Marie Leafhead BA MBA Chartered FCIPD
Marie's Curriculum Vitae
Qualifications
Chartered Fellow, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (1998)
MBA, (Warwick University, 1997)
BA, (London University, 1972)
Practitioner, Neuro Linguistic Programming (2002)
Contact Details
SUMMARY OF ROLES AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Current Portfolio:
Director, Moving On
a consultancy specialising in providing management education and development
focused on improving individual and team performance.
Recent assignments include:
>> • Workshop leader Managing
People workshops
>> • Subject tutor in Strategic
Human Resource Management for a company-specific MBA >>>programme.
Academic roles
>>• Tutor and examiner for
Durham University Business School teaching human resources, >>>organisational
behaviour and strategic human resource development at Master’s
level
>>• Tutor for Warwick University
Business School, teaching organisational behaviour, strategic >>>advantage
and change management at Master’s level
>>• Visiting Executive Fellow
for Henley Management College, specialising in human resource >>>management,
change management, strategic development and related subjects
>>• Associate Lecturer, Course
Team member and Examiner for The Open University, teaching >>>at
Certificate and Master's levels.
Consultant
to an eCommerce startup (founded October 2006), advising on the development
of business systems and strategies.
Coach
and Mentor
to directors and senior managers in the not-for-profit and private sectors.
Portfolio
April 2002 – December 2006:
Director,
Development Pathways Limited
a consultancy specialising in providing interim management and business
transformation. Example assignments include:
>>• Interim Director of a County-wide
charity and associated trading organisation, focussing on >>>organisational
transformation and development. Outputs included: Income doubled; internal
>>>structures and management systems
redesigned; successor appointed.
>>• Interim Head of Communications
and Involvement, developing and implementing a strategy >>>for
staff and public involvement in a major change project within the NHS.
Outcomes >>>included: designing
and creating an effective approach to communications which included
>>>many sectors of society; successor
appointed
Coach and Mentor
for senior managers in private enterprise and a national environmental
charity
Governor
of the University of Chichester, with particular interest in human resources
management and strategic development. Outputs included: making an active
contribution to achieving University Title.
Interim Programme Director
Responsible for launching a review of health services across East Sussex.
Outputs included: implementing a working project structure, a project
plan, and a project team to support the work across many organisations
involved in health and social care then appointing a successor.
Organisational Development
Consultant
Responsible for providing OD support to a programme to develop a 10-year
strategy for health and social care. Outputs included: design and launch
of a two-year development programme to create the strategy and embed
its aims and processes into day to day management.
Project Director
Responsible for developing a successful proposal for creating a new
Teaching Primary Care Trust. Outputs included:
>>• a project plan and structure
to deliver the proposal on time, with contributions drawn from >>>a
wide range of sources
>>• a jointly developed and
successful proposal with written support of partner organisations in
>>>health, social care and education.
Associate Director
Responsible for the day to day management of the largest directorate
in a new multi-site organisation with the remit to provide professional
education and development in the south east of England. Outputs included:
>>• installing staff performance
management and communications systems; managing an office >>>move
>>• installing management systems
February 1994 – March 2002:
Director of Organisational
Development and a Board Member
Outputs included:
>>• designing, implementing
the organisational structure and leading its periodic review and >>>redesign
in the light of business needs
>>• developing and managing
training, education and development programmes and leading the >>>achievement
of IiP accreditation
>>• creating an organisational
development strategy, and establishing and running an >>>organisational
review and development programme to deliver it
Under this umbrella title I also undertook the following:
Director of Human Resources
a two-year assignment.
Outputs included:
>>• dismantling and rebuilding
the Human Resources function, establishing it as an independent >>>directorate
and appointing its Director
>>• reviewing, redesigning
and implementing a range of new policies including those for reward,
>>>employee relations and union
recognition
>>• managing staff accommodation,
including disposals and trasnfers
Director of Community Services
a one-year assignment.
Outputs included:
>>• creating a new directorate
comprising circa 650 staff and £10m and leading its transfer and
>>>successful integration into
a different business
Project Director
for a Private Finance Initiative an 18-month project.
Outputs included:
>>• leading the development
of new operational policies and ways of working, opening 6 new >>>mental
health and community care facilities, moving patients and staff safely
into their new >>>premises
Organisational Development
Consultant, a six-month assignment in another organisation.
Outputs included:
>>• design and implementation
of a staff performance management process
Organisational Development
Advisor, a six-month assignment in another organisation. Outputs
included:
>>• advice on organisational
structures and systems for newly forming Primary Care Trusts
>>• leadership assessment and
development programmes for candidates to senior posts in newly >>>forming
organisations.
Roles
before 1994:
October 1991 – February 1994: Organisational
Development Consultant to health service organisations in London
December 1988 – October 1991: Training Manager roles in local government and the health service
April 1978 – October 1988: Roles in public relations, advertising and sales in locations across Canada between 1978 and 1982, followed by two posts as Director of Business Colleges, one in Southern Ontario and then another in Vancouver
July 1972 – March 1978: A range of roles in advertising, sales and public relations for Thomson Newspapers and for a manufacturing organisation.
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updated: June 2008 |