Advisory Board

Jane Cranwell-Ward

Previously, Jane has worked as a Director of Henley Management College’s Henley Learning Partnership, a network of leading companies who share learning activities on the latest business issues. She served as Director of Company Programmes, and managed a team of Client Directors as well as running programmes for her own clients. Before working at Henley, Jane was a senior lecturer in Psychology and Organisational Behaviour at Kingston University.

Jane co-authored “Inspiring Leadership – Staying Afloat in Turbulent Times”, based on research conducted during the BT Global Challenge round-the-world yacht race, and has written two other books and numerous articles for management publications.

Hugh Parnell

Hugh is Finance Director and Head of Corporate Finance at NW Brown Group in Cambridge. He devotes a lot of his time to emerging technologies and other early-stage businesses, building on his experience in mainstream corporate finance roles. Hugh has also been involved in a variety of management functions for BP with a financial and marketing focus, where he first learned the importance of professional business and performance management skills.

June Sebley

June is Director of Corporate Relations at Henley Business School, and she works with key corporate clients to assess their development and training needs. At Henley, she is responsible for the Open Executive Programmes and works closely with the Henley Forum on Human Resources for HR Directors and the Henley Learning Partnership (an innovative network for blue chip organisations). Previously she worked for General Electric (USA).

June is also involved with a number of organisational focus groups, and leads an internal programme at Henley for customer service excellence. She’s especially interested in client relationship management, customer service, the development of women in organisations, and teambuilding.

Tony Wardle

Tony’s 25 years experience of consumer and business-to-business marketing and communication include ten years consulting experience in relationship marketing, on-line marketing, and brand development. He was CEO of a number of Saatchi & Saatchi companies following their acquisition of his consultancy business. He is a co-author of the CBI’s book on Customer Relationship Management, and has also served as Marketing Operations Director at Reuters. Currently, Tony consults with and acts as Interim Chief Executive for one of the UK’s largest youth organisations.