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Who's who? Dr Clive Morton OBE is an experienced and successful company director with a 20 year record of achievement 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. Clive is Chairman of Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Deputy Chairman of Opportunity Peterborough, the Urban Regeneration Company, and Deputy Chairman of D1 Oils, an internation biodiesel producer. He is a former Vice President of the Institute of Personnel and Development and Chairman of the Association of Management Education & Development. 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.
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.
Florence Morton is an experienced education and voluntary sector professional with excellent interpersonal, communication and organisational skills. Innovative, persuasive and enthusiastic, she has developed particular expertise in working with volunteers who run support groups, fundraise and organise events both locally and nationally. Between 1995 and 1998 Florence set up a national network of support groups for the Lymphoma Association. She has experience of researching, developing and implementing strategic planning and procedures for voluntary sector organisations. Experienced at working with people at every level in the sector, Florence now works with several local charities and offers Spiritual Direction.
Sue Lowe-Lauri is the Office and Project Manager for The Morton Partnership. Sue is an Oxford graduate with an honours degree in Chemistry and a career in IT consultancy. She worked primarily for CMG in the financial division developing systems for companies such as Sun Alliance, Swiss Re, the Prudential, Norwich Union, Allied Dunbar and Lloyds Names companies, with her particular areas of expertise being property investment, re-insurance, quality assurance and training.
With her skills in project management gleaned from managing large IT projects Sue ensures that our clients’ requirements are delivered on time and within budget and also ensures the office runs smoothly. She has just completed a maths degree with the Open University.
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 as an NHS Non-executive Director chair of a Patient and Public Involvement Committee, as a healthcare consultant leading a programme of work to improve health care services within the prisons in the east of England, a key element being the creation of innovative solutions regarding prisoner involvement, and support to aspiring NHS Foundation Trusts.
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).
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