Jae Sloan

Jae Sloan

Helping individuals, teams and organisations perform at their best.

Carmarthen, Wales, United Kingdom
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About

I am an organisational development consultant, executive coach, writer, speaker and artist with expertise in business strategy, performance, inclusion & diversity, leadership and change. I have 20 years’ experience working in a multinational pharma organisation as well as more than 5 years of professional experience working in education/non-profit community organisations. I have my NTL Organisational Development certification and am an APECS Certified Professional Executive Coach. As an out queer (non-binary, gay) person I have nearly 10 years of leadership in inclusion and diversity with an emphasis on LGBTQ+. I am a Co-Founder and current Co-Chair of the Proud Science Alliance, a collective of healthcare and life sciences sector LGBTQ+ networks and partners who work together to raise the bar on LGBTQ+ inclusion within their organisations and the sector as a whole.

As an OD Consultant I have supported individual leaders to lead their teams more effectively, have been the lead on large, global-scale change projects impacting thousands and everything in between. I primarily specialise in working with senior leaders and leadership teams to understand the root cause of a problem that needs to be solved and then work with the leader(s) to design and deliver solutions to resolve the problem in alignment with their overall business strategy and plan. I use a coaching approach, so leaders take active ownership of the process and solutions, while building their own leadership capabilities. When needed as part of a project, I also worked with extended leader groups and support teams, most often to build their capability to lead change, to lead their teams and to deliver organisational goals more effectively.

I am a trained scientist with two graduate degrees in Exercise Physiology and Cell and Molecular Biology. During my graduate studies I spent five years doing practical lab research in a hospital and in academic labs. After graduate school, I worked in global roles focused on employee engagement and human performance across multiple parts of a pharma organisation including R&D, Global Health, Commercial and HR. With formal training in interpersonal/group dynamics and Gestalt, I am skilled in working with individuals and groups to build knowledge and awareness of how we can each perform better as individuals and within the context of a team and the organisation as a whole. I am extending my consulting experience now with a focus on small and medium sized organisations, primarily with a scientific or medical focus.

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  • Soulful Portrait Photographer

    Felin Studio

    - Present 5 months

    Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom

    Felin Studio is a side-hustle, passion project in which I make soulful portraits. For several years, I was in front of the camera as a model, and I loved it. While I still enjoy that part of creating, I stepped behind the camera starting in 2023 after I moved to Southwest Wales from London, and I am fortunate to have a small studio in my house. The purpose of learning to shoot photos was initially to continue my creative interests by learning to take self portraits as I moved away from a big…

    Felin Studio is a side-hustle, passion project in which I make soulful portraits. For several years, I was in front of the camera as a model, and I loved it. While I still enjoy that part of creating, I stepped behind the camera starting in 2023 after I moved to Southwest Wales from London, and I am fortunate to have a small studio in my house. The purpose of learning to shoot photos was initially to continue my creative interests by learning to take self portraits as I moved away from a big city where I had the opportunity to collaborate with so many amazing photographers. However, I found that I really enjoy photographing others when I can work with someone to capture the essence of who they are, at least in part.
    My strong areas of interest are soulful portraits and physique photography.

    Check out my work here: https://felinstudio.myportfolio.com/felin-studio

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    Consultant, Coach, Writer, Speaker

    Apis Consultancy Group Ltd

    - Present 3 years 1 month

    London, England, United Kingdom

    https://www.apiscg.com/

    I am a consultant and coach, working at the place of tension that is getting in the way of performing at our best as individuals, teams or organisations.

    As a coach, I offer individual coaching and mentoring for all levels of leaders. All of us can fly on our own, but it can help to have someone alongside you for awhile to help you navigate what is next or overcome obstacles that are in your way.

    As a consultant, I offer support to teams at…

    https://www.apiscg.com/

    I am a consultant and coach, working at the place of tension that is getting in the way of performing at our best as individuals, teams or organisations.

    As a coach, I offer individual coaching and mentoring for all levels of leaders. All of us can fly on our own, but it can help to have someone alongside you for awhile to help you navigate what is next or overcome obstacles that are in your way.

    As a consultant, I offer support to teams at different stages to perform at their best. Maybe you’re a new team eager to get a fast start or an established team ready to go to the next level. I offer bespoke interventions to support team performance to get you flying and working together. We all want to work in a healthy, thriving organisation. I provide organisational development consultation to scaling and established businesses to support their growth or evolution to the next level.

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    Non Executive Director

    Funny Women CIC

    - Present 2 years 7 months

    London, England, United Kingdom

    Funny Women is the destination to discover, connect and grow with humour. With support from the Arts Council England, the organisation shows women from all walks of life how to use comedy to build confidence. Funny Women strongly believes in equal rights and opportunities for all; by empowering female-identifying voices, we can contribute to gender parity in our industry and beyond.

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    Member Board Of Trustees

    Gestalt Centre London

    - Present 2 years 7 months

    London, England, United Kingdom

    The Gestalt Centre is the UK’s foremost provider of training in Gestalt: an enlightening and life-changing approach to counselling and psychotherapy.

    Based in Camden, London, the centre's part-time programmes, short courses and events are made for the here and now. They can prepare you for a career in counselling or therapy, accelerate your professional development or simply inspire a positive new perspective on people, relationships and life.

  • GSK

    GSK

    19 years 10 months

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      Organisational Development Lead

      GSK

      - 4 years 1 month

      London, United Kingdom

      I worked directly with core team that includes Talent and Learning leads to develop holistic people plans designed to support delivery of business objectives. I worked in direct partnership with HR leaders of GSK’s global business areas, including Vaccines and Global Pharma Commercial businesses. Much of my work focused on building culture in alignment with our overall GSK culture. This included leading global change programs, providing OD leadership on major organisational re-designs, leading…

      I worked directly with core team that includes Talent and Learning leads to develop holistic people plans designed to support delivery of business objectives. I worked in direct partnership with HR leaders of GSK’s global business areas, including Vaccines and Global Pharma Commercial businesses. Much of my work focused on building culture in alignment with our overall GSK culture. This included leading global change programs, providing OD leadership on major organisational re-designs, leading efforts to define organisational capabilities required to deliver business objectives and working directly with teams and leaders to build their change leadership capability. Some notable projects and work include:

      - Designing and deploying an agile change approach and plan to support a fundamental change to our global Pharma Commercial operating model.
      - Leading development of the overall Culture Plan for our Global Pharma Commercial business.
      - Providing holistic OD leadership for two significant reorganisations in our Global Pharma Commercial business.
      - Leading efforts to define organisational capabilities for GSK's growing Oncology business.

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      Internal Business Coach

      GSK

      - 7 years 5 months

      London, United Kingdom

      I was an internally trained, aligned to ICF standards, and practicing business coach at GSK where I completed more than 165 hours of coaching. I was an affiliate member of APECS (Association of Professional and Executive Coaches). I was a coach on the GSK leadership program, Accelerating Difference, targeting emerging women leaders. Being a coach for this program was by invitation only. During my coaching at GSK, 100% of my clients providing feedback rated my effectiveness as a coach either 'to…

      I was an internally trained, aligned to ICF standards, and practicing business coach at GSK where I completed more than 165 hours of coaching. I was an affiliate member of APECS (Association of Professional and Executive Coaches). I was a coach on the GSK leadership program, Accelerating Difference, targeting emerging women leaders. Being a coach for this program was by invitation only. During my coaching at GSK, 100% of my clients providing feedback rated my effectiveness as a coach either 'to a very great extent' or 'to a great extent'.

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      Inclusion Leader

      GSK

      - 7 years 11 months

      London, United Kingdom

      I 'volunteered' inside GSK for 8 years as an inclusion leader. Below is a summary of that work. During this time, I I also was an invited speaker externally and mentored external employee networks and leaders.

      2014 - 2019: Leader in GSK's LGBT+ employee resource group, Spectrum
      Starting in 2014, I was part of the UK and Global Leadership of our LGBT+ employee network, acting as the sole UK Lead 2016-2017. Under my leadership, GSK first appeared in the Stonewall Workplace Equality…

      I 'volunteered' inside GSK for 8 years as an inclusion leader. Below is a summary of that work. During this time, I I also was an invited speaker externally and mentored external employee networks and leaders.

      2014 - 2019: Leader in GSK's LGBT+ employee resource group, Spectrum
      Starting in 2014, I was part of the UK and Global Leadership of our LGBT+ employee network, acting as the sole UK Lead 2016-2017. Under my leadership, GSK first appeared in the Stonewall Workplace Equality Index Top 100 as #21. In 2017, I was recognised as a FT OUTstanding LGBT Future Leader as #33 on that year's list and again in 2019 as #24. Inside GSK, I was a mentor to emerging LGBT+ leaders globally.

      2017 - present: I helped found and was one of the Operations Co-Leads for the Proud Science Alliance, a 'network of networks', bringing together LGBT+ employee networks from science and health-care based companies to do more together to improve LGBT+ inclusion in our industry.

      2017-2018: I served as member of GSK's Global LGBT+ Council representing our LGBT+ employee network.

      2013-2015: I was a member of the Pharma R&D Inclusion Council, providing direct support to the Council chair. I worked on various projects and work streams, focused on making our Pharma R&D organisation more inclusive.

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      Director, Business Peformance

      GSK

      - 2 years 2 months

      London, United Kingdom

      This was a secondment role working across a few organisations and projects. In the latter stages, I provided project management support for a global Emerging Markets pharmaceuticals commercial organisation project, working directly with the Project Director and other leaders to successfully plan and implement the project. I lead efforts to organise the project team and provide overall operations management of the project. In addition, I provided direct support to the Africa and Developing…

      This was a secondment role working across a few organisations and projects. In the latter stages, I provided project management support for a global Emerging Markets pharmaceuticals commercial organisation project, working directly with the Project Director and other leaders to successfully plan and implement the project. I lead efforts to organise the project team and provide overall operations management of the project. In addition, I provided direct support to the Africa and Developing Countries Area Leadership Team and to regular, area-wide performance reviews.

      After a successful project assignment with GSK Global Health Programmes in 2015 focused on programme-level business performance, I completed a formal secondment with the team and the Africa and Developing Countries business unit in 2016. I consulted on business performance across the Global Health Programmes team and projects, leading efforts to put in place a performance framework for the team. In addition, I was accountable for business performance (dashboards, reporting, etc.) for the Africa & Developing Countries commercial organisation. This included accountability for project managing GSK's Africa 2020 strategic investment programme. I evolved and simplified the comprehensive set of performance dashboards at the area level and provided business performance consultation to leaders within Area markets. Lastly, I provided direct support to the Area Leadership Team and to regular, area-wide performance reviews.

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      Director, Business Planning & Engagement - Projects, Clinical Platforms & Sciences

      GlaxoSmithKline

      - 5 years 4 months

      London, United Kingdom

      Responsibilities: Support development and deployment of the organisation’s business plan; use the business plan as a foundation to create an environment where every individual in the department has a personal connection to our business strategy, understands our business context and learns from peers in order to accelerate strategy aligned delivery and change.

      Accountabilities: Develop, deliver and measure the global business engagement strategy for a department of about 3,000 colleagues…

      Responsibilities: Support development and deployment of the organisation’s business plan; use the business plan as a foundation to create an environment where every individual in the department has a personal connection to our business strategy, understands our business context and learns from peers in order to accelerate strategy aligned delivery and change.

      Accountabilities: Develop, deliver and measure the global business engagement strategy for a department of about 3,000 colleagues in 42 countries; ensure business alignment with organisation's business plan and higher level business strategies; build communication and engagement capability in leaders and the business as a whole; lead/facilitate additional projects as needed; act as the PCPS business strategy lead on boards such as the Continuous Improvement Governance Board and the R&D Operations Forum.

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      Business Operations Manager, Comms/Engagement Strategy, Center for Clinical Study Excellence

      GlaxoSmithKline

      - 1 year 5 months

      This role and others at GSK represent a focus on engagement, change and communications with increasing levels of responsibility and accountability over time at GSK. Specific achievements mirror what is described above.

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      Business Operations Manager, Communication Strategy, Clinical Pharmacology & Discovery Medicine

      GlaxoSmithKline

      - 10 months

      This role and others at GSK represent a focus on engagement, change and communications with increasing levels of responsibility and accountability over time at GSK. Specific achievements mirror what is described above.

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      Principal Communications Specialist, Clinical Pharmacology & Discovery Medicine

      GlaxoSmithKline

      - 3 years 9 months

      This role and others at GSK represent a focus on engagement, change and communications with increasing levels of responsibility and accountability over time at GSK. Specific achievements mirror what is described above.

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      Communications Specialist, Clinical Pharmacology & Discovery Medicine

      GlaxoSmithKline

      - 1 year 1 month

      This role and others at GSK represent a focus on engagement, change and communications with increasing levels of responsibility and accountability over time at GSK. Specific achievements mirror what is described above.

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      Communication and Administrative Specialist, Clinical Pharmacology & Experimental Medicine

      GlaxoSmithKline

      - 1 year 5 months

      This role and others at GSK represent a focus on engagement, change and communications with increasing levels of responsibility and accountability over time at GSK. Specific achievements mirror what is described above.

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    Business Mentoring Program Director (GSK PULSE volunteer)

    Access Sport

    - 7 months

    London, United Kingdom

    I was a GSK PULSE volunteer with London-based charity Access Sport from June 2012 until December 2012. PULSE allows GSK employees to 'be the change' by working within NGOs to provide practical support while gaining experiences that help volunteers develop. I documented my experience by regular blogs on http:\\jasonisthechange.wordpress.com

    Assessed and Enhance the Business Mentoring Program
    Value added: Program pilot assessed and improvements made in alignment with feedback; next…

    I was a GSK PULSE volunteer with London-based charity Access Sport from June 2012 until December 2012. PULSE allows GSK employees to 'be the change' by working within NGOs to provide practical support while gaining experiences that help volunteers develop. I documented my experience by regular blogs on http:\\jasonisthechange.wordpress.com

    Assessed and Enhance the Business Mentoring Program
    Value added: Program pilot assessed and improvements made in alignment with feedback; next cycle kicked off and Program expanded to Bristol.

    Developed a four-year business strategy and plan
    Value Added: Completed a final draft of a 4-year organizational Business Strategy ready for the Trustees to debate and approve in early 2013, setting out the charity’s long term goals, strategic themes and strategic projects to reach its vision. Documented foundational information that will be invaluable when constructing funding applications or planning projects.

    Provided practical planning support and coaching
    Value added: Build planning capability within the team through support and coaching along with practical support that resulted in funding and project management skills.

    Observed and coached the team and individuals on ways of working
    Value Added: Used observation and coaching to integrate new ways of working supported by tools and resources to ensure sustainability of new capabilities across the team.

  • University of Arkansas at Little Rock

    University of Arkansas at Little Rock

    1 year 8 months

  • Program Coordinator

    McClellan Community Education

    - 1 year 4 months

    • Partnered with community organizations to identify needs that could be addressed by effectively using school space when not being used for regular education purposes.
    • Accountable for planning adult classes, summer camps, and other educationally rich programming to meet community needs and was responsible for marketing and communication efforts around the programming.
    • Represented the team as a member of different community groups and as a participant in city-led initiatives to help…

    • Partnered with community organizations to identify needs that could be addressed by effectively using school space when not being used for regular education purposes.
    • Accountable for planning adult classes, summer camps, and other educationally rich programming to meet community needs and was responsible for marketing and communication efforts around the programming.
    • Represented the team as a member of different community groups and as a participant in city-led initiatives to help determine community needs.
    • Responsible for all marketing, communications, and media relations for all programs.
    • Designed and coordinated production of all print materials to support programming.

Education

  • Interfulgent Institute

    Diploma Energy Therapy

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    Over the last decade, psychotherapy has come to align itself more strongly with the notion of energy healing (Mollon, 2008). This course supports students’ development through embodied exploration of subtle energies, discovering how to perceive and activate energy for therapeutic use, and learning to direct energy for self-healing and for relational work with others.

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    University of Pennsylvania

    MSc Cell and Molecular Biology

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    Springfield College

    MSc Exercise Physiology

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  • University of Arkansas at Little Rock Graphic

    University of Arkansas at Little Rock

    BBA Marketing

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  • Coursera

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  • Coursera

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Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

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    Cara (counselor)

    Barretstown

    - 1 month

    Children

    I was a volunteer cara (counselor) at Barretstown Camp for children with serious illnesses. I spent 2 weeks at the camp just outside Dublin.

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    Cara (counselor)

    Barretstown

    - 1 month

    Children

    I was a volunteer cara (counselor) at Barretstown Camp for children with serious illnesses. I spent 2 weeks at the camp just outside Dublin.

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    Operations Co-Chair

    Proud Science Alliance

    - Present 5 years 10 months

    Human Rights

    I co-lead the operations function for the Proud Science Alliance, and organisation that aims to raise the bar on LGBTQ+ inclusion within the healthcare and life sciences sector.

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    Co Chair

    Proud Science Alliance

    - Present 3 years 7 months

    Human Rights

    I co-lead the Proud Science Alliance, a new role within the organisation I helped co-found in 2015.

  • Volunteer business coach

    Opening Doors London

    - 9 months

    Civil Rights and Social Action

    Provide pro Bono coaching to organisation staff.

Publications

Honors & Awards

  • 2019 Top 50 OUTstanding LGBT+ Role Model - #24

    INvolve: OUTStanding

    The Top 50 LGBT+ Future Leaders list celebrates role models working at all levels of an organisation making a significant contribution to LGBT+ equality and inclusion. The list is published annually alongside other associated OUTStanding lists recognising LGBT executives and allies.

    https://outstanding.involvepeople.org/50-lgbt-future-leaders-2019/

  • 2017 Top 50 OUTstanding LGBT+ Role Model - #33

    INvolve: OUTStanding

    The Top 50 LGBT+ Future Leaders list celebrates role models working at all levels of an organisation making a significant contribution to LGBT+ equality and inclusion. The list is published annually alongside other associated OUTStanding lists recognising LGBT executives and allies.

    Link: https://www.out-standing.org/nominations/2017-role-models/2017-top-50-lgbt-future-leaders/

    About OUTStanding: https://www.out-standing.org/about/

Organizations

  • Association for Professional Executive Coaching & Supervision

    Corporate Affiliate Member

    - Present

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