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Something about our people ...
The
Morton Partnership includes team members with a wealth of expertise in training,
people development and cultural change.
Who's
who?
Dr Clive Morton OBE is an experienced and successful
company director with three decades of leadership in public and private organisations.
He has been Director of Personnel/Human Resources for Komatsu UK, Northern
Electric, Rolls Royce Industrial Power Group and Anglian Water Services. He
was also Director of Business Development for Anglian Water International.
He now directs organisations in Private, Social Enterprise and Public
sectors.
Clive
is Chairman of AIM listed Sabien Technology
(managing carbon through energy reduction) and Chairman of Peterborough &
Stamford Orthopaedics Ltd (PASO). He is Chairman of St John the Baptist
(Peterborough) Development CIC and Deputy Chairman of Opportunity
Peterborough, the Economic Development Company. He was Chairman of
Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Deputy
Chairman of D1 Oils, an international biodiesel producer, until 2008. He is
a Chartered Companion and former Vice President of the Chartered Institute
of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and former Chairman of the Association
of Management Education & Development. Clive is Associate Professor of
Corporate Governance and Business Development at Middlesex University
Business School.
He is
a challenging and entertaining public speaker, a coach and mentor of some
repute and a successful author. His first book Becoming World Class was
voted MCA's Best Management Book of the Year in 1994. Beyond World Class,
concerning economic and social sustainability, was published and acclaimed
in 1998. For later publications see Books.
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Jane Morton was lead consultant for Channel Four’s
projects; ‘Emotional Intelligence’, ‘Relationships’ and ‘Happiness’. A
successful coach to senior decision makers in the public sector and board
members of companies such as O2 and Land Rover, she has helped many
individuals and groups figure out where their current behaviour is leading
them. This is followed by working out what to do if the inevitable end
destination doesn’t look appealing.
“Too often in our business, buzzwords and jargon fly around the room
without making it practical on a personal level for the client. It too
easily feels like hot air. I want to understand the practical
outcomes. When I work with someone I ask ‘what practical use is this in
helping my client to behave differently?
What tangible difference will it make to them?’”
A coach at board level and with senior executives for over 15 years, she
brings with her the creativity and intuition that comes from an education
in Fine Art. Jane’s approach is rooted in understanding her clients’
personal motivations, the way they make their decisions and non-verbal
communication.
As a coach, Jane brings focus, commitment and energy to the challenges of
her clients and she “never gives them less than 100%.”
Companies she has worked with recently are: Bupa,
D1 Oils and O2, Allied Distillers Ltd., Cisco Systems, Peakdale
Molecular and Biofocus Ltd but with a background
beyond traditional business, Jane has also coached extensively with private
individuals, the not-for-profit and in the public sectors. CAN, Tomorrow’s Company and London Probation Board, Sue
Ryder Care, Kings College Hospital and Cambridge City Council are recent
examples.
Every individual has a unique in-built approach: a preferred way of solving
problems, making decisions and communicating these decisions. Jane
focuses on recognizing and using the clients’ natural strengths. Although
some personal issues and difficulties are commonplace, since every client
is unique, each situation must be approached afresh. Whilst every
client will adopt a different solution, the coach must always have the same
commitment to listening, understanding and challenging
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Florence Morton formerly an experienced education and
voluntary sector professional with excellent interpersonal, communication
and organisational skills she now offers Spiritual Direction and organises
retreats – see www.umbrianretreats.co.uk.
Our associates include:
Karen Kircher is a qualified
HR professional (MIPD) with 20 years experience
in all areas of Human Resources management, working mainly in the service
industry. Her particular expertise and passion is in the area of people and
organisational development. Using a variety of industry recognised tools
and techniques Karen helps to improve the effectiveness of individuals,
teams and inter-dependent teams. Through one to one coaching and
facilitation Karen has worked closely with managers at all levels to help
develop their leadership qualities and skills.
Karen
has helped organisations to manage the introduction and implementation of
cultural change and business improvement programmes. She has worked with
directors and managers to achieve a learning culture within divisions and
organisations as a whole.
Richard
Astle
is an effective communications consultant who has first
hand experience in the development of strategically-aligned
communications, enabling us to guide, advise and, importantly,
challenge our clients’ thinking. After nine years in the Foreign Office,
Richard was Corporate Affairs Director for AMP Pearl. Richard won the
Institute of Public Relations Sword of Excellence for public affairs in
2000. In 2003 Richard set up his own communications company Athene
Communications.
He
specialises in helping organisations build and protect their reputations by
developing and implementing communications strategies, either for specific
projects (such as organisational set up, mergers and acquisitions activity,
employee engagement and change programmes) or to align with an
organisation’s overall business plan and objectives.
He
combines a fully integrated approach to communication that goes far beyond
PR, with hands on experience of working with organisations at senior level.
He works with our customers to advise on strategy
development, embedding within their organisational plans comprehensive
communications solutions that embrace all audiences and address key issues
and risks.
Richard
is also chairman of the national charity, the Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus and is a director of the
Wildlife Trusts of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northampton and
Peterborough. He is also part of a countryside trust that runs a small
nature reserve in north-west Cambridge.
Our NHS consultancy
team includes:
Derek
Miles - Professor of Human Resource
Development at Middlesex University Business School, Programme Leader of
the MA in HRM & HRD and Module Leader on Business Strategy. Previously
he was Director of Global Learning with Save the Children, the leading UK
children’s charity which aims to bring about a better world for children by
working with vulnerable children themselves, governments and communities in
65 of the world's most impoverished countries. He directed their global
leadership development programme incorporating leadership in major
international emergencies.
He is a Chartered Companion of the Chartered Institute of
Personnel and Development (CIPD). He was Chair of the Executive Board of
the CIPD, the largest Institute for HR professionals in the world with
120,000 members, from its inception in 1994 to its achievement of a Royal
Charter in 2000. He regularly undertakes a range of national and international
speaking and advisory engagements.
Alan Turner - qualified as a
doctor in 1968. He was appointed as a Consultant Urologist to Peterborough and
Stamford Hospitals in 1980 to develop a Department of Urology. In 1992 he
was appointed as Medical Director of the Hospital Trust a post which he
held until his retirement in 2005. He has been a Team Leader for the
General Medical Council’s Performance Procedures since 1998, and is
currently also a member of the Healthcare Commission’s investigation teams
and a member of Keele University’s Centre for
Health Planning and Management. He has recently been appointed a member of
the Independent Monitoring Board of Peterborough Prison.
Stuart Gray - worked for 32 years in the NHS the last 16 of
which were at Chief Executive Level. Uniquely he has worked as Chief
Executive in England, Scotland and Wales and in that capacity has managed
some of the largest, most complex and financially challenged organizations
in the UK.
He has experience in all aspects of change management, in
particular the skills required to manage the associated political and media
issues. He has also led a number of national initiatives on behalf of the
UK Government and the associated devolved administrations in Scotland and
Wales. He now also offers Coaching and Mentoring to Senior Executives and
Non-Executive Directors.
Susan Grey - has worked
in operational to board level roles within health and social care
both in the public, private and voluntary sectors in the UK and overseas.
Her direct experience base encompasses acute hospital services, care
of the elderly, mental health, physical and learning disability services.
She is passionate about the importance and value to NHS
leaders at all levels of engaging with and involving consumers. Her current portfolio of related activities includes a range
of services to improve the health and well-being of vulnerable groups of
people and to demonstrate the business case for such improvements.
Provision of commissioning and service delivery support and a mediation
service for the health and social care sectors. She is also an NHS
Non-executive Director/Deputy Chair of an NHS Foundation Trust and the
East of England Regional Advisor for a national charity the Revolving Doors
Agency.
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Olu Ajayi - a business
transformation & change management consultant with an excellent track
record in implementing leadership development programmes, change
programmes, coaching & mentoring. Acknowledged for ground breaking
efforts in driving large scale cultural change through coaching, management
and leadership development, Olu has designed,
developed and implemented leadership and management programmes across the
public sector. She is a trained coach and mentor, and is also an accredited
Myers-Briggs practitioner.
She is a prolific researcher/writer, public speaker and
expert facilitator; and her experience ranges across a broad spread of
industries, sectors, and practice areas, but extensively in the health
sector. Her career reflects success in the public sector, corporate world,
academia, entrepreneurship, and consulting with the “Big 5”; and she has
set up and facilitated action learning sets and collaborative inquiries
around leadership and management development; and organisational
development.
For many years she has been a visiting senior lecturer on
the MSc programme in Collaborative Health Management Degree Programme at
the University of Kent in Canterbury teaching change management and
organisational learning. She is the author of Leading Change , (Wiley).
Alison Thompson MA (Oxon), MBA,
MRSC has been a leader and mentor
in private industry (chemicals and pharmaceuticals), the public sector
(Probation Service and NHS acute Trust) and the local community. Her
current role is to take forward the strategy for NHS research and
development as Head of the West Yorkshire Mental Health Research and
Development Consortium covering three NHS mental health trusts and four
universities. Her excellent communication and listening skills have
resulted in a proven track record of inspiring and motivating colleagues
through times of change, uncertainty and growth. The innovative and
creative methods Alison uses enable personal and organisational development
in all the sectors she works in.
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