Jeff Bishop (BDOR Limited)

Jeff has over 25 years experience of practice, training and research in participatory working, not just in the UK but also overseas. His work is often quoted as 'good practice'. He has written national government and other guidelines on participation (eg. for land use planning, air quality management and regeneration) and he has contributed to the development of several well-known process techniques. His research work has led to several national participatory initiatives, for example on Village Design Statements. He also has long experience of training at all levels and for a remarkably wide range of groups and organizations.

Lindsey Colbourne (Lindsey Colbourne Associates)

Lindsey helped to establish the UK's first facilitator network, the Vision 21 Facilitators Network, where she also pioneered the use of many innovative approaches in the UK, including Open Space and Future Search Conferencing and the use of community visioning to enable 'lay' people to contribute to strategic debate. She is nationally known for her work on participation in the context of sustainable development and is a member of the Sustainable Development Commission. Lindsey is also the coordinator of InterAct, a national alliance of leading-edge practitioners committed to 'putting participation at the heart of decision making in the UK'.

Richard Harris (3KQ Ltd)

Richard has 20 years experience as a facilitator and trainer in the UK. He is a Director of 3KQ and operates across all sectors, all levels and across most technical issues. Richard designs and facilitates complex and contentious stakeholder engagement at the cutting edge of the field. Richard has a particular interest in building the capacity of organisations and individuals to deliver stakeholder engagement initiatives directly, reducing their reliance on external consultancies. He has been instrumental, along with the other InterAct Network partners, in bringing about the 'mainstreaming' of engagement within Government bodies.

Lynn Wetenhall (Lynn Wetenhall Associates)

Lynn has a passion for assisting people and organisations to work together more effectively, particularly where they face challenges that cut across conventional organisational or policy areas. This applies as much to improving internal collaboration, as to disparate organisations or partnerships working together better. The InterAct Networks approach of building internal capacity to carry out effective dialogue, consultation and communication of all kinds, is a critical part of achieving the ‘holy grail’ of joined up thinking and working. Lynn also has a particular interest in the work of Local Strategic Partnerships and in Local Area Agreements.