Catseye Leadership Development

Jamie Rowland

Co-Founder & Innovative 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 three mad spaniels.

Flea Rowland

Co-Founder & Transformational Coach

Flea’s passion is to enable people to live a more meaningful and fulfilled life. She firmly believes in self-care being the lynch pin to achieving this.

Throughout her diverse career Flea has identified that she is intrigued by people, the paths they have travelled and the journeys they are yet to make. She loves to accompany people as they discover ways to enhance their journey.

Alongside her Catseye role Flea juggles running a busy household, raising twin boys & struggling to control 3 spaniels whilst finding space to indulge her love of interior design.

Martin Tothill

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 19 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.

Martin has a busy home life as he has realised his dream of renovating a property in France balanced with one foot in the UK he has an entrepreneurial wife, 2 daughters, a dog and cats. He loves to cycle and fish and has been wrestling his beloved guitar for more than 40 years.

Nicola Hainey

Leadership Luminary

Martyn Barmby

Communication & Impact Ninja

Martyn loves to help individuals and organisations translate their talent into success through excellent communication.

Martyn’s background is unique. His ‘sensible’ career has seen him work as a Programme Manager, Operations Director and Managing Director of IT and Management Consultancies in the UK, USA and France. His ‘less sensible’ career as a professional actor has seen him take on an eclectic mixture of roles from Shakespearean lead to Ernie the Elf. He loves to help clients improve their confidence and impact when communicating by using the most advanced techniques from the worlds of acting and business.

Along with his wife and two young daughters Martyn enjoys spending time playing and watching sport. Current favourite in the Barmby family is triathlon which has meant an ever expanding bicycle collection. In summer he captains the parents and teachers’ cricket team at his daughters’ school which has been a case study in diplomacy and valiantly overcoming adversity.

Marissa Makinson-Hall

Frontier Facilitator

Marissa’s passion is facilitation and coaching, she loves nothing better than helping people develop and achieve those lightbulb moments.  With the use of psychometric tools she helps teams and leaders develop to their full potential. Marissa has frequently been told she is fun to work with and brings that fun and energy to the learning she delivers.

She has 20 years of experience working in learning and development and leading highly motivated L&D teams. Marissa brings a global perspective to all that she does having worked in various roles overseas; including Tokyo, Sydney, and New York. She has extensive experience working with diverse teams across the world delivering highly impactful facilitation and has gained an appreciation and understanding of cultural learning preferences. Prior to specialising in learning she was an auditor and later a tax accountant for one of the Big 4 professional services firms. Her experience of client facing roles helps her resonate with the pressure professionals and executives face in their daily working lives.

Marissa lives in the countryside with her husband and beautiful (but naughty) Shetland Sheepdog. Travelling is a real passion and in non-covid times she spends her holidays back-packing in far flung countries travelling like a local, or underwater diving on a quest to see a Whale Shark.

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.

Marta Abramska

Coaching Queen