Meet the Training Team
The training team consists of a number of committed individuals that have broadly seen it all. Collectively we have about 100 years experience in management, leadership and other commercial/ healthcare roles. We bring that expertise to Medicology in a flexible, open-minded way. Each person has their own specialties.
Andrew Vincent DipM MCIM DMS
Managing Director & Lead Consultant/ Trainer
Andrew has a senior management background across healthcare encompassing pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices and training! An energetic leadership, management & personal performance specialist, his particular fortes include leadership development for senior health service staff, including consultants, clinical directors & boards, management development across all levels of health service staff, with an emphasis on alignment with key organisational goals and resolving complex challenges, including low morale, significant change, disengagement, conflict, clinical/managerial divides, inertia and crises.
Sara Watkin MD MBChB FRCPCH
Medical Director
Sara’s healthcare experience spans 20 years encompassing tertiary care, secondary care, primary care and managed clinical network level. This gives rise to enormous insight into the healthcare environment, the current reconfiguration agenda and increasing emphasis on clinical quality & safety. As Consultant Neonatologist for 12 years and Clinical Director for 7 years, she has considerable experience at the sharp end of healthcare delivery, accountability and organisational infrastructure. Her role as Clinical Lead for a Managed Clinical Network has been illuminating to the challenge facing healthcare reform.
Bruce Martin
Leadership & Management Development Specialist
Bruce has a 15 year history in public sector leadership & management development, coupling an animated and passionate style with considerable organisational leadership expertise. His own training encompasses the Certificate of Education (Middlesex University), ‘Coaching through Change’ and ‘Performance Coaching’ (Newcastle). During his 31 years in Public Service he has dealt with many difficult situations first hand; and has the skills and expertise to turn these experiences into the best quality of training for Medicology, having already done so in an instrumental fashion for the Metropolitan Police Leadership Academy. He tells a good story too.
Lois Brand MBChB MRCP FCEM
Leadership & Personal Performance Specialist
Lois is an energetic leadership development specialist with an interest in individual performance factors such as health & nutrition. She is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine and continues to practice in a busy, prominent A & E department. Just to ensure she has to be a high performer herself, she is also an Honorary Associate Clinical Professor at the University of Warwick Medical School in the Department of Clinical Education. Her demand as a leadership specialist encompasses a commission to create a junior doctor leadership programme, through to engagements as diverse as The Kronberg Academy in Frankfurt and Channel 4. She definitely exudes passion for leadership.
Andy Colehan
Trainer - Communications, Team Development & Conflict Management
Andy specialises in relationship management across the full spectrum of team development, interpersonal communications and conflict resolution. A soft approach and supportive style result in Andy's success and renown in this area.
