Who's Delivering It
DV Talent is one of the UK's leading independent training providers and career agencies for creative media professionals. It offers an extensive range of courses across film, TV and digital media, and is known as the place to go for up-to-date training that constantly adapts to the latest industry trends and developments. Its clients include all the major indies and broadcasters, it is a key supplier to the BBC and ITV, and has extensive contacts throughout the creative industries. For the last two years it has run Skillset's Series Producer training scheme. DV Talent is a member of the Moving Image Training Alliance (Mita).
Jill Tandy
Programme Director
Jill Tandy runs her own media consultancy which specialises in film and television and includes talent development and training for the sectors.
From 2007 to 2009 she was a consultant to NBC Universal and worked as Head of Commercial Affairs with the President to establish their new international television production division. During that time, the team formulated the international strategy and created an international operating division from scratch as well as , working with Kudos Films and TV to finance and produce Law and Order UK and acquiring Carnival Films and Television.
Jill is also a co-owner of Qwerty Films. Established by Jill Tandy, Michael Kuhn and Malcolm Ritchie in 1999, Qwerty Films is a feature film production company, and media consultancy. Together with Citibank Qwerty raised a fund to produce and finance a slate of international films, with a US distribution deal with Twentieth Century Fox. Qwerty’s productions include: ALIEN AUTOPSY (Ant and Dec); I HEART HUCKABEES (Dustin Hoffman, Jude Law); KINSEY (Liam Neeson); and most recently the Oscar winning movie, THE DUCHESS (Keira Knightly)
She was an original member of the senior management team of PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, where from 1989-1999 she established and headed up the international legal, business and public affairs activities . PFE grew to become Europe’s only major fully integrated film studio with film, television and video production, distribution and sales operations in 14 countries and revenues of approximately $1billion, producing over 100 movies, before its acquisition by Universal Studios.
Since 1997 she has been involved in numerous business training activities as well as designing and directing the film industry s leadership Programme ,Inside Pictures, she is currently on the Advisory Board of the Film Business Academy at Cass Business School and the Metropolitan Film School.
She is a member of BAFTA and the PACT Film Policy Group.
She qualified as a solicitor in 1985 with Law Society honours
Janet Evans
Head of Coaching
Janet came to coaching and organisational consultancy after a career in Whitehall, the last fifteen years of which were as a leader in the Senior Civil Service. She worked closely with Ministers, her responsibilities ranging from strategy and policy to operational planning and delivery.
As part of the Senior Management Team at DCMS, she led a number of projects relating to the creative media industries, including the Film Policy Review and establishment of the UK Film Council, and the creation of Culture Online, a body responsible for digitising the assets of cultural bodies and making them available online in an audience-friendly way.
She coaches at Chief Executive, senior and middle management level, and advises organisations on all aspects of planning and management, designing and delivering interventions to help them get the best from their people. Her clients include The National School of Government, government departments, non-departmental public bodies, industry bodies (including the UK Film Council and Skillset) and consultancies.
Janet has had a longstanding interest in how organisations function, individual psychology, and how to make the interface between organisation and individuals more effective. Her unique combination of skills and experience mean that her consultancy and coaching cover a wide range of interrelated issues from strategic planning and organisational effectiveness to helping individuals to clarify their deepest goals, unlock their potential and become authentic leaders.
Janet has an MA from Oxford University, an MSc in Organisational Psychology from the University of London, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Coaching and Mentoring Practice from Oxford Brookes University, where she is studying for an MA. She is accredited to administer the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, and is a member of the Association for Coaching.
Clare Brigstocke
Coach
Prior to becoming a freelance executive coach, trainer and media consultant, Clare spent the bulk of her career at the BBC in documentary programme-making. Starting as a film editor, she’s worked as a director/producer, series producer and executive producer. She then became a senior TV manager, responsible for up to 1000 BBC production staff. She later moved into coaching, and then became Manager of Leadership, Management and Personal Effectiveness Development before leaving the corporation.
Clare gained a post-graduate executive coaching qualification at Middlesex University and works largely with people in the creative sector. Her clients include Channel 4, Endemol and NESTA. She also works for Skillset, evaluating the quality of their television training.
John Bates
Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship, The London Business School
John Bates is Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at London Business School and a Director of Sussex Place Ventures Ltd. Over the last 10 years he has been leading the School’s practical initiatives in developing entrepreneurial firms including €20m of ‘pre seed’ and ‘seed’ venture capital funds and various networks of entrepreneurs, advisors and private investors associated with the London Business School that have supported over 50 alumni founded companies.
John has been teaching and developing courses at LBS since 1985, while also starting up and running two technology businesses, a consultancy and a venture capital company. His current teaching portfolio includes two MBA electives, New Venture Development and New Creative Ventures and previously the ever popular Managing the Growing Business elective.
John has an active interest in technology and creative firms and is currently on the board or board advisor to a number of early stage companies advising on fundraising and facilitating management development of their directors and senior staff.
