Jane Sparrow & Chris Preston
Jane Sparrow is a Culture and High Performance Expert who has spent her career working with organisations across the globe to create sustainable high-performance cultures.
She began her career at IBM before holding a variety of senior positions in organisations such as Sony Europe, The Energy Project and MCA (now part of the WPP Group). Founder of the business consultancy The Culture Builders, specialising in transformational change, engagement and sustainable high performance cultures, Jane is passionate about enabling others to perform at their best to achieve organisational and personal goals. Her approach is grounded in the belief that by moving people beyond being simply ‘savers’ in an organisation and working with them to become ‘investors’ - people who will put far more in, organisations can unlock their performance potential.
Jane’s work enables people to sustain high performance by creating nurturing organisational cultures and engaging people. She delivers high-impact keynotes and workshops, works with leadership teams to shape strategy, coaches board members, and runs high-performance programmes.
Jane is an expert facilitator, consultant, performance coach and impactful speaker that regularly provides her opinions and insight to the global media. Jane’s work has also been incorporated into multiple university and business school curriculums, including MBA programmes. She is also one of a number of selected business and policy leaders, academics and influential thinkers who work with business leaders to respond strategically to sustainability challenges, through Cambridge University’s Prince of Wales Business and Sustainability programme.
With an interactive, dynamic and inclusive style, always supported by real life examples and practical advice, Jane’s keynotes leave audiences feeling both inspired and empowered to act in their own organisations.
Chris Preston is Founder & Director at The Culture Builders. He has been working in leadership, engagement and learning and development for more than 20 years, during which he has delivered groundbreaking work for global companies such as Allianz, Toyota, Masterfoods, Perform Group, Lane Crawford, Sony and Pfizer.
Published author and co-founder of business consultancy The Culture Builders, Chris specialises in creating positive environments and highly effective teams, both through multi-element programmes and more focused individual development interventions. Starting work as a zoo keeper before jumping into corporate and agency work (he swears there are no parallels between the two worlds…), Chris’s experience is varied and rich and includes being a psychology graduate and a Level A&B trained assessor. He’s the one to call if you’re being chased by a lion (literally and metaphorically).
