Directors and Staff
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Pippa is one of the UK's leading facilitators. She is a pioneer in the use of stakeholder dialogue and participatory processes in decision making. Starting her career in information and communications at Friends of the Earth UK, she went on to work in Canada for a company dedicated to public policy decision making (PDA International). She went on to set up and run PDA's office in London for three years prior to setting up her own business. Pippa was a founder member of The Environment Council's Environmental Resolve Committee as well as a founder member of Interact, a network of practitioners, commentators and academics working in the field of participation.
Pippa was responsible for the design and running of a project to develop a community waste strategy in Hampshire in the early 1990's, one of the UK's earliest examples of a participatory approach to community consultation and involvement. Following that she led a team in the design and implementation of a pan-European project for Shell to find a solution to the Brent Spar disposal problem. She has worked on projects as diverse as international consultations around gas exploration projects in Peru, mining projects in Madagascar, the development of best practice guidelines for the renewable energy sector, community planning processes for local communities and strategic decision making workshops for corporations.
Since setting up Dialogue by Design Pippa has specialised in designing techniques that integrate face to face approaches to consulation and engagement with web-based tools.
Pippa also works with a number of organisations to deliver training courses in facilitation and process management.
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Formerly a lecturer at the University of Warwick working with the Development Technology Unit, Dominic went on to become the Director of Creative Environmental Networks, a European Energy Agency dedicated to reducing the environmental impacts of energy consumption, alleviating fuel poverty and promoting socially sustainable business.
Dominic has an engineering background with both B.Eng. and PhD. He has been developing data management and IT systems since 1993 when he wrote a finite elements engineering package to model the propagation of dynamic stress waves through semi-compressible materials. Subsequently he has developed many multi-tiered software applications concerned with the efficient management of high volume business data and information storage. His specialism is the integration of user-friendly presentation applications with performance data storage and interrogation.
Dominic has considerable IT skills and programs at an advanced level in several languages including; visual basic, java, javascript, ASP, JSP, SQL, XML and HTML
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Andrew has been an author, trainer, consultant and practitioner in mediation, conflict resolution, consensus-building and stakeholder dialogue since 1985, and has worked in contexts ranging from the political, social and environmental to the legal, corporate and organisational. He was one of the pioneers of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in the United Kingdom; his political intervention experience includes South Africa and the Middle East; and in 1994 Andrew was Bryant Wedge Visiting Professor at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University.
Since 1992 Andrew Acland has specialised in designing and facilitating dialogue in complex, multi-party, multi-issue contexts, often with environmental and/or social sustainability dimensions. He was a founding member of The Environment Council's innovative consensus-building and stakeholder dialogue programmes, and shared responsibility for developing its enormously successful and influential facilitator training programmes. He has worked with NGOs, government and business on issues such as the transport of nuclear waste, decommissioning of offshore installations; industrial development in environmentally sensitive areas; corporate social responsibility; genetic modification; sustainable agriculture; carbon sequestration; fuel poverty; marine exclusion zones and many others.
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Sarah has been with Dialogue by Design since August
2005 and in the time has made invaluable contributions to several
ongoing face-to-face, paper and web-based projects. These projects
have covered issues related to the environment, sustainable development,
corporate social responsibility and local participation.
Based on her experience as a research assistant in both Canada and
Australia she brings in high levels of organisational and communication
skills combined with an understanding of sustainability issues. Within
the field of sustainability Sarah has dealt with a variety of disciplines
and carried out cumulative research related to benchmarking, guideline
development and sustainable destination management.
Sarah holds a Bachelors degree in Environmental Management specialising
in Sustainable Development.
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Mark joined Dialogue by Design in November 2007. Mark’s main focus
is as part of the team managing the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
Stakeholder Engagement programme. He has also been involved with a
number of projects including a consultation on congestion charging
for Cambridgeshire County Council and the Essex Strategy.
Previously Mark worked for the London Fire Brigade where he assisted
the auditing and enforcement of fire safety legislation in public
premises. He also carried out a research project for the Fire Industry
Association on the impact of new legislation which saw him liaise
with stakeholders such as the Department of Communities and Local
Government and the UK’s fire and rescue services. The findings of
the project were published in a leading trade magazine. Mark holds
a BA History (Hons.) from University of East Anglia.
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Sarah is an experienced project manager who joined Dialogue by Design in December 2006.
Sarah's focus of work has been on some of our longer and more complex stakeholder and
engagement projects. Currently on maternity leave, we look forward to Sarah rejoining
us in 2009.
Prior to joining Dialogue by Design Sarah worked for six years at
The Environment Council on a variety of stakeholder engagement projects
in the fields of waste, regeneration and biodiversity. Sarah has a
BSc in Geography and Geology.
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Isabelle Guyot is a project manager at Dialogue by Design, specialising
in stakeholder liaison and management. Her main role is to manage
the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority Stakeholder Engagement project.
Her background is in business administration, and she has several
years of experience working with both customers and stakeholders.
Prior to joining Dialogue by Design, Isabelle spent four years working
on a United Nations initiative called the Global Compact (a voluntary
code of conduct on social responsibility that companies can sign up
to and deliver), being the main contact point of the French network.
Isabelle holds a Master degree in Public Relations in Environment
and is multilingual, speaking English, French and German fluently.
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Erwin joined Dialogue by Design in January 2005. He has worked in
various areas of project management such as event organisation, publishing,
and employee research.
At his previous position as Senior Associate for an Employee Research
company in London, Erwin has organised employee surveys for large
international companies. Before coming to London in 2003, Erwin was
Project Manager for the Heinrich Boell Foundation in Berlin in the
Sustainable Development team. Here, his main focus was on events and
publications. He was responsible for project co-ordination, budget
administration and financial accounting, speaker communication and
support, marketing, overseeing the production of publications, and
on-site organisation. This work involved communication with a wide
range of people from all over the world, e.g. at the UN World Summit
on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002. Erwin holds degrees
in Business Adminstration (MBA) and Psychology.
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Remco van der Stoep is a project manager at Dialogue by Design, specialising
in research and analysis. In previous positions he has managed a series
of research projects on a variety of topics. His work involved collecting
and analysing qualitative and quantitative data, liaising with clients
and stakeholders and writing reports.
Having lived and worked in different European countries, Remco is
multilingual and fluent in speaking and writing English, French and
Dutch. Remco holds a Masters degree in Environmental and Infrastructure
Planning from the University of Groningen.
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Hannah joined Dialogue by Design in July 2006. She manages a variety
of face-to-face and web-based projects, and has played a key role
in the Wider Implications of Science and Technology programme of engagement
and the sciencehorizons project.
Her previous job was based in Accra, Ghana co-ordinating a programme
of volunteering across the region. She holds a BSc in Biology from
Sheffield University, and is currently undertaking a certificate in
Community Leadership and Participation studies.
