Alison has extensive experience in managing the processes of organisational development, including group facilitation, coaching, mentoring, psychometric profiling, counselling and career development.

She is currently on secondment from the Scottish Government Health Department, working as the Director of the PF Counselling Service.  She has worked in NHSScotland on management, leadership and organisation development issues for over thirteen years.

A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development, Alison holds a degree in Business & Management, a Masters in Human Resource Management, and is qualified to British Psychological Society Level B in psychological profiling.   She also has a Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling, is a member of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy, and has six years experience as a voluntary counsellor.  Alison is a non-executive director of Edinburgh’s PF Counselling Service.

Alison divides her time between Edinburgh, where she lives with her partner, and the west coast where she has a small holiday cottage business, 3 grown-up children and 3 grandchildren.