Transforming Organisations Through Joyful Collaboration

At Wellspring Development Consultancy, we believe that meaningful transformation begins with collaboration.
Whether it’s in a small team, between departments or across industries and geographies, we help organisations succeed and deliver positive change in ethical and supportive ways that bring joy to those involved.

Empowering teams. Delivering change. Creating joy.

Wellspring DC is about making Good Things Happen which bring Joy to those that are collaborating to achieve them.

We support the development of Generative Relationships and building Trust; tenets which sustain teams and alliances, and provide a positive legacy.

The purpose and value of what is being sought is important to us. Whether our engagement is a lot or a little we consider ourselves part of the problem-solving partnership, which means it’s a choiceful matching process between us and the clients with which we work.

Our practical approach enables problem-solving, connection and positive change. We work alongside you to build high-performing, trust-based relationships that generate new insights and opportunities, establishing advanced levels of trust throughout your organisation.

Our Services

Drawing from over 30 years’ experience in the public and private sectors, including across the NHS, local government and academic institutions, we:

Enhance Benefits Realisation in change initiatives

Enable collaborative problem-solving

Establish trusting partnerships

(internal and external) for service delivery

Overcome project inertia

engagement and activation

Create environments for High Performance Cultures

where change that matters gets done

Support Whole Systems Thinking

for those that we work with to find and explore their boundaries

Surface thought-leadership and connection

Along with the standard suite of:

Team building and leadership development

Facilitation and programme delivery

Strategic planning and insight reviews

Management consulting, strategy development and evaluation

Change management input

Interim programme /project resource

Organisational, team, and executive coaching

Trust-based relationships that drive sustainable results.

Our approach implements whole-systems thinking and person-centred methodologies to address organisational challenges, nurture a culture of trust and accountability, and solve problems creatively and collaboratively.

Each engagement begins with deep listening to understand your context, challenges, and aspirations. From there, we co-design interventions that align with your objectives, ensuring that our work together is both relevant and impactful. Throughout the process, we emphasise practical application, and experiential learning, ensuring that insights translate into action and tangible results.

Who we work with

We work with executive and frontline teams across a range of different industries in both public and private sectors, including:

Health and social care

The NHS

Councils and local government

Independent commercial organisations

Charities and not-for-profit organisations

This breadth of experience allows us to bring cross-sector insights that enrich our work with each client, identifying patterns and solutions that might not be visible from within a single industry perspective.

Meet the Team

John Bryant

Founder and Principal Consultant

Get to know John

Sarah North

Associate

Get to know Sarah

Professor Andy Jones

Associate

Get to know Andy

Andy is an experienced public health academic, evaluation consultant and systems thinker with over 30 years’ experience working across universities, local government, the NHS and the voluntary sector. He specialises in helping organisations understand the difference their work makes, using evidence in practical and meaningful ways to support learning, improvement, and positive change.

His areas of expertise include mixed-methods evaluation, public health interventions, health inequalities, whole-systems thinking, access to services, behaviour change, and the role of environments in shaping health and wellbeing. He has worked closely with organisations including NIHR, NICE, Cancer Research UK, local authorities, NHS partners and a wide range of charities and community organisations.

Andy brings both academic rigour and a deeply practical approach to his work. He is particularly interested in evaluation that is useful, proportionate and human, helping teams move beyond simply proving impact, towards learning from their work, strengthening relationships, and building confidence in the use of evidence. His approach is collaborative and person-centred, working alongside organisations to develop evaluation in ways that feel achievable, relevant, and empowering.

Across his career, Andy has led major research and evaluation programmes, secured over £25 million in research funding as a lead or co-applicant, and published more than 280 peer-reviewed papers. He has also contributed to national policy and guidance, including work with NICE and the UK Government’s physical activity guidelines.

Clients and colleagues value Andy’s ability to make complex ideas accessible, create safe and thoughtful spaces for learning, and bring clarity to messy real-world challenges. He is committed to evaluation that supports ethical, sustainable change – helping people and organisations understand what is working, what could be better, and how evidence can be used to make good things happen.

Phil Moore

Associate

Get to know Phil

Phil Moore is a veteran of the technology and IT industry, with over 40 years of experience specialising in the deployment and adoption of technological innovations and quality improvement. For the past 20 years, Phil has focused on the Health and Care sector, helping organisations, their staff, patients, and service users benefit from advances in technology.

Prior to setting up Purposeful Curiosity, he spent six years as the Digital Innovation Lead for Public Sector at Insight, ranked as the 6th most prolific information services companies in the Fortune 500. Phil’s areas of specialism include Immersive Technology (Virtual Reality, Augmented or Mixed Reality, sometimes referred to as XR), Intelligent Automation and AI and he was vice chair of the Social Care Working Group at techUK , the national body for the technology industry in the UK.

From the earliest days, Phil recognised that people, processes, and understanding the service delivery/customer journey are the most important aspects of any successful technology deployment. Understanding context and developing genuine empathy with those working on the front line are vital parts of the adoption process.

Phil’s workshops generate tremendous enthusiasm for the possibilities that new technologies can bring, even for self-confessed technical luddites. He excels at identifying barriers to successful adoption and addressing them effectively. Phil’s unique ability to take complex concepts or products and translate them into simple, relevant terms that connect with users' lives helps creates a real desire for change.

However, it's not all about the technology. Often, simply encouraging the curiosity and creativity of the team leads to novel ideas for problem-solving and service and quality improvement.

Phil employs methodologies such as Design Thinking and Proci’s© ADKAR. Using a proven approach that harnesses people's natural curiosity and creativity, then systematically turn these into tangible and actionable ideas, is what he calls Purposeful Curiosity.

What Makes Us Different?

Wellspring Development Consultancy stands apart through our unwavering commitment to practical solutions that generate real results; purposeful, mission led benefits realisation – through engaging Head, Heart and Hand.

Are you seeking to change something?

Are you facing change?

Whether it’s organisational, professional, or personal, Wellspring DC supports people and teams to achieve their aspirations. We enable people to have greater agency and empowerment in developing their relationships; to increase the pace and efficacy of the collaborative problem-solving.

We think Whole System, embrace digital, deliver at a granular level, never waver from a person-centred approach.

With our depth of experience, we can often share solutions and make connections, however, it’s very much about supporting people to ask the right questions, in ways that create emergent options, and activate collaborative solutions.

Away from the jargon, it’s about individuals being part of something positive, finding joy in the journey and delivering what they all agreed to do – big or small.

Our methodology focuses on collaboration:

Empowering performance through joyful collaboration

Unlike consultancies that apply standardised frameworks regardless of context, we tailor our approach to your specific culture, challenges, and aspirations. We believe in working with you, not simply for you—creating solutions together that have both immediate impact and long-term sustainability.

Our commitment to ethical practice runs through everything we do. We prioritise approaches that respect the dignity and potential of all involved, that build rather than deplete organisational resources, and that contribute to the broader social good.

As an external partner that cares, Wellspring DC can ask the questions that count, offer information that may not otherwise be shared, and support solutions that meet the need.

We use a range of proven tools and methodologies, coupled with diverse experience, to enable people and teams to achieve their aspirations, realising the benefits through Head, Heart and Hand.

Get in touch

To find out more or to have an exploratory chat about how we can help your organisation thrive through collaboration, please get in touch