Meet the Team
Janet Waters MSc MIPD
Head of Organisational Capability
Janet's career has mainly involved working with government departments leading the learning and development functions. She has extensive experience of developing and delivering leadership development interventions across the public sector. She also manages strategic partnerships with leading business schools. Janet leads the National School's Organisational Capability Group, the focal point for 'tailored business solutions' for clients in the UK public sector and internationally. She also leads the International Team, which aims to build public service capability by working with key clients and strategic partners. Janet is a senior development consultant who has managed prestigious programmes such as Leaders UK a cross-public-sector leadership programme and other tailored leadership interventions. Janet is also a coach to senior executives.
Chris Cooper BA CPFA
Head of Partnerships
Chris came to us from the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy in 1994, initially as a lecturer in public finance and accountability; more recently, he has helped establish a new financial strategy for the National School. In the intervening years, his roles have seen him running the Fast Stream Government Finance programme; advising Agency Chief Executives and Permanent Secretaries on their responsibilities as Accounting Officers; growing, managing and delivering the National School's portfolio of international public service reform projects in eastern Europe, Africa, Asia and the Caribbean; and advising public bodies worldwide on subjects that include government reform and fiduciary risk. His current role entails developing the National School's link with other public service academies and a range of partners in the academic and private sectors, both domestically and internationally.
David Lawton MBA Chartered FCIPD MCMI
Strategic Relationship Manager
David has extensive experience of organisational development both in the UK and internationally. He came to us in 1998 as a career civil servant, contributing since that time as a senior lecturer and principal international consultant. In his current role as Strategic Relations Manager, David works with many of the National School's clients across the whole of the UK and internationally on organisation-wide change programmes and public administration reforms.
Andrew McBride BSc
Principal International Consultant
Andrew joined the International Consultancy Team in 2003. He came to us from a broad HR background that included experience of the development and delivery of recruitment solutions across all areas of the UK Civil Service. From 2004 to 2006, he worked in Warsaw as resident manager of a capacity-building project in the Polish Civil Service. Since May 2007, he has held a similar role with a long-term public administration reform project in Bosnia and Herzegovina, working from offices in Banja Luka and Sarajevo.
Adrian Rossiter BA MA DPhil
Programme Director and Consultant
Adrian joined us in 1988, having read Classics and Modern History at Cambridge and completed a doctorate in French Politics while he was Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. Adrian has extensive experience of training civil servants in both the UK and the new EU member states on most key aspects of EU work. Currently, he is particularly interested in the new institutional structures, the development of the Structural Funds, and comparative government issues.
Sue Treharne PGDip MA
Programme Director
Sue has worked in HR management for the past 20 years. She has undertaken various consultancy projects in both the public and private sectors covering business and HR strategy, operational issues and management development at all levels. Sue has particular responsibility for the National School's MA in Human Resource Strategy and Change programme, delivered in partnership with Kingston Business School, Kingston University. She is also a trained counsellor and programme director for the Employee and Organisation Support programme. Sue's expertise is in demand internationally. She has designed and delivered training in Bermuda, Serbia and Poland and is currently leading support to the development of modern HR practice in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
