Experience

Capital City College Group

• United Kingdom
• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Group Chief Executive Officer

  • Sep 2018 - Present



Shaw Trust

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 700 & Above Employee

• Chief Executive, the Shaw Trust Group (2012-2018) and Careers Development Group (2008-2012)

  • Jul 2008 - Sep 2018

  Shaw Trust is a national charity dedicated to creating brighter futures for the people and communities it serves. It does this by delivering employment, education, skills, health and wellbeing services to young people and adults across the UK. Shaw Trust’s ambition is to transform the lives of over 1 million people per year from 2022 - by increasing the scale and impact of Shaw Trust’s work. Recently this has led to Ixion and Prospects joining the newly formed Shaw Trust Group which includes the Disabled Living Foundation, Forth Sector, Shaw Education Trust and CDG-Wise Ability. The diversity of the Group has increased meaning Shaw Trust is at the stage where it is able to support clients at almost any stage of their lives. The annual group turnover is £250m, which places Shaw Trust in the top 25 charities in the UK by income.

• Chief Executive "Designate"

  • Jun 2012 - Sep 2012

  Shaw Trust and CDG are involved in merger discussions with due diligence underway. Until the due diligence exercise is completed the outcome of the merger discussions cannot be prejudged. However, best practice suggests that having a designated individual to be the lead proactively on issues raised during this process is reassuring to staff and of value to trustees. Consequently, the Chief Executive of CDG has been assigned this remit.



Careers Development Group

• Germany
• Professional Training and Coaching
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Executive

  • Jul 2008 - Sep 2012

  About Careers Development GroupCDG is a registered charity with a turnover last year of nearly £30m. We compete commercially against some of the world's largest welfare to work organisations and reinvest our net profits into the communities for which we provide services. As part of our commitment to providing public benefit we are also leading a national Expert Volunteer Initiative to recruit 50,000 volunteers to work with unemployed people across the UK in an effort to reduce long term unemployment. Many of the people CDG supports have multiple barriers to employment including a lack of recent work experience, disabilities, health problems and a lack of relevant employability skills. CDG supported over 30,000 people in their journey back into work during 2009/10 and works across 26 centres in the UK (London, the South East, the Isle of Wight and the East Midlands), employing over 350 people. We operated New Deal contracts as a prime provider and Flexible New Deal contracts as a subcontractor in addition to Skills Funding Agency and European Social Fund contracts. In partnership with WISE Employment, CDG is a Work Choice prime provider in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, responsible for delivering employment support to people with disabilities. The charity also works internationally and has formed an organisation based in Australia in partnership with BEST Community Development, a leading third sector welfare to work organisation in that country.In alliance with international welfare to work provider MAXIMUS, CDG is a framework provider for the Work Programme in seven of England’s nine regions and also separately is a framework provider in London. CDG won a Work Programme Prime contract in East London and in West London and BBOH as part of the alliance with Maximus.



St Christopher's Fellowship

• United Kingdom
• Civic and Social Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Development

  • Sep 2004 - Jul 2008

  • Created an entity to train, employ service users and generate revenue to sustain the venture; included winning three Learning and Skills Council grants in 15 months. • Established consultancy to work with statutory agencies charged with delivering services to children, young people and vulnerable adults, including Cambridgeshire County Council and Bedfordshire County Council on consultancy assignments. • Restructured the organisation's fundraising department.• Successfully completed consultancy to improve Bedfordshire County Council's children's homes.• Identified, selected and merged into the organisation an established foster care service, to ensure a continuum of care was offered to all young people and their families. • Received advanced training on Oregon Multi Treatment Foster Care Model to ensure a thorough understanding of DCSF pilot projects in England. • Designed and implemented innovative consortium project for at risk young people, which included services, treatment, research and detailed assessments not available elsewhere. • Wrote major proposal to Futurebuilders for groundbreaking community project involving four local authorities - the project was funded as requested.• Spoke at multiple forums, including local authorities, foundations, universities and community groups to build consensus for important projects. • Initiated and led on discussions with selected organisations, including national leaders, on how best to achieve outcomes and to agree on a way forward.



Episcopal Charities and RLO Services, Inc.

• Chief Executive

  • May 1997 - Jul 2004

  • Monitored several complex housing and urban development projects requiring change management consultancy for the City of Oakland and the County of Alameda.• Participated in a proposal and plan to raise £115m for the Alameda County and City of Oakland Housing Trust Fund.• Launched comprehensive consulting service to NGOs.• Successfully created and implemented development, growth and monitoring plans for over a dozen third sector organisations.Chief Executive, Episcopal Charities (until 2002)• Liaised with over 4,000 volunteers to provide added value services to over a dozen organisations and held Annual Ball, Walk-a-thon and other fundraising events to generate funding for umbrela organisations.• Participated in the establishment of a fundraising campaign to create an £8m endowment. • Created, designed an implemented a major restructure of the development strategies of the organisation, resulting in new business generation. • Established service centre to assist organisations to obtain first class, professional core support services. • Developed change management services to provide comprehensive services for organisations and government agencies at a fraction of the cost of professional consulting companies. • Brought opposing groups together, built credibility and achieved consensus for improving performance and accepting necessary changes. • Coordinated a dozen charitable organisations with budgets ranging from under £1m to £22.5m (Episcopal Homes Foundation).• Partnered with St Lukes Hospital and Clinic Foundation to raise funds for underwriting services to at risk young adults and single parent families . • Developed strong community relationships with government, corporate and private philanthropic organisations, civic groups in the community and major donors.