The Corporate Theatre

Faculty UK

Each member of The Corporate Theatre Core Faculty brings commitment, expertise, and belief to the design and implementation of our learning processes. The input of faculty members, individually or collectively, feeds into the design of programmes, widening their boundaries and deepening their content. Each member is available to take part in facilitating and leading aspects of any Workshop programme according to requirements.


		Martin Best has overall responsibility for the design and leadership of every Workshop, and is responsible for ensuring that the client's needs are precisely and effectively met. He choreographs all the talents available in the Faculty. bringing them together in such a way as to achieve the client's defined objectives with precision and power, and without		distorting their integrity, so the client organisation achieves the precise learning objectives it has set for itself within a unique e xperience that remains true to its culture and values. He also leads the coaching process that precedes each event. (See History for details of Best's early career.)


	Chris Barton is the director of Drama at Westminster School, where he teaches academic drama to pupils from 13-18, while producing upwards of 12 productions a year. Before teaching, Chris directed for the Royal National Theatre, Watford Palace Theatre, Basingstoke Theatre Royal, California Shakespeare Festival, SNAP Theatre Company, International Theatre Research Group KISS in The Netherlands, and as associate director in the West		End and on Broadway, with Ian McKellen's "Richard III" and Stephen Daldry's "An Inspector Calls", which he also recreated in Tokyo. He has taught and directed at numerous London Drama Schools, and for several years ran The Contemporary Shakespeare Company, Chris is also a musician, writer and actor, and it is as a deviser of training and entertainment events that he is principally associated with The Corporate Theatre.


		Sue Best is Co-director of The Corporate Theatre Limited and Project Director and and Voice Coach. She is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and winner of the Stage Design Award. She first worked in Stage Management for The Royal Shakespeare Company. She has managed and produced concert tours both in the USA and Europe, including performances at the British Pavilion in Seville and designing and producing opera for the Siljan Festival in Sweden.		She has taught speech and drama in both the public and private sectors, and has been part of Artist in Residence programmes at Universities in Canada and the USA. Together with Martin Best she founded Musica Humana, an annual accredited programme based on Medieval and Renaissance Studies for American University students of differing academic backgrounds.


	Paul Jamieson is a graduate of the London Academy of Music and Drama, and specialises in interactive learning. He has designed, written and led training programmes on Change Management, Diversity, Team Building , Media Management and Personal Coaching for leading international corporations including BP, Pfizer, Accenture, Lloyds TSB, and Deutsche Bank. For The Corporate Theatre, he leads Workshops and creates/directs Forum Theatre scenarios. He is our leading expert in the art of helping people to `unlock'		during a Workshop, using the sheer physicality of theatrical expression. He also ensures that every process runs smoothly and is in line with stated objectives . Jamieson undertakes pre-coaching of clients - a feature of most of our Workshops - using his skills as a theatre director to help people prepare to communicate in ways that are visual, powerful and inspiring. This gives delegates new confidence and freedom, enabling them to ‘unblock' as they discover how to harness their physical powers to provide a basis for inspiring leadership

Emma Judge's early career in Human Resources across the Chemical, Pharmaceutical and FMCG sectors culminated in the VP of HR for Frito-Lay (Pepsi) in the UK. This experience of large organisations, and the role of Leadership within them, informs her work today.

She has lived and worked in the US and attained the Masters in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied with the founder of the field, Martin Seligman

Emma founded Positive Organisations to apply the principles of Positive Psychology

in a pragmatic way. She works with organisations of all shapes and sizes in the areas of Authentic, Strengths Based Leadership, Resilient Leadership and Executive Coaching. She is also co-founder of a social enterprise, How To Thrive, which brings the skills of emotional resilience to young people and those that educate and care for them.

In order to bring the latest thinking to her work Emma has a strong link with Cambridge University. She is the Chair of the Advisory Board of the Cambridge Institute for Well-Being and an Associate Fellow of the Judge Business School

Professor Marc Stears, MA, D.Phil (Oxon)
Professor of Political Theory, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford and Official Fellow and Tutor in Politics, University College, Oxford, from October 2004.

Marc is the author and editor of many books and articles, including his recent “Demanding Democracy”, which explores how ideas of democracy have impacted political life in the twentieth century.

Marc’s work with the Corporate Theatre focuses on how leaders in large organizations can create deeper connection with team members, stakeholders, and the broader community. He shows how mental and physical awareness can underpin the insights of philosophers of leadership across the centuries, and how the necessary skills can be developed by leaders taking the time to reflect on their own core values and the purposes in their organizations.

Lucy Best, AIFL Lucy trained at The Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design where she graduated with distinction. She is a practicing fine artist, a qualified teacher holding a Certificate in Teaching, an Associate of the Institute for Learning, and founder of ‘Inspiration for Creativity’ – a programme of learning she developed to enable individuals to unlock their creative potential. In her capacity as a teacher the central focus of her research was and continues to be the power of the act of creativity and the development of creative thinking.

As a faculty member of the Corporate Theatre, she applies her research and teaching experience to a unique collage workshop that develops the all-important self-awareness and authenticity essential to a leader’s ability to engage with others. This work is underpinned by six years of hands-on experience with the Boston Consulting Group in the USA.

In addition to her work with The Corporate Theatre and her own ‘Inspiration for Creativity’, Lucy teaches painting privately and for the Borough of Poole. In her fine art practice Lucy exhibits regularly. Galleries and exhibitions include: Salisbury Arts Centre, Southampton City Art Gallery, The Study Gallery of Modern Art (Dorset), The Sheen Gallery (London), The Pierrepoint Gallery, and The Artemisia Gallery. She has work in collections internationally and is also a member of Poole and East Dorset Art Society. Her work as a fine artist has brought her into contact with many forms of media, from paint and textiles to filmmaking, and she will use whatever material her work calls for in order to communicate an authentic vision. Currently she is working in oils and drawing inspiration from the Dorset landscape where she lives.

Lucy Best is represented by Manya Egel Fine Arts, London.