Dr Di van Ruitenbeek has over twenty years' experience in the fields of management and organisational development, specialising in strategic planning, change management, facilitation and team building.

She has a PhD in organisational psychology and is a visiting lecturer at Manchester School of Management and Manchester Business School.

Di's recent consultancy assignments include:

• helping a national public sector agency to conduct a review of services in Gibraltar;
   
• helping a city council to develop a set of shared corporate values; and
   
• helping a wildlife trust to devise a new strategic business plan.

Di lives in Bacup Lancashire, a small former mill town on the Pennine moors, and is a founder member of the Bacup Consortium, a group dedicated to finding ways to regenerate the town, through active community involvement and social enterprise.

Her other interests include travel, gardening and cinema.