GOOD GOVERNANCE INSTITUTE AND GGI - Key Persons

Adam Sewell-Jones

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Chief Executive at North and East Hertfordshire NHS Trust

Adam has held a number of hospital director roles, including chief finance officer, chief operating officer and deputy CEO. Former chief executive of Newham University Hospital (part of Barts Health NHS Trust), Adam is now chief exec at North and East Hertfordshire NHS Trust. He also spent a number of years working in arms-length bodies including as executive director of provider sustainability in Monitor, executive director of improvement at NHS Improvement and regional director of the south west for NHS England and Improvement. Adam has a particular interest in the application of continuous improvement in healthcare. He led the partnership between five NHS trusts and the Virginia Mason Institute in implementing a lean approach to improvement in the NHS. He was the executive sponsor of 'Developing People, Improving Care', a strategic framework for improvement and leadership development in the NHS, and 'Valued care in mental health: Improving for excellence' as well as the founder and chair of the NHS National Improvement Directors Network.

Aidan Rave

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Principal Consultant

Aidan focuses on supporting senior leaders to make better decisions through both individual and board-wide coaching, reviews, advisory and challenge. He is an expert in culture change, organisational design and developing corporate strategy and specialises in performance turnaround and optimisation. As a former chief executive, elected member and advisor, Aidan has a broad and very practical insight into the workings of local government and the critical importance of effective governance at the heart of high-performing organisations. He has also been a corporate-level director of two national charities, a senior civil servant within DHSC and UKHSA and a senior consultant within a big four environment. He has held several high profile non-executive positions including the Regional Development Agency, Yorkshire Forward, and the Improvement & Development Agency for Local Government. He is currently a non-executive director of the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, and Berkshire West (BOB) Integrated Care Board. At GGI, Aidan focuses on board development and facilitation, with a particular emphasis on Integrated Care Boards, organisational design and senior level coaching and development. Aidan holds a degree in Social Sciences, an MSc in human resources management and an MBA. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Outside of work Aidan is an enthusiastic cook and keen cyclist.

Andrew Corbett-Nolan - CEO

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Chief Executive
Chief Executive ( Partner
Chief Executive of the Good Governance Institute

Andrew Corbett-Nolan is the Chief Executive of the Good Governance Institute, which he founded in 2009. Andrew is well-known as a leading thinker and commentator on modern governance, and a practical facilitator and coach to boards across the public and third sectors. His leadership of GGI is associated with developing a mature understanding of the challenges for boards in the modern world. Heavily influenced by the work of Professor Mervyn King, Andrew sits on the board of the Johannesburg-based Good Governance Academy which is working to influence the curricula of business schools and universities globally. And in 2020 he became a Salzburg Global Fellow for his work promoting good governance as a means of creating social value, securing a prosperous future that is better and fairer for all.

Andrew Hardy

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Chief Executive / University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

Professor Andrew Hardy has been chief executive officer of University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust (UHCW) since 2010. For the six years before this appointment he was chief finance officer of UHCW, as well as deputy chief executive officer. Andrew also sits on a number of external boards including: West Midlands Academic Health Science Network (WMAHSN), Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA), Warwick Business School Faculty Advisory Board, NHS Elect, and Global Health Data at Work. In 2016, Andrew was appointed professor of industry at the University of Warwick. In addition to his chief executive officer role, Andrew was appointed as the senior responsible officer of the Coventry and Warwickshire Sustainability and Transformation Partnership (STP) Footprint in 2016. Andrew is also a Director of Albany Theatre Trust in Coventry.

Anita Day

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Chartered Accountant
Independent Chair, Vice Chair, Senior Independent Director
Interim Chair at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Anita Day is an NHS independent chair, vice chair, senior independent director, a chartered accountant, an executive facilitator and a coach. Anita has an international talent strategy consulting background, and UK board experience in the private, public and VCSE sectors. Her broad corporate background includes both experience as a SME businesswoman, and leading innovative people, performance & culture optimisation strategies in global NYSE- listed corporations. Anita is known for pan-organisational strategic thought leadership, and has a track record of leading complex collaborations at Place, a particular focus on inclusion strategies - especially where they relate to inclusive talent identification and management - and strong NHS provider board and system-level experience. Anita has supported GGI with a number of well-lead reviews. Her specialist skill areas are:

Ann Highton

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Strategic Advisor

Having trained as a physiotherapist, Ann moved into governance and risk management with a diploma in healthcare risk management, an Advanced Certificate in NHS governance and a MSc in management. She now holds several prestigious consultancy positions including governance lead at an integrated care system, and has worked on strategic projects including undertaking a board-level governance review for a large acute NHS foundation trust and a senior management governance review for an Academic Health Science Network (AHSN). Ann is also a specialist advisor for the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and has supported several NHS trusts with CQC inspection preparation. With experience of working with NHS trusts to regulatory bodies, Ann has a 360° view of the healthcare system with an ability to identify challenge and implement change whilst maintaining a focus on quality and patient safety.

Anna Walker

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Deputy Chair and NED

Anna's background is in quality improvement and regulation on behalf of users, patients, consumers and passengers. She has been involved in most of the sectors providing essential services including telecommunications and broadcasting (she was deputy director general of the Office of Telecommunications), water (she conducted a review for the government of household water charging), healthcare (she was chief executive of the Healthcare Commission) and rail and road transport (she was chair of the Office of Rail and Road). She was also deputy chair of Which? and chair of two charities: Young Epilepsy and St George's Hospital Charity. Anna has also been a non-executive director on a wide range of organisations in the public, private and charities sector including Welsh Water, a private sector company without shareholders and with clear social policy objectives. Her passion is to improve services for those who use them through a wide range of methods including ensuring users have a voice and coproduction - and she's come to recognise the key role that good governance can play in this.

Aviva UK

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Associate Medical Director

Beatrice Fraenkel

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Non - Executive Director, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust / Trustee, Design Council

Beatrice is an industrial designer and ergonomist specialising in systems and designs that meet the needs of recipients and end users. She uses this approach in chairing, building and developing successful boards based on strong governance and delivering good outcomes. Beatrice also works at a local, regional and national level in economic and physical regeneration, specialising in delivering social and economic improvements, working with local communities and a range of public, private and third sector partners. She has recently been appointed a member of the High Street Task Force and has chaired several successful regeneration bodies. Beatrice has a strong regulatory background, having been a non-executive director of the Standards Board for England, chair of the Architects Registration Board, and a CQC lead on the ‘well led' domain as part of developing the revised well led approach. As chair of Mersey Care NHS FT, from 2008 to 2022, Beatrice was heavily involved in cross-sector place-making in Cheshire and Merseyside. She is also a trustee of NHS Providers and a member of the NHS Confederation mental health board. Other board positions include being a trustee of the Design Council, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Benjamin Taylor

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Chief Executive / the Public Service Transformation Academy
Chief Executive of the Public Service Transformation Academy

Benjamin is chief executive of the Public Service Transformation Academy, a not-for-profit social enterprise. He is also managing partner at RedQuadrant, a networked consultancy, a director at Systems and Complexity in Organisation, the systems practitioner professional body, a core member of Requisite Agility and the Yak Collective and curator at systems community of inquiry. Benjamin studied PPE at Oxford University before becoming co-ordinator of a youth development charity. He has worked in public service transformation since 1998, beginning as adviser to mayor, e-government manager, and procuring a strategic partner for a London borough council. At PwC and Capita group, his work included customer strategy for Birmingham City Council and advice to the Government of Armenia. He has been running RedQuadrant since 2009, and the Public Service Transformation Academy since 2016. He calls himself a business evolutionary and avid learner, and is passionate about systems/complexity/cybernetics. He has a lean six sigma black belt and is an accredited power+systems trainer. He has been a visiting lecturer in applied systems thinking at Cass Business School, City University, and has lectured at Nottingham Business School and Oxford Said/HEC Paris. Benjamin is also writing a book on systems thinking and public service transformation. He runs the RedQuadrant Way tool shed, helping people to do better change / consulting / systems change etc, and produces three podcasts: Transduction: the systems, complexity, and cybernetics podcast, I have come to sing to your cat, and Joy and work: the (public) service transformation podcast.

Bob Alexander

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Vice Chair / Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Bob holds three non-executive directorships of organisations operating in the English healthcare sector: Imperial College Healthcare, London Ambulance Service and Community Health Partnership Ltd. He chairs two audit committees and one the resources committee. He provides advisory services to the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy, of which he is also a Fellow Member, and CHKS Ltd, where he is a member of the advisory board. In his executive career Bob has held senior financial management positions in the public sector, predominantly in the NHS, where he held director level posts at trust, regional and national level. He was deputy chief executive at NHS Improvement from its creation until early 2018, leading on NHS provider financial strategy and service pricing policy, financial performance and recovery, and the development of the NHS finance profession. Bob holds a Master's in Business Administration and qualified with CIPFA in 1987. His interests include financial policy and strategy, governance and risk management, and business and enabling infrastructure strategy and implementation.

Bob Hudson

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Professor in the Centre for Health Services Studies

Bob is a visiting professor in the Centre for Health Service Studies, University of Kent. He has a long academic career in teaching, research and consultancy. He has held previous academic posts at New College Durham and the Universities of Leeds, Durham, Birmingham and Glasgow as well as a spell as a visiting fellowship at the King's Fund Institute. He has undertaken work for central government departments and agencies in England, Scotland and Wales, as well as many regional and local NHS and local government authorities. Bob has also served as a special advisor to the House of Commons Education Select Committee. Bob has written widely for the Guardian, professional magazines and other blogs. His latest book - Clients, Consumers or Citizens: The Privatisation of Adult Social Care - will be published by Policy Press in 2021. His research interests and expertise include UK public policy, especially health and social care; policy implementation; inter-agency partnership working; inter-professional team working; and markets in adult social care.

Cathy Elliott - Chairman

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Chairman
Chairman of the Integrated Care Board

Cathy Elliott is the chair of the Integrated Care Board within West Yorkshire's Health & Care Partnership which serves a diverse population of 2.4 million people. Alongside this role Cathy has a Ministerial appointment with the Department for Transport as the independent Chair of a Community, Environment & Local Economy funding programme for High Speed 2 Ltd. Cathy is a social policy advisor, and has worked with a range of not-for-profit organisations, particularly the national Power to Change Trust and the international community foundation movement. Cathy was previously NHS Trust chair of Bradford District Care FT and a NHS non-executive director in the Greater Manchester Integrated Care System, and prior to that Chief Executive of Community Foundations for Lancashire and Merseyside, alongside being a trustee of the national UK Community Foundations. Cathy is a Senior International Fellow of the City University of New York's Centre on Philanthropy & Civil Society; a Clore Social Leadership Fellow; a post-graduate of Bayes Business School; a graduate of the University of Manchester; and is currently studying as a West Yorkshire Health Equity Fellow via the School of Public Health at University of Leeds.

Cedi Frederick

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Chairman at Kent and Medway ICS
Chairman of North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
Owner and Managing Director of Article Consulting Ltd

Cedi is chair of North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust, which serves a population of 350'000 people across the diverse London Boroughs of Enfield and Haringey and employs 3'600 staff, of whom over 63% are from a BAME background. Cedi has enjoyed a 40-plus-year career in the public, not-for-profit and private sectors, including 25 years at CEO level as managing director of a BME housing association, 12 years as chief executive of a London-based, multi-regional charity that supported people with learning disabilities, autism and mental health problems, then over five years as chief executive of a charity employing 2,500 staff caring for and supporting more than 3,000 people a year through its older people, children, young people and families services. He has more than 30 years' experience as a non-executive director on the boards of NHS trusts, housing organisations, national and international charities and voluntary organisations, universities and sporting national governing bodies. Cedi is the owner and managing director of Article Consulting Ltd, established in 2016 to work with leaders by supporting their thinking, planning and resilience. He is also a certified personal performance coach and describe himself as a strategic coach and results mentor. Cedi is a former England men's international basketball player and coach, and has been named four times as one of Britain's 100 most influential black people. He was described as an ‘...unsung hero of the third sector, who has changed as many lives in his life outside work as he has in his job'. In 2015, Cedi was recognised as one of the ‘1,000 Black & Asian Heroes 1950-2010'.

Claire Campbell

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Director of Governance and Corporate Affairs at Birmingham and Solihull ICS

Claire's NHS career began over 35 years ago when she trained as a registered nurse, spending most of her clinical career in the operating theatre. She is an experienced and highly motivated executive level manger with extensive clinical and strategic corporate leadership in acute and primary care. From October 2018 to January 2022, Claire was the director of corporate development, governance and assurance at Northampton General NHS Trust. She was responsible for ensuring governance, quality and safety are front and centre in the organisation, working directly to the chief executive and trust chairman. She lead on the corporate governance requirements for the trust and provides leadership to the governance directorate. Since January 2022, Claire joined Birmingham and Solihull ICS as their director of governance and corporate affairs. Claire believes passionately in the role of good governance to enable focused and effective boards and leadership teams who are accountable for the delivery of safe high quality patient care. Claire has a Master of Business Administration from the University of Leeds and has contributed to the Good Governance Handbook publication.

Cllr Mehboob Khan

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Non - Executive Director
Senior Manager in London Councils

Mehboob is a senior manager in London Councils, which represents London's 32 borough councils and the City of London and works closely with Sadiq Khan's administration and campaign team on policy and borough relations.

Dame Julia Unwin

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Executive
Chairman / York St John University

Dame Julia Unwin is an experienced non-executive, speaker, consultant and mentor. She was chief executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation from 2007 until the end of 2016. She has written and spoken extensively on issues relating to philanthropy, governance, the voluntary sector and its relationship with government. Her publications include Why Fight Poverty?, Kindness, Emotions and Relationships, The Blind Spot in Public Policy Making and The Grant Making Tango. Julia is currently a non-executive director of the Mears Group PLC, Yorkshire Water and the Financial Reporting Council and Chair Designate of York St. Johns Governing Body. In 2018 she was appointed to the Council of Economic Advisers by the First Minister of Scotland. In 2010 Julia was awarded the Outstanding Leadership Award in the Charity Awards and has received honorary doctorates from three universities. In the 2020 New Year Honours she received a DBE. For more information about Julia please visit her website - www.juliaunwin.com .

Dame Julie Moore

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Associate

Since her retirement from the NHS in September 2018, Julie has undertaken a variety of roles. Professor of Healthcare Systems at Warwick Manufacturing Group, University of Warwick. As part of this role, Julie chairs the advisory board for the Institute of Digital Health and chairs the Mental Health and Productivity Pilot, a project to help employers improve mental health in the workplace.

Dame Suzi Leather

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Chairman at Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education

Suzi has held high profile leadership positions in regulation, health and the charitable sector including chairing the Charity Commission and the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. Since August2016, she chairs the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education. She is also a past member of the General Medical Council, and has served on both the State Honours Committee and the board of the United Kingdom Accreditation Service. In the health field, she has chaired an NHS community and mental health trust and is now the independent chair of the Devon Sustainability and Transformation Partnership and chair of the Devon Ethical Reference Group. She is also a past chair of the ethics committee of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Her charity work has included chairing the School Food Trust, being the treasurer of a community playgroup, a volunteer for Age Concern and the first chair of St Sidwell's Healthy Living Centre, then the UK's only combined healthy living centre and UK online centre. Suzi has a particular interest in the needs of disadvantaged consumers and is a past chair of the Lankellychase Foundation, an independent charitable funder focusing on addressing severe and multiple disadvantage. She was also a trustee of StepChange the debt advice charity, and chaired the Plymouth Fairness Commission. Locally in Devon, she is a deputy lieutenant of Devon, a vice-president of Hospiscare and a past president of the Devonshire Association.

Daniel Taylor

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Contributor of Articles and Impact Case Studies to the Institute
Engagement Consultant
Specialist

Daniel is an engagement specialist consultant for GGI. Prior to joining GGI he worked in local government for 7 years most latterly as a communications manager for a local authority in the south east. Daniel joined GGI in January 2021 as Communications and Relationships Manager and became a consultant in June 2022. In his time at GGI Daniel has played a leading role in the development of GGI's communications, networks and relationships. More recently, as a consultant, he has undertaken work on a number of projects including stakeholder audits and engagement and relationship management work for several NHS trusts, governance reviews and support programmes including a governance review of and developmental support for Taith (the international learning and exchange programme for Wales), a governance and democracy review of Cardiff Metropolitan University Students' Union, a governance review of the British Board of Film Classification among others. He has also been involved in supporting various aspects of system development working including ICP and integrated care strategy work and provider collaborative development. Daniel is a frequent contributor of articles and impact case studies to the Institute and has also written for other publications. He contributed a chapter on sustainability governance and monitoring to the 2021 Palgrave Encyclopedia of Interest Groups, Lobbying and Public Affairs. Prior to joining GGI he was the communications manager for Hastings Borough Council. As the strategic communications lead, and manager of the council's communication service, he led a team focused on corporate communications, developing and managing local, regional and national stakeholder relationships for a range of projects and partnership work, running community engagement campaigns and events, protecting and enhancing the brand of the council and managing public and media relations. He led the council's communications throughout the pandemic in 2020, in close partnership with Public Health, local health services and national government. He was part of the 2019/20 District Council Network's talent development programme. Daniel has also spent time managing digital communications teams, developing council websites and self-service platforms, achieving sector-leading figures for channel shift and e-newsletter readership and transforming the use of social media platforms to drive engagement. He is a qualified project manager and a trained business analyst. Daniel was a school governor for 5 years and has been involved in supporting the work of arts charities. In the early years of his communications career his focus was economic development and tourism as well as managing the marketing and promotion of Maidstone Museum and Art Gallery. He has a degree in History and an MA in English.

David Burbridge

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Chief Legal Officer / University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

David Holden

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Principal Consultant

David Lewis - CEO

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Chief Executive

David Mallett

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Senior Associate

David McGovern

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Director of Corporate Affairs, Wirral University Teaching Hospital

David Rogers

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Investor
Partner

David Searle

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Director of Corporate Affairs / London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust

Dawn Whittaker

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Chief Fire Officer & Chief Executive / East Sussex Fire Authority

Deborah Bowman

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Non Executive Director

Dr Adrian Heald

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Consultant Physician at East Cheshire NHS Trust
Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists

Dr Adrian Heald is a Consultant Physician in Diabetes and Endocrinology at Leighton and Macclesfield Hospitals, Cheshire as well as being an Approved Clinician in Psychiatry. He is a Research Fellow at Manchester University and Visiting Tutor at St. Peters College, Oxford. Adrian obtained his Medicine degree from St Peter's College, Oxford and trained at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. He then moved to Manchester, where he qualified in Psychiatry, before returning to work in general medicine, specializing in diabetes / endocrinology. Adrian is a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Royal College of Physicians, and was awarded a DM Thesis by Oxford University in 2005. With an area of research that is predominantly focused on the impact of insulin resistance and the insulin-like growth factor system on diabetes and coronary disease risk, Adrian has published numerous peer reviewed papers on topics relating to metabolic influences and abnormalities, now also including work on the impact of epigenetics on CVD risk in insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. A particular current focus of his work is looking at ways that the physical health outcomes for people with SMI can be improved through lifestyle intervention and targeted pharmacotherapy. Adrian has worked with GGI since 2008. Particular areas of his work with GGI are in better sharing of information and more integrated working between primary and secondary care, the application of technology to enhance long term condition management and providing guidance to CCGs on diabetes service configuration.

Dr Anita Donley

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Consultant
Physician
Senior Associate

Dr Anita Donley is a consultant physician in acute medicine by background and Trustee at Imperial Health Charity, and Principal Advisor, Academic Health Solutions, working with the NHS to formulate strategy and to implement integrated health and care at organisational and system level. Her previous roles have included Independent Chair of the Mid and South Essex STP/ICS; Clinical Vice President of the Royal College of Physicians leading the Future Hospital Programme; Medical Director of the Revalidation Team for DH England; NHS National Clinical Director for VTE; Human Genetics Commissioner; and Health Professionals lead for the WHO Global Patient Safety Programme on medication safety. Anita has worked for over 30 years at national level in complex environments and challenging contexts, with contributions in strategy and policy across widely differing domains in health care including patient safety and quality of care, clinical standards and outcomes, implementation and evaluation; medical education and training; health promotion, nutrition, and environmental toxicity. She has been a member of several national regulatory, advisory, academic and non-departmental public bodies and has worked at Board level in several settings, including chairing a statutory committee for one regulator for five years. Anita has a broad network spanning national policy development and implementation, standard setting, care quality and patient safety, professional regulation, medical education, fitness to practice, and quality assurance and evaluation. She was honoured with an OBE for services to medicine in 2007.