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ABOUT me
Here on one site, is all of me: joining up my professional, political & personal lives. Each one is a part me. It made sense to me to have them in one place.
POTTED HISTORY
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Born 1958,
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Lived in Devon, Oxford & Portsmouth during childhood
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Lived in Reading, Oxford & Buckingham over the last 35 years
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Psychology at University of Reading
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Worked in local government & NHS for most of my twenties
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Became a dad in 1987 & 1988, and step dad a while later
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Happened upon organisational & leadership development in 1989
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Got hooked on this for the next 25 years
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Worked on assignments across most public services
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But known for my speciality in field of policing and criminal justice
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Established my own business in 2008
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Became a town councillor in 2011 and was Town Mayor 2017-19
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Committed to Opening Space for conversations that can change the world


MY PASSIONS
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Helping to create a fair world in which everyone has the chance to dream and the resources to realise those ambitions
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Working with children & young people to help them to be happy, safe and all that they can be, free from fear & harm
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Making Buckingham an even more beautiful, prosperous & healthy place to live, visit, study and play
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Coaching leaders, and facilitating whole organisations & networks of partners to generate lasting improvements in results
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Helping people become leading actors in their own futures rather than extras in somebody else's story
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Great movies and brilliant plays: War Horse, Locke, Mary Poppins, Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid, Matilda, Casablanca... (etc.)
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Santana, Daft Punk, Beyoncé, Bresson, Sia, Cousin Avi, Blair Dunlop & a thousand other musicians that brighten this world
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Books & poetry by Orwell, McGough, Camus, Sartre, Pullman, Banks