Here you can read about IMA International's Consultants and Trainers and Office team.
All our facilitators have extensive practical experience working as consultants in the field; they are also skilled facilitators in the classroom. You can request a consultant (or a group of consultants) for your short- or long-term input, or do a consultant search from 400 more consultants on our database.
Senior Associate Consultant
Silvia is a social development specialist and has been a senior consultant with IMA International since 2003. She specialises in monitoring and evaluation, participation, gender and communication and has extensive experience in training course design and delivery. Her overseas experience includes education training in Indonesia, and NGO project management in East Africa and West Africa. Before joining IMA, Silvia worked for the international NGO ACORD, managing projects, running participatory workshops with local partners and facilitating the development of numerous ACORD Africa-based policies. She has also worked as an adult education tutor for the University of Sussex in the UK.
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Lead Consultant • Project Management
Nick Curley is an international development professional with proven experience of planning, monitoring and evaluating international development projects. His areas of expertise include project management, monitoring and evaluation, performance management and human rights. He is a skilled facilitator and trainer with experience of using Creative Problem Solving (CPS) to explore contextual issues and manage complexity.
Before joining IMA, Nick worked for the Council for World Mission (CWM) and was responsible for managing a broad portfolio of international projects. He has experience of working in India, Nepal, Malawi, Namibia, Guyana, Thailand and Taiwan. He has a Masters in Understanding and Securing Human Rights and is currently studying towards a MBA.
Senior Associate Consultant
Anthea Dickie is a highly experienced M&E Adviser, with an MPhil in Agricultural Economics and more than 25 years of experience, specialising in public sector capacity building.
She has recently been working as Programme Director of the Support to Reforming Institutions Programme in Nigeria, funded by the EC. She has also worked in Ethiopia, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad & Tobago, Uganda, the UK and Zambia.
Managing Director
Chris Grose joined IMA International as a Senior Consultant in 1997 after 8 years working as a training and extension specialist in Nepal and Bangladesh. He became Managing Director of IMA in 2001 and has overseen a growing international team working on capacity development initiatives since that time.
Today, Chris’ primary role is in business development and strategic partnerships. When training and consultaing, his interests lie in organisational assessment and development, particularly in post-conflict and fragile states. Chris has overseas experience in Afghanistan, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Uganda.
Senior Associate Consultant
David Hearle is a well-recognised strategic planning and institutions specialist with 30 years’ experience in Asia, Africa, Europe, South America and The Middle East. His experience as a Project Director, Consultant, Trainer and Team Leader covers a number of short and long term assignments for multilateral agencies, bilateral donors, NGOs and corporations. Sector experience includes Policy, Natural Resources, Engineering, Environment, Health and Education. As an educator and trainer he has been training and directing IMA courses in Australia, Botswana, Dubai, Kenya, Malaysia, South Africa, Thailand, and the UK since 1984.
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Senior Consultant
Mick Howes is a former IDS Fellow and has worked in 17 countries. He is a Social Development specialist with a particular interest in rural and participatory development and NGOs. He has recently completed a study of Community-led Total Sanitation for DFID, and an evaluation of a Practical Action project in Bangladesh. He has also helped develop IMA’s increasingly popular Results Based M&E Systems workshop.
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Training and Development Consultant
Tristan Measures regularly trains on IMA’s scheduled courses, manages and facilitates tailor-made courses and responds to requests for IMA consultants.
He is a Monitoring and Evaluation specialist and has a Masters Degree in Applied Development Studies from Reading University. He has expertise in M&E, Aid Effectiveness, Governance and Development Communications. Before starting at IMA, he worked as a Peacebuilding Researcher in Sri Lanka, for the Research and Policy in Development (RAPID) unit at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) in London, and he has further overseas experience in Kenya, Nigeria, Peru, South Africa, and Uganda.
Lead Consultant • People Skills
Linzi Moore has background in management and international development and thrives on using her experience across the private and public sector to help others achieve their goals.
She has coached, consulted and trained a variety of international organisations such as Christian Aid, Muscular Dystrophy Campaign and the Government of Rwanda. Her specialist areas include leadership, management development and teambuilding and she also facilitates a range of other people management subjects.
She has lived and worked in both Indonesia and Rwanda and has a passion for languages, speaking both French and Indonesian to a semi-fluent level.
Senior Associate Consultant
Lesley specialises in organisational development and capacity-building, including training needs analysis (TNA), capacity development plans, M&E training and evaluations, as well as competency-based training and gender mainstreaming. She has cross-sectoral experience in rural development, aquaculture, education, health, and government development programmes in South Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Africa, and Afghanistan.
Her recent contracts include conducting a TNA and designing a Capacity Development Plan for a West African regional integration organisation; International M&E Advisor to an ADB-funded government health programme in Indonesia; the facilitation of Mid-term Programme Planning for a large REDD Programme in Indonesia; and developing a draft planning, and M&E framework for the Ministry of Women’s Development of Pakistan.
Lesley comes to the development sector with a strong practical and academic background in capacity-building, research, planning and evaluation. She was formerly a Director (BoD) of a State education company, appointed by the New Zealand Government during a period of State sector reform, as well as a Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management and Marketing in New Zealand, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Lesley holds a Trained Teacher’s Certificate and Diploma (Merit), a Doctorate based on micro-enterprises in developing countries, and a first Class Honours Degree in Commerce (gender and SME development). She is an avid reader, gardener, pet owner, and collector of traditional weaving. She also loves cycling and swimming when time allows.
Our office team manages all the logistics, finance, communications and quality control for all our services. From our base in Hurstpierpoint, the team takes care of all the details from applications to contracts to stationery to market research. They ensure that we provide clients with the professional and friendly service they rely on and meet our business objectives.
Course Coordinator
Luke Beasley joined IMA in April 2009. He is the first point of contact for all course enquiries, and processes all applications for scheduled courses. He coordinates our courses, handles course logistics, preparation of materials, and provides administrative support to trainers and participants.
Course Administrator, South Africa
Hayley Friend lives in Cape Town and has worked in education and community projects. She is presently working in an NGO which specialises in training community developers. Hayley often helps host international teams staying in South Africa. Hayley has recently joined IMA and assists with our training courses
in Cape Town.
Course Administrator, Southeast Asia
Orn-Anong Vasuratna, based in Bangkok, has worked with us since 2005. Her background is in natural resources and environment, and she has worked in NGOs and public sector. When Orn is not working for IMA, she works as a freelance
translator and interpreter, and runs a 'Nature Stay centre' in Northern Thailand.
Finance Officer
Jenny Viccars joined IMA in September 2009 as the Finance Officer. She is a Member of the Association of Accounting Technicians and brings with her many years’ experience in Accounts. For the last few years she has been working for a similar company so has a wide knowledge of training company accounts.
Jenny’s role includes all aspects of Company Accounts.
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