Dr Carol Cole is a member of the South West London Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) and member of the South West London Provider Chairs Group.
Carol is Vice Chair of Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust, where she chairs the Quality Committee and is the non-executive lead for whistleblowing and Freedom to Speak Up.
Originally trained as a clinical psychologist, Carol was a change management consultant with the NHS, a visiting fellow at the King’s Fund and head of health at the Office for Public Management, before establishing her own consultancy practice in organisation development.
She has an extensive experience of organisational strategy, systemic change and leadership, applying psychology to enhance business performance and team effectiveness. She has worked with numerous organisations at board level across the public and private sectors, from the NHS to blue-chips and charities, and led successful international consulting projects and leadership programmes in Europe, North America and the Middle East.
Carol is chair of Together for Mental Wellbeing, a trustee of Age UK and of the Royal Air Force Museum as well as a member of the Council of the University of Roehampton. She was previously a non-executive at Hounslow and Richmond Community Health NHS Trust, vice-chair of Deafness Research UK, a trustee of Action on Hearing Loss and vice-chair of the Association of Business Psychologists. She is a fellow of the British Psychological Society.