Meet the Team
Experts to help make your business more successful
Our principal team are acknowledged experts who enable Boards, Executives and Senior Management Teams to resolve the issues that impede their success. We have a proven track record in both public and private sectors.
You will find our experts approachable; particularly willing to share their knowledge and discuss your critical business issues. But above all, you’ll find them stimulating and thoroughly objective.
We have access to a wide range of experienced practitioners, and where appropriate draw them into our assignments.
Kennedy’s client portfolio
The Kennedy team has been providing specialist advice to major organisations in both public and private sectors for over twenty years.
We use a range of analytical tools and rigorous analysis to enable our clients to resolve problems that have prevented them from operating in the most effective way.
Our clients
- A2 Housing
- Amino Communications
- Arla Foods
- Asda
- Baltic Exchange
- Bard
- BBC World Service
- BG Group
- BHSF
- Bedford Pilgrim Housing Association
- Brightview
- Brunner Mond
- BSkyB
- BUPA Care
- CFT
- Connex
- Department of Health
- Department for Transport
- DHU Health Care
- Eastbourne Homes
- EDF Energy
- Enfield Homes
- Epsom & St. Helier NHS Trust
- Glasgow Housing Association
- Gosport Council
- Greater Glasgow Primary Care Trust
- Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive
- Horizon Leisure
- Home Office
- Home Group
- HSE
- Iskra Wind
- ITN
- Lanarkshire Primary Care Trust
- Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust
- Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Trust
- Littlewoods
- McCarthy & Stone
- Max National Heritage
- Manchester Airport
- Manor House Friendly Society
- Merlin Communications
- Metropolitan Police
- Mood Media
- MOPAC
- National Nuclear Laboratory
- Nepia
- NNB
- Norwegian Telecom
- Pocket Housing
- Point to Point
- Rail Door Solutions
- RBKC
- Rediffusion
- Rio Tinto, Borax Group
- Roseberry Housing
- Southwark Council
- South East England Development Agency
- South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust
- Southwark Council
- Skyvision
- StonePillow
- SVC Television
- TCH
- TotalFinaElf
- Town & Country Housing
- ThaiCom
- Türk Telekom
- Unidat
- Unite
- Westminster Council
- Zurich Global Energy
Meet our principal experts
Dr Sherril Kennedy, Founder and Managing Principal
Dr Sherril Kennedy and Kennedy is on a mission to equip the Board and Executive with the tools to shape and secure the future of their organisation. If Boards and Executives are effective decision-makers they will make a positive contribution to society and the economy, support a committed and thriving workforce, and strengthen the local community. Everyone wins. Read more…
Angela Sims
Angela specialises in analysing decision thinking through the observation of tiny nonverbal behaviours or body movements. How individuals move is directly related to how they make decisions, and how they communicate: this has a profound impact on group decisions. By understanding the powerful DNA of a person’s natural decision-making, Angela is able to facilitate greater insights and spontaneous co-operation between people. Read more…
Jenny Gooding
Jenny is our expert on decision-making and behaviour patterns. She started her career at Lloyds Bank and Banc Boston where she gained considerable insight into the operation of portfolio companies and how key strategic decisions were made. The experience fueled her interest in the dynamics of personal interactions and their impact on group decision-making. Read more…
If you’re part of a Board, Executive or Senior Management Team and would like our experts to help make your business more successful, please get in touch
See our services
Breaking the Stalemate
A facilitated workshop to overcome the obstacles on a critical project or business decision.
Board & Executive Performance Audit
Optimise your effectiveness and understand the formula for making great decisions every time.
Fast Track to Performance
Helping organisations to turnaround underperforming groups and individuals.
Governance & Oversight
Giving you assurance and better organisational performance.
See how we can help your team becomes its most effective
“I have known and worked with Sherril for many years and I never hesitate to put her in front of my clients.
She is very comfortable (and very good) in dealing with teams of executives and Boards. She also has very good diagnostic instincts and capabilities.”
Jean Pousson, Finance and Strategy Trainer
“Sherril is an outstanding OD practitioner. The task she took on with me and my colleagues in a major public sector organisation was quite daunting but she tackled it with total confidence and carried it through to a highly successful conclusion. She is a one-woman poster-person for the arts and science of OD and a pleasure to work with. I can whole-heartedly recommend her as offering powerful direction and support for top teams and HR departments who want to achieve transformational change in their organisation.”
Mike Emmott, Associate adviser at Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
“Sherril undertook an Organisational Review of an organisation on whose Board of Directors I have served for several years. She worked closely with the Executive team and Board during several months developing a Governance & Strategic Framework clearly identifying Purpose, Priorities & Objectives as well as critical success factors. As a consequence, the Board and Executive have a clearer focus, work more effectively, and provide clear and consistent leadership.
Sherril has a remarkable capability to get everyone engaged, involved and contributing to the process. She is a clear thinker and very focused as well as highly analytical. She is a pleasure to work with and a true team builder and leader.”
Eva Wisemark, Owner of Optima Management (IOM) Ltd
“Sherril provided highly valuable insights into the senior management of my company and assisted in the successful restructuring of the whole organisation.”
David Wertheim, Chairman at Arts Aid
“Sherril is a highly skilled development professional. She works very successfully with complex teams and individuals, working in high-pressure areas where relationships and achievement were critical. Her work is challenging, but the outcomes are both impressive and long-lasting.”
Zoe Van Zwanenberg
“I had the recent pleasure of working with Sherril on an Executive Coaching, Board Development and Change Programme, working with the Executive and Board Directors of DHU Health Care. Sherril very quickly assesses the issues and main drivers for effective change and quickly gets to work in providing tools, experience and recommendations based on underpinning knowledge and academic resources. Sherril has the ability to work with the participants to understand the root causes, analyse the findings and guide colleagues into a new way of working and thinking. Sherril successfully removed red tape and complex processes and provided a framework for effective decision making, responsibility matrices as well as designing a more succinct Board Reporting structure. I would highly recommend Sherril in supporting with Board Development, Executive Coaching and Organisational Design and Development.”
Lisa Wallis, Executive Director of HR & O.D. Derbyshire Health United
“Thank you for the summary and the session, it was really enjoyable. I picked up some reflective moments and certainly an approach to factor into Board behaviour and their own preferences and styles that once smartly considered will improve their collective performance. The session was the right amount of time. The interactive chat worked well, and allowed us to get involved and share and you picked up our questions – made it feel more personal across the screen.”
Karen Malone, Deputy CEO (Governance), Department of Health and Social Care, Isle of Man Government
“When we were faced with extremely tight timescales, Kennedy were able to design an organisation structure and detailed role profiles for all staff within a remarkably short period. The result was robust, comprehensive, and helped us change our whole approach to providing client-focused services.”
Taroub Zahran, Director of Organisational Development, Glasgow Housing Association
“Kennedy developed the model that enables us to tackle a key issue - the prevention and control of infection and communicable disease. The model details how each person in the healthcare system contributes to preventing and controlling infection and provides the tangible measures by which we can monitor our success in tackling this issue. The innovative and professional approach taken proved to be great value for money, and was undertaken at remarkable speed.”
Mary Henry, Nurse Consultant, Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health