Government and Local Communities - The Team
Meet some of our Government & Local Communities consultancy team members by scrolling to the profiles below.
RICHARD WARD - Market Director
Richard has over 30 years of facilitating strategic change in housing and social care where uncertainty is often the norm, his skills in problem solving in a resourceful manner and his energetic style of developing ownership ensure that clients achieve sustainable results. A determined advocate of finding new and better ways of working, Richard does so through a commitment and dedication to working inclusively with people. A total focus on customer choice and an engaging 'can do' attitude has resulted in a successful track record of enabling cultural, organisational and structural change for Local Authorities and Registered Social Landlords. Read more
BARBARA SPITTLE
Barbara is skilled in shaping and leading customer-focused services in education, housing, leisure, culture and for the elderly and vulnerable. She has particular skills in community engagement, performance management, delivering complex projects and multi-agency partnership working. Barbara is adept at building effective teams, ensuring services are client focused and achieving continuous improvement in service delivery and customer satisfaction. Read more
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Bonnie has a Service Industry background, with extensive experience in driving and delivering performance improvement and excellence in customer service. She has successfully transferred skills gained in the Private sector, to the Public sector, in particular, Primary Care Trusts, Strategic Health Authorities and Local Authorities. Broad ranging senior level management, consultancy and interim management roles have encompassed service strategy and policy development, project management, service re-design and business documentation design and production. Bonnie believes that performance improvement can only be achieved by taking a holistic approach. In essence the integration of people, processes and technology, supported by effective internal and external communication channels. Results driven and customer focused, Bonnie has a proven track record in delivering demanding performance targets and service delivery improvements in multi-stakeholder environments. Read more
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Colin Brookman offers top class business skills gained from over 30 years working at senior levels in the IT industry. He has particular skills in strategy development and implementation and in the design and delivery of significant change programmes. Colin allies clarity of thought to a strong people and client focus and understands the issues of concern to senior executives. He is therefore able to develop and implement business solutions which deliver tangible benefits in areas such as client satisfaction, operational, commercial and financial performance plus revenue growth. His experience encompasses both the Public and Commercial sectors. Read more
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David is a very experienced Procurement Professional, who has spent nearly 30 years working within both the public and private arena. David has worked at all levels for a range of clients helping them develop their procurement strategies, best practice methodologies and supporting technologies. His innovative and resourceful style to problem solving has created and continues to create a succession of business improvements. Read more
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Glynis is a highly professional consultant, who has previously worked as a senior corporate communications manager with a FTSE100 utility business. She developed and led a communications strategy designed to promote the company's track record in customer service and showcase its technical ability globally. Glynis also offers a wide range of leadership and management skills developed over many years in the public, private and third sectors. Much of her work has involved government agencies and departments in both Great Britain and Northern Ireland where she helped develop and facilitate communication programmes to assist clients in meeting the challenge of UK government performance targets and the Peace Process. Read more
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Harvey is an experienced change manager with a consistent track record of leading change and process improvement ‘on the job’. He has applied his extensive experience in manufacturing and engineering disciplines to improve business focus and bottom line performance for clients in a range of private and public sector organisations. He is an accomplished facilitator and coach, capable of harnessing the skills and experience of multi-functional teams at all levels to produce innovative solutions to complex business issues. His incisive mind is extremely adept at distilling complex issues into simple processes able to support the rapid development of an organisation. Read more
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Ian is an experienced consultant who can also draw on twenty-three years' senior management experience in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. His prime focus is to help clients plan strategically by increasing their understanding of the environment in which they work and the competing challenges they face. This often includes the development of strategy and the achievement of clarity around organisational objectives. The outcomes are effective decision-making and robust planning, linked clearly to successful operational delivery. Read more
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Ian has extensive senior level experience in operations management and supply chain management that extends to all aspects of running a successful manufacturing facility. He has successfully introduced major changes into a number of companies and is very comfortable with communicating at all levels from shop floor to Board Room. Ian passionately believes in an approach that achieves beneficial and sustainable change through a philosophy of teamworking. Ian has a 'hands-on', dynamic style that ensures progress is consistently achieved throughout an assignment. This clear focus on maintaining an integrated approach to change ensures that the benefits arising can be realised throughout the business operation. Read more
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Neil's wide experience has been drawn from Sectors as diverse as Oil and Gas and Local Government, and roles as diverse as growing new businesses to developing Social Services Performance Indicators. With a background of Project and General Management in large multinationals and start-up subsidiaries both in the UK and in the USA, Neil's main area of expertise is in analysis of business data, its interpretation into meaningful information upon which business decisions can be made, its subsequent communication, and its use in the development of strategies to improve performance. In the private sector, this analysis has covered areas such as Customer Surveys, Waste Audits and assisting clients to comply with the Packaging Waste Regulations. In the public sector, by working with Social Services Practice and IT professionals to improve the visibility and clarity of the Departments performance for internal management purposes, for Committee Members, the CSCI and the Department of Health. Read more
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Richard spent his corporate life, before moving into consultancy 10 years ago, within the UK manufacturing industry. Starting out in production management, he progressed through operations management into general management. It was here that he became involved with developing markets on a global scale, resulting in the Queen's Award for Export Achievement. Read more
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David is a good strategic thinker, policy developer and implementer with a track record of managing complex, high level projects in multi-agency and multi-professional environments. He works well to tight deadlines, is results focussed and has a facilitative style which allows collaborative working and enables staff to develop their own potential. David has comprehensive knowledge and understanding of policy and practice affecting the NHS, local government and the independent health and social care sector. Read more
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John is skilled and experienced in helping organisations to improve their performance and respond to new challenges by modernising their approaches, embracing innovation and combining with others to provide the seamless services demanded nowadays by both citizens and government. Though his core skills lie in social care, especially with older and disabled people, he has worked in close partnership with health, housing, voluntary sector and central government colleagues on a range of ground-breaking projects. Read more
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