About Bernard Ross and Clare Segal

Bernard Ross and Clare Segal founded The Management Centre, a UK-based international management consultancy, in 1988. Since then they have carried out consultancy and training assignments for many international NGOs throughout the world, including Amnesty International, Greenpeace, UNHCR, Save the Children, UNICEF, WHO and HelpAge International. Bernard has written and spoken widely on strategy and creativity in organisations and Clare specialises in communications and marketing consultancy.

Bernard Ross has also worked in community settings using arts and culture as a way to tackle social issues. He was responsible for the first-ever breakfast television show to be transmitted in the UK. He has won Gulbenkian Foundation and Arts Council awards and is author of several publications.

Clare Segal worked for some time in the field of welfare rights, before joining Community Service Volunteers, one of the UK’s largest NGOs. In 1984 she set up her own media production company and produced training videos and publications for the NGO market. Awards for her work include the prestigious Best Video Award in the United Kingdom’s Good Video Guide and she too has had her work published.