BETH HAYWARD

Beth Hayward is an experienced writer, director, and facilitator, of drama based training programmes who has been working in the field since 1992.

 In 1984 Beth gained an honours degree in Performing Arts and has worked as a professional actor for 17 years with a busy and diverse career including playing leads in, “Antony and Cleopatra”, “Plaza Suite”, “Up’n’Under” and “Buddy, The Buddy Holly Story.”

Beth has written and designed drama based programmes for, amongst others, Norwich Union, Alliance and Leicester, The Foreign Office, WPP, The DCMS, Lincolnshire County Council, The Industry and Parliament Trust, Accenture, The Body Shop, Diageo, AT Kearney, Pioneer, Stanier Associates and PME as well as directing projects for the likes of Chesterton, The Dept of Health, The Industry and Parliament Trust, Warburg Dillon Reid and Channel Magazine.

Beth has worked as an Actor/Facilitator for a client list which includes, The Dept of Education and Skills, LCC, The Dept of Health, The Home Office, Allied Domeq, Royal Mail, GEI, Gillette, Halifax, NTL, UBS and Whitbread.