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Our team
Appreciating People help make positive change happen, in organisations, communities, businesses, charities and individually. We use appreciative inquiry and a variety of ‘strength-based’ approaches, which focus on your strengths, and areas you’re good at, rather than weaknesses.
Tim Slack
… AP’s founder and co-director
Tim has worked in youth work and regeneration for over 30 years, holding a number of senior posts in local government, community engagement and arts organisations.
He has been vice chair of the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) in Liverpool and Knowsley, and was a non-executive director of urban regeneration agency Liverpool Vision from 2010 to 2012.
Specialities
Tim specialises in appreciative inquiry facilitation and the creative industries, and has recently completed his Self-Factor coach training. He’s also an accredited consultant for Cultural Transformation Tools.
A part-time potter in his spare time, Tim’s also an avid reader of military history, and is learning how to garden and grow his own veg.
Favourite quotes
‘When you can’t make up your mind which of two evenly-balanced courses of action you should take, choose the bolder’
‘People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it’
Suzanne Quinney
Co-director
Suzanne specialises in a strength-based approach to change, engagement, quality improvement and safety and particularly enjoys helping people learn more about their thinking. She is an experienced facilitator and event organiser, practiced in the use of World Cafe and Open Space Technology. She designs and delivers seminars and masterclasses, and was part of an award-winning training combination for the Health Services Journal.
Specialities
Suzanne is the author of nine strength-based and Appreciative Inquiry-related training materials, articles, and book chapters. The most recent is Reflections: an Appreciative Journal and Practical Resource Book. Her working life began in Africa, and she has worked in the UK public sector for 25+ years since. She is interested in the connections between AI and spirituality, and enjoys sci-fi, yoga and dogs.
Favourite quote
‘Anything we can do today to enhance dignity, meaning and community right now, while seeking to make workplaces more productive, is existentially valuable, regardless of how long it remains in use, or what people do with it afterwards…’
Helen Bush
Senior associate
Senior associate Helen has more than 20 years’ experience across both the voluntary and private sector in youth, health, community and land sectors, including ten years delivering environmental and community regeneration projects across the north west.
She is a trained appreciative inquiry practitioner, and coach, business mentor and facilitator of collaborative techniques, including World Café and Open Space (OST). She’s also a chartered landscape architect with a keen interesting in sustainable development and the environment, ceramics and the arts.
Favourite quotes
‘The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes.’
‘Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows will fall behind you.’
