Matthew Adam

I help leadership teams resolve systemic dysfunction and burnout by redesigning how leadership systems operate under pressure. Working with C-suite leaders and senior teams, I address the underlying dynamics that drive misalignment, siloed working, and declining performance. Using the 5x5 Model®, I bring structure to complex relational systems—enabling teams to build alignment, psychological safety, and sustained performance.

Culture Consultancy are experts in culture change. We design, align and embed award-winning cultures. We understand humans and business: We know what it takes to create and grow successful, innovative businesses, improve productivity, enhance your employee value proposition but we also care about the individual and their employee experience- employee wellbeing, diversity and inclusion.

•Developed and delivered lectures for the training practitioners on subjects including low-level interventions, for depression, systemic family practice, DBT skills, working with Experts by Experience. •Interfaced with the wider system including Health Education England (HEE), NHS England (NHSE/I), Provider Collaboratives throughout England providing guidance, support and leadership. •Supported supervisors of the trainees to respond to clinical requirements essential to be able to demonstrate competencies. •Contributed to the development of the national curriculum and provide assessments of competencies for trainees on the programme.

- Engaged as Transformation Lead to shape new strategic direction of mental health services to deliver against national access and waiting times targets. - Led development of new mental health and emotional wellbeing strategies to create integrated system for all children and young people in West Cheshire. - Identified key areas of need requiring future development to meet specific performance outcomes. - Ensured national performance outcomes achieved despite underperformance over the previous 4 years.

- Engaged as Systemic Consultant & Team Coach as part of NHS-England initiative to enable 7 Community Care Teams become autonomous. - Responsible for 107 healthcare professionals including 55 District Nurses. - Facilitated team capacity to see 25% more patients per working day. - Supported CCTs in reducing costs of emergency equipment by 45%. - Led improved team functioning, resilience and capacity resulting in improved team morale, job satisfaction and team confidence.

- Engaged as Highly Specialist Systemic Psychotherapist to provide high quality, systemic psychotherapy service for children and young inpatients. - Responsible for Family Therapy Service (4+ staff) and 2 direct reports. - Expanded the Family Therapy Service and performed clinical supervision for individuals and groups. - Established training component for 1 trainee Clinical Psychologist, 1 Assistant Psychologist, 3 Staff Nurses and 5 junior doctors. - Supported all practitioners in the development of systemic thinking and application of models and approaches to clinical work. - Provided high quality assessments and interventions leading to improvements in communication, family dynamics and conflict resolution for 100% of cases.

- Recruited as family therapist to deliver high quality assessments and interventions for under 16s with severe mental illnesses, and their families. - Responsible for 3 ward-based Multi-disciplinary Teams, 20 Clinical Support Workers and 6 Staff Nurses. - Introduced and embedded systemic psychotherapy as a treatment modality on 2 inpatient wards where previously the discipline was not seen as beneficial. - Facilitated reductions in stress and tension in children and young people experiencing psychotic disorders, enabling discharge from inpatient care. - Introduced new approach to ward-based practice, encouraging team to consider role of gender in the treatment of severe and enduring mental health problems.

- Recruited as Family Therapist to provide systemic assessments and interventions to children and young people admitted to Assessment and Eating Disorder Units. - Promoted to Senior Family Therapist to develop Family Therapy Service including provision of systemic psychotherapy for under 16s with Eating Disorders. - Developed and implemented new approach (previously non-existent) to working with children and young people with eating disorders and their families. - Enabled 5 families to develop new strategies for managing high conflict episodes. - Created, led and supervised a Live Supervision Group consisting of 4 professionals; all practitioners were supervised using a reflecting team model and a 2-way screen; all families seen received a ‘gold-standard’ systemic service. - Provided high quality treatment to 50 adolescents diagnosed with Anorexia Nervosa, and supported improved family functioning.