Meet the Team

Peter is a Partner at Capsticks, where he has spent much of his career advising NHS organisations, local authorities, and other public bodies on governance, consultation, and complex service change. He has supported boards and senior leaders through some of the most challenging and high-profile decisions in health and local government, ensuring processes are fair, accountable, and defensible. As Chair of tCI, Peter brings this experience to guide the organisation’s work and uphold its role as an independent voice on standards in public consultation and engagement.

Cllr Sinead Mooney is Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care at Surrey County Council and has represented the Staines division since 2017. Across county and borough council roles, Sinead has led major consultation and engagement programmes on adult social care strategies, service redesign, local planning, and town centre regeneration—decisions that affect vulnerable people and demand fair, inclusive, legally defensible processes under intense scrutiny. Before her election, she spent 16 years in housing roles at London councils and as Head of Housing Services for a housing charity. As Chair of tCI's Advisory Board, Sinead brings frontline political accountability and hands-on community engagement experience to two critical functions: overseeing standards at tCI, and steering the Institute's role as an advocate for the consultation and engagement sector. Her focus is on ensuring tCI's work remains grounded in the realities of local government decision-making, reflecting the complexity, resource constraints, and public expectations faced by elected members and officers working under pressure.

Simon has worked across central government, the NHS, and public consultancy for over 25 years—often leading complex service change in politically sensitive environments. He has advised NHS England, local systems, and regulators on some of the country’s most high-profile reconfiguration programmes, providing legal, governance, and assurance support in areas where public consultation carries real risk.

Simon led the acquisition and reset of The Consultation Institute in 2025, following the closure of its predecessor. As CEO, he is responsible for rebuilding trust in the brand, restoring credibility in the assurance model, and setting a new standard for how high-stakes consultation should be done.

His focus is simple: clear standards, independent advice, and helping public bodies make decisions that stand up to scrutiny.

od has held senior finance roles across membership bodies, not-for-profits, and public sector organisations where financial discipline and public accountability are equally critical. He understands that independence requires financial sustainability, and credibility requires transparency. As Chief Financial Officer, Rod is responsible for tCI's financial strategy, planning, and commercial governance - ensuring the organisation remains lean, operationally resilient, and capable of maintaining independence under pressure. His approach is pragmatic and transparent, building trust through financial clarity and long-term thinking.

Zoe leads tCI's assurance and training functions, overseeing independent reviews for consultations where decisions are contentious, legally exposed, or involve vulnerable populations. She has advised NHS service reconfigurations, local authority consultations, and national programmes on design, defensibility, and meeting equalities duties. Her background in applied research and policy brings analytical discipline to work that must stand up to judicial review, political challenge, and media scrutiny. As Chief Delivery Officer, Zoe ensures every tCI review and training course meets the standard expected of a credible independent body - rigorous, fair, and defensible.

James leads tCI’s digital strategy, overseeing the platforms, tools, and systems that support training delivery, client engagement, and operational efficiency. His focus is on building a digital experience that’s simple, secure, and aligned with the needs of public bodies working under pressure.

With a background in design, development, and digital operations, James has worked with a wide range of organisations—from startups to sector bodies—to create digital services that are both intuitive and robust. At tCI, he ensures that our learning platform, CRM, and digital tools support scalable delivery without losing sight of quality or user trust.

James plays a central role in helping tCI operate as a lean, modern organisation—where technology supports clarity, access, and assurance.

With over 30 years in NHS leadership, Clive has led major hospitals, health boards, and system-wide programmes through complex change. He has a track record of turning around performance—improving emergency care, recovering planned services, and strengthening governance under intense scrutiny.

Clive’s experience spans acute hospital management, strategic planning, and high-stakes service reconfiguration across England, Wales, and the Channel Islands. His focus is on delivering measurable improvement while building trust between boards, clinicians, and the public.

Rory Hegarty is a senior communications and community engagement specialist with over 30 years’ communications experience, including 20 years at a senior level in the NHS. Rory has led service change programmes in three London regions, working closely with residents, communities, NHS bodies and partner organisations to develop best practice approaches to public consultation, involvement and participation.

Mike has more than twenty years’ experience planning, delivering, and advising on public consultations. He drafted the first version of the UK Government’s Consultation Code of Practice. As Head of Consultation at Transport for London, he wrote TfL’s consultation policy and toolkit and oversaw a programme of 150+ consultations each year, while leading several large and contentious exercises himself.

Since leaving TfL, Mike has advised clients across transport, local government, health, and fire and rescue. His work includes supporting airports in England and Scotland on airspace change consultations and advising national governments in North Africa on constitutional change projects for the World Bank.

He has been a long-standing Associate, and later a Fellow, of the Consultation Institute, reflecting sustained contribution to consultation practice. He now works with tCI as an associate, bringing practical, policy-aware support to organisations facing complex or sensitive decisions.

Anna was a Fellow and Senior Associate of The Consultation Institute and supported many clients across the health, fire and rescue, local authority and policing sectors. She has experience in providing advice guidance and quality insurance. Her subject matter expertise lies in equality, health inequalities, co-production and involvement methods. She co-authored the National Fire Chief’s Council guidance on Consultation.

Anna is a Fellow of The Chartered Institute of Marketing and has extensive experience and expertise in developing innovative communication and involvement methodology particularly creating tools to support people from protected characteristic groups to make sure that their voice is heard. She has a particular interest in health literacy and accessible information.

Anna developed and delivered several training modules to upskill clients in meeting the Public Sector Equality Duty, Co-Production, Stakeholder Analysis, and Creating a Meaningful Communication and Engagement Strategy. She was often asked to provide executive briefings for senior teams and decision makers, helping them to understand their statutory duties and make sure they are informed to meet best practice standards.

Before supporting clients, Anna was a client of the Consultation Institute for over 10 years. She has had first-hand experience of leading several high profile, contentious service reconfigurations. Anna was a Director in the NHS with responsibility for communication, patient involvement and corporate governance. She understands the legal process and legislative requirements of implementing transformational change and the importance of good stakeholder management when under close scrutiny as well as having practical delivery experience.

Anna also worked for two Police & Crime Commissioners and again led several public and victim consultations to reconfigure services. In both sectors, she worked closely with the community and voluntary sector and can provide support with programmes that include building social, asset based capacity and participatory budgeting.

Barry Creasy is a specialist in consultation, evaluation, and research with 40+ years of experience in document design and data gathering. He began his career at the Agricultural and Food Research Council, leading written stakeholder consultations on topics such as animal welfare, then spent 19 years at the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority as a researcher, evaluator, and consultor, contributing to major exercises including the 1994 Dearing consultation and managing the Monitoring Curriculum and Assessment project across 1000+ schools. Since 2006 he has worked independently, delivering training for The Consultation Institute on the law of consultation, focus groups, surveys and questionnaires, and data analysis, including programmes for the European Commission. He became an Associate and Fellow of the Institute in 2013.

Barry has supported consultation and quality assurance for a wide range of clients, including Highways England, HS2 Ltd, the Department for Transport, Airports Authority, local authorities, police and fire services, and the health sector. Recent work includes a risk review for the Humber Acute Services Programme, quality assurance for Surrey Heartlands, and tailored courses for ICBs and Healthwatch bodies. He regularly advises on questionnaire design, data collection, coding of qualitative data, and analytical methods, and provides hands-on analysis. Since 2020 projects have included large-scale quantitative analysis on hospital options for NHS Lanarkshire, qualitative analysis of focus groups on recycling for Doncaster Council, and mixed-methods analysis for Bedford, Luton and Milton Keynes ICB

Andrea has over 20 years’ experience in the UK public and private sectors, specialising in capital projects and service change. She bridges the gap between delivery and governance, transforming complex requirements into clear engagement strategies.

She supports organisations through consultation and scrutiny, enabling difficult conversations and fostering shared understanding. Her work spans from major infrastructure schemes to local projects, always focused on fairness, transparency, and evidence.

Dipak Mistry is a Chartered HR and organisational change leader with over 30 years of experience in the health, local government, and regulatory sectors. As a Chartered Member of the CIPD and the Institute of Equality and Diversity Practitioners, he offers specialised expertise in equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI), people transformation, and consultation assurance.

Throughout his career, Dipak has advised senior leaders and executive teams on complex consultation and organisational change programmes, ensuring that engagement processes are fair, inclusive, and evidence-based. He has led workforce transformation, governance reviews, and consultation design—helping organisations to embed the Gunning Principles and enhance decision-making integrity.

At tCI, Dipak contributes to both the Training and Strategic Advisory portfolios. He supports clients in assessing the quality and robustness of their consultations, offers expert advice on inclusive change strategies, and helps develop organisational capability in people-centred consultation and engagement. His work is rooted in the belief that effective consultation and diversity are essential for building trust, transparency, and achieving better public outcomes.

Between 2020 and the Institute's closure in 2024, Steve Inett served as an Associate, providing advice, guidance, quality assurance, and training on the Law of Consultation to various local authorities and NHS organisations. He previously served as CEO of Healthwatch Kent and Healthwatch Medway, contributing to the development of tCI online training packages for Healthwatch England and delivering customised tCI equalities training to local Healthwatch. During his tenure as Healthwatch CEO, training from tCI enabled him to produce a best practice guide on consultations and engagement. He supported health and social care commissioners through a complex consultation on stroke services, which successfully defended a judicial review brought by two separate parties. Additionally, he has worked as an Associate with Traverse, The Health Creation Alliance, and HICO.

Steve started as a Registered General Nurse and has worked in social work, adult education, community development, and supported housing settings. He is the Chair of the Kent & Medway VCSE Steering Group and has held CEO roles with Citizens Advice and Mind, bringing experience in the voluntary sector and expertise in community engagement and co-production.

Ian is a tCI Associate with 30 years’ frontline policing experience. A former Metropolitan Police leader (1995–2025), he brings critical-incident expertise and evidence-based problem solving across community policing, vulnerable groups and harder-to-reach communities. He works credibly with local authority leaders and commissioners, safeguarding and community safety teams, and charity/VCSE partners. Ian has served in response, custody and specialist drugs/sex-work teams, contributed to major incidents including 7/7, and is recognised with multiple commendations and long-service honours. He now strengthens defensible decision-making and proportionate engagement for councils, the NHS and charities through tCI’s assurance, learning and advisory services.

Damian Greenfield is a trusted communications and engagement leader who helps organisations navigate complex change through clear, confident, and inclusive consultation. With extensive experience across major national infrastructure and public sector transformation programmes, he brings a proven ability to turn challenge into opportunity and consultation into meaningful dialogue.

Spanning nearly two decades, Damian has led engagement across the UK, shaping strategies that connect communities, partners, and policymakers. His calm, strategic approach enables clients to manage risk, strengthen relationships, and build public confidence in the decisions they make.

Previously, as an Associate of The Consultation Institute, Damian supported clients to design and deliver consultation and engagement programmes that meet the highest standards of best practice and compliance, while creating the trust and transparency that underpin successful change.

Simon began his NHS career in 1977 in clinical physiology. He moved into public health and leadership across hospitals and community services, then held board-level commissioning roles in Health Authorities, PCGs, PCTs and CCGs, including joint commissioning.

He specialises in service change and the role of consultation, supported by postgraduate research on stakeholder management in consultation.

He has chaired the Advisory Boards of the Three Counties Cancer Network and the West Midlands Quality Review Service, and has served on NICE committees. Since leaving full-time NHS roles, he has taken on local authority, charity and judicial appointments.

Ceri is the Managing Director of Baxendale, the UK’s leading employee-owned health and care consultancy. With over 25 years’ experience in the health sector, she specialises in strategy development, service transformation, and innovative partnership models.

During her 12 years at Baxendale, Ceri has led multiple complex transformation projects, mobilising more than £4 billion in new delivery models. She has worked at the forefront of organisational and system change, supporting clients to navigate both the strategic and practical challenges of redesigning health and care services – ensuring this was centred on robust and compelling evidence and engagement.

Ceri’s background is in evidence-based policy and research. Before joining Baxendale, Ceri headed the policy and research team at Social Enterprise UK, where she co-authored the Social Value Act 2012 and designed the first national survey of social enterprises – now in its 12th year and replicated internationally. She has also led published research and evaluations, including for the Wellcome Trust, and contributed to Department of Health and Social Care’s programmes for developing new models of NHS service delivery.

Ceri brings a unique blend of national policy expertise and on-the-ground delivery experience in research, evaluation and impactful, evidence-based change.