Meet the team at Get Psyched Up!
Dr Kate Hammond PhD MSc FHEA
An exceptionally creative and critical thinker, Kate brings a huge range of life experiences as well as academic excellence to her work. Her focus is people, but she embeds her people-based approach within the wider picture of operations and strategy. Having taught at Birkbeck and Kingston University, Kate is currently an associate lecturer at the Open University, teaching psychology in the psychology department and leadership/change management in the Business School. Her role includes coaching students in a variety of skills including stress management, applying the latest learning theories to her work, and leadership development. She is also a mentor to new lecturers. She volunteers as a school governor and in VSO recruitment of long-term volunteers for overseas placements. Kate’s PhD explored alternative leadership strategies and gender politics in Republican Rome, inspired by her own experiences working behind the scenes in the No10 Delivery Unit where she was responsible for briefing Tony Blair on education (DfES). Her developing interest in psychology then led to a second first class degree, which also won the Bruner Social Psychology Prize and an MSc Occupational Psychology, where she was awarded the Peter Saville Prize. She also won the Kingston University Career Changer award. She is a registered occupational test user and assessor (British Psychological Society Level A and B) in a variety of market-leading psychometrics, and is also trained in interpretation of Implicitly, an unconscious bias tool. |
Dr David Hammond PhD MBA FRSM FHEA
David is a highly experienced leader, having worked in many different countries as a musician and artistic director with a large variety of teams, both as a civilian and army officer. He has led from the front leading the main procession at the Queen’s Birthday Parade on horseback, but also in a more transformational way, by empowering and coaching his team to enable them to perform for world leaders and broadcast to millions. David’s PhD research uncovers the effects of the soft power influence of music in a variety of contexts, demonstrating how unconventional and overlooked solutions can often be the key to success. The chief attributes he brings to a leadership team are his innovative and creative approach and his ability to think strategically while still focusing on the reality of delivery. ‘Challenging the process’ is something he does almost instinctively but he is also well known for his solutions, including taking civilian musicians on a ground-breaking tour to the Balkans. In Afghanistan, he created novel opportunities to work with Afghan musicians, quickly building up a key network of stakeholders to make things happen. The result was joint musical events and building valuable inter-cultural bonds far beyond the usual scope of such a tour. With a great deal of practical knowledge and experience, David continues as an active musician in London and East Anglia and maintains his links to the army as a reservist officer with the Royal Yeomanry. |
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