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The latest news & thoughts from the team at Oyster Outcomes
The importance of coaching in higher education

  Felicity Gasparro, FOUNDER of Oyster Outcomes and SUMS Associate Consultant discusses current insights into higher education coaching following an extensive and successful coaching assignment with a high-profile red-brick university. The key takeaways of this study include –  Coaching has grown in popularity across UK universities and may be delivered through the People (HR) function;...

This month’s spotlight, Neil Stead

In this month’s monthly spotlight we are introducing Neil Stead who is one of our associate consultants and i-act mental health instructors. Neil has gained a wealth of professional experience, skills & capabilities over 30 years in the John Lewis Partnership. Having delivered across key strategic areas (including Customer Loyalty, Marketing, Risk Management, Business Continuity...

What it means to be a MHFAider

Following our highly successful February cohort, Oyster Outcomes have now trained close to 100 people to become MHFAiders.  Hearing their feedback shows how important it is to invest in learning about mental health and well-being.   Hear from two of the delegates who attended this course:   Ellie Highwood, MHFAider certified – February 2022. “I...

International Women’s Day 2022 – #breakthebias

On #IWD22 International Women’s Day, we are celebrating the culmination of some brilliant, compassionate, and stretching thinking from two of our brilliant Associates – Professor Ellie Highwood and Diksha Chakravarti, with some beautiful artwork designed by my 13 year old niece, Miss Amy Cooper. “International Women’s Day is a day to highlight the need to...

QA Education – Digital magazine

We are so proud of our new digital magazine created by QA Education  – to read more click here Mental Health and Wellbeing QA Partner with Oyster Outcomes, experts at working in all tiers of education, to access Youth and Adult mental health and well-being learning resources. No one knows better than you, how important...

This month’s spotlight, Mark Ames

In this month’s monthly spotlight we are introducing Mark Ames who is one of our associates who specialises in leadership coaching and mentoring. Mark worked for 35 years in further and higher education, initially as a teacher and then leading student support services. He now works as a leadership coach and mentor with middle and...