About Us

Life Transitions' core purpose is to significantly increase an employees' performance within the workplace through providing a consultancy for both individuals and organisations in the areas of competency based leadership, coaching, selection, interviewing and change management. We have a passion to see people develop, adjust to change and realise their potential.

Richard Braybrooke BA Hons, FCIPD is a professional and energetic Business Consultant with well-rounded experience in Human Resource management and development. With a honours degree in Business Studies Richard is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. His background includes senior HR positions in the engineering, retail and financial services sectors including HR Director of Noble Lowndes, a leading international employee benefits consultancy.

A practitioner in psychometric tests including MBTI and 16PF Richard has also had experience in a London based headhunting firm and for ten years in a senior consulting role with a leading international career management firm.

Mercia Braybrooke is a qualified Counsellor with a master's degree in Organisation Consulting who worked for many years with individuals in organisations following traumatic incidents at work. The valuable insights she gained into the effects of sudden change on organisations and individuals and the benefits to both of understanding and working with the process of transition has for many years informed her work in Organisational Consulting. She also supports the business development and administration functions at LTC.

Catherine Gilbert, MA (Cantab), MBA, FRSA, has over 20 years experience in the human resources field, supporting HR Managers in organisations in improving employee performance, managing employee transitions and with their director level recruitment needs. She has also worked with multinational and pharmaceutical companies to project manage major outplacement and change management training programmes. For the last 14 years she has successfully run pan-European induction and new product training programmes for a leading HR services consultancy and for the same organisation an exciting recent project was to write, co-direct and narrate a pan-European video on how to be a successful interviewee.