Beverley Shears had an early senior HR career in the rail industry, including as Deputy Managing Director and HR Director at Stagecoach South West Trains Ltd. She was recently a NED on the Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and is the founder and CEO of Blue Amaranth Consulting Ltd which specialises in Board effectiveness, change management and people engagement strategy. Previously, as Head of Customer Experience at the Olympic Delivery Authority she developed and led the delivery of the Games-time Transport Customer Experience strategy which ensured engaged, motivated and well trained people successfully delivered seamless services to over 80 million customers during the 2012 Olympics and Paralympic Games.