Our Team
Lindsey Agness
Lindsey Agness is the founder and managing director of The Change Corporation. Lindsey is one of the UK’s top people developers and motivational experts. She trains and coaches using NLP on an international basis and she is an award winning author. Prior, to setting up her own company in Canterbury, Kent, Lindsey worked as a change management consultant, corporate trainer and coach for PricewaterhouseCoopers. It was at this time that Lindsey attended her first NLP course and discovered that life would never be the same again! She has been able to use her skills to build capability and capacity to change in large private and public organisations throughout the UK, Europe and the US. Individuals are inspired by her to transform their performance and change their lives. She will do whatever it takes to work with you to get the result you want.
Lindsey realised her own dream when she founded The Change Corporation to assist individuals and organisations to achieve their true potential. This may be by themselves through achieving their own dreams or at the helm of a large organisation. She has personally experienced what it is like to move through fear and doubt to achieve her dreams.
Lindsey is a certified trainer of NLP through the American Board of NLP. She trained with Tad James in the US and David Shephard in the UK. She is now studying to become one of a small global group of Master Trainers of NLP, the highest qualification in the field. In addition, she is a qualified Master Trainer of Time Line Therapy™, certified by the TLT™ Association and Trainer of Hynotherapy, certified through the American Board of Hypnotherapy. Her first book ‘Change Your Life with NLP’ is published by Pearsons. Her second book is due out in Spring 2010.
Karen Rohleder
Karen Rohleder is an independent management consultant and trainer committed to making a difference to individuals and companies, especially during challenging times and periods of change. Karen works regularly with The Change Corporation as a consultant, trainer and coach.
Karen has over 15 years of experience at senior management level in the public sector, and has a wide breadth of management experience totalling over 30 years.
Her achievements include leading a struggling one star public sector service to the highest level of three stars within 18 months, introducing new concepts and systems resulting in financial efficiencies for local authority services, preparing services for government inspections, and implementing a successful change management programme for 650 staff.
She regularly is approached to mentor managers, and has developed a range of behavioural tools to equip her clients to become better leaders.
Karen enjoys helping managers to find the right solutions for their individual needs, and has trained a wide variety of people to become more effective and confident, both in their leadership and their personal lives.
After completing an NLP course with Lindsey Agness, she decided to change her own life and launched herself into management consultancy and training in 2004.
Since then, Karen has continued on her own journey of self improvement, and brings a wealth of knowledge, passion and enthusiasm to her clients.
She has worked with the public, private and voluntary sectors to improve their performance and bring about change, and has trained internationally to assist others to achieve their dreams.
It is important for Karen to know that her clients have found her training informative, lively, fun, and thought-provoking – much of her client base is by personal recommendation.
A certified Master Practitioner in NLP, and a graduate of the Life Mastery University USA, Karen will do whatever it takes to help people to achieve their desired outcomes – both personally and for organisations. Karen also holds a Diploma in Social Work, a Post Qualifying Award in Social Work and is an Approved Social Worker.
Janice Lucas
Janice Lucas is an independent management consultant specialising in bringing about change in the public sector. She works regularly as an associate trainer and consultant with The Change Corporation to design and implement processes and systems to facilitate and enable change, such as business planning and performance management, or radically improving customers’ experience of contact and access to social services by setting up a one point of access, information service. She has always instinctively looked for ways to make a difference in practice.
Prior to setting up her own company, Janice had over 14 years experience as a senior manager in social services covering a diverse range of strategic, operational support and frontline services. She gained in-depth experience of commissioning, organisational development, change management and practical project delivery in complex organisational environments. Janice had always been an innovative self-starter who thrives on solving challenging problems and getting things done and following her introduction to the life changing world of NLP through Lindsey Agness she was inspired to leave local government and bring her range of skills and experience to work with people to identify and focus on what’s important and then to do whatever it takes to achieve the results and outcomes they need.
Just as Janice “replanted” herself by changing her focus and setting new goals in her work, her passion is to help “rejuvenate” worn out managers so that they can rediscover their sense of purpose in their working life and use their skills and resources to really make a difference to the communities they work for. Janice’s desired outcome is that people experience her as someone who understands the pressures and complexities of delivering change in large, often stagnant bureaucracies, who is flexible, fun and brings a fresh perspective, ideas, energy and a positive challenge to their work. Janice is a qualified coach, certified Master Practitioner of NLP and holds an MA in Management Development.
Caroline Lancaster
Caroline Lancaster was appointed in September 2005, as the Office Manager. Caroline runs the back office on a day to day basis and takes care of the administration of all our programmes. Prior to joining The Change Corporation, Caroline worked as a Civilian Officer for 20 years in the Metropolitan Police Service. She left having attained the level of middle manager in order to look after her three children. She really enjoys working with Lindsey helping to build the company and hearing about the successes of all our clients.
Caroline is a certified as a Practitioner of NLP, Time Line Therapy and Hypnotherapy.