Partnership for Success

Founder

LiquidThinker Ltd

Damian Hughes is the author of three best-selling books, Liquid Thinking and Liquid Leadership and The Survival Guide to Change as well as the Founder of the Liquid Thinker Company which takes the methods used by great achievers and shows, in easy steps, how you can adopt them into your own life and business in order to achieve your dreams and ambitions.

Hughes, a former England schoolboy footballer and Manchester United football coach, was a Human Resources Director for Unilever, where he led a turn around in performance at the UK's oldest manufacturing site in Port Sunlight before carrying out similar work in Africa and US.

He now runs his own change management consulancy LiquidThinker Ltd, helping a wide range of individuals; teams and industries achieve similar employee engagement and success.  He also works as a change management consultant and sports psychologist for Warrington Wolves, England and GB Rugby League team.

He also runs a Manchester inner-city youth club, Collyhurst and Moston which has helped reduce crime and help many kids find a purpose in their lives from stopping crime to winning Olympic medals.  He has also been nominated for the 2007 William Hill Sports book of the year award for his biography of boxing great Sugar Ray Robinson.  In 2009, he co-authored a critically acclaimed biography of boxing legends, Thomas Hearns in Hitman: the Thomas Hearn Story.

His innovative and exciting approach has been praised by Sir Richard Branson, Muhammed Ali, Sir Terry Leahy, Tiger Woods, Jonny Wilkinson and Sir Alex Ferguson.

Director of Safety, Health & Environment, Military Air Solutions

BAE Systems

Managing Director, Programmes & Support

BAE Systems

Chair

Health & Safety Executive

Judith was appointed Chair of the Health and Safety Commission with effect from 1 October 2007 for a term of 5 years and became Chair of the Health and Safety Executive when the two organisations merged on 1 April 2008.  Judith previously served as a Commissioner between 2002 and 2005.  She was awarded her CBE for services to health and safety.

Judith returned in 2007 from an assignment as Director of the Chemistry for Europe project with the European Chemical Industry based in Brussels.  She was Director of Business and Responsible Care (1998-2002) and Director General (2002-2006) at the Chemical Industries Association (CIA).

Judith worked for Exxon Chemicals for 15 years in various process management roles at Fawley.  She was subsequently European Operations Director of a speciality pigments business before becoming Group Risk Manager at Elementis PLC with world-wide responsibility for health and safety insurance and litigation.  She also served for three years as a non-executive Director of Oxfordshire Health Authority.

Judith trained as a Chemical Engineer at Imperial College, London and is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, an Ordinary Member of Council of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, a Fellow of the City and Guilds Institute and an Honorary Vice President of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health.

Judith was appointed as a non-Executive Director of the Energy Saving Trust in January 2009.  She became a Trustee of the National Coal Mining Museum for England in June 2009.

Judith is not engaged in any political activity.

Managing Director

Ryder Marsh

Tim is considered one of Europe's leading Safety Culture and Behavioural Safety experts and has an international reputation.  Later this year, he will be a Keynote Speaker at Africa's most prestigious safety conference.

He was involved in the Cullen Inquiry in Ladbroke Grove and his book 'Affective Safety Management' is the UK's best ever selling book on safety and is being translated into several languages by the publishers. 

In 2008 he was awarded a 'President's Commendation' by the International Institute of Risk and Safety Management who also selected Tim to be their first ever 'Specialist Fellow'.  He is a Chartered Fellow of IOSH and a Chartered Psychologist.  He has worked with such mainstream media as the BBC and Readers Digest.

Director

Action Sustainability CIC Ltd

Shaun McCarthy is a leading advocate of sustainable business.  His current portfolio includes:

• Chair, Commission for a Sustainable London 2012, a ground breaking assurance body directly advising the Mayor of London and Olympics Minister
• Director, Action Sustainability, a social enterprise with a mission to inspire sustainable procurement
• Environmental Advisor, Transport for London, expert advisor to the non-executive Health, Safety and Environment board
• Senior Advisor, Institute for Sustainability, a research based charity for sustainable solutions
• Commissioner, London sustainable development commission, a strategic advisory body to the Mayor of London

Shaun has over 20 years senior management experience with large companies, mainly Shell and BAA.  During his time with BAA, Shaun developed pioneering strategies for carbon management, sustainable construction and procurement, he aso developed programmes in the mid-1990s to increase business participation by small, local and ethnic minority businesses.

Head of Health & Safety

The Olympic Delivery Authority

Lawrence is currently Head of Health and Safety for The Olympic Delivery Authority, the body charged with responsibility for building the venues and infrastructure of the Olympic Park and Village, and other venues in the South East of England.  He is a Director of Sypol, the workplace and eco risk advisors who recently became a member of the Sovereign Group.  He is a Chartered Fellow of IOSH and a Member of the Faculty of Occupational Hygiene.

Lawrence is a member of the HSE Science Strategy Committee and the Health and Safety Panel of the Institution of Civil Engineers.  He is past President of IOSH, was Project Director for the occupational health pilot 'Constructing Better Health', and Chaired the working party which developed IOSH's guidance on health and safety management systems (Systems in focus).  He is author of chapters in books on various aspects of health and safety, published by the Institute of Directors and other commercial publishers.  He was the joint recipient of the 1995 Institution of Civil Engineers medal for safety in construction, and in 2005 of the RoSPA Distinguished Service Award.  Recently he gave the Allan St John Holt Memorial Lecture.

A main focus of his career has been the development of a coherent approach to protecting health in the workplace that is the equivalent of the great strides that have been made in accident prevention.  He is also very engaged with culture and communications, and the establishment of effective leadership at all levels.

Chairman

Railway Safety and Standards Board

Paul's 35 year career in the Royal Navy was spent mostly in submarines and submarine related roles culminating in his appointment as Chief Strategic Systems Executive with responsibility for the procurement of the TRIDENT submarines, missile systems and nuclear warheads.  On leaving the RN in 1998, he joined AEA Technology Nuclear Engineering as Director Projects and in 2001 he moved to BNFL as Group Director Environment, Health, Safety and Quality.  He is currently Chairman of RSSB and President of the Nuclear Institute.

During 15 years service in the Royal Air Force John Nichol served as a technician and, after being commissioned from the ranks, as a Tornado Navigator in both the Air Defence and Ground Attack roles.  On active duty in the Gulf he was shot down on the first low-level, daylight raid of the first Gulf War.  Captured and tortured, he was paraded on television provoking worldwide condemnation and leaving one of the enduring images of the conflict.  He returned to active duty and was involved in policing the exclusion zone as part of the UN force maintaining the fragile peace in Bosnia.  He has served around the world from the Nevada Desert to the Middle East and Norway to the Falkland Islands.

John is the best-selling author of Tornado Down, five novels, and the highly acclaimed WWII history books, The Last Escape, Tail-End Charlies and Home Run.  He is in demand  to give motivational lectures and after-dinner speeches and has worked with a wide variety of businesses including BT, Shell, Lloyds Bank and The Stockholm School of Economics.

He has written for The Times, The Mail on Sunday and The Observer and is a widely quoted commentator on military affairs.  He has also been a consultant and presenter for Newsnight, BBC, Sky and ITV News, World in Action, CNN and Cutting Edge.  He devised and presented 2 series of Survivors, interviewing newsmakers who have been through life changing experiences.  He recently wrote two major series for the Sunday Express, Heroes and Survivors.  John's latest book, Medic!, charts the astonishing and deeply moving story of military medics from the WW2 beaches of Dunkirk to the desert towns of Afghanistan today.

John is a member of The Royal British Legion's Gulf War Group helping veterans with Gulf War Syndrome and a patron of the British Ex-service Wheelchair Sports Association.  He is also a very poor golfer.

Find out more at www.johnichol.com

Executive Customer Director

Xchanging Procurement Services Limited