Our team
Malleable Mind is led by BPS Chartered psychologist Aidan Kearney. Our lead associates each bring years of senior leadership and coaching experience to the programmes we deliver.
Behind them is a wider bench of expert psychologists and coaches we can call on when a programme needs to scale up. It means larger projects get the same quality of delivery as a single workshop.
Lead associates
Glenn Mead
Lead Associate
Glenn helps people and teams make better decisions. He shows them how the emotional and logical parts of the brain shape the way they think and behave, and gives them practical questions that help put situations into perspective.
He has more than 20 years' experience of leadership and management. He served 9 years as an officer in a British Army infantry battalion, including operational tours in Northern Ireland and Bosnia. In consulting he's worked with EY and Capgemini in the UK and with Accenture across 12 European countries. He was also a director of Chimp Management Ltd, the psychology consultancy behind The Chimp Paradox.
Glenn holds master's degrees in Business Administration and Occupational Psychology, and a master's-level diploma in executive coaching and leadership mentoring.
Stephanie Fairhurst MA, BA (Hons)
Lead Associate
Stephanie coaches leaders to change their behaviour. She explains the brain science behind why we do what we do, then gives people practical tools that keep their performance up over time.
She spent 14 years in marketing, sales and business development at large multinationals, then 10 years running her own property and construction businesses in the UK and Cyprus. From 2014 she worked for 10 years with Professor Steve Peters, creator of The Chimp Model, before setting up SGF Coaching Ltd in 2025.
Her work includes leading a team of 8 coaches at a major hedge fund, coaching senior tech executives through global restructuring, helping emergency services leaders manage acute stress and running a change programme across a police force.
Projects and operations
Nicola Kearney BA (Hons), PgDip
Project and Operations Director
Nicola is a director of Malleable Mind and looks after its projects, operations and compliance. She started out leading teams in education and nursery settings, where she was responsible for risk assessment, health and safety, safeguarding and inspections.
Her public sector casework has sharpened her ability to work through large amounts of detailed information quickly and reach fair, consistent decisions. Since joining Malleable Mind in 2023, she's kept programmes running smoothly and made sure the business meets all its regulatory requirements.
She holds a BA (Hons) in Sociology and Geography and a PgDip in Montessori Education.
Got a larger programme in mind?
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