Our Team

The Generative Citizen is a volunteer led project. The founding team united over a shared passion for generative change. They aim to make tools and techniques available for those wanting to create positive change.

Dr Mark Chambers

Dr Mark Chambers is a retired medical General Practitioner GP based in Suffolk, England . GP Trainer Coach and Complimentary Practitioner 20 years. Other complementary therapies: Medical Hypnosis, .NLP Trainer. TFT (Advanced). EMDR. Reflective Repatterning. Mindfulness.

Jenny Laney

Jenny Laney has spent over 40 years working in the area of personal and professional development. Her background is education where she worked as an advisor and consultant as well as taking on a number of leadership positions. Her work as headteacher, coach, trainer ,facilitator has always been guided by her belief that everyone should be helped and encouraged to reach their full potential.

One of her aims is to enable leaders to work with greater effectiveness and enjoyment with a focus on empowerment and well-being for themselves and their staff. She has MAs in Education and Applied Coaching, is an NLP Trainer and has recently completed a course in neuroscience.

She is passionate about using education and personal development as a means of creating social change.

Judith Lowe

Judith Lowe is one of the most experienced, committed, effective and engaging teachers in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). Judith has worked for many years with clients from a diverse range of professional backgrounds, in the public and private sectors, both in-house and on public programmes, at every level of NLP, providing innovative, in-depth, skills-based NLP training and coaching. 

Judith is known for her warmth, wit and wide reading, as well as her overall dedication to giving her students and clients the very best of advanced, systemic NLP. She is on the board of Association for Neuro Linguistic Programming (ANLP), a founder member of the Professional Guild of NLP (PGNLP) and a founder member of the UK NLP Leadership Project.

Julian Russell

Julian Russell has worked as a coach to senior executives in Europe, Asia and the USA since the 1990’s and in 2004 founded the Life Talent Programme, a 20-day personal evolution programme which seeks to be state-of-the-art and aims to be one of the most powerful transformation programmes in the world. His passion is helping people blossom.

Julian helped to introduce NLP into the UK and is the co-authored several books. He is a UKCP registered psychotherapist, holds a 2nd dan black-belt in Aikido, practises yoga and Five Rhythms dance and is a long-term student of Buddhism.

Jon Sleeper

Jon Sleeper - Executive Coach and Digital Consultant
Jon is an experienced coach, facilitator and consultant empowering leaders, teams and organisations to innovate, collaborate and grow.  Jon has more than 30 years’ experience in business and technology delivering change to organisations within Government, Education, Fintech, Travel and Infrastructure.  These days Jon is motivated to help organisations attend to the in-between, the combining and relationships between people, systems and structures.

Teresa Whittaker

Teresa specialises in coaching and mentoring with a strong focus on social impact, applying her expertise in generative coaching along with her rich life experience to support individuals and projects that strive to make a positive and meaningful difference in the world.

As a restorative justice practitioner for her local police department, she works closely with both victims and offenders, aiming to foster healing and promote transformational change within the community.

Additionally, Teresa describes herself as an ‘accidental’ activist and advocate for domestic abuse victims, a role she embraced after witnessing the frequently inadequate responses from systems that are intended to protect those in vulnerable situations.

The concept of supporting and nurturing ‘generative citizens’ resonates deeply with Teresa, which is a significant part of why she is so passionate about the pressing need to build a strong and supportive Generative Citizen community.