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A practical approach to health and wellbeing

For many organisations these are challenging times, especially when it comes to continuing to develop their safety and wellbeing culture.
To help with this, Anker & Marsh have set up an online training centre to provide you with live, dynamic, discussion-based training, with the same level of interaction and passion that we put into all of our classroom-based training.

Jason Anker MBE

Jason was paralysed from the waist down due to an avoidable accident on a construction site in 1993 when he was just 24 years old. He only started speaking about his accident in 2009.
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Karen Royle

Karen is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist who has spent many years providing workplace coaching, training and assessments to help people enhance their potential in the workplace.
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John Dillon

John spent many years of his life working in industry and first joined Tim at Ryder-Marsh Safety, direct from the nuclear industry.
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Hannah Courtney Bennett

A Chartered Psychologist since 1998, Hannah’s work focuses on career development, talent management and health, safety and wellbeing.
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Ana Camargo

Ana is fascinated by cultures and creativity thanks to her multicultural upbringing spanning multiple countries in three continents. Ana is an I/O psychologist, consultant and adjunct professor.
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Professor Tim Marsh

Prof Tim Marsh, then at UMIST, was one of the team leaders of the original UK research into behavioural safety (in construction) in the early 1990s.
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Joyce Elisha PhD

Robert Parker

Robert is a business strategy and governance expert with considerable leadership and management experience from senior roles in the private, public and regulatory sectors.
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Elena Essig PhD

Elena is an Associate Professor in Human Resource Management and holds a PhD in Management Science from Université de Tours.
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Laura Thomas

Laura is a barrister with a difference…she’s an award winning ‘Leading Lawyer’ [Legal 500 – 2019] with a proven track record in regulatory law, health and safety, environment, transport, governance, risk and compliance.
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Our ambassadors

Chris Jerman

Tragically, Chris died in 2022 after a battle with cancer which he faced with is usual verve and good humoured perspective. It still doesn’t seem at all credible that he lost it. We find we simply can’t bring ourselves to take his picture down and leave it up here as a tribute to a much loved and greatly missed colleague and friend.
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Sean Toon

Sean is a speaker and friend of Jason who talks about the impact Jason’s accident has had on him, his family and friends.
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Matt Hazelton

Matt openly talks about the workplace accident that has affected his life forever. Matt was a director of a company and on his site he painfully lost two brothers and two best friends.
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Paul Blanchard

Paul was in a major accident falling from height several years ago fixing a roof at a farm. He speaks from an emotional perspective on why Health and Safety is not just about ticking boxes.
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Abbi Taylor

Abbi is a speaker, Jason’s daughter and personal assistant. “I was just 3 years old when my dad had his accident at work, and it is still affecting me and my family today.”
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Mike Farmer

Mike has worked with Tim for over 25 years and provides marketing, IT and design support.
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Resources

Books

Professor Tim Marsh is the author of A Definitive Guide to Behavioural Safety, Total Safety Culture and Talking Safety. Chris Jerman is co-author of Risk-Led Safety: Evidence-driven Management. Jason Anker MBE has just published his story in Paralysis to Success - Bounding Back From Adversity. You can purchase these titles through our website.

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DVDs

Jason Anker MBE tells his story in the DVD A Fall From Height. This 16 minute film includes excerpts from Jason’s safety presentations, interviews with his parents and sister and testimony from his spinal injuries consultant. Plus a comprehensive suite of videos produced under the Ryder Marsh banner.

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Articles, blogs and academic papers

Anker and Marsh consultants have published numerous articles and academic papers over the past two decades.

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Links

Links to our partner organisations, mental health websites and safety organisation which we think you will find useful.
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Company

Links

The SHE Show

Proud2bSafe

Health and Wellbeing at Work

British Safety Council

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Email: info@ankerandmarsh.com

Jason Anker MBE

Jason was paralysed from the waist down due to an avoidable incident on a construction site in 1993 when he fell off a ladder. He was 24 years old.

The story of his life before the incident, the day of the incident, the time spent in hospital and rehab, his initial release from hospital and his struggle with life over the last 25 years is an honest and sometimes graphic account of the devastation the incident has had on Jason and his family & friends.

For many years he was unable to talk openly about his experience of a work related major incident. This is reflected in a story that is very raw; the emotion with which he delivers his talk is as strong as if it was the day of the incident.

His unique story has a powerful impact and grabs the attention of those listening, from Directors, Managers, Supervisors and Operatives alike. He is willing to talk openly about all of his experiences, the physical and psychological effects of a major incident including:

• His personal life
• The effect on his family and friends
• The cost of an incident – financial, physical & emotional
• His abuse of alcohol and drugs
• His struggle to get compensation
• His commitment to make a difference

Jason's story is really about being at rock bottom, having the determination to pick yourself up, change direction in life and then trying to make a difference to others. Jason is a regular speaker at functions and after dinner events where he talks about his story, from the evening before the accident, the accident itself, the subsequent rehabilitation and his attempts to put his shattered life back together.

Karen Royle

Karen is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist who has spent many years providing workplace coaching, training and assessments to help people enhance their potential in the workplace. She has delivered training in both the private and public sector and coaching interventions with front line staff, line managers and senior directors.

Clients include:
Astra Zeneca, BT, Ernst and Young, Lloyds Bank, Manchester Airport, O2, Price Waterhouse, Sainsbury’ as well as many hospital trusts.

As well as basic group training, through coaching and employment based cognitive assessments, Karen supports people to determine modifications and strategies that will enhance vocational potential and workplace skills, to enable people to be ‘the best’ at what they do.

Karen’s more specialist work has been focused on helping people with various health conditions to manage their condition in the workplace. This has ranged from people with mild stress and mental health concerns to those with more extreme head injuries, stroke and long-term conditions.

Karen has presented on these topics on a number of occasions at the national Health & Well-Being at Work conference. She has also conducted workshops for the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL), and the National School of Occupational Health, on coaching for better health at work.

Karen works as an Independent Consultant and Associate to various case management, cognitive assessment, training and coaching focused companies and has worked on various contracts with the Department of Work and Pensions. She also undertakes vocational assessments for insurance and medico-legal work.

Karen is HCPC registered, an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and co-convenor of the Division of Occupational Psychology Health and Well-Being Group.

John Dillon

John spent many years of his life working in industry and first joined Tim at Ryder-Marsh Safety, direct from the nuclear industry. Over the past 20 years or so John has specialised in behavioural safety, safety culture surveys and advanced accident investigation around the world and with a huge range of industries. John has a down-to-earth yet highly experienced approach which inspires trust and confidence in a client or audience always striking a good balance between entertaining and educating people.

Hannah Courtney Bennett

A Chartered Psychologist since 1998, Hannah’s work focuses on career development, talent management and health, safety and wellbeing. As an Occupational Psychologist Hannah has provided assessment and selection services to organisations, including job analyses and identification of competency frameworks, job design and interviewing. This side of her work puts her in a position of strength when it comes to coaching and identifying talent, strengths and interests in anyone facing significant career decisions, be they Career Changers, Returners, Graduates Undergraduates or Young People. Hannah has been working as a consultant for the past 20 years and prior to this worked for the NHS and then Sussex Police where she obtained her Chartered status.

Special Interests
Hannah’s experiences have led her to recognise the importance of job-person 'fit' and context. She knows that different individuals have different ideas as to what the 'right' work life balance might be and that this can manifest itself at different stages and in different ways. She is especially interested in coaching the development of career management competencies and has presented on the importance of developing Career Resilience at conferences and workshops.

Representative client engagements

Training and coaching for Human Factors and promoting Safety Excellence in the workplace.
Delivering Health, Wellbeing and Resilience workshops and follow up coaching, post Pandemic.
Design and delivery of workshop programmes and one to one coaching to Russell Group University post-graduates, developing career resilience, HWB in the workplace and commerciality skills to support the initiatives of Careers Week.
Coach for the Faraday Institution’s collaborative FutureCat project; working with Post Doctoral Research Associates; ongoing one to one coaching and group coaching sessions at their bi-annual (currently virtual) retreat.
Career Coach for the MOD Career Transitions Programme; working with medically discharged military personnel, helping them reach decisions about future career pathways.
1:1 careers guidance and assessments for young people and adults; students and professionals and service leavers.
Design and delivery of virtual workshops for clients exploring how to prepare for virtual interviews and assessment centres.
Work based diagnostic assessments for employees presenting with suspected Neurodiversity/Specific Learning Difficulties.
1:1 coaching and assessments for career development and for outplacement – for increased employee engagement as well as for those seeking a move within or outside of their current organisation.

Ana Camargo

Ana is fascinated by cultures and creativity thanks to her multicultural upbringing spanning multiple countries in three different continents. Her mission is to foster cultural intelligence and creativity around the world, one organization at a time. Ana is an I/O psychologist, consultant and adjunct professor in Paris focusing on multicultural workplace skills, individual and collective creativity, positive leadership development, and change management. She is an excellent trainer noted for her enthusiasm and adept at adapting the training material to different individuals and organizations based on their particular needs and native tongue (French, English, Spanish). Outside of work, Ana enjoys swimming, eating watermelons, travelling, and learning about new cultures around the globe.

Professor Tim Marsh

Prof Tim Marsh, was one of the team leaders of the original UK research into behavioural safety (in construction) in the early 1990s. Tim is one of only a few Chartered Psychologists who are also Chartered Fellows of IOSH. He has previously been a visiting lecturer at Manchester University and Loughborough University and as a visiting professor at Plymouth University, he is considered a world authority on the subject of behavioural safety, safety leadership and organisational culture.

Tim was awarded a “President’s Commendation” in 2008 by the International Institute of Risk and Safety Management and was selected to be their first ever ‘Specialist Fellow’ in 2010.

Tim is an experienced key note speaker, having presented to organisations throughout the UK, Dubai, South Africa, Malaysia, USA and India. These organisations include:

The British Occupational Hygiene Society
The Faculty of Medicine
The inaugural Campbell Institute ‘thought leaders’ conference
Safeguard New Zealand
European Conference Board

Tim has also chaired numerous conferences on Behavioural Safety in the UK and founded Europe’s largest behavioural safety event from 1997 until 2012..

He has worked with more than 400 major organisations around the world, including Apple, the European Space Agency, the World Health Organisation and the United Nations.

Tim was an expert witness at the “Safety Culture” and “Management of Change” expert forums at the Cullen Inquiry into the Ladbroke Grove incident.

Tim created the award winning Affective Safety Management concept for the IIRSM. His book of the same name is now one of Europe’s best ever selling safety books – as is the second of Tim’s books Talking Safety. A recent third, book Total Safety Culture has also been well received.

Tim regularly writes articles for magazines such as the Safety and Health Practitioner (SHP), Health and Safety at Work, Safety Management, Construction Safety, Safety International, The Ergonomist, Exposure (BOHS) India Safe and Safeguard (New Zealand).

He has worked with media such as the BBC, and has written and produced many safety training videos such as Crash Course, Drive Smarter and the extensive Safety Leadership series.

Tim has more recently taken park in webinars such as Rebranding Safety and Lone Worker Safety Live and has contributed to international online conferences.

Joyce Elisha PhD

Including the time spent on research as part of my PhD., I’ve worked within industry applying Human Factors and Safety Culture improvement projects across a broad range of industries for 20 years*. Putting the jargon aside, I’ve been balancing the application of generic technical knowledge (e.g. biology, psychology) with personnel user experience to empower people in achieving a better workplace. Working with people across all areas of organisations, I have managed risks from human error in high hazard industries; assessed and guided cultural improvements; provided leadership training and coaching and supported incident investigations from the human perspective.

I have a strong conviction that organisations cannot reach their full potential until they tap into the knowledge of their workforce. The value of user knowledge and experience is in most organisations overlooked or undervalued. Having recently become self employed, I want to continue to assist organisations in tapping into this vast resource, for better organisational performance and for happier, more engaged employees.

Outside of work I love a good natter; walking the dog; doing silly stuff with Karl and Albie (husband and boy); a little bit of “I’m definitely not bendy or an expert” yoga; cooking; cocktailing and good coffee.

* Nuclear; medicine; ship building; ports and shipping; aviation; healthcare; manufacturing; aggregates; pharmaceutical research..

Robert Parker

Robert is a business strategy and governance expert with considerable leadership and management experience from senior roles in the private, public and regulatory sectors.

Since retiring from his role as Head of Corporate Communications at the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) in 2020, Robert has worked on a part-time basis taking assignments with the NHS, provided financial and governance advice to an emerging children’s charity in Salford and, with his wife Claire, become an emergency cover foster parent. He also fulfilled a life ambition by walking the 268 mile Pennine Way.

Earlier in his career, Robert spent several years in senior marketing and communications management roles at McDonalds Restaurants Ltd.

Elena Essig PhD

Elena is an Associate Professor in Human Resource Management and holds a PhD in Management Science from Université de Tours. She is the Head of the IBSA Dual Master’s degree in International and Sustainable Management and the Master programme in Sustainable Management at ESSCA School of Management in Paris, France. She is also a consultant with Anker & Marsh.

Elena is interested in organisational attitudes and behaviours, including cross-cultural management, psychological ownership, organizational commitment, onboarding and socialisation of employees, gender diversity and equality in the workplace, as well as expatriation management. Her work has been published through research articles and conferences at national and international levels.

Her international profile (double Bachelor’s degree in International Business, successfully completed in Germany and England in 2008) as well as her professional experience in industrial purchasing (Germany, 2008) and the Human Resource Department of the French Air Force (France, 2009-2012), demonstrate a rich career.

At Anker & Marsh, she provides Health and Safety training to professionals. Her teaching languages are French, English, and German.

Laura Thomas

Laura is a barrister with a difference... she’s an award winning ‘Leading Lawyer’ [Legal 500 - 2019] with a proven track record and deep expertise in regulatory law, health and safety, environment, transport, governance, risk and compliance. Uniquely, she’s also held executive positions in oil and gas and civil engineering and a non-executive directorship in transport as well as having worked for the HSE and been appointed a Deputy Traffic Commissioner.

The Chambers of Laura Thomas specialises in health and safety and transport, offering practical and solution-focused legal advice and representation.

Consul-T is Laura’s health and safety and regulatory strategy business; bringing her empathic leadership style to solve your business challenges and upskill your people.

Chris Jerman

Chris began his safety career in the foundries of South Yorkshire having spent his formative years in production management. Schooled largely by the EEF in Sheffield, Chris saw the move from the rule-driven regime of the Factories Act to the more modern risk-led approach offered by the Management Regulations. Where many may have seen risk assessment as a burden, Chris took this new requirement as an opportunity, realising at a very early stage that being risk-centric was the way forward.

Moving from heavy industry, Chris spent several years in consultancy and training, working right across Europe and into the Far East, during which time he had the opportunity to see how various risk models worked; the keys to their success and the common pitfalls too. Joining John Lewis in 2005, Chris had the perfect opening to put into practice all that he had learned, benefiting from all of the support of a renowned and forward looking business.

Chris built his reputation on being forthright, often where others feared to tread. Chris' drive was to do things pragmatically and he was brave enough to do things differently to achieve it.

Sean Toon

Sean speaks alongside Jason's "5 Second" presentation about the impact Jason's accident has had on him, his family and friends.

This provides a powerful and effective angle on Jason's story in the live presentations and provides unexpected impact, as well as highlighting how many people are actually affected by workplace accidents.

Reaching the Brink
This is a health and wellbeing talk where Sean discusses how he bottled up problems in his personal life from a childhood trauma. In his early twenties a series of events nearly took him to the brink, he found a way of coping and it's only in recent years he has found a way to deal with problems head on which has helped him and his family. When this happened to Sean there was no one to speak up to and it is now Sean's goal to encourage people to speak up and listen.

Matt Hazelton

ROSPA RISING STAR AWARD WINNER 2017

Matt openly talks about the workplace accident that has affected his life forever. Matt was a director of a company and on his site he painfully lost two brothers and two best friends. In this emotive hard hitting story Matt discusses the accident itself, the constant hassle he received from the media and the court case he had to endure being a director of the company.

Very hard hitting, raw and effective session from Matt to help increase awareness in all levels of Safety.

Paul Blanchard

RoSPA ARCHANGEL 2015

Paul works as a motivational & behavioural safety speaker. Having been in a major accident falling from height several years ago fixing a roof at a farm, Paul speaks on the emotional perspective of why Health and Safety is not just about ticking boxes.

The empowerment of staff to feel the responsibility for both their own safety and that of their co-workers does not come from a Health and Safety lecture. With Paul’s story to the same group, he brings a real purpose to the subject. Rather than just going through the motions of H&S conformity, the audience is reached through empathy with someone who has felt the full effect of an industrial accident.

Paul's story is really about the realisation that his life had changed, and having the determination to adapt to the new direction in life and trying to inspire others.

Abbi Taylor

Abbi is Jason’s daughter and his PA and has now taken over his position at Proud2bSafe as Managing Director to help Jason
In his new role alongside Tim with Anker and Marsh.

Mike Farmer

Mike has been running his own design and marketing business for over 25 years. Prior to that he worked for several UK advertising agencies and worked 'client-side' for a while as a marketing manager.

He has also worked as a business mentor and is a distance learning tutor for the Cambridge Marketing College and a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM).

He writes business and marketing courses for colleges around the UK covering a wide range of topics including digital marketing, personal development, entrepreneurship and business administration. He is also a director of a small charity working in East Africa.

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Sean Toon

Matt Hazelton

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