Leadership, management and organisation development consultant who works in the NHS, local and central government and higher education. He has held a range of line, project and human resource management positions and for the last 20 years has run a successful consultancy business, based in Ripon, North Yorkshire. He is also Senior Fellow at the Centre for Health Planning and Management, University of Keele, Associate with the Centre for the Development of Healthcare Policy and Practice, University of Leeds and Associate of Secta Consulting Ltd. He has been involved in clinical leadership development programmes since 1999.