Robinne Collie
Robinne started Food@Work in 2002, after relocating to the UK from South Africa. Prior to setting up the business, she worked in advertising as a media planner for a global agency, and in client services for a global IT e-commerce firm.
Robinne works with her team of professional chefs and learning experts to design and deliver highly engaging experiential culinary programmes for clients.
Her knowledge and experience of team development and how to help business people build relationships is extensive, having worked for the past 18 years with clients across all sectors, and at all levels of business from CEO's to graduates. She is a highly experienced facilitator, and an accredited practitioner of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and Strengths Deployment Inventory (SDI) diagnostic tools.
In her spare time (there is not much) she runs a monthly charity cooking group to support food provision to the homeless shelter in her local area. Through her brand uFoodie, she holds private cooking classes for adults and kids, and delivers cooking parties in peoples homes. She set up and administers the foodie Facebook group, Top Tips for Cooking which offers help, support, tips and tricks on all things foodie!
Robinne works with her team of professional chefs and learning experts to design and deliver highly engaging experiential culinary programmes for clients.
Her knowledge and experience of team development and how to help business people build relationships is extensive, having worked for the past 18 years with clients across all sectors, and at all levels of business from CEO's to graduates. She is a highly experienced facilitator, and an accredited practitioner of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and Strengths Deployment Inventory (SDI) diagnostic tools.
In her spare time (there is not much) she runs a monthly charity cooking group to support food provision to the homeless shelter in her local area. Through her brand uFoodie, she holds private cooking classes for adults and kids, and delivers cooking parties in peoples homes. She set up and administers the foodie Facebook group, Top Tips for Cooking which offers help, support, tips and tricks on all things foodie!
Karen Mattison MBE
Karen joined Food@Work in 2019 to work with Robinne developing the social impact strategy of the business, specifically using her immense expertise in this area to promote and develop programmes that deliver culinary events for social good.
Karen is a leading social entrepreneur in the UK. After a career in the public and charity sector, she has spent the past 15 years growing social businesses that have transformed the work place for women and flexible workers. First the award winning Women Like Us pioneering programmes to support women back into work and later Timewise championing the concept of flexible working and driving the changes that have made it a reality. She works closely with C-suite business leaders to create truly flexible workplace cultures, through the design and delivery of flexible solutions that suit businesses and employees alike.
She is passionate about the potential of social businesses to bring about lasting change that works for organisations, individuals and society as a whole, and speaks regularly on this subject at business events and to the media.
Karen is an enthusiastic foodie!
Karen is a leading social entrepreneur in the UK. After a career in the public and charity sector, she has spent the past 15 years growing social businesses that have transformed the work place for women and flexible workers. First the award winning Women Like Us pioneering programmes to support women back into work and later Timewise championing the concept of flexible working and driving the changes that have made it a reality. She works closely with C-suite business leaders to create truly flexible workplace cultures, through the design and delivery of flexible solutions that suit businesses and employees alike.
She is passionate about the potential of social businesses to bring about lasting change that works for organisations, individuals and society as a whole, and speaks regularly on this subject at business events and to the media.
Karen is an enthusiastic foodie!
Felicity Lee
Felicity has worked with Food@Work for well over a decade, helping to shape the Learning & Development solutions we include in our designs. She is an experienced consultant, Chartered Business Psychologist and Executive Coach. Her areas of expertise include leadership development, team facilitation and coaching, addressing areas such as managing change, resolving conflict and enhancing innovation, working with individual management, teams and leaders.
She has worked for a diverse range of clients in the public and private sectors both in the UK and internationally in the Finance, Transport, Telecomms, Retail, Insurance, Law, Airlines, Charity, Property sectors. She was the business psychologist on BBC3’s “Be your own boss”, a panel psychologist on BBC1 Documentary “What Am I Like – The Personality Test using the MBTI and a Business Psychologist on The Apprentice You're Fired
Qualifications:
She has worked for a diverse range of clients in the public and private sectors both in the UK and internationally in the Finance, Transport, Telecomms, Retail, Insurance, Law, Airlines, Charity, Property sectors. She was the business psychologist on BBC3’s “Be your own boss”, a panel psychologist on BBC1 Documentary “What Am I Like – The Personality Test using the MBTI and a Business Psychologist on The Apprentice You're Fired
Qualifications:
- Chartered Occupational Psychologist (C.Psychol, BPS)
- MSc Occupational Psychology (Surrey University)
- Advanced Diploma in Executive Coaching (Leeds Metropolitan Uni. 2003 part-accredited)
- NLP Practitioner (ITS, London (2002)
- Psychometric qualifications include; Level A & Level B Intermediate, MBTI Step 1 & II, 16PF, FIRO-B, CPI, IPI, Benchmarks (3600 instrument), EQ-I, SDI, Appreciative Inquiry, Wave, Hogan Series,
- Edward De Bono Six Thinking Hats accredited user (2002)
The Chefs...
The Food@Work chef team is an outstanding collection of highly experienced professionals, currently working in industry. They have all developed their abilities to mentor and guide participants on events, with just the right balance of humour and direct speak! After our clients, they are the stars of the show!
If you would like to join our chef team please email Robinne with your CV. We need chefs with rota availability during the working week.
If you would like to join our chef team please email Robinne with your CV. We need chefs with rota availability during the working week.