Meet the Team

Chris is a social entrepreneur and organisational development specialist, with a background in innovation strategy and creative problem solving.

He has pioneered the unique approach of Ladder to the Moon in order to lead and support the change that he wanted to see in the services that his Grandmother used.

Chris was named Care Innovator of the Year in the Great British Care Awards (Greater London) 2013 and 2017 Leaders in Care: Innovators in Care

Andy is a Non-Executive Director for Ladder to the Moon, Founding Partner of Perspectiv, and Senior Honorary Visiting Fellow at Cass Business School. 

His expertise is in enabling individuals, teams and enterprises to get to high performance. He is an expert in facilitative leadership and what it takes to release collective genius.

He has delivered over 600 programs around the world including the renowned Masters in Creativity, Innovation and Leadership at Cass where Andy is responsible for two of the eight modules: Creative Problem Solving and Leadership, and Delivering Innovation: Turning Ideas into Value.

Fran leads on understanding our clients needs and ensuring we are providing the desired impact.

Fran met the Ladder team on her first day in social care as a commissioner for Kent County Council, since then she has been an adult social care inspector at CQC and loves bringing the insight from those roles to help our clients identify beneficial changes they can make in their organisations.

Jude is a qualified coach with 20 years experience in leadership and dementia service development. Over the past five years she has coached over a hundred care service managers, and thousands of front line staff. Prior to joining Ladder, she was Dementia Development Lead at Westminster Council and a trainer with Dementia UK.

A highly experienced Creative Learning Expert Ben Neale has 10 years experience of interactive programme design and delivery in Care, Arts, Education and Business environments.  Specialising in wellbeing, creativity, innovative approaches to social engagement.

We work with a number of highly experienced and qualified consultants, organisational development practitioners and coaches.

Elliott oversees the coordination and administration of various Ladder programmes.

He has a background in communications and community and public engagement within the research sector.

"I like working with Ladder because the positivity is infectious, and there is a real immediacy in the enriching effects that our programmes have"

Amy has spent most of her career working in operational and general management roles in non-profit making organisations, with the last 8 of those accompanying Ladder to the Moon on it’s journey. Amy is strongly motivated by helping others and making a positive impact in the world. She lives in Cardiff with her husband and young family, where in her limited(!) free time she enjoys oil painting, and her writing has been included in two anthologies of short stories.