Expert practitioners,
strategic delivery.
Illume's faculty are senior practitioners each with direct experience of the conditions that determine whether inclusion becomes structural or remains aspirational.
Inclusion embedded
through expertise,
strategy and facilitation.
The Illume faculty model is built on a deliberate principle: structural inclusion requires practitioners who understand how organisations actually function - not just how they should.
Each faculty member has operated at senior level, navigated complexity, and built the credibility required to engage leadership teams at depth.
They work directly with client partners to build capability, establish accountability, and embed the behavioural and systemic conditions required for inclusion to endure.
Rob Lelliott is a leadership coach and organisational change specialist with over 20 years of experience in financial services. He has led large-scale national teams, partnered with executive leadership to drive cultural transformation, and coached and advised hundreds of leaders on building inclusive, high-performing teams and navigating complex organisational change.
His work sits at the intersection of leadership capability, cultural infrastructure, and sustainable performance — drawing on both operational leadership experience and coaching expertise to equip senior leaders with the clarity and tools to deliver results through their people.
Sally Spicer is a systems-thinking inclusion strategist, talent adviser, and qualified career coach with over two decades of experience at the intersection of talent, culture, and organisational performance. Her expertise spans workforce design, inclusive recruitment, leadership development, policy design, performance frameworks, and succession planning.
She has led global inclusion, ESG, and workforce transformation strategies for large, complex organisations — approaching inclusion as a connected system of behaviours, decisions, and structures rather than an isolated initiative, and building the commercial case for why it matters to capability, risk, and long-term resilience.
Ade Ahmadu is a strategy and transformation professional with a track record of delivering £10m+ programmes across financial services, pharmaceuticals, and technology. He has held senior transformation roles at FTSE 100 organisations and global consultancies, and brings significant experience from leadership positions in major technology platforms.
He holds an Executive MBA from Warwick Business School and is an accredited career coach with the Association for Coaching. He founded Cerculate in 2021, working with mid-senior and executive professionals on the leadership clarity and positioning required to advance and perform at the highest level.
Shelley Bishton is a multi-award-winning senior leader with over 20 years of experience driving transformation at the intersection of culture and commercial performance. She has built inclusive, future-fit organisations, led national initiatives, developed multi-million-pound partnerships, and delivered culture programmes with measurable impact on representation, retention, and employee engagement.
She works with leadership teams as a consultant and speaker — helping them examine the structural and behavioural barriers that constrain both inclusion and performance, and building the capability to address them at the systemic level.
Grace Mosuro is an organisational development expert, executive coach, and inclusion strategist with over 18 years of experience supporting leaders to build culturally intelligent, high-performing organisations. Her expertise spans leadership development, cultural transformation, psychological safety, and intersectionality — working across financial services, technology, engineering, professional services, and the charity sector.
She combines strategic insight with direct personal experience of navigating complexity, bringing both analytical depth and the kind of credibility that allows her to create the reflective, challenging spaces where leadership teams do their most rigorous and consequential work.
Simon Bennett is an executive coach and senior leader with a practice focused on leadership impact, effectiveness, and sustainable performance. He works with senior leaders to increase their effectiveness at the highest level while maintaining the conditions that allow leaders to sustain performance without compromising judgement or effectiveness over the long term.
His coaching is grounded in the operational realities of leading complex organisations under pressure — built on the principle that transformational change requires leaders to be robustly challenged, and that this only becomes possible when the conditions for psychological safety are established first.
Mie Østergaard is a global inclusion and culture consultant with over 12 years of experience and Co-founder of IMPACT. She has delivered award-winning inclusion programmes across sport, media, and travel — working with some of the most recognisable organisations in those sectors to translate inclusion strategy into institutional practice at scale.
Her practice combines professional expertise with lived experience of intersectionality, bringing a depth of perspective that makes her facilitation both analytically rigorous and personally credible.
Dr Nick Basannavar is an adviser, historian, and facilitator with significant experience across corporate, public sector, academic, and creative environments. His practice draws on inclusive leadership, organisational ethics, and historical inquiry to support leaders navigating complex questions of culture, behaviour, power, and institutional integrity. He has authored or co-authored two books on organisational culture and inclusive leadership.
Known for a facilitation style described as impactful, thoughtful, and quietly radical, he combines rigorous intellectual challenge with deliberate care — creating the conditions for leaders to examine difficult questions honestly and act on what they find.
Raj Jones is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD and a qualified coach with over 13 years of experience embedding inclusive, high-performing cultures across global organisations. Her expertise spans learning and development, behavioural change, and leadership capability — with a systems-thinking approach that integrates inclusion directly into governance and operational frameworks.
She has influenced policy at board and government level, led high-performing teams across complex environments, and served on external inclusion advisory boards across sport and business.
Dr Tola Oloyede is an executive HR director and thought leader in the energy sector, with a background in chemical engineering, a Master's in Organisational Performance, and a Doctorate in Business Administration. She has held senior HR leadership roles across large multinationals — spanning group-level HR, HR transformation, and M&A integration across Europe and Africa.
She has received industry recognition for her leadership in developing local talent and has been recognised among the top 50 exceptional women in the energy sector globally. She sits on the boards of several corporate, philanthropic, and humanitarian organisations.
Sarah Howe brings extensive senior leadership experience across international corporate environments and strategic consultancy, with deep expertise in aligning culture with strategy across highly regulated and complex sectors — including technology, professional services, energy, financial services, and sport.
She has designed and led large-scale cultural change initiatives, advanced inclusion and equity agendas, and driven impactful communications and sustainability efforts at the executive level. She also holds Non-Executive Director and advisory board positions across the sport and governance sectors.
Expertise matched
to the work
Illume operates through a faculty of senior practitioners with deep expertise across culture, leadership, governance, transformation, and organisational performance. For each engagement, this expertise is brought together in a way that reflects the organisation’s context, priorities, and level of complexity.
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