Catseye Leadership Development

Dana James-Edwards

Super Facilitator

Dana is focused on delivering engaging and inspirational training, to ensure that key learnings make it from the classroom to the workplace.

Dana is best described as a ball of pure energy – her personality lights up a classroom and draws participants in. She is a natural storyteller and loves developing the storytelling abilities of others alongside communication skills and personal impact. She is also fascinated by psychological tools and loves to use them in team-building scenarios.

She brings her considerable experience in professional services and consultancy, working on large-scale systems implementations and high-impact transformational projects to the Change and Project Management workshops she facilitates.

As a Caribbean native, Dana loves sun and sea, but as the London weather rarely cooperates and she’s a bit far away from the coast in her London home. she compromises by swimming as often as she possibly can. If she’s not in a classroom you’ll probably find her at the nearest pool.

Chris Helm

Co-founder & Programme Architect

Chris is fascinated by how people and businesses connect their aspirations together to create mutual benefit.

Chris is a founder member of the Catseye team. He previously worked in a variety of business and talent leadership roles across banking, energy and professional services. As a student of both economics & psychology, Chris is fascinated by how people and businesses connect their aspirations together to create mutual benefit and as such has a strong expertise in supporting leaders to foster better workplace engagement.

After spending his early career rising the ranks in a big four advisory firm, Chris moved into the world of the CFO, helping several AIM listed energy firms to manage their financial and regulatory stakeholders. Relishing the challenges of growing leadership within businesses, Chris brought his skills back into a full time consulting and advisory role where his experience spans leadership assessment and development, coaching, team effectiveness and programme design & facilitation.

Chris is also a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and regularly uses his commercial and financial skills to ensure Catseye projects deliver a genuine and sustainable return on investment.

He is based on the edge of the Chiltern Hills and not far from Heathrow, a perfect springboard for Catseye’s international work and Chris’s spiritual home – France. Chris’s wife is a teacher and they are the proud parents of 2 beautiful girls.

Martin Tothill

Co-founder & Creative Energiser

Martin lives to help and grow others to be the best leaders they can and in turn inspire a future generation of followers to do the very same.

People say Martin oozes positivity and helps people create a positive impact and influence those around them. His eclectic career journey and broad life experiences place him in the ideal position of being able to connect with anyone.

Prior to 17 years in people development, he has been a submarine engineer, a professional photographer, and a lecturer in design. He is also qualified in a number of psychological instruments.

Based in Brighton, Martin has a busy home life with an entrepreneurial wife, 2 daughters, a dog and over 250,000 bees. He loves to cycle, surf, and fish and has been wrestling his beloved guitar for more than 40 years.

Jamie Rowland

Co-founder & Creative Strategist

Jamie loves helping businesses explore how better leadership capabilities can lead to better results. He is great at listening and asking the objective questions which stimulate new thinking.

He has worked in Learning & Development for years: running his own consultancy, heading up a team for a national business, and managing L&D in a Big Four firm.

Jamie studied leadership at Sandhurst, has a postgraduate diploma in Training & HRM, and holds various psychological qualifications. Home is the countryside of Suffolk where Jamie recharges his batteries, helped by a lovely wife, twin boys, and two mad spaniels.

He is a strong advocate of local produce and is a co-founder of Eastern Minds, a forum for business leaders in the food industry where he also keeps his commercial acumen up to speed.

Simon Dickins

Motivational Evangelist

A 20-year career in sales, sales management and recruitment within Financial Services and Media kept Simon mulling over the oft observed career conflict between money and meaning.

With his curiosity getting the better of him, he turned his back on his corporate life in 2016 and dedicated himself to helping companies to retain and engage their best people, specifically through a deep understanding of motivation and its relationship to people-centric leadership and performance.

Simon holds a First-Class business degree from the University of Salford, is a Certified Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming and a Licensed Practitioner of Motivational Maps.  A passion for cycling means that Simon owns a dangerous amount of Lycra, and when not in the saddle he enjoys helping his wife to manage the conflict between his 6 and 8-year-old boys!

Georgie Dickins

Leadership Coach & Smiler-in-Chief

Georgie’s mission is to empower talented people, unlock their motivation and help them realise their potential.

She has a wealth of experience successfully working with people in fast-paced and challenging corporate cultures, previously enjoying a 20-year career in client-facing roles at leading City firms, including Reuters, Lehman Brothers, JPMorgan and ICAP.

Georgie holds a business degree from Loughborough University and is a Practitioner of Transformational Coaching and Neuro-Linguistic Programming.
Based in Suffolk, and no longer navigating a 4-hour commute into London every day, Georgie gets to spend more quality time with her husband, 2 boys and Gus the dog.

Chris Massey

Facilitator & X Cultural Guru

Chris is fascinated by human communication in all its forms, by what makes it go well and what gets in its way. He believes that good communication lies at the heart of learning, human development and strong relationships. As a trainer and facilitator, Chris specialises in helping people communicate better across cultures by learning to flex their own thinking and behaviour. He also helps people develop transferable life skills such as navigating difficult conversations, innovative problem-solving, facilitating groups.

Since heading to rural Japan straight after graduation, Chris has spent the ensuing twenty-something years working globally, living for more than 10 years outside his native UK and working across more than 60 countries. He has also bridged the cultural divides of the commercial, public and social sectors, always with an international slant. He has recruited and managed multinational teams, organised international corporate events and coordinated global professional networks.

Chris holds an MA in Intercultural Communication and is also a qualified EFL teacher. He speaks Japanese and somewhat rusty German, and occasionally teaches native English speakers how to use their own language more effectively in international contexts.

After much globe-trotting and five circumnavigations of the globe in a boat, Chris returned to his native UK in 2012. He now lives with his Japanese partner in southeast London. However he’s still a country-boy at heart and escapes the gravitational pull of the city in his free time to hike, bike and camp in the great outdoors.

Flea Rowland

Business Administrator & Barista

Flea is our super-organised business administrator who keeps the Catseye machine on the road.

In her London days she gained experience in retail and publishing, before becoming an account manager in advertising, then heading up fundraising and event management for a hospice, and going on to work for a national charity.

In Suffolk, she has project managed the build of a house, indulged her inner interior designer, and helped Catseye get off the ground. She now juggles running a busy household and bringing up twin boys with her Catseye role.

Her cool head and solid project management skills keep us all grounded and on point.