Our Board
Wisdom Council Advisory
As a CIC, our purpose is to serve and meet the needs of our community. Therefore, we believe that it is important to meet regularly with service users, professionals and representatives from various demographics in our community to hear directly from them, and we call them our Wisdom Council. We meet quarterly and discuss current themes and topics and learn about their personal experiences and requests, along with asking for feedback on upcoming events and programmes that The Willow Tree is hosting.
Our Directors
Bethan Miles
Beth is a strategic mentor and innovation consultant who supports purpose-led organisations to find clarity in complexity and stay connected to the impact they are here to create. Her work centres on helping people and organisations turn complex ideas into clear, adoptable direction, enabling sustainable growth without losing the integrity of what has already been built.
Her background spans NHS health innovation adoption, systems thinking, innovation strategy and cross-sector collaboration. She has led and supported high-impact programmes that move ideas into real-world adoption, helping organisations translate complexity into focused, sustainable progress. Alongside this, Beth has mentored and supported SMEs and founders, helping them build commercially viable, impact-led ventures through clarity, collaboration and confident decision-making.
Beth is the founder of Simplify & Scale, where she works alongside second-career founders and early-stage businesses to support purposeful growth. She is known for bringing strategic perspective and thoughtful challenge – recognising the significance of what has been created while helping teams stay focused, aligned and on track as they scale.
As a Board Director at The Willow Tree Foundation CIC, Beth supports the organisation to grow its impact while protecting the integrity of its purpose. She is also exploring how deeper connection with nature can inform the way organisations work and how communities are supported.
Grounded in purposeful work, Beth brings calm clarity, depth of thought and a steady focus on meaningful, sustainable change.
Phoenix Chaudhuri
Phoenix is an educationist, entrepreneur, and lifelong learner whose work spans countries, cultures, and disciplines. As a co-founder of Griffin Club, an educational provision, he actively creates, develops, manages, and supervises programmes that share knowledge and practical wisdom with young learners. He works closely with students and families, shaping learning environments that encourage curiosity, resilience, and independent thought.
When living in Germany, he worked in an administrative capacity at an international law firm, coordinating processes and managing documentation. Driven by his commitment to education, he trained as a teacher and became involved in developing the “Waldkindergarten” concept in Bavaria, helping to promote outdoor, nature based early years education. During this period, he also collaborated on initiatives supporting mother-assisted and dolphin-assisted birth, arranging and organising international visits to Sevastopol on the Black Sea and to Boca de Tomatlán in Mexico. In addition to this, Phoenix organised, participated and arranged workshops on health and healing, guiding and holding the space for the growth of the community. He has worked side by side with eclectic evolutionary personalities like Dr. Horace Dobbs, Shzuko Ouwehand, Timothy Wyllie, Igor Charkovsky and others, participating in formulating ideas on health and human development.
The Willow Tree Foundation’s mission to foster healing through nature, community and compassionate support deeply resonates with Phoenix’s journey as an educator and community-builder. His work, nurturing curiosity, resilience and wellbeing aligns with their focus on holistic growth, connection to land and collective healing, drawing on lived experience and shared learning.
Outside his professional work, Phoenix trains in grappling, walks extensively in nature, and enjoys telling and listening to stories—activities that continue to shape the reflective and disciplined approach he brings to education and leadership.