Partnership for Success

Career Profile - Historical

Time served engineer, ex army PTI

20+ years in Corporate HR, L&D and Organisational Change roles

Senior positions at EMI, Fedex, BMW Europe, Caudwell Group and Vodafone/

Recent Activities

Founder/Owner of Redwood Consulting Ltd - Incorporated April 2005

Consultant & Capability Development Services to a range of major names

Very current client list includes BAE Systems, O2, Vodafone, Interserve plc, Phones4U and RBS

Sector activities - Financial Services, Construction, TelCo, Retail and Manufacturing

Areas of interest and experience

Corporate and Organisational Leadership Capability - ensuring the Boss is capable

Organisational and employee engagement strategy - winning the hearts and minds campaign

Organisational design and culture development - building or changing a business

Employee and Management development - the case for investment, strategic inclusion and commercial ROI

Davy Snowdon is a former Olympic Weightlifter and World Record Holder who founded Pristine Condition 12 years ago. This was in response to a request for bespoke manual handling in a hands-on format. Their approach covers all aspects of this topic and include such areas as manual handling at height and in confined spaces.

David qualified as a medical practitioner from St. Thomas' Hospital, London in 1984. He gained experience as a hospital doctor, including time in psychiatry and then as a GP. He then moved into Medical Assistance where for the next 10 years he was involved in over 1,000 repatriations from more than 80 countries. Part of this time was spent with First Assist.

As a result he gained extensive first hand experience of crises including coach crashes, hotel fires, floods and accidents, all of which involved serious injuries and fatalities. Recognising that many companies were ill equipped to handle these events he set up docleaf in 1998 to help organisations be better prepared.

From this early seed of an idea, docleaf has grown to cover a range of people centric issues that challenges today's employers.

David, a recognised expert in his field and a member of the Business Continuity Institute, lectures globally and frequently comments on industry issues.

Consultant

DuPont Safety Resources

Nick has a PhD in physical chemistry, and started his career with ICI as a first line supervisor in an automotive paint factory, which was purchased by DuPont, and has experienced the DuPont Safety Journey to get to World Class. Since then Nick has managed a regional technical group, and since the early 1990’s has had commercial roles, the last managing DuPont’s automotive paint business for the Japanese customers in EMEA region. He joined DuPont Safety Resources (DSR) as a consultant in 2006, where he uses his varied safety management experience to help DSR clients on their safety journeys.

Head of Refining and Marketing Communications

BP

Neil Chapman has worked on high profile public affairs issues in different parts of the world for more than 25 years. He has responded to major crises in the US and UK - including deadly explosions, legal cases, oil spills and hurricanes. He has been on the communications front line for controversial industrial projects, company takeovers, trading scandals and lobbying campaigns. Neil also has experience working on developments for growing business in Latin America, Africa and Asia. He was PR chair for three energy associations - the Natural Gas Supply Association and Center for LNG in the US, and the UK’s Offshore Operators Association - when they faced some of their most difficult communications challenges.

He has trained and counseled scores of business people at all levels on honing their presentation and media skills, particularly when delivering hard messages or facing hostile audiences.

Currently he heads communications for BP’s Global Refining and Marketing business that refines, markets, trades and transports crude oil and petroleum products to wholesale and retail customers in over 100 countries.

Neil was a journalist in the UK, working for newspapers, TV and radio. He studied in England and the USA qualifying as a teacher. He also has a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Henrietta was appointed to the Corporate Responsibility Department (A function of the Office of the Chief Executive) to lead on Environmental Sustainability in January 2009. She is responsible for providing the company direction on environmental sustainability both for the workplace and product and in bringing together the environmental activities across the business. Henrietta has worked for 8 years in the defence industry providing environmental consultancy service to the maritime sector. Prior to this she was an environmental manager for a construction company although she started out working in retail and corporate banking. She holds environmental bachelors and masters degrees and is a Chartered Environmentalist and a full member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA).

Jim is one of the most inspirational and highly sought-after business speakers in Europe. He is only authority on change and personal development to have put his life on the line to prove his theories.

After starting life as a City lawyer, he moved in-house to become International Legal Counsel at ICL (now Fujitsu) before founding the cultural change consultancy Optimise (now Taming Tigers Group) in the late 90’s. His clients have included Apple, Legal and General, BT, AstraZeneca, Barclaycard and the NHS.

In 2003, an audience member bet Jim £1 that he could not prove the power of his Ten Rules for Taming Tigers - by becoming a jockey and riding in his first televised race within 12 months. It was a good challenge as he was 3 stone too heavy to be a jockey and couldn’t ride a horse.

Working with the Ten Rules as his guide, he took delivery of his pound on 22 November 2004 on returning to unsaddle from the 12.00 at Southwell. On being a jockey Jim says “it took many years, but at last I found a place where being short is an advantage.”

Jim advises teams and individuals in some of the UK’s leading companies, writes regularly for a range of publications including Finance Week and Personnel Today and is a columnist for the Institute of Leadership and Management’s periodical “The Edge”. He is MD of Taming Tigers Group and the author of the book “Taming Tigers”.

Deputy Managing Director, Corporate Responsibility

BAE Systems

Managing Director of Corporate Responsibility

BAE Systems

Chief Executive

BAE Systems

Head of Sustainable Procurement

Ministry of Defence

Iain Brookes is the Head of Sustainable Procurement for the Ministry of Defence (MoD).  He took up his current appointment in November 2008 and is responsible for leading work to mitigate the impact of Climate Change and embed sustainable procurement in the MoD's acquisition processes.

Iain joined the MoD in 1986 and has held a variety of appointments covering finance, personnel, secretariat, and business and project management, with a particular emphasis on change management.

Sustainable Procurement Consultant

Action Sustainability

Helen Birch is a Sustainable Procurement Consultant for Action Sustainability.  She has been working within Supply Chains for 15 years and more recently on the development and implementation of sustainable procurement.  Her supply chain experience has crossed a number of sectors including Manufacturing, Direct Mail and, until she joined Action Sustainability, Construction.  Since starting as a Consultant she has delivered training and consultancy to a range of public sector clients including Stockport Council and Envirolink Northwest, helping them to understand the steps necessary to implement sustainable procurement as part of their overall organisational strategy.  Helen has also developed and delivered sustainable procurement action plans for private sector organisations including United Utilities.

John Pooley is both a Chartered Engineer and a Certified Management Consultant.  He is a Fellow of the Energy Institute and of the Institute of Business Consulting.  He is an accredited Assessor for the Carbon Trust Standard and also sits on the Carbon Trust's Consultant Accreditation board.

John is the Managing Director of John Pooley Consultancy Ltd as well as having a close working relationship with 360 Energy Inc (Ontario).  For over 25 years John has been an energy consultant providing advice, support and training to industrial, commercial and public sector clients.  His international work includes North America, the Caribbean, Spain and the Former Soviet Union.  In addition to energy and carbon work, John has also worked with Envirowise and the Environment Agency.

John's consultancy philosophy is based on seeing the bigger picture and working with clients to develop cost effective, integrated, business orientated solutions.

A regular speaker at conferences and the provider of a range of training workshops John is also the author of a number of publications including co-authorship of 'Managing Change' a guide to managing environmental change published by the Government Office for the South West.

David is the former Managing Director of bmibaby, one of Europe's largest low cost airlines.  He now combines his successful speaking career with other media commitments.  These include hosting cable TV shows, writing articles and appearing as a regular guest on various national programmes including Five Live, Radio 2's Jeremy Vine Show, BBC News 24 and Sky News.

Prior to joining bmibaby, David spent four years living and working in South Carolina, USA.  Amongst other things he wrote a very successful weekly humour newspaper column and hosted his own talk show on a cable TV channel.

Head of SHE, Military Air Solutions

BAE Systems