About Us
Let’s Talk Leadership is an ongoing conversation.
It’s brought to you by people who are passionate about leadership. It is a partnership of three highly experienced leadership facilitators and a network of international executive coaches, working across the World in different cultures and with different types of organisations.
We connect what we and our global network know to what you need. In particular to support young leaders around the World. We met through our work as associates for the Center for Creative Leadership. What brings us together is our drive to support the next generation of leaders, because their future is so different from the one that we experienced when we were starting our careers.
We engage in conversations with a wide range of leaders in sports, the military, history, music, human rights to name just a few. We provide coaching support to young leaders doing amazing work in their own communities, and we build networks and create connections. Lets Talk Leadership is a place where anyone interested in leadership can drop in and perhaps gain and also share helpful insights which may just help to equip us all for the challenges ahead.
Meet the Team
Brit van Ooijen
Brit studied Linguistics in the Dutch city of Leiden and moved on to do research in Cambridge, which eventually led to a PhD and the testing of 180 newborns in Paris to help understand how babies learn language.
The passion for language and for crossing borders remained but her focus changed to adult learning and leadership. Brit gained experience in different countries and companies, such as in Qatar where she designed and delivered programmes and worked in human resources management for a large multinational. As a keen supporter of non-profit organisations, she spent 6 years helping to oversee the building in Copenhagen of a purpose-built international school on a “green” campus featuring the largest solar facade in the world.
Brit joined the Centre for Creative Leadership in 2016; in addition she runs her own business. She is the proud mother of four sons and lives in Leiden in the Netherlands, with her husband and cats. Her hobbies are singing and walking as fast as possible.
Ian Sturgess
Ian Sturgess is a senior consultant and runs his own business. He designs and delivers leadership development programmes and team interventions for clients around the world. He started his career as an avionics engineer and still has a passion for aircraft and flying. Over the last 15 years Ian has developed an obsession with leadership. His purpose in life is to help those in a leadership position to be more effective. He does this by sharing what he knows; facilitating discussions; challenging thinking, and learning from others. He enjoys spending time with his family when he can and watching his beloved Chelsea FC. He is a qualified soccer coach and referee. His guilty pleasure is the occasional game of golf.
Matthew Hunter
Matthew started his international career milking cows in the deserts of Saudi Arabia in 1976. A further 8 years were spent developing and managing agricultural projects in the Middle East before moving into international business development spending time in Japan, South Korea, South East Asia and the USA. A move into industry in 1993 led to running change programmes in the UK aerospace and car manufacturing industries. In 2006 Matthew started working with the Center for Creative Leadership, one of World’s leading leadership development organisations. He facilitates in-company leadership work with senior executives from global businesses.
Earlier this year Matthew retired from helping to facilitate and manage the post graduate development programme for MDS Ltd., a member based not for profit organisation working in the European fresh produce and food industry. He has been responsible for supporting the development of over 500 post graduates.
Matthew studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and then did his post graduate studies before starting to work in the Middle East. He lives with his wife in the North Cotswolds, near Shipston on Stour
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