Vyla Rollins

Vyla Lejeune Rollins is an Organisational Psychologist who has worked as a strategic Organisational Effectiveness consultant for over 20 years.

An American by birth, Vyla's area of expertise is in working with organisations to systemically diagnose organisational performance and implement organisational/development interventions at individual, group, board and organisational levels. Vyla started her career as an HR generalist, but in terms of her more traditional Organisational Development work, has in-depth experience in the area of executive coaching, including designing and delivering group/individual based performance/change initiatives, team effectiveness initiatives, applied leadership development, and strategy facilitation at senior executive and board level.

Vyla has built up her experience working as a consultant with a range of UK, European, North American, EMEA, and Global organisations such as Methanex, Bank of America, Unisys, Carlson Wagonlit Travel, Scholastic Inc, Catholic Healthcare Systems, Glaxo/Wellcome, UBS Warburg, Standard Chartered Bank (Singapore, Hong Kong, and Bombay), bpTT (British Petroleum Trinidad & Tobago) and Shell Exploration and Production (Nigeria). In the UK she has worked with organisations such as Comet, Boots, Kingfisher plc, HMRC, British Airports Authority - Heathrow Airport Limited, Railtrack, Thomas Cook, MFI, British Petroleum, British Telecom, The British Broadcasting Corporation, Hasbro, Barclays Bank, Lloyds TSB, Merrill Lynch, Jones Lang LaSalle, Prudential, Shell Exploration and Production (Scotland) New Look Retailers, NHS Executive, National Grid, Royal Mail and Whitbread plc. She has specific experience working with Managing Directors, Chief Executive Officers, and Presidents within mid-size, regional and global organisations.

In the mid-1990's, she was one of three individuals commended for consultancy work undertaken with the Board of the Institute of Management Consultants, working with them to develop their strategy, vision and subsequent organisational change programme.

Vyla was invited to work with Harvard professor Ronald Heifitz, author of "Leadership without Easy Answers" and co-author of "Leadership on the Line" to collaborate on a ground breaking leadership initiative for a UK telecommunications firm.

Most recently, Vyla has worked with Future Considerations co-facilitating on the Beyond Leadership Programme in India.

Vyla received her BA in Industrial/ Organisational Psychology from Occidental College in the US and her M.Phil. in Organisational Behaviour from Bath University in England. She also holds a Certificate in Counselling and Psychotherapy, is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and a Fellow of Royal Society of Medicine, and a Member of the Association of Business Psychologists.