Simon Kettleborough

Simon Kettleborough is a founder-director of Performance Through Inclusion and specialises in various aspects of Diversity and Inclusion, principally measurement, business case design and strategy development. Over the last seven years, Simon has worked extensively to develop InclusionIndex™ and InclusionAudit™, PTI’s proprietary diagnostic software systems. Simon has spent the last decade of his career in consulting, both with PTI and as a strategy consultant with Arthur D. Little in London.

He has worked with, trained and coached private and public sector clients across the Automotive, Energy, Engineering, Financial Services, Mining, Media, Criminal Justice, Health and Consumer goods sectors.

Before consulting, Simon spent 4 years working for Diageo in a number of strategy, commercial and people development roles in the UK, Europe, Asia and the USA. He was also part of the founding team of guinnessworldrecords.com in 2000, Diageo’s first Internet start-up business.

Having lived in France, Belgium, Brazil and South Africa as well as in the UK, Simon is fluent in English, French and Brazilian Portuguese. He has a BA Honours degree in Modern Languages and Music from Durham University, a Postgraduate Diploma in Management from Leicester University, an MBA with Distinction from Warwick Business School and he is currently reading an MSc in Sustainable Development at London University.

Professor Kurt April

Kurt April is Senior Specialist Advisor to PTI, The Sainsbury Fellow and Professor of Leadership, Diversity & Inclusion in the Graduate School of Business at The University of Cape Town, an Associate Fellow of Saïd Business School at The University of Oxford, Research Fellow of Ashridge, Faculty Member of Duke Corporate Education (Duke University, USA) and Visiting Professor at Rotterdam School of Management (Erasmus University, Netherlands).

Outside of academia, Kurt is Non-Executive Director of Achievement Awards Group (South Africa), Member of the International Advisory Council to Novartis International (Switzerland), Member of the Special Agenda Council on Talent & Diversity of the World Economic Forum (Switzerland), and Head of an International D&I advisory faculty of the National Health Service in the UK.

In 2009, Kurt was placed in both the 'Top 100 Educators in the Globe' list (International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, UK) as well as in the 'Who's Who in the World' (Marquis, New York, USA).

Kurt is an Advisory Board Member of the Knowledge Management Professional Society (USA), Editorial Advisory Board Member of the Academy of Taiwan Business Management Review (China), Editorial Board Member of Annual Review of High Performance Coaching & Consulting (UK), Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Management Education (USA), Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Information Systems & Social Change (USA), and Editorial Board Member of the South African Journal of Business Management (South Africa).

Kurt holds a PhD, Cert(JP), MBA, MSc(Eng), HDE, BSc(Eng), Dip(EE), Dip(LS) completed at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, University of Oxford and Wingfield College (South Africa). In addition to being a sought-after international speaker and consultant for major private and public sector organisations around the globe, he has published over 80 academic articles and written 7 books.

Dr Mark Slaski

Mark is a Senior Specialist Advisor at PTI having worked for the last 6 years on the unique psychometrically constructed diagnostic tool, InclusionIndex™. He is a chartered organisational psychologist with over 16 years experience studying and applying the concepts of human psychology and emotional intelligence at work, blending rigorous academic research with effective real-world practice.

Mark also teaches as a senior lecturer in the Psychology Department of the University of Hertfordshire, teaching a Masters programme as well as undertaking research in Organisational Psychology. He has presented his research findings at a number of conferences and published a large number of articles.

Mark has a PhD. in Organisational Psychology and an MSc. in Organisational Psychology, both from Manchester School of Management UMIST and a BSc. in Human Psychology from Loughborough University (1st class Honours). He has Level A & B Psychometric Testing Certificates and is a chartered psychologist and member of the British Psychological Society.

Mark is a Master Trainer in Bar-On EQ-i Emotional Intelligence measure, and certified practitioner of the MBTI, 16 PF and Facet5.

Dr Eddie Blass

Dr Eddie Blass is a Senior Associate at PTI and also currently a Senior Lecturer in Professional Learning at the University of Hertfordshire. She is also Deputy Director of the Doctorate in Education programme.

Eddie’s core skills lie in the area of psychometric evaluation methods and processes. She has played an active role in the evaluation of PTI products and her academic pedigree is an essential part of the integrity and rigour that lie behind PTI’s portfolio of tools and data analysis techniques.

As a key member of the academic staff at Ashridge, Eddie supported faculty research and was involved in areas as diverse as talent management, employee engagement, coaching supervision, being 'fit' for work and psychometrics. Eddie has been widely published in the academic press, regularly gives conference papers and is working on a number of books.

Bindi Dholakia

Bindi Dholakia is an Associate Consultant at PTI and a Chartered Occupational Psychologist specialising in diversity policy audit, cultural audit and training. Prior to working with Performance Through Inclusion, Bindi was a psychologist at Pearn Kandola and at CSA Management Consultants.

During her twelve-year consultancy career, she has worked internationally and has developed expertise in the areas of assessment and selection, developing people, and competency framework development. Her work nowadays focuses mainly in the area of cultural engineering, diversity training and policy appraisal working with some of the UK’s largest organisations.

A member of the British Psychological Society, she has also been a visiting lecturer at Goldsmith College in London.

Alaba Okuyiga

Alaba is an Associate Consultant with PTI and has extensive experience across a broad range of individual and organisational issues including change management, impact assessment and report writing, policy review and development and the design and delivery of a range of training programmes.

Alaba has worked across a wide range of both public and private sector organisations including The Department for International Development (where he delivered management training in Malaysia, South Africa, Botswana, Ghana, Singapore and Nigeria), The Department for Work and Pensions, Sandwell Mental Health Trust, South Birmingham Mental Health Trust, Cheshire Police Service, Hackney Borough Council, Leicestershire Police Force and HM Prison Service.

Alaba has a BSc in Economics from the University of Lagos and has written a number of papers including “Meeting Minority Ethnic Information Needs.” He is also currently a freelance writer with Signpost magazine covering all NHS trusts in Wales.