Qualifications

Chartered Fellow of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

Experience with trojanmice

Since February 2001

- Founder, Owner, Director and Consultant
- Undertaking a wide range of projects including:-

Producing the stage 2 and stage 3 business plans for the soft measures in Bridlington’s Integrated Development Plan
Team building and change management for the top team of a large local authority
Evaluating the Employer Trial of the matrix standard for information, advice and guidance
Training and development work for a range public and private sector organisations
Development a business diagnostic tool for skills brokers
Producing interactive CDs for clients
Acting as Business Adviser to the London School of Economics in relation to their Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) funded project investigating the relationship of complexity theory with large private sector businesses.

Other Experience

Since March 2001 – part time Non-executive Chairman of Yorkshire and Humberside Assessment Ltd, which is a private sector company offering people assessment services against various business standards, in particular Investors in People.

April 1991 – March 2001 - Chief Executive of Humberside Training and Enterprise Council (which included Business Link) where my major achievements were:-

Setting the strategic direction and focus of the organisation, managing its key activities through an executive board of six people. I took a lead role in marketing the strategic messages, and negotiated with a wide range of influential people in the region including Chairs and MDs of companies, Chief Executives of Public Sector organisations, Politicians, Trade Unions, University Vice Chancellors, College Principals and Community Leaders.
Taking the organisation from being a civil service office into a highly respected entrepreneurial business through adapting the structures, the culture, the pay and reward mechanisms, the activities and systems, and through developing its people.

Forging a strong team of 200 people who acted for each other, acted for the organisation and who took responsibility for their decisions. Through encouraging each individual to develop sound problem-solving and thinking skills, and demonstrate leadership qualities in their roles, I helped the business become one of the top-performing TECs in the country.

1967 – 1991 - During this period I progressed in the Civil Service, from clerical roles through a range of management posts to my final role as the Manpower Services Commission’s Area Manager for Humberside. The highlights of this period of my career were:

Being a management trainer where I developed and delivered courses on a range of subjects including interviewing, marketing and generic management skills
Creating and introducing a totally new concept for training unemployed adults, which was eventually taken up nationally
Leading the national marketing team which launched TECs back in 1989

Translating complex technical papers on topics relating to learning and development into the Sun newspaper level of English so that they could be understood by all.