Alumni Profiles and Testimonials
These pages contain testimonials from some of our students and alumni, in which they talk about why they chose Lancaster, what they found valuable on the programme, and how their time at Lancaster has helped them in their careers. View each profile by clicking on the thumbnail or name.
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Huiying Zhang | MA HR & Consulting | 2012 | China | Huiying is considering returning to Lancaster to do a PhD, after spending a few years building her career. |
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Kathy Rethy | MA Leadership for Sustainability | 2011 | Canada | Kathy Rethy is using the MA to develop her work on various executive boards back home in Canada. |
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Jonathan Emptage | MA Leadership for Sustainability | 2011 | United Kingdom | Jonathan is applying ideas from the programme to his work as Cleansing Manager for Shetland Islands Council. |
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Peter Jackson | MA Leadership for Sustainability | 2011 | United Kingdom | From his Lake District base Peter runs several businesses, including an organic wine shop. Includes an extract from an article in The Independent. |
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Mark Atherton | MA Leadership for Sustainability | 2011 | United Kingdom | Mark is using the MA to inform his work in environmental policy creation for the Northwest Regional Development Agency. |
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Gail Capstick | MA Leadership for Sustainability | 2011 | United Kingdom | An active involvement in transition cities led Gail to enrol on the MA programme. |
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Angela Towers | MA Leadership for Sustainability | 2011 | United Kingdom | Angela came to the MA with an extensive background in food production, retailing and policy, and a great interest in sustainability. |
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Tobi Odunowo | MA Management Learning & Leadership | 2011 | Nigeria | Tobi is an organisation design specialist with the ECOWAS Commission in West Africa. |
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Laura Stanford | MA HR & Consulting | 2011 | Canada | Laura's work on the MA has proved invaluable, enabling her to make a competitive re-entry into the workforce. |
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Ulrike Burger | MA HR & Consulting | 2011 | Germany | After graduating, Ulrike joined a microfinance consultancy, LFS Financial Systems, as a senior HR consultant. |
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Julian Evans | MA Management Learning & Leadership | 2011 | United Kingdom | Julian's experience on MAMLL led him to set up his own business while still on the programme. |
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Steve Harvey | MA Management Learning & Leadership | 2011 | United Kingdom | Steve had been involved in management development for over 16 years when he embarked on MAMLL. |
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Napat Makduangkaew | MA HR & Consulting | 2011 | Thailand | Noon has set up her own coaching and consulting business in UK. |
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Marc Stigter | PhD Management Learning | 2011 | Netherlands | Marc now works as an independent strategy advisor and an associate faculty member at a number of universities in Australia. |
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Esther Waite | MA Management Learning & Leadership | 2010 | United Kingdom | Since graduating from MAMLL, Esther has continued her studies at Lancaster on the HighWire PhD programme. |
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Sally Abou Ouf | MA HR & Consulting | 2010 | Egypt | Sally had extensive experience as a Learning and Development Leader with Cadbury in Egypt before taking the MA to enhance her career. |
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Barry Fitzsimmons | MA Management Learning & Leadership | 2010 | United Kingdom | Barry came to MAMLL with 16 years' experience in people management in the financial services industry. |
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Farooq Mughal | MA HR & Consulting | 2010 | Pakistan | Farooq took the MA to develop his own practice as an academic at one of Pakistan's leading universities. |
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Sabine Maisch | MA HR & Consulting | 2009 | Germany | With an engineering degree behind her, Sabine has used this MA to develop complementary skills in HR. |
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Newell John | MA HR & Consulting | 2009 | United Kingdom | Newell is now working in HR for an insurance firm. |
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Ian Schollar | MA Management Learning & Leadership | 2009 | United Kingdom | Ian is now Head of Organisational Certification with the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply. |
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Alan Sides | MA Management Learning & Leadership | 2009 | United Kingdom | With a background in operations management in the Army and with Procter & Gamble, Alan now runs his own consultancy business. |
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Jenny Garrett | MA Management Learning & Leadership | 2009 | United Kingdom | Jenny now runs her own consultancy, as a leadership coach and facilitator. |
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Zunaira Saqib | MA HR & Consulting | 2009 | Pakistan | Zunaira now works as a lecturer at the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences in Islamabad, Pakistan. |
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Nigel Peyton | PhD Management Learning | 2009 | United Kingdom | Nigel is now a bishop in the Scottish Episcopal Church. His PhD research focused on the experience of priesthood in the Church of England. |
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John Rogers | MA Management Learning & Leadership | 2008 | United Kingdom | After a career in organisational development with Barclays, John now runs his own strategic change consultancy. |
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Deborah Wainwright | MA Management Learning & Leadership | 2008 | United Kingdom | Deborah came to MAMLL with over 25 years' experience in the healthcare sector. |
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Alex Kevill | MA HR & Consulting | 2008 | United Kingdom | Alex now works in organisational development for Lloyds TSB - one of the UK's largest banks. |
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Philip Watland | PhD Management Learning | 2007 | Canada | Philip developed his interest in researching networked management learning whilst taking an online executive MBA. |
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Karsten Madsen | MA Management Learning & Leadership | 2007 | Denmark | Karsten joined MAMLL when he was a senior manager with a Danish healthcare company, responsible for global leadership development. |
