Glenn Handforth

Glenn Handforth

Facilitator, Coach, Strategist, Designer.

Entrepeneur in Residence Keele University.

Glenn runs The Ideas Facility, a small creatively led consultancy, bringing insights across design, strategy development and implementation for organisations focused on growth. His work usually starts with a problem and there is a theme central to his approach - he works with ‘ideas’ to create solutions and bring the ‘facility’ to translate them into action.

Glenn’s purpose is to enable individuals, teams, and organisations to grow, by establishing the conditions for success so that failure is not an option. He does this through facilitating and unlocking creative thinking to consider new options for growth by listening, coaching, facilitating, designing, delivering.

With a background in design and management consultancies, Glenn has a strong track record in energising brand projects and campaigns with some of the UK’s foremost organisations, within strategic management consultancy, major project, top 10 design group and agency environments.

As a specialist in the identity, transformation and change environment, Glenn brings experience in managing high-impact brand and marketing communications initiatives and leading teams for projects, across Defence, Education services, Infrastructure, Construction, PLC and LA commissions.

Projects include:

• Strategy Director (12 month interim role) in Public Private sector strategic partnership - an £80m turnover Joint Venture

• B2B Brand consultancy role on Ikea multi £m global business initiative

• Senior Employee Engagement Lead (12-month interim role) for Defence Infrastructure Organisation

• Business integration and transformation programme for national TIer Two construction client

Clients include Aecom, AmeyMouchel, Arriva, Balfour Beatty, Capita, Costain, Design Council, DIO, Entrust, Galliford Try, Highways England, Ikea, Keepmoat, npower and Tarmac.

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Steven Johnson

Steven Johnson

MCIPS

Director & Founder

Johnson Procurement Solutions Limited

Johnson Procurement Solutions Limited (JPS) are a UK North East based procurement specialist, founded by Steve Johnson in 2016. Following a long and successful career in the procurement and commercial sector across a range of organisations, Steve has amassed a wealth of knowledge and has established JPS as a result of his learnings and a desire to add value, offer exceptional performance and provide an integrated service on an interim or outsourced basis.

Prior to founding JPS, Steve held a number of leadership positions in large blue-chip companies with annual spend responsibility ranging £400-£500m.

These included Laing O’Rourke, one of the UK’s largest privately owned construction companies. AMEC Power & Process Europe - later AMEC Foster Wheeler now Wood. With an excess of 25 years’ experience, Steve is a driven procurement and commercial leader with extensive experience and a track record in Energy, Oil and Gas, M&E Services, Telecommunication Networks, IT, Construction Procurement and Commercial Management within the UK and Europe.

Working in leadership roles, Steve has led and completed numerous strategic transformation programs as well as established strategic category procurement targets delivering multi- million-pound annual cost reductions to each business. He has implemented business wide systems and procedures to provide greater cost visibility and governance controls as well as streamlining the key process to establish lean working.

Steve mentors and develops key staff, recruits, trains and provides leadership in order to ensure business objectives are achieved. He engages with other senior business leaders on a day-to-day basis to ensure communication and stakeholder engagement are fully integrated to support the delivery teams.

Steve was on the board of the AMEC global supply chain steering group and is an accredited member of the Chartered Institute of Purchase & Supply (MCIPS). Steve has presented procurement and supply chain strategies at major supply chain events and forums including the Energy Industries Council.

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Nikki Tierney

Nikki Tierney

Member

Leeway

Nikki owns Leeway, a consultancy focussed on behaviour-led business performance. Based in the Scottish Highlands, Leeway works with clients around the UK and further afield.

Nikki has worked with AMEC, then AMEC Foster Wheeler for over 15 years in a wide variety of roles and commercial relationships. This includes running the global Oil & Gas graduate programmes, Information Management roles on projects, running the ADVANCE & Manager Advance High Potential Development programmes for AMEC Academy, and contracting as the Performance Manager on the Leadership Teams of large BP projects.

Nikki started Leeway in 2018 after two years as Innovation Hub Manager at the Oil and Gas Technology Centre in Aberdeen.

With Leeway she continues to work in the space where people meet performance. This covers a spectrum of behaviour-centric activity from workshop facilitation through to in-depth performance consultancy. Projects include:

• Conceiving, designing and running the ETAP Life Extension (ELXP) Behavioural Readiness programme for BP. This involved a series of activities to explore core behaviours in various contracting organisations to identify & resolve hot-spots and develop a single high performing team. The objective of the BRP was to get an ETAP Asset Team and the ELXP Team working together effectively to hit an optimal productive day on Day 1. ELXP hit its productive day target on Week 1 of mobilisation.

• A partnership agreement with ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute) working as their preferred digital facilitator for consultations, project inceptions and similar.

• UK-wide Supervisor Development Programme for SULZER, underpinning a wider cultural change as the organisation transitions from VC to private ownership. Participant feedback includes “the best development I’ve ever received”, and reports of increased engagement with the company.

Nikki is a Certified Professional Facilitator with the International Association for Facilitation and a Fellow of the Institute of Training and Occupational Learning. She also holds a Masters Degree in Applied Artificial Intelligence.

Alongside her corporate career, Nikki developed a parallel profession as an Expedition Guide. She’s a member of the Mountain Training Association, and has led high-altitude trips to Ecuador, Peru and Spain, as well as low level expeditions in Mongolia and Scotland.

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Chloe Richards

Chloe Richards

Owner Six1Seven Brand Strategy & Communications

Good communication is crucial to the success of any company, project or campaign. It could be a requirement to keep teams engaged and updated on changes or initiatives or provide a plan for regular project updates or even a managed recruitment campaign.

Chloe has over 25yrs of marketing and communications experience, working for both corporate organisations in the transport and engineering sectors and for international marketing agencies working on business to business, internal communications, PR, social media as well as consumer facing campaigns, both digital and print.

In 2018, she launched Six1Seven Brand Strategy & Communications to help businesses get clear on the best way to articulate their key messages and reach their audience, whether that’s their own customers or employees. She helps her clients create powerful business stories that have a clear position and message, connect with their customers to grow. The services she works with clients on are:

• Defining marketing strategy for organisations

• Identifying & articulating key messages to connect with the right audience

• Developing communications plans to be delivered by clients

• Acting as a trusted advisor to senior lead teams on marketing & communications

• Delivering campaigns and plans on behalf of clients

Chloe is always mindful of the business objectives for each project and success criteria is monitored on the commercial success of a campaign. This is so that she can ensure that the communications are having a direct and positive impact for clients.

Client testimonial:

“Chloe has a listening approach, finding out what’s going on in the business. Her efforts actually translate into the bottom line, she is outcome orientated and has a very commercial view.”

Tracey O’Keefe. Managing Director Hospice Quality Partnership

Following her graduation from Leicester University Chloe completed her Certificate in Marketing (CIM) and has taken several courses in brand and digital marketing and social media trends to continue to be a trusted advisor to her clients.

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