Meet the Faculty
Our team of specialized experts bring significant experience in the areas of community and organizational change,
leadership, inclusion, and whole system growth.
Judith Gail
United States
Co-Founder and Program Anchor
Judith is a cisgender, straight woman of African descent who grew up in the Midwest United States. Her values, shaped by this background, have been further honed through her work with leaders and client systems around the globe. With over 30 years of experience, Judith brings a wealth of expertise in the Applied Behavioral Sciences and Organization Development, specializing in Gestalt methodologies to foster and sustain organizational change.
In addition to her consulting and leadership work, Judith has held the role of Dean and faculty member for the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science’s Organization Development certificate program. She is currently a faculty member and graduate of the International Gestalt Organization and Leadership Development program.
An avid traveler, Judith’s global journeys have deepened her understanding of the human race and enriched her perspective on the world. Her creative energy is particularly evident in her writing projects, which include co-authoring a book on inclusion for children and parents, and working on a play that focuses on the sassiness of women over 60.
Judith sees herself as a global citizen and is currently contemplating her next chapter, exploring where she will choose to live next on this planet.
Rick Huntley
United States
Co-Founder and Program Anchor
Rick is a cisgender man, U.S. national who identifies as Black. He’s US- born and currently physically and mentally able. Rick grew up in a working-class family, the youngest of three brothers, and now socio-economically upper middle class. Rick was reared Christian, and while he does not have a religious affiliation or practice today the Black Church as a cultural phenomenon continues to be core to his identity. He uses his academic development in the applied behavioral science to facilitate systemwide change for human systems in different locations in the world.
Rick Huntley is a highly skilled leadership, organization development and equity and inclusion change consultant, coach, facilitator, and teacher with demonstrated ability to successfully facilitate organizational learning, skill development and system-wide change using organization development theory, experiential learning, and individual growth.
Rick is a member of NTL Institute of Applied Behavioral Science where he is also a faculty member. He is an Adjunct Lecturer for Georgetown’s Executive Certificate in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, in the Institute for Transformational Leadership, he teaches inter-group and larger system dynamics in organizations. Rick is also a co-author of Journeys of Race, Color & Culture: From Racial Inequality to Equity and Inclusion.
Jeremy Timm
South Africa
Faculty
Jeremy is an Anglo-African based in Johannesburg, South Africa. He trained as a city and regional planner and ever since has been exploring what gets in the way of great plans being implemented! This saw him pursuing organisation and leadership development. Participating in the International Gestalt Organisation and Leadership Development (IGOLD) Programme was a pivotal moment for him - the “lights came on” and he found a home in the practice of Gestalt. He serves on the faculty of IGOLD and is a co-founder of Gestalt Africa.
Through his agility in working at both the strategic and relational levels, Jeremy has been able to work effectively with clients exploring their fundamental issues, defining what can be done to address them and coaching teams in the journey of implementation. He brings clarity, energy and humour to his client systems.
He is constantly reflecting on his identities and fascinates in how the lenses we use to look at ourselves, others and the world illuminates, expands and limits our experience.
He is a strategically naive and relentlessly optimistic. He is a passionate gardener and loves hiking and cycling in inspiring landscapes.
Charis Patrick
Singapore
Faculty
Charis (she/her) is a Chinese Asian woman based in Singapore and has been a psychotherapist for over 25 years. She has worked with people of diversity and at different stages of life. She is trauma informed and believes in working from a strength based perspective. Working at the depth of individuals and families she has met through her therapeutic practice, she found love in intervening at source or working with interpersonal dynamics. She has a keen interest in exploring paradoxes with people she works with, and believes that it is in the work with dilemmas, tensions and paradoxes that the wisdom and maturity of leaders is then revealed. Building the capacity to sit with who we are and our multi-layered identities and allowing this tension to do its work has become a life’s passion and a distinguishing part of her professional practice.
Besides her clinical practice, in the last 5 years, Charis has taken interest in OD work. She discovered that with her experience in bringing health and wholeness to individuals and families, there is much relevance to expand that to the organisational level. Since then, she has been involved in OD work and finding fulfilment in bringing health to organisations. Learning and holding the Gestalt stance has been very helpful and insightful in this journey. She is currently part of the iGOLD IV cohort.
In year 2000, she lived in Belfast, Northern Ireland for a year to serve as a volunteer in the social and family sector. While based in Malaysia for nearly 7 years, she was invited to be a columnist for the Malaysia Newspaper The Star, writing on issues related to teens and tweens. Working cross culturally as well as with diversity of government, NGO and institutional facilities, Charis has found comfort and confidence in the reality that each person, regardless of stature in life, is human.
This multi-cultural experience and being in a cross-cultural marriage herself, Charis has wrestled with diversity and inclusion issues first hand. Her passion is to educate people about trauma, the possible pain the diversity can bring and advocate for the importance of self-work and eventually build self-healing communities. She is married with 4 grown up children. In her free time, she loves to rest, learn and be with nature.
Kwame Nkum
Ghana
Faculty
Kwamina (affectionally refered to as Kwame) works in Nkum Associates as an Organization Development Consultant with experience in facilitating organizational change towards increased effectiveness using systems thinking and organization development methodologies. He has facilitated OD interventions, multi-stakeholder dialogues, strategic planning, implementation design and training workshops and many others for clients in internationally for public, private and non- government organizations.
Kwame has worked with the American University/NTL consulting department, where he specialised in client-interface and programme implementation and management. From 2009 to 2010, he facilitated the Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, OPPTS/OPPT Division, Washington DC, through a workforce retention study, resulting in a workforce planning and implementation plan.
Ato Kwamina Nkum holds a practitioner certificate from the internationally recognized International Gestalt Organisation and Leadership Development Programme (iGOLD) and a Master’s degree in Organization Development from the AU/NTL), one of the most renowned organization development training programmes in the world. In addition, he also has a BA degree in Psychology from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
Julian Walker
United Kingdom
Faculty
Julian (she/her) is a white, upper middle class cisgender woman, writer, and facilitator with a passion for anti-racism, based in north London, United Kingdom. Since being introduced to the concept of white privilege by a woman of colour, she has engaged in critical interrogation of whiteness – wanting to get beyond superficial answers to racism that rely on the optics of representation and instead examine how power shapes systems and relationships. Most recently her praxis has explored ways of living and teaching from an embodied belief that my liberation is bound up with yours, that systems of oppression and capitalism are deeply intertwined, and that we must enact justice and liberation in the microcosm of our working and personal relationships, just as we strive for global change.
Julian started her career in the UK civil service and has since demonstrated her restlessness and hunger to shift global systems of inequity through roles in the UK not-for-profit sector and pursuing centre of government improvement in post-conflict and fragile states (Afghanistan, Bosnia, Libya, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Syria, Tunisia). The global uprisings of 2020 provided the context for her to shift her professional focus from international development to a UK-based practice of anti-racism facilitation and organisation development, working with leaders in British-based NGOs, INGOs, local government and the health and social care sector.
Her passion to support individual development in pursuit of the transformation of human systems is informed by her extensive training in group process and Gestalt OD, as well, as personal experience in 12-step recovery.
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