Who We Are
We are a mixed bag combining: Facilitators, trainers, consultants, coaches and professional actors.
Andy Taylor
Andy founded People Deliver Projects in 2006. He heads up the business and leads new business development. In 2026 Andy stepped back from front line service and now works part-time. He still manages key client relationships and sets up assignments for success.
Andy is a trusted deliverer of over 1000 assignments in over 100 organisations, across 20 years. People Deliver Projects is his second successful business after time in 'big consultancy'. Before that, Andy had an eclectic Aerospace career as: Engineer, Project Manager, Marketer, Strategist, Factory Manager and Operations Director.
Andy’s perspective: I started the business in 2006 because of a remarkable gap in the project and change management professions, namely a failure to recognise that projects are delivered foremost by people, not by methodologies or software. Twenty years on, I like to tell myself I have been a small part of an important positive change in this direction, alongside our 140 clients who also see this truth. My purpose is to lift the performance of our clients by helping to change behaviour. I couldn’t bear to be a mainstream training provider. We must always be creative and impactful, whilst being relevant and working with our clients’ reality. Client value is our defining purpose; high trust relationships how we go about it. I’ve no qualms in choosing to be an antidote to the sterile world of project process and the overweight solutions of the big consultancies.
Rajneet Sidhu
Raj is lead facilitator of our diversity inclusion assignments; an expert on race, gender and neurodiversity. Alongside inclusion she has specialisms in: Impact and influence, presentation skills, people leadership and psychological safety.
She has been an actor-facilitator with us since 2020. Raj brings a wonderful diversity to our team and delightful positive energy to the learning room. Her performances as a brilliant prickly scientist have delighted (and triggered) many project and technical leaders in our audiences.
Raj started out as a professional actor in TV and theatre for 14 years before moving across to corporate role play and then facilitation and people development.
Lyn Christine
Lyn is a lead facilitator and coach across a range of people and leadership themes, running training, actions sets and coaching in our development programmes.
Lyn has been one of our lead actors since 2007 and has delivered countless brilliant performances as challenging stakeholders or naïve senior sponsors. She has high acting intelligence and great instincts for an audience, who she helps and challenges in equal measure. Lyn has a particular talent for working with power and vulnerability, making an emotional connection with her audience. She always gives everything; she always delivers.
Lyn has a background as a professional actor, training at RADA and an early career in theatre and television.
Alec Nicholls
Alec plays leading characters in our experiential events and provides experiential coaching.
With us since 2008, Alec is simply a top-class actor. His intelligent improvisations as hapless project manager ’Al’ have been enjoyed by thousands. He has become our own exemplar for how to play the central character in our stories.
Alongside his leadership development and coaching practice, Alec continues to work as a successful professional Actor in Film, Television, Theatre and Commercials. You may recognise him from his roles in The Crown, Broadchurch, The Diplomat, Mr Bates v The Post Office and many other TV dramas.
Rufus
Rufus is a, now ageing, Cockapoo that comes to work with us and keeps everyone sane on stressful days. He is well known by clients as a regular attender of Zoom and Teams calls.
Although a great leader within the office, his true passions lie outside... trips to beach, walks in the woods, and chasing squirrels (to no avail). He even has 100 dog walks published in his name.
We think that every organisation should have a Rufus.
Dave Rowan
Dave has pioneered our creative experiential events, building these up from scratch to become a core strategy of the business and taking them further than any other firm (worldwide we believe).
He brings the positive energy to the team and an amazing range of skills – Design, writing, directing, facilitating, coaching. He pays attention to the whole team and always goes the extra mile. He keeps us laughing and tends to see anything as possible.
Dave comes from a background in acting, TV presenting, theatre direction and stand-up comedy.
Jane Eames
Jane is an exceptional coach, who is truly client centred, with a specialism in the conversations that build teams and deliver results. She also leads our work on helping our clients to learn how to coach.
Jane has an instinctive curiosity about the way people experience and respond to the world around them; fuelled by her previous career as a producer and director of TV documentaries and current affairs programmes both in the UK and overseas.
Pooja Middleton
Pooja is an actor, facilitator and coach. She is a specialist in equity, diversity and inclusion.
Her wonderful performances as a marginalised introvert in our inclusion events has brought both joy and tears to our audiences. She has a deep understanding of and the skill to act the lived experience of someone marginalised by bias and micro-aggressions. She also plays many other leadership characters of all shapes and styles.
Alongside her creative experiential work, Pooja is a skilled coach and qualified Insights Discovery Practitioner. She has a background in professional acting and is often recognised by our audiences from her time on East Enders. We feel we give her richer characters and scripts than she had back then!
John Lovett
John is lead facilitator of our international cultural diversity assignments as well as being a qualified executive coach. He also specialises: business development, negotiation, influencing and psychological safety
John has been an actor with us since 2009. He brings a wonderful charming humour to the work and the team, with a brilliant touch for slightly comedic characters. Audiences love his characters, but the comedy never gets in the way of the serious learning.
John has a Diploma in Leadership and Executive Coaching and a Diploma in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging.
Jess Taylor
Jess has her highly organised grip on all operations of the business, including: delivery team management, marketing, project managing assignments, all things commercial and financial and running the office operation. She project manages our complex large events, end-to-end.
Whilst Andy heads up the business, Jess runs it day-to-day. She is the person who keeps the whole team performing at their best, and the client experience easy and smooth. Much of her work is unseen but always appreciated.
Stewart O'Reilly
Stew is a true all rounder. An actor, facilitator and coach, he is also a brilliant film maker with his own Home Run films. Stew has been a pioneer of our online interactive video-based solutions, which carried us through the pandemic years and established our online presence.
Stew plays characters in our large events, excelling in bringing a mix of being the vulnerable ‘good guy’ who tries to please but fails to lead. He has played brilliantly the struggling young leader on the cusp of burnout in our wellbeing assignments.
Stew has a background as a LAMDA trained professional actor and a career in corporate communications. He runs a successful corporate video business alongside his people development and corporate acting work.
Adam Dougal
Adam is an actor, facilitator and coach in our large events and development programmes.
Adam has grabbed hold of lead character roles, such as the slightly wooden and in self-denial, project manager, who believes he is a leader while hiding behind process. He gives everything to every job and is always pays attention to the whole team.
Adam’s background is as a professional theatre actor, voiceover artist and podcast presenter. And he sings, and the creative list goes on. He is an accredited ICF/EMCC Executive Coach
Susanne Madsen
Susanne is our lead trainer, facilitator and coach in project leadership. She delivers with a no-nonsense people-centred approach. She is also a successful key note speaker and published author.
Susanne is highly valued by our clients, who always want her back. She is backed by her real experience as a former leader of large scale programmes in financial services, telecoms and government.
Mike Cambray
Mike is a master of leadership and team development, with a great touch for creating an environment in which people learn. He has a composed energy, which does not crowd a room, and yet always seems surefooted and aware of the groups needs at any moment.
He has a wide range of accreditation, including: MBTI Step I & II, JCA and Hay Emotional Intelligence instruments.
Mike is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (FCIPD), an associate faculty of ING Business School and maintains active links with Henley School of Management, and Lancaster University School of Management Learning.
Ed Wareing
Ed leads our assignments on presenting with impact alongside being a core member of our actor/facilitator team. He is also a qualified executive coach. Ed brings a calm strength to the team, which has got us through some stressful moments down the years. He always steps up at those times, whilst always taking the team with him.
Ed’s brilliant performances as an ambitious but naïve project Sponsor have made a real difference for hundreds of Sponsors learning their trade. Somehow he manages to bring out gravitas, charm, arrogance and incompetence all at the same time.
Ed’s background includes professional acting with the RSC and 25 years in the field of communication and leadership. He is an accredited Business Coach & Leadership Mentor ILM Level 7 and a qualified Systemic Team Coach with the Academy of Executive Coaching.
Dot Lawrence
Dot is an actor, facilitator and coach in our large events and development programmes.
Joining us in 2019, Dot has played many senior characters, from a pompous and caustic CEO to an abrasive Geordie stakeholder. She brings exceptional commitment to the work and care for the learning participants and audiences. She always goes the extra step to help fellow team members.
Dot has 4 decades of experience as a professional actor and over two decades in the experiential and Leadership training space. She is a a qualified ICF/EMCC Executive Coach
Dan Long
Dan started with the business alongside Andy in 2006. He really showed us how to work with actors and then led from the front by example. We owe so much to Dan. He helped develop our creative experiential approaches, which have become the cutting edge of the business.
He is undoubtedly one of the most experienced and skilled actors working in corporate business and he has been a huge influence on what People Deliver Projects has become
Memorable moments, loved by thousands, are his portrayals of nightmare stakeholders and presidential chief execs. His nuanced improvisation choices have brought roars of laughter and put audiences in tears.