Who are we?

The Partners

 Dr Carrie Pemberton carrie@ibixinsight.com

Revd Dr Carrie Pemberton

Carrie has over 20 years experience in training, change management, advocacy, gender mainstreaming and community based research. Respected for her innovative and challenging approach to organisational change, Carrie has pioneered research work into Accession Country migration into the UK and has been a clear advocate of creating systems changes which enhance democracy, access and clarity of internal and external messages in Public Service providers charged with the responsibilities for cohesion delivery. 

Carrie has an established reputation as a powerful entrepreneurial presence in the development of advocacy work within Third Sector organisations and in the creation of symposia and conferences with associated back ground papers, dedicated to influence Government policy and develop capacity and understanding internally within organisations tasked to respond. She has developed a number of strategic networks to resource the strategic thinking which lies behind change, which have impacted directly on legislation in the UK particularly in the area of Welfare Provision in Immigration detention Centres, and responses to Serious and Organised Crime.  

Carrie enables organisations to become places where problem solving and equality of access and opportunity become hall marks of their activity.  In 2006 Carrie developed the innovative response to language blight within victim support provision in the UK for the United Kingdom Human Trafficking Centre,  with the creation of downloadable multilingual podcasts for mp3 players now in their second stage of development within Ibixtranslate.com.

Carrie is a Senior Associate Member of the African Studies Centre in Cambridge, and is part of an international network of researchers and senior academics currently working on areas which Ibix Insight specialises in -  identifying and overcoming impediments to successful community cohesion and social integration. This work stands as a part of IbixInsight's socially engaged change management agenda, gender mainstreaming and development of understanding of the role of diasporas and neighborhood policing in responding to Serious and Organised Crime.

Under Carrie's leadership Ibix Insight has developed gender, race and religious diversity training tools as part of the  diversity training, capacity building and audit delivery which Ibix Insight offers. Carrie's expertise in leading research teams in extensive and innovative qualitative research in hard to reach communities, has been widely recognised by Local Authorities and Constabularies across the United Kingdom. Carrie is a dynamic and sought after platform speaker and has addressed audiences as eclectic as those summoned by the United Nations, Conferences of the European Parliament, or Parliamentary Select Committees,  as well as professional and law enforcement agencies at operational levels in Germany, Canada, Italy, Romania and a wide range of Constabularies and Criminal Justice audiences in the United Kingdom.

Carrie has been a Commissioner of the Women's National Commission, the official, independent, advisory body giving the views of women to the Government- www.thewnc.org.uk. She has a BA from Oxford University in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, a Masters degree in Development Studies, International politics and ethics, from Leeds University,  a Diploma in Management Studies from the Open University and  a doctorate in Gender and Post Colonial thought in Sub Sahel Africa from the University of Cambridge. Carrie is a senior Non Service Member assessor for the Police National Assessment Centre.

Jane Martin jane@ibixinsight.com

Jane Martin was a senior policy adviser in government until she joined Ibixinsight in 2005. Jane was advisor to the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Director of the Serious Fraud Office. She has in depth experience of government and justice policy issues which includes work in diversity, information law, data protection, information gateways, prosecution and general policing issues.

Jane is a solicitor who has worked in private practice as a partner, and in public service specialising in criminal justice work; Jane specialised in serious case work. She developed best practice surrounding victim care in cases involving children. This included the development of a nation wide multi agency training and policy programme which responded to the requirements of prosecuting paedophilic crime. Jane has developed a number of strategically significant Memoranda of Understandings within the Public Services to ehance joined up delivery in the multi-agency responses which emerge from Ibix Insight recommendations based on our bespoke research.

Jane is currently developing her portfolio in cold case reviewing, and in training into International locations principles of the gains in Criminal Justice Reforms which have been undertaken in the UK in response to the Human Rights Act 1998.

She is a graduate of Warwick University in History and Politics.

The Associates

Robin Field-Smith

Robin Field-Smith

Robin Field-Smith has well over 30 years experience working as a senior director and HR professional in large, complex, regulated organisations like the Army and the police. His specialist areas are in developing and improving workforce capability, productivity and diversity, through organisational and cultural change. He is a Companion of CMI, a Chartered Fellow of CIPD, and holds a Certificate of Company Direction from IoD.

Specific skills and experience

  • holding organisations and individuals to account through inspection
  • communicating vision to workforce and partners, to achieve agreed outcomes
  • championing the needs and benefits of change, organisational and cultural
  • designing and ensuring workforce reform
  • adapting commercial productivity principles to public sector
  • articulating business case for mainstreaming diversity
  • published over 60 inspection reports

Recent achievements

  • changed police HR function from transactional (cost) to transformational (investment) and achieved increase in police HR Directors at main board level from 5% to 50%
  • introduced costing of all police training (£1bn spend)
  • ensured equalities compliance and diversity mainstreaming within policing delivery
  • led major reviews of police initial, diversity and officer safety training
  • assisted ALI with first ever external inspection of armed forces training
  • brought Central Police Training and Development Authority (new NDPB 2002) from poor to good performance
  • facilitated the introduction of appraisal for Chief Constables
  • negotiated Defence Accreditation model with HE, FE and professional bodies
  • led the Army's quest to become an Investor in People

Della Cannings QPM FRSA BSc MIoD

Della has been described by Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary as having extraordinary business acumen. It is for this reason quite apart from her depth of policing experience and change management within command and control environments that Ibix Insight has recently welcomed Della as an Associate of our firm.

Chief Constable of North Yorkshire Police for nearly half a decade, Della M Cannings retired from formal policing after 32 years in 2007. Della turned around a potentially failing police force into a modernised and successful organisation.

Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary reported that, 'She has achieved this through having a clear vision of what success looks like, being innovative and determined, yet ensuring that other stakeholders and particularly staff are engaged in enabling fast-time change.' Della left having ensured that North Yorkshire is the safest place in England in which to live, work, do business and visit having reduced crime by over 24% and markedly increased detection rates.

Her national involvement on behalf of the police service of England, Wales and Northern Ireland on Health and Safety, Leadership, Women's Forum and also 'Airwave' (the secure digital radio network dedicated for the exclusive use of the UK's emergency and public safety services, designed to carry voice and data communications) has been substantial. She is a Harkness Fellow - with research undertaken on the 'police response to domestic violence'. She has worked with the Home Office preparing the police service for the Single European Act and deployment of lap top computers. She has considerable experience of international policing operations organising exchanges and conferences for international engagement with Iran, Cyprus, Italy and Denmark. From 1993 to 1995 Della was the Senior Police Adviser at the Home Office.

Della graduated from the University of Bath with a BSc in Mathematical Studies in 1975 joining the Devon and Cornwall Constabulary as an early female pioneer of female Graduate Entrance. She served through the ranks from Constable to Chief Superintendent. From 2000 to 2002 she served in Cleveland Police, as an Assistant Chief Constable then Deputy Chief Constable, where she undertook Operation Lancet, one of the largest police corruption enquiries of recent years.

Ibix Insight is delighted to have her as a member of our wider team. If you want to talk with us further about building an engagement with Ibix Insight into your organisation please contact us.

Fola Komolafe

The former IBM Head of Diversity for UK Ireland and South Africa, Fola has a wide range of experience which makes her a perfect foil for enhancing the work which Ibix Insight offers to its customers.

With a specialisation in business strategy, process design & change management Fola worked as the EMEA North Region Thought Leadership Programme Manager, responsible for promoting leading edge thinking amongst key clients with a view to ultimately winning profitable business. In 2005 she, until December 2006.

With a background in banking - Fola worked for HSBC for 7 years as a manager in Retail Operations, Card Services and Finance & Management Information Systems. Fola has substantial experience herself in project management and brings as a senior consultant a strong emphasis on driving forward and achieving successful implementations.

A perfect foil for the blue sky thinking of Ibix Insight partner Carrie Pemberton, Fola greatest strengths and achievements are located in taking forward new 'out of the box' concepts, and developing strategic initiatives around them in order to bring them to successful implementation. A natural relational thinker, Fola has a particular skill in developing good and trusting relationships with senior executives and stake holders. Working to the highest standards Fola demonstrates commitment, excellence and energy in all that she does.

A delightful Associate to be working with Ibix Insight, Fola has an MBA in Finance from City University London, a postgraduate diploma in IT from Brunel University & a BSc in Architecture. She is a member of the Institute of Management Consultants and has written papers and is the co-author of CRM in Financial Services.

If you would like to talk further with us as to how Fola could be part of a team of change in your organisation - please contact us