I coach ‘leading lights’ – next generation leaders – who over the next decade are likely to exercise significant leadership roles in education, the charitable sector, public and corporate life.

I spent over 25 years working in the public sector, undertaking a wide range of roles, from a graduate teacher, specialising in modern foreign languages, business and tourism studies, to leadership of two large colleges of further education and three major governmental digital and e-services initiatives - the UK government’s flagship e-learning initiative learndirect now in private ownership, UK online centres now operating as a successful independent social enterprise charity Good Things Foundation and GOV.UK one of the most effective governmental e-services for citizens worldwide.

Since 2005, I have worked in the private sector as a non-executive director focusing on governance, technology, human resources, ethics and public affairs, at the same time as fulfilling public sector non-executive roles in health, regeneration and economic development, the environment and national security.