Operations and Programme Manager, Future Foundations

Associate, Future Foundations

Shenel is an Education Specialist trained in emotion coaching on a mission to teach young people to be resilient, kinder and more compassionate.

With a BSc in Psychology and  MEd (Masters of Education) her journey began in the classrooms where she taught for 13 years in both the state and private sector. She was quickly promoted to Head of Department and ran many extra-curricular activities alongside her main teaching role. Her passion in schools was empowering students to be the best version of themselves by explicitly teaching life skills to deal with life’s challenges.

Since having children in 2017, Shenel has trained parents, teachers and young people to build mental resilience and emotional wellbeing alongside two leading charities in the field of wellbeing.

Shenel is very excited to be part of Future Foundations vision on empowering young leaders through Global Social Leaders and the incredible CanTeam project that is a real life version of the literature on wellbeing. Let’s bring communities together to eat and thrive!

Andy Dunn FRSA

Senior Associate & Design Thinking Facilitator

Andy Dunn is an International Coach, Facilitator and Consultant working across personal, team and culture change programmes. To date he has worked with over 5,000 CEOs, leaders, managers and students, to be a catalyst for change, innovation and personal development.

His global client portfolio includes Adidas, Santander, Amazon Web Services, Dyson, Ricoh, Shelter and the Kering Group to name a few, with programmes covering innovation, diversity and inclusion, mental wellbeing, resilience and leadership development.

Holding it all together is his mission is to empower people and organisations to lead with integrity, care for the world and evoke the drive within us all to make a positive difference in the places we live and work.

As an accredited Human Synergistics consultant, Andy partners with clients to be an ally, champion and catalyst for positive change. Using compelling evidence-based methods alongside a warm, creative and relationship-centred approach, making Andy a highly sought after partner.

Alongside his coaching business, Andy is also an Author, Speaker and founder of Creators Club, an organisation providing coaching and courses to propel the freelance creator economy. His passions also include volunteering for a local homeless shelter, swing dancing and playing squash.

Andy is originally from Newcastle and lives in London.

Andy has facilitated, co-designed and created programmes for Future Foundations since 2012.

I am a highly accomplished senior executive with international leadership experience in both Executive and Non-Executive roles. I have a strong commercial, business, and creative foundation having spent over 20 years in Design, Communication and PR; culminating in prestigious roles as Head of Production for Imagination (UK) and as MD of In-house Communications (UK). To take my leadership capability to a next level I trained as a coach and have dedicated my career over the last 19 years to applying my capabilities as a strategic leadership consultant, executive coach, and facilitator.

I specialise in senior leadership and board effectiveness. Developing and supporting business leaders and senior teams to lead with purpose, build robust governance, create meaningful strategy, accelerate personal growth, and place humanity at the core of their businesses; and in so doing increase corporate and financial performance.

I have built a reputation for transformational performance and thinking. I work with Executive and Non-Executive functions, Directors and Partners developing clear business strategy and meaningful corporate governance, creating successful leadership environments and cultures, planning for effective succession, high team performance and impactful communications.

My experience is industry agnostic and spans clients across the public, private and communications sectors, professional and financial services, executive search, charitable, NFP and education.

I have sat at executive board level since 1996, and held main board/non-executive, advisory board, and trustee positions since 2004. My approach has it foundations in understanding the intricacies of change and specifically what it takes to lead organisations, manage teams and the delicate nature of being a human centred organisation.

I am passionate about creating mindful, purposeful, organisational change believing that when corporate bodies put their energy into good practice, they can change the world for good, better serving the communities of which they are part.

Tania has been an advisory board member of Future Foundations since 2008.

Justin has a background in leisure and entertainment, corporate finance (M&A), strategic business/corporate development and infrastructure.

Justin started his career in investment banking with the corporate finance teams of Close Brothers and Arthur Andersen, with most of his banking life spent in Frankfurt. He has a BSc (Hons) in German and Economics with International Business and French. Having lived and worked in both France and Germany, Justin now spends much of his time in North America and the Middle East.

Prior to founding Urban Legacies, Justin established his own management consultancy offering strategic advisory services to private sector companies, including international construction companies and infrastructure investment funds.

Justin has been an active member of the Future Foundations advisory board since 2008, contributing to the strategy and planning of the organisation and has judged the GSL Global Goals competition.

Jonathan Harper FRSA

CEO Future Foundations

Jonathan is CEO of Future Foundations, Founder of CanTeam, Co-founder of Global Social Leaders, Future Solutions Online and Our Future Group.

Jonathan is an award-winning social entrepreneur, who has partnered with Vodafone, McKinsey, and Amazon Web Services to develop transformational employee development programmes supporting young people’s life-skills and wellbeing.

He has created youth leadership programmes for the British government, partnered with the LEGO Foundation to develop a programme to foster playful learning and advocacy among young people and worked with Global Action Plan and Persil to pilot and scale a UK schools programme focused on developing compassionate values.

In 2013, Jonathan co-founded Global Social Leaders, which has equipped over 10,000 young people to deliver 3,500 social action projects in 100 countries responding to the Global Goals.

He is passionate about fostering a community of schools and cross-sector partners, committed to building a global movement of socially conscious young people who are equipped to be leaders in their lives and society.

He was recognised as global alumnus by Enactus, for the impact he has had on society, and supporting young people to reach their potential.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (RSA) and has received a Catalyst Award for Global Social Leaders from the RSA.

In 2023, Jonathan was recognised as a Gamechanger in the Big Education Challenge by Big Change, for CanTeam, a new initiative designed to transform schools into community hubs by opening up their canteens to serve food after-school to young people, families and local community. In 2024, Jonathan was announced as Co-Winner.

• Jonathan Harper – Big Change (big-change.org)
• Click here to watch Jonathan’s TedX

Pete joined Future Foundations in 2009 and oversees the systems, processes and finances of the organisation. In his role as Director, he supports the staff team with strategic, operational and financial management.

Pete is passionate about enabling people to be the best they can be and achieve their full potential. He has worked with young people throughout his life, from his early teens as a volunteer at his local youth club, to being a long standing part of the Senior Management Team at King’s College London Students’ Union, to his former role as Chief Operating Officer at Future Foundations.

Pete is an advisory board member of Future Foundations and the Chief Executive Officer of our sister company Future Solutions, which supports organisations to achieve their full potential.

I have over a decade of experience in the international education sector, with specialisms in; operations, systems, safeguarding, compliance, international education, guardianship, host family management and recruitment, policies, project management and administrative systems.

Previously a trustee and advisory board member of AEGIS, promoting best practice and developing support and knowledge for Guardianship in the UK.