About us - leadership team
Robert McHenry
Executive Chairman
Dr Robert McHenry is Executive Chairman of OPP Ltd, Oxford, UK. For much of his career, he has worked as a consultant in business psychology for the public and private sectors on staff selection, performance management, succession planning and organisational change. Among his personal clients have been Cadbury Plc, Bass Plc, Intercontinental Hotels, Eli Lilly, Siemens, the Export Credits Guarantee Dept and the United Kingdom Agricultural Research Council.
Robert founded OPP Ltd in 1989 and has built the company into an international business with offices in Oxford, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Chicago and Champaign IL.
He is committed to creating innovative talent assessment and development methods, and is often credited with re-invigorating these areas by challenging conventional approaches.
Robert holds a doctorate in Experimental Psychology from Oxford University and is Tutor and Lecturer in Experimental Psychology at Oriel College, and a member of the Division of Medical Sciences.
Penny Moyle
CEO
Penny was appointed to the role of CEO in September 2011. Since joining OPP in 1999, Penny has worked across all the major business functions within the Group including the delivery of Consultancy and Training and the management of Research and Development, Product Development, Marketing, International offices and distributor and partner management.
A Chartered Psychologist with over 20 years' experience, Penny has provided strategic business psychology services to all levels of management in Europe, the USA and Australia, across the finance, retail and telecommunications sectors. Her interventions have included culture and stress audits, individual and team development initiatives, and the bespoke development of psychometric questionnaires and interpretive reports.
Prior to joining OPP in 1999, Penny taught at the University of Tasmania (Australia) and then worked as a research psychologist at the University of Oxford. Her research has been published in both academic journals and the wider media, including The Sunday Times and The Financial Times. She also appeared on the BBC One programme What are you like? The Personality Test, fulfilling her aim to make complex psychological issues accessible and valuable to non-psychologists.
Completing her BA (Hons) at the University of Adelaide in 1988, she subsequently gained a scholarship to study in the Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford, for which she was awarded a D.Phil, followed by a Prize Research Fellowship at Nuffield College. Penny has held several roles at OPP, including Principal Consultant, Head of Training, and Head of R&D.
Betsy Kendall
Executive Director and Head of Professional Services and Operations
As Head of Professional Services and Operations, Betsy has responsibility for Learning, Consultancy, HR, Customer Services and Project Management and Production.
Betsy has worked in OPP since its foundation in 1989, and in that time she has lead almost every function within the company. She was responsible for setting up OPP's qualifying training division, and was pivotally involved in designing and developing qualifications workshops for MBTI® Step I, Step II, FIRO-B and CPI. For many years she ran the majority of OPP's training events. She led the research and development team that created the eleven European language versions of the MBTI Step I, and she oversaw the development and standardisation of the European versions of MBTI Step I, FIRO-B and CPI. She is the author of the Manual Supplement for the European MBTI Step I and co-author of the FIRO-B Users Guide and MBTI and Culture.
Betsy has worked across the world, particularly in Europe and the USA, running leadership development interventions, team development processes, and assessment events. She also regularly speaks at national and international conferences, including in Australia, Sweden and the USA, on leadership, team development, and type and culture.
Betsy is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society.