Business Transformation Consultant and Executive Coach focussed on Leadership and Personal and Professional Career Development. Former CEO of FTSE 250 subsidiary with experience in Mergers and Acquisitions.
Dedicated Councillor for Bilton and Nidd Gorge in Harrogate for 11 years, – campaigner for change, eradicating inequality, eliminating poverty, promoting food security, improving health and improving people’s life chances – successfully opposed council on a proposed relief road through an area of outstanding natural beauty; successfully tabled a motion to support bathing water status at Knaresborough Lido and was North Yorkshire Council’s first Climate Change Champion.
Married to Kath, granddaughter of a Yorkshire coal miner. We have two dogs who I can be seen running with daily, Charlie and Sidney. We love living in Bilton, Harrogate where we settled in January 2006. We have two very grown up children and 6 grandchildren. I grew up in a corner shop which my mother ran, whilst my Dad worked as a “progress chaser” at Hawker Siddeley (aerospace). I confess to having spent much of my formative years in Lancashire but I have now been in Yorkshire for past thirty years and so hope to be considered a local.
