About Us
Erica Harley
Erica uses over ten years’ experience in training, drama and education to design, develop and deliver a variety of training and communication solutions for both public and private sector businesses. Through her ability to mix sound training and educational principles with creative dramatic mediums, she is able to produce exciting and innovative programmes. She is a skilled facilitator and motivator who delivers her message with energy and enthusiasm. She is responsive to situations and people and able to grasp the context of an unfamiliar professional sector and to work with people at all levels within the business environment.
Erica has a BA Hons from Reading University in English and Philosophy and a Post Graduate Degree from Oxford University.
Deborah Vitai
Deborah and Erica have enjoyed combining their talents in a number of projects since EHA was established. Recent work has included projects relating to managing performance, interviewing skills and dealing with challenging clients.
Deborah has been working as an independent consultant since 2003. Her clients come from the fields of education, health, the arts, accounting and consulting and from industries such as construction and publishing.
Deborah is a skilled facilitator and coach who relishes the opportunity to work with people from a range of backgrounds. Having been involved in business and executive coaching for a number of years, she has more recently been involved in life coaching. Her clients have found that coaching can be of great practical help when they are dealing with a range of challenges such as: career change; preparing for promotion or assessing career choices; personal development; handling corporate or personal change; dealing with difficult relationships. Deborah has worked effectively with people in all these circumstances.
Raminder Braich
Raminder Braich is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist with over 18 years experience in management and leadership assessment, development and executive coaching.
She has completed over 50 significant organisational, human resources and general management consulting assignments in both operating and project management capacities across a wide spectrum of organisations and industries.
Raminder was Director of People Development at Poisson Rouge for the last two years, having been with a Psychology based consulting group for the previous 6 years. Her earlier career included Occupational Psychologist for the NatWest Group and Counsellor in a public sector organisation, serving people with a range of psychological problems such as addictive behaviours.
In recent years her consultancy assignments have included designing development and organisational effectiveness strategies and a series of pan-European initiatives in the telecoms industry including talent development, performance management and business improvements in the redefinition of strategic and business processes. She is a superb facilitator and executive coach and has been very successfully involved in countless team development events.
Recent clients include: HM Treasury. The Walt Disney Company, Linklaters, Nortel Networks, Department of Work & Pensions (DWP), Royal Bank of Scotland, Burlington Resources, Habitat, British Gas, Cancer Research UK, Cable & Wireless Communications and the NHS.
Raminder is a design and film fanatic. She is currently in the middle of writing a book on Corporate Happiness and is kept busy and entertained by her young family.
Jenny Hoskins
An empowering professional learning and development specialist with excellent communication and organisational skills and a passion for experiential learning.
Has a wealth of experience in facilitation and the design and delivery of successful experiential learning solutions (including the use of role-play, forum theatre and psychodrama) across a range of sectors.
Jenny works with focus, clarity and commitment. A perceptive understanding of individual/group process and ability to work at the level of attitudes and beliefs, together with her experience of the business environment and knowledge of legal frameworks, enable her to successfully deliver practical results.
Sona Vyas
Sona Vyas has a BSc (Hons) in Sociology and Social Policy. Sona has skills in facilitation, writing, system administration, group management and customer relations.
In the past she has worked with the Terrence Higgins Trust as a Buddy Support and Development Officer, with Lambeth SHAD as a Volunteer Coordinator and as a Day Centre Officer for adults with physical disabilites for London Borough of Barnet Community Services. During this time Sona developed and delivered training for a variety of organisations and has a Moving and Handling Training qualification from the University of Luton based at Bedford Hospital. Her time as a Moving and Handling Trainer saw her training and conducting risk assessments in various health care settings. In Sona’s role at SHAD she managed the home care of adults with severe physical disabilities in an independent living scheme.
More recently, Sona has delivered Equality and Diversity training to a number of public sector clients, including Metropolitan Police Authority, Home Office, Government Offices and Department for Transport, Local Government and Regions.
Sona was also part of the team delivering Equality and Diversity training through the use of forum theatre and roleplay to GPs and other health care professionals for Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark PCT, to teachers in primary school settings for Tower Hamlets Education Authority and at conferences for Tower Hamlets Council, Metropolitan Police and Tower Hamlets LGBT Forum.
Sona also writes and has written scripts both for theatre and for training purposes. She firmly believes in the advantages of using interactive roleplay and forum theatre as a tool for exploration, recognition and reflection in the training arena, and aims to use this approach to empower people to give their best.