Sally is involved with others in campaigning for Marine Protected Areas and sustainable fisheries. Planning democracy is in short supply in Scotland at the present time and salmon farming is an extreme example of the deficit in democracy for local communities in the west of Scotland. Let alone the damage they cause to the marine environment.
Sally trained initially as a scientist and worked in research as a marine ecologist at the edge of the sea, in the UK and California. Always fascinated by complex systems, on the birth of their two daughters, she became most interested in the dynamics of family, community and organisations, another set of complex systems.
This led to her interest in Jung, leadership, organisational and community development. For 5 years she worked with National Children’s Home, as a community worker, in her words “to enable the community to care for itself better”. She was closely involved in the formation of Surrey Family Conciliation Service, now Surrey Family Mediation Service. During her time in Dorking, she was one of the founder trainers of Hospice Home Care, now The Brigitte Trust. She was involved in family and career counselling. Always interested in process, she worked with others to influence the power brokers in the local area to support community efforts at self-help.
She ran her own business from 1985-2010 providing specialist services and training in transformation of businesses and assisting their people to adapt to changing economic and global conditions. She worked across the sectors, from small start-up businesses, statutory authorities, NGOs, production, services, financial and commercial organisations. She is interested in teamwork, management and leadership development. Transition management and global leadership are areas of particular interest and she has written widely on leadership, teams, and on cross-cultural working.
A psychometrician working with personality and its influence on organisations and individuals, she served on the Board of the British Association of Psychological Type (BAPT). She was for 5 years also a member of the Faculty of the Association of Psychological Type at Oxford Psychologists Press and served APT International, as the Multicultural Consultant from 1993-97. She has been involved with the British National Training Awards as an independent assessor and in support for the judging panels.
In the early 2000s Sally completed a two-year MSc at the University of Bath in Responsibility and Business Practice. This integrated her interest in process, corporate and social responsibility, new economics, sustainability and a much clearer view of world development. Sally looks at processes from a broad basis, looking at systems, both human and environmental, the latter a driving interest developed whilst a marine ecologist working at the edge of the sea in the UK in the late 1960s, and then on San Francisco Bay. In both, the research was aimed at understanding the dynamics of natural systems. How everything affects everything!
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years later on the Isle of Arran in Scotland where Sally and John have lived for the last 15 years overlooking the sea, they are involved in community engagement. Sally has been involved with the Arran Civic Trust and the marine environment ever since! Sally came to realise more fully just how hard it is for sustainability in all its three dimensions- environmental, social and economic- to be taken seriously by those in power or those who have ready access to the power base in Scotland, London and Europe.
Sally is involved with others in campaigning for Marine Protected Areas and sustainable fisheries. Planning democracy is in short supply in Scotland at the present time and salmon farming is an extreme example of the deficit in democracy for local communities in the west of Scotland. Let alone the damage they cause to the marine environment.
Sally is on the Board of the Scottish Creel Fishermen’s Federation working for sustainable seas in inshore marine environments and writes for the monthly www.voiceforarran.com on matters environmental.
Some of Sally’s articles:
Modern politics and communities as pawns of politicians’ whims
