Board of Trustees

ISMA was founded and is still supported by the top names in the field of Stress Management. It is the world's largest and most widespread organisation of Stress Management professionals with branches in 10 countries. There have been seven International Conferences and ISMA^UK (the largest and the most active international branch) has organised twelve National UK Conferences.

Below we profile the  current Board of Trustees of ISMA^UK

Chair

Ann McCracken is the author of ‘Stress Gremlins’, lecturers in Stress Management at Westminster University, and regularly contributes to TV, radio and the press. Ann's interest is developing accessible training through on-line programmes which measure organisational stress in ‘real time’.  Ann’s company (AMC Mentoring), offers strategies for stress which include risk assessments, stress audits and training for organisations.

Treasurer

Carolyn Svahn has 20 years experience of training design and delivery for organisations large and small in both the public and private sectors. I specialise in helping organisations to nuture their key resource, their people. Today we are constantly asked to do more with less. This means that Stress Prevention and Skills Development are vital for success. Contact me to talk further about protecting your people from stress related illness, training trainers and training managers to handle sensitive conversations at work.

National Stress Awareness Day 

Jenny Edwards career began as a healthcare professional in acute care provision, for 9 years working as a RGN in coronary care and subsequently as a RGM in midwifery and then in the community as a Health Visitor. Jenny further developed her career by qualifying as a Psychotherapist from The National College of Hypnosis and Psychotherapy, followed by achieving a Diploma in Advanced Hypnotherapy. Jenny has been running her own private practice in Esher, Surrey since 2000, working as a psychotherapist and stress management consultant. Completing an OCR Diploma in Stress Management Jenny has subsequently established Solutions 4 Stress as a consultancy service. Going into Companies, Organisations & Schools, Jenny provides training in the form of seminars & workshops to manage and reduce stress, enhance leadership skills, increase performance & improve the work-life balance.

ISMA Conference

Francis McGinty has a background firmly rooted in business and consequently understands the value of ‘the bottom line’. Combining his experience of business with the study of human behaviour and it’s affect on the wellness of both individual and organisation his company, Becalm Ltd, has been supplying financial organisations with a complete stress awareness policy fulfilling HSE guidelines. He has supplied risk management assessments for organisations and for individual employees. He has introduced stress-awareness training programmes and coached individuals in the management of stress. He has successfully and succinctly enabled returnees to return the workplace.

Francis McGinty is a clinical hypnotist. He is also an accredited Master Practitioners in Neuro Linguistic Programming, being trained by the founders of NLP, Dr Richard Bandler and John Grinder. Human Neuro Linguistic Psychology, trained by John Overdorf. He also holds diplomas in Thought Field Therapy (also known as ‘tapping’), once again, being trained by the founder Dr Roger Callaghan; who also introduced him to the invaluable use of the Heart Rhythm Scanner as a diagnostic and monitoring tool. Francis has also trained in Organisational Stress Management, qualifying him to train organisations to achieve the required HSE methodology. He holds an OCR diploma in stress management, which is the only qualification in stress management recognised and accredited by Oxford and Cambridge Universities.

Management Processes

Martin Rust is a Chartered Engineer and member of the Association for Project Management and Chartered Management Institute. His consultancy practice works with people and organisations to help them achieve success efficiently and effectively. He brings to ISMA over 30 years of planning and project management experience and through a focus on project related management is committed to the development of ISMA as the recognised body in all areas of stress management.