Alan Beckett
Director

Alan Beckett has spent a lifetime in career and life guidance counselling, helping young people and adults in making the appropriate decisions to lead fulfilling lives and careers. Alan has expertise in guiding the whole range of students including the gifted, those with special requirements from severe mental and physical issues, the dyslexic and those with behavioural and motivational concerns across the globe.    Further Information....

Moira Beckett
Director

Moira is a professional career adviser with a Post Graduate Diploma in Career Guidance awarded by the University of Kent at Canterbury. Moira is also a member of the Institute of Career Guidance and has extensive experience of working with students of all abilities and dispositions – in the UK and Internationally. In particular Moira specialises in UK higher education entry and is currently working with a college that recently sent 52 students to Oxbridge.

Madzy de Nooij
Director

Madzy de Nooij was born in Holland and is based in Brussels. She has a BA in educational psychology. Madzy has 15 years of experience with students at International and American Schools. She is a qualified career counsellor, mainly working in Europe and South East Asia. In her function as director of Step One she is co-responsible for programme development and sales.

Olwen Parkinson

Olwen is a highly qualified and experienced careers guidance practitioner with a Diploma in Career Guidance and has worked with students with all dispositions and in many different circumstances. Olwen has many years experience of working in the international community throughout Europe and the Middle East. Olwen gained a BA (Hons) in Sociology and Education from the University of Wales and as a mature student was awarded a post-graduate qualification in Educational Guidance and Counselling from the University of Southampton.

Alice Janssen
Associate

Alice is of Dutch nationality and is based in Belgium. She has a BA in educational psychology. Alice has many years of experience in counselling and individual support. Alice has been working with Step One for many years, undertaking a significant amount of test administration for the company as well as career guidance interviewing throughout Europe.

Karin Quigley-Draxler

Karin is Austrian and based in Vienna. She holds an MA and a teaching certificate in French and German from the University of Graz and is a psychotherapist licensed in Austria. She has worked for many years in international schools as a teacher, counsellor and university adviser and is now offering her services in English, French, and German in her private practice for psychotherapy, coaching and university advising in Vienna. She also conducts presentations and workshops such as: what to do after High School, communication, culture shock, and other related topics.

Karin administers tests and holds feedback interviews for the company in Vienna. Through Step One Austria, Karin is offering Step One products to Austrian schools.

Mary Lucas

Mary graduated with BA (Hons) in Sports Science and an MSc in Ergonomics. She worked in Sports Development and Pharmaceutical Sales before teaching and lecturing in the UK and Oslo. Mary then spent some years working for the Connexions Service in North Wiltshire where she gained NVQ Level 4 in Advice and Guidance. Mary has experience of offering young people of all abilities careers advice and guidance and is based in Brussels.

Joyce Twum
Associate and Licensee

Joyce Twum was born in Ghana. Joyce has contributed sixteen (16) years of her professional life to human resource management, career and educational counselling and has also efficiently held several teaching and management positions. Her expertise spans through career assessment and aptitude testing, career planning, programme development, conflict and grievance resolution, strategic human resource management, training and development. Joyce is currently the CEO of her own company, Self Search (Gh) Ltd., which aims at meeting the educational and career related needs of students, employees and career changers.

Viral Doshi
Associate

Viral has the Indian nationality and is based in Mumbai. Next to his work as a director of a technical company, Viral has been involved in career guidance for many years and is one of our experts on American Universities. Through Step One India, Viral will be seeking to provide career guidance services to schools throughout the sub-continent.

Carolyn Comfort

Carolyn is American and is based in Paris. She has a BA Major in Psychology and a MA in Speech and Language Pathology. Carolyn has many years of experience with international students at many different schools. She is fluent in French. Since 2001 Carolyn has been Step One’s representative in Paris.

Bryn Jenkins

Bryn is currently the college counselor at Marymount School Rome. Previously Bryn worked at St George’s, Rome.
In 2005, Bryn became Step One’s Rome Associate and will represent the company in that City and that region of Italy.
For Bryn’s walking tours of Rome see: www.walkinrome.it

Julia Ragozzi
working with Joyce Twum at Self Search Ghana

Julia has a first degree in Psychology and a Masters degree in Counselling Psychology from Pace University in the USA as well as a rich experience in counseling, advising and support services. She has co-facilitated career related workshops in resume writing, job searches and interviewing skills. In addition, she has administered various types of assessments for students, employees and career changers. She is currently Executive Director of Self Search (Gh) Ltd., for which she is a co-founder.

Mandie Dawson

Mandie has worked within a marketing and sales environment all her working life - within Media and educational promotion dealing with fine art and guidance services.

Jackie Moore

Jackie is based in Southern Spain. She is qualified with a BSc (Hon) in Physics with mathematics, a Post Graduate Certificate in Education and an MSc in Nuclear Physics. Jackie was Head of the Vocational and Business Faculty at Mayfield High School, where she became experienced at school based career work and particularly higher education guidance. Jackie also has extensive international teaching experience gained in the Seychelles and Malawi.
Jackie is Step One’s Associate for southern Spain

Albert Hudspeth
Associate

Headmaster for twenty seven years in secondary schools throughout the UK and overseas. His career has included ten years as County Secretary of the NAHT; sixteen years in membership of HMC and latterly, three years as General Secretary of COBISEC. He specialises in elite staff recruitment; leadership and management consultancy and pre-inspections. He has produced numerous publications and articles on education and sport and was made an Honorary Fellow of the College of Preceptors in 1983.

Shaun Bowen

Shaun is responsible for the majority of the design work on the Step One website you are viewing now.

He holds a diploma in Graphic Design and has many years experience in website design and maintenance.