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LEAF’s talented, multilingual, and diverse staff, with backgrounds in agriculture, education, corporate governance, assurance, communications and business, work in partnership with farmers, the food industry, scientists, and educators to meet our shared vision of a more sustainable and regenerative global farming and food system.

Executive Leadership Team:

David Webster

David Web­ster

Chief Exec­u­tive

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Steve Jones

Steve Jones

Chief Oper­at­ing Officer email hidden; JavaScript is required
Maggie Turner

Mag­gie Turner

Direc­tor of Oper­a­tional Services email hidden; JavaScript is required
Carl Edwards

Carl Edwards

Direc­tor of Com­mu­ni­ca­tion, Engage­ment & Education email hidden; JavaScript is required
Helen Ferrier

Helen Fer­ri­er

Direc­tor of Inno­va­tion & Knowl­edge Exchange email hidden; JavaScript is required
Jonathan Ralling

Jonathan Ralling

Direc­tor of LEAF Marque email hidden; JavaScript is required

Innovation & Knowledge Exchange:

Mercedes Groba Groba

Mer­cedes Gro­ba Groba

Head of Sus­tain­able Farm­ing International email hidden; JavaScript is required
Emily Pope

Emi­ly Pope

Net­work Devel­op­ment Manager email hidden; JavaScript is required
Elaine Smith

Elaine Smith

Learn­ing Devel­op­ment Manager email hidden; JavaScript is required
Dawn Teverson

Dawn Tev­er­son

LEAF Knowl­edge Manager email hidden; JavaScript is required
Sherida Walker

Sheri­da Walker

Mem­ber­ship Manager email hidden; JavaScript is required
Rachel Matthews

Rachel Matthews

Wait­rose Farm­ing for Nature Pro­gramme Manager email hidden; JavaScript is required
Abbie-Jayne Burford

Abbie-Jayne Bur­ford

Net­work & Projects Coordinator email hidden; JavaScript is required
Nathan Deacon

Nathan Dea­con

Mem­ber­ship & Finance Coordinator email hidden; JavaScript is required
Emma Watson

Emma Wat­son

Projects & Deliv­ery Coordinator email hidden; JavaScript is required

LEAF Marque & International Development:

Phil Skentelbery

Phil Sken­tel­bery

LEAF Mar­que Assur­ance Lead email hidden; JavaScript is required
Angela Demetriou

Angela Demetri­ou

LEAF Mar­que Data & Eval­u­a­tion Lead email hidden; JavaScript is required
Abbey Holman

Abbey Hol­man

LEAF Mar­que Stan­dards Lead email hidden; JavaScript is required
Victoria Prior

Vic­to­ria Prior

LEAF Mar­que Net­work & Part­ner­ships Lead email hidden; JavaScript is required
Jemma Naish

Jem­ma Naish

M&S Part­ner­ship Manager email hidden; JavaScript is required
Mollie Burns

Mol­lie Burns

LEAF Mar­que Stan­dards Coordinator email hidden; JavaScript is required
Hope Chapman

Hope Chap­man

LEAF Mar­que Data & Eval­u­a­tion Coordinator email hidden; JavaScript is required
Laura Cullen

Lau­ra Cullen

LEAF Mar­que Assur­ance Coordinator email hidden; JavaScript is required
Alexandra Davies

Alexan­dra Davies

LEAF Mar­que Stan­dards Coordinator email hidden; JavaScript is required
Harriette Miller

Har­ri­ette Miller

LEAF Mar­que Data & Eval­u­a­tion Coordinator email hidden; JavaScript is required
Julie Clarke

Julie Clarke

Tech­ni­cal Admin­is­tra­tion Officer email hidden; JavaScript is required
Lakshmi Nair

Lak­sh­mi Nair

LEAF Mar­que Stan­dards Officer email hidden; JavaScript is required

Communication, Engagement & Education:

Philip Adams

Philip Adams

Edu­ca­tion Oper­a­tions and Impacts Lead email hidden; JavaScript is required
Mia Hartwell

Mia Hartwell

Brand & Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Lead email hidden; JavaScript is required
Fiona Rust

Fiona Rust

Edu­ca­tion Net­works & Part­ner­ships Lead email hidden; JavaScript is required
Justine Hards

Jus­tine Hards

Exec­u­tive Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Manager email hidden; JavaScript is required
Ellie Knight

Ellie Knight

Dig­i­tal Com­mu­ni­ca­tions & Design Manager email hidden; JavaScript is required
Annabel Shackleton

Annabel Shack­le­ton

Open Farm Sun­day Manager email hidden; JavaScript is required
Matthew Bradley

Matthew Bradley

Com­mu­ni­ca­tions & Video Coordinator email hidden; JavaScript is required
Cassandra Gruppioni

Cas­san­dra Gruppioni

Edu­ca­tion Net­work & Part­ner­ship Coordinator email hidden; JavaScript is required
Justine Hunt

Jus­tine Hunt

Edu­ca­tion Sup­port Coordinator email hidden; JavaScript is required
Clare Hurst

Clare Hurst

Edu­ca­tion & Pub­lic Engage­ment Officer email hidden; JavaScript is required
Jayalakshmi Marneni

Jay­alak­sh­mi Marneni

Mar­ket­ing and Ana­lyt­ics Officer email hidden; JavaScript is required
Lisa Dunne

Lisa Dunne

As a farmer’s daugh­ter who grew up on a tra­di­tion­al mixed farm in Corn­wall Lisa has always enjoyed a prac­ti­cal ​‘hands on’ out­door life. In her aca­d­e­m­ic career Lisa read agri­cul­ture at Aberys­t­wyth Uni­ver­si­ty fol­lowed by post­grad­u­ate stud­ies at The School of Agri­cul­ture in Aberdeen and six years as a research sci­en­tist in Scot­land and Éire. On com­ple­tion of her PGCE, Lisa spent six years teach­ing sci­ence, biol­o­gy and agri­cul­tur­al sci­ence in a sec­ondary school in Éire. Since return­ing to the fam­i­ly farm in Corn­wall in 2006 she has com­bined farm­ing with teach­ing biol­o­gy at A lev­el, HNC and HND at Truro & Pen­with Col­lege. Lisa was delight­ed to join LEAF in a role that com­bines her pas­sion for edu­ca­tion, farm­ing and the envi­ron­ment. She believes that peo­ple need to be giv­en the oppor­tu­ni­ty to con­nect with and engage in food pro­duc­tion and under­stand the impor­tant roles farm­ers play in man­age­ment of the nat­ur­al envi­ron­ment. In her spare time Lisa enjoys walk­ing her dogs and hack­ing her High­land pony.

Faye Edwards

Faye Edwards

Faye is an expe­ri­enced teacher with an Ear­ly Years spe­cial­ism and worked in an inner-city school in Birm­ing­ham for 9 years. Faye lead on the cur­ricu­lum across the school which has enabled her to have a broad under­stand­ing of the Ear­ly Years and Nation­al Cur­ricu­lum and has cement­ed the impor­tance of chil­dren learn­ing through a holis­tic approach. This approach has huge ben­e­fits on the well-being and progress of chil­dren from inner city areas in par­tic­u­lar. She has a pas­sion for enrich­ing chil­dren’s learn­ing through expe­ri­ences out­side of the class­room. In her spare time Faye likes gar­den­ing and walk­ing with her family.

Anna Fryer

Anna Fry­er

LEAF Edu­ca­tion Spe­cial­ist | Leicestershire

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Bob­bie Harvey

Bob­bie Harvey

Before LEAF, Bob­bie was deputy war­den at an edu­ca­tion­al farm near Sheffield and worked for the Peak Dis­trict Nation­al Park Edu­ca­tion Ser­vice. She then worked for many years for LEAF Edu­ca­tion’s pre­de­ces­sor, FACE (Farm­ing and Coun­try­side edu­ca­tion.) With degrees in Fine Art and Envi­ron­men­tal Sci­ence she enjoys being able to com­bine her inter­ests whilst work­ing for LEAF Edu­ca­tion and in her free­lance work as an artist and in envi­ron­men­tal edu­ca­tion. Her spare time is spent rid­ing her pony, look­ing after a small flock of Jacob sheep and many dif­fer­ent cre­ative projects. Bob­bie has estab­lished a wide net­work of farm­ers and teach­ers in her region and is well known for the cre­ative projects she devel­ops to help fos­ter a wider under­stand­ing of coun­try­side top­ics in schools.

Jo Hatton

Jo Hat­ton

Jo is an expe­ri­enced GCSE and A Lev­el Busi­ness Stud­ies and Eco­nom­ics teacher, com­bin­ing her teach­ing with a love for the out­doors, meant that she also led many Duke of Edin­burgh expe­di­tions dur­ing her time as a teacher. As well as work­ing for LEAF Edu­ca­tion, Jo led the Hamp­shire team of the Coun­try Trust for almost 12 years enabling thou­sands of chil­dren to ben­e­fit from the oppor­tu­ni­ty of a safe and edu­ca­tion­al vis­it to a real work­ing farm. When not work­ing Jo enjoys walk­ing and rid­ing across the New For­est with her family.

Eliz­a­beth Lake

Eliz­a­beth Lake

Eliz­a­beth has a pas­sion for envi­ron­men­tal issues and strong­ly believes in the impor­tance of edu­cat­ing young peo­ple to think about how and why our resources should be man­aged sus­tain­ably. After study­ing for a Degree in Envi­ron­men­tal Sci­ence at Brighton Uni­ver­si­ty, her career then began in coun­try­side man­age­ment with The Nation­al Trust as a full time War­den. It was work­ing here which gave her the oppor­tu­ni­ty to work with chil­dren at the on-site edu­ca­tion cen­tre at Atting­ham Park, near Shrews­bury. This inspired Eliz­a­beth in 2001 to com­plete a PGCE in Geog­ra­phy at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Birm­ing­ham and has since taught GCSE, A lev­el and Access to HE in Envi­ron­men­tal Sci­ence and Geog­ra­phy in both the inde­pen­dent and fur­ther edu­ca­tion sec­tors; pro­gress­ing to the post of Head of Aca­d­e­m­ic, Pro­fes­sion­al & HE at Strat­ford-upon-Avon Col­lege. Eliz­a­beth now bal­ances the job between her role as a Geog­ra­phy exam­in­er and look­ing after her three young chil­dren and works from her home office in Alcester.

Vicki McLaughlin

Vic­ki McLaughlin

LEAF Edu­ca­tion Spe­cial­ist | East of England

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Julie Neale

Julie Neale

LEAF Edu­ca­tion Spe­cial­ist | West Mid­lands & Northamptonshire

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Katy Pallas

Katy Pal­las

Katy has always enjoyed being in the out­doors and par­tic­u­lar­ly work­ing with hors­es. Hav­ing tak­en a degree in equine sci­ence Katy became a lec­tur­er at a large land based col­lege. After a few years lec­tur­ing Katy then took a post man­ag­ing the Schools Liai­son team for the col­lege. Katy took on the respon­si­bil­i­ty for devel­op­ing links with schools, with a par­tic­u­lar empha­sis being placed on devel­op­ing school vis­its to the col­lege dairy and sheep farms. The school vis­its became very pop­u­lar and the col­lege farms were one of the first to achieve the Learn­ing Out­side the Class­room Qual­i­ty Badge when it was first intro­duced. After 10 years at the col­lege Katy left to devel­op her role with LEAF’s pre­de­ces­sor, FACE (Farm­ing and Coun­try­side edu­ca­tion). Katy loves the vari­ety of work, par­tic­u­lar­ly train­ing teach­ers and farm­ers how to plan fun, safe, cur­ricu­lum linked vis­its. In her spare time Katy is a qual­i­fied rid­ing coach and splits her time between com­pet­ing her own horse and coach­ing oth­er riders.

Sam Wyman

Sam Wyman

Sam has always had an inter­est in the envi­ron­ment and the nat­ur­al world. After study­ing for a Degree in Biol­o­gy at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Durham, he ini­tial­ly began a career in pes­ti­cide reg­u­la­tion before com­plet­ing his PGCE and becom­ing a pri­ma­ry school teacher. For almost 10 years he enjoyed what he describes as ​“one of the best jobs in the world”. He left pri­ma­ry teach­ing so that he could care for his two young chil­dren. He has close fam­i­ly links to the farm­ing indus­try and enjoys spend­ing as much time as pos­si­ble in the coun­try­side. Sam joined LEAF Edu­ca­tion as it offers a unique oppor­tu­ni­ty to con­tin­ue work­ing with young peo­ple, and along­side those from the edu­ca­tion, farm­ing and food sec­tors who share his pas­sion for learning.

Operations:

Janell White

Janell White

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Diane Glendinning

Diane Glendin­ning

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Kuljit Sumal

Kuljit Sumal

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