About Us

Introducing Beacons partners and associates

The partners

Peter Maliphant, formerly Director of Franchise Operations at Interlink Express, joined Beacons in 1999 and is now Managing Director. Peter used our services as a client for many years, and saw the effectiveness of our programmes firsthand. He heads up our Leadership In Action courses as well as delivering our full range of programmes. He is also your contact for business enquiries and development in the West of England, Wales and the Midlands. Peter is based in Bristol.

Sarah Maliphant joined Beacons in 2004 after 16 years working in IT, marketing and culture change management roles within BOC. Sarah delivers our full range of programmes and specialises in the development and delivery of programmes to meet the more unusual, highly tailored client needs. She brings experience as an internal consultant and coach as well as skills in creating structure, achieving change and challenging perceptions. Sarah is a certified NLP practitioner.

Richard Clayton founded Beacons in 1987, having enjoyed a career which included teaching history in London and ten years in the Armed Services before he moved into management training with ICL. He later moved to Brooke Bond as Group Training Manager of their Mallinson Denny subsidiary. Having stepped down as Managing Director in December 2005, Richard's role now includes the design and implementation of 360° feedback and working in leadership and team building at a senior level with many of our clients.

Our associates

Claire Alston is another previous customer of Beacons who was inspired by the effectiveness of our approach. Claire has 15 years operational management experience in the financial services and call centre industry and joined us in 2003. She works with us on a range of programmes including team building, graduate development and consultancy.

Richard Sivers is an experienced professional in the management, design and implementation of human development solutions to effect business improvement and individual development. Formerly with Barclays Bank and FI Group plc, Richard joined our team in 1999 and works on a wide range of our programmes, particularly our Assessment & Development Centres.

Gill Golding is a consultant and HR professional (former Group Training & Development Manager at London Electricity) and another former Beacons client. She has successful top level commercial and managerial experience of the transition from public to private sector. She has been a non-executive Director of an NHS Trust and Managing Director of a lobbying organisation.