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Founder and Director of Magma Effect Limited, a new UK based company that specialises in working with values and leadership, Jackie has had an eclectic career spanning environmental education, public relations, tourism, campaigning, teaching, training and most latterly project management principally for voluntary and community sector organisations.
Originally qualified as a zoologist with a particular interest in behavioural ecology, Jackie spent two years in The Gambia in West Africa managing a project that reintroduces chimpanzees to the wild. Followed by travelling home overland; a trip which involved a dramatic, but not quite completely life threatening, experience in the middle of the Sahara desert.
Over the last twenty years working in England and Ireland, Jackie has gained additional qualifications as a teacher of adults and as a strategic manager
although her chainsaw users certificate has now expired.
Between 1996 and 2003 Jackie led teams that achieved significant recognition for their work in communications and innovation collecting no less than nine awards
from organisations including Learning Northwest, the Institute of Public Relations, Sefton Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the North West Tourist Board and the Department for Education and Skills.
Currently Jackie holds full membership of the Chartered Management Institute, the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and the Institute of Directors.
Alongside values Jackie’s big passion is her two daughters, Hannah and Victoria, who she describes as the most significant project she has ever embarked upon.
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