Who we are

Research Director & Principal Interviewer: Dr Nick Baylis is a consultant
psychologist (chartered and licensed to practice by the British
Psychological Society) who specialises in researching and promoting the
all-round development of young men and women in their late teens, twenties and thirties. Nick works with individuals one to one, and with educational and corporate organisations.

Nick is also the voluntary founder and former chairman of trustees for
Trail-Blazers, which is a project offering skills-training & mentorship to
the young men serving prison sentences in Feltham Young Offenders'
Institution, West London. Its patron is General Sir David Ramsbotham, former Chief Inspector of Prisons.

Nick gained his Masters and PhD at Cambridge University where, in the
Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, he now lectures the UK's first
ever course in Positive Psychology. This is the scientific pursuit of the
most promising routes to a healthy, successful, and satisfying life, one
that benefits both the individual and their community. Nick is co-organising
The Royal Society Discussion Meeting on The Science of Well-Being, to be
held in London in November 2003.

Email Nick at nvkb2@cam.ac.uk and visit his webpage at
www.nickbaylis.com

Our Patron: His Honour Sir Stephen Tumim has been a judge, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons, and Principal of an Oxford University College. He is an ardent supporter of a number of arts and educational charities. Sir Stephen lends his encouragement and experience to our project's endeavours.

Trustees: Trustees oversee the lawful and proper running of Learning From Young People's Lives in accordance with its stated aims and charitable status. All the Trustees are voluntary.

Chairman of Trustees: Dr Sarah Fitzharding is a Social Scientist who trained at the universities of Cambridge, Yale and Harvard, specialising in the study of highly accomplished men and women in all walks of life. Sarah is currently working with J. Walter Thompson in New York.

2nd Trustee: Erling Kagge originally qualified as a Lawyer, but quickly became Norway's most acclaimed Polar Explorer alive today. He has been celebrated on the covers of both the National Geographic and Time magazine. After a year's sabbatical reading Philosophy at Cambridge University, Erling went home to found Oslo's most innovative and successful book publishing house.

3rd Trustee: Alan Hunt has extensive experience of managing the employee dimensions of organisational development and change. He has worked with a number of blue chip organisations to implement employee participation and communication programmes to win the hearts and mind of the workforce for mergers, productivity and process enhancements. Alan is a Member of the Institute of Personnel and Development, holds the Diploma of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, and has an MBA from Cranfield School of Management.

The successful collaboration of 9 famous companies provided the financial fuel for this research project, as well as much specialist advice and insight. These companies were represented by:

Sony PlayStation
Nick Parker (European Strategic Planning Director)

Channel 4 Television
Gary Roddy (Research Manager)

Orange
Nicola Green (PR Manager); Sairoze Hemani (Personal Sector Planner, Orange International); Dave Wells (Senior Research Analyst)

Kiss 100
Jason Brownlee (Head of Research, Emap Advertising); Melanie Whitehead (Marketing Executive)

Aristoc
Sue Clague (Commercial Director); Jo Boyer (Marketing Manager)

Doritos
Andy Moore (Consumer Insights Director: Frito Lay)

WCRS
Amy Lawson (Marketing Director); Rachel Moroney (Marketing Executive); Camilla Harrisson (Account Director)

Younglives offers its warmest thanks, too, for the enthusiastic support of Sean Kelleher, formerly of Channel 4, and Susan Jukes, formerly of Orange.

younglives.com owes special thanks to the following key players:

· Amy Lawson (Marketing Director at WCRS advertising agency, London) who tirelessly rallied together the charitable funding-team in 1999.

· Rachel Moroney (Marketing Executive at WCRS) who co-ordinated the funding team's collaboration.

· Gavin Shinfield & Piers Palmer (Kyanmedia) who designed, created and now manage the younglives.com website.

· Bert Moore (founding-partner at the London communications consultancy, purple;patch) who designed and implemented the communication of our website launch in April 2000.

The younglives.com Research Team, 1999

· Project Co-ordinator: Samantha Morley
· Full-time Researcher & Interviewer: Britt Sevitt
· Part-time Researcher & Interviewer: Jude Lucas
· Temporary Research Assistants: Leslie Zivin & Alaa Alessa

The younglives.com Report-Writing Team, spring 2000

· Executive Officers (sponsorship, editorial, research & development): Lilian Mata & Leanne Hemphill
· Temporary Administrative Officers: Olga Popov & Sunbo Labode-Sowole
· Project Co-ordinator: Samantha Morley

4 Key Editors, spring 2000

· Cerstin Henning (Teacher, Cologne in Germany)

· Simon Christmas (Training Consultant, Cambridge)

· Jonathan Dellar (Independent Copywriter & Translator, Norwich)

· Simon Shepherd (CEO European Assoc. for the Treatment of Addiction)

(with editorial contributions by Anja Minnich, Caroline Kelham and Nick Berry)

The individuals who made this report possible, share the belief that there is currently a lack of trustworthy, comprehensive and easily available first-hand experience about making the most of life. So they set about providing a reservoir of potentially useful ideas that could be shared by as many people as possible.