Anna Wildman

Founder of Oil in the Engine, Anna has facilitated performance management skills workshops to thousands of managers and leaders in more than 40 countries, from China to Canada, Poland to Panama, the UAE to the USA. Her previous experience includes ten years in the Royal Navy, followed by a senior role with Cathay Pacific Airways. She was most recently the Global Director for Learning and Development for KPMG, where she was responsible for the design and implementation of the global core skills curriculum for 140,000 people across more than 142 countries.

Peter Rolston

Peter leads our specialist skills in “spoken word communications”. A former news anchor for Sky News, ITN and CNN, he helps senior executives to achieve a communication style commensurate with their status. He has guided investment bankers win billion dollar pitches, nervous chairman deliver podium speeches, prepared panelists for conferences, enhanced research analysts morning calls, and briefed crisis spokespeople on handling the media.

Peter has worked with over 120 business entities in areas as diverse as bio technology and haute couture. His earlier career took him into the worlds of Publishing with Lloyds of London Press, Public Relations with Hill and Knowlton and Advertising with J Walter Thompson.

David Gray

David is an IT, IP and Cyber law expert who delivers our legal services. He enjoys working with senior and junior management in IT, Cyber and software supplier and customer organisations to resolve over-complexity and cure alleged “show-stoppers”. In a former life he spent 15 years as a Warfare Officer in the Royal Navy, including qualifying as a Mandarin linguist. His past roles include solicitor and negotiator at Clyde & Co (in London and Hong Kong), PCCW (Hong Kong and Asia Pacific), Reuters Group company (EMEA), and CSC/ DXC (global).

Heidi Volschenk

Heidi originally qualified as a chartered accountant, subsequently moving into leadership development and coaching — and acquiring her master’s degree—in 2016, with her specialist thesis on the risks of leadership derailment. In her former role as head of learning and development for KPMG Southern Africa, she designed and delivered the region’s professional skills curriculum for close to 20 years. She has also facilitated leadership workshops across Europe and the middle east. Heidi is a certified director with the Institute of Directors of South Africa, an accredited coach and NLP (neurolinguistic programming) practitioner, and mother to three teenage girls.

Jacquelin Cheung

Jacquelin leads our talent selection, executive coaching, performance management, and team building in the Asia Pacific Region. She has over 25 years’ HR and leadership development experience, including with public utilities and financial services firms. Her former in-house roles include 8 years with KPMG learning and development team, where she was responsible for designing and delivering skills workshops in Hong Kong and Greater China. An English, Cantonese and Mandarin speaker, she is also conversational in Korean.

Jason Kay

Jason specialises in leadership in global and multicultural contexts, including collaborative leadership, leading in a digital age, personality maturity, career motivation, purpose, and resilience. He holds a Masters Degree in Psychology and is certified in CareerConcepts, Decision Styles, Emotional Intelligence Profile, PDI Profiler, OPQ, Fire-B, Ego Development Profile, Dynamic Facilitation. South African by birth, Jason speaks fluent English and German. A HiFi fan for four decades, he confesses to spending more money on his music than his car.

Audrey Jeanrond

Audrey has 20 years’ experience in the corporate world, initially starting out as a tax adviser before moving into learning and development in 2012. She specializes in coaching leaders and managers in leadership, presentation skills, business development, and communication skills, and facilitates in French, English and, for some topics, German. Her experience and understanding of business issues means she approaches each learning context with the bespoke techniques and tools needed. Her qualifications include:

• Member of the ICF Luxembourg
• Certification in Professional Coaching, ICN Business School (2018)
• ITOL Certificate in Learning and Performance Consultancy (2017)
• Leadership Effectiveness Analysis® and Individual Directions Inventory® Practitioner (2020)

Victoria Muir

Having spent over twenty-five years living and working across Europe and Asia in senior leadership roles, Victoria has extensive international strategic HR and learning and development experience. Until recently Chief People Officer for Prescient Healthcare Group, a Private Equity backed global consulting organisation she also brings in-depth understanding of the day-to-day challenges faced in international business.

During her time as a Partner at KPMG she headed KPMG’s European Training Centre covering all regional development programmes for EMA and was responsible for designing KPMG’s Senior Leadership Curriculum and learning strategy in Asia Pacific; running development programmes and conferences in more than forty countries. She has lectured for the Open University’s MBA programme specialising in Finance & Marketing. Victoria is a Fellow Chartered Accountant and obtained her Senior Certified Professional (SHRM) and Global Professional in Human Resources (HCI) qualifications. She is also a licensed facilitator for Team Management Systems diagnostics, Korn Ferry’s Talking Talent, and is accredited by the Employer Branding Academy for work with employer value propositions.