Speakers - Diversity in Challenging Times

Sarah Teather MP, Minister of State for Children and Families

Sarah Teather became MP for Brent East in September 2003, when she won a landmark by-election on a dramatic swing from the Labour party. She remained the MP for Brent East until the 2010 election when she was re-elected to the new seat of Brent Central with an 13% swing. When elected to Parliament, Sarah was the youngest MP in Britain.

In parliament, Sarah has been a passionate and active advocate for her constituents. She campaigned for better provision of health services locally and against Post Office closures, ID cards, the war in Iraq and for action on the housing crisis and environmental issues. Sarah works closely with local campaign groups, and has a constituency office open to the public every day. She has helped many thousands of local people with their problems, and finds this part of an MP’s work particularly rewarding.

When her constituent was held in Guantánamo Bay without charge or trial Sarah led the campaign to bring him justice. She organised a vigil outside Downing Street, visited Washington to lobby US senators, and established the All-party Parliamentary Group on Guantánamo Bay.

Brent Central is said to be the most ethnically diverse constituency in the country, and to communicate better with her constituents Sarah learnt some elementary Gujarati, Hindi and Urdu.

Sarah lives in her constituency in Willesden Green, and enjoys music. Until her appointment as a minister she was a member of the parliament choir and continues to sing soprano with a small group of friend known as the north London Ensemble.

Following the formation of the coalition government Sarah was appointed Minister of State for Children and Families with responsibility for early learning and development, child care and children’s centres, special educational needs, disabled children, young carers and child poverty.

Experience

Before her election to parliament, Sarah read Natural Sciences at St John's College, Cambridge. She worked in science policy both in the public and private sectors, first at the Royal Society advising the UK government on scientific aspects of public policy, and later at a science policy consultancy, evaluating public policies on science and innovation for governments across Europe. Immediately before her election Sarah was working as a health and social policy analyst for Macmillan Cancer Relief.

Council Experience

London Borough of Islington (2002-03)

Parliamentary Experience

Spokesperson for Health (2003-04)

Spokesperson on London (2004-05)

Spokesperson for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (2005)

Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Skills (2006)

Shadow Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills (2007)

Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (2007 – 2008)

Shadow Minister for Housing (2008 – 2010)

Minister of State for Children and Families (2010 – present)

Derrick Anderson CBE, Chief Executive, Lambeth Borough Council

Derrick Anderson, CBE, is the Chief Executive of Lambeth Council and started in post on 1 March 2006.

Derrick, who was born in London, has twenty-five years' management experience in local government and more than 30 years in the public sector.

Derrick is a Committee Member of Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) UK Committee and Vice President of UK Youth.

Derrick's past engagements include: Non-executive director on the Home Office Board; Board Member of Sport England – London; Member of Arts Council England; Secretary Black Country Local Authority Consortium 2000-04; Non Executive Director West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive; Non-Executive Director of the 2012 Olympic Bid Company and Chair of Sports England West Midlands 2004-06.

He was selected as a Local Government Network UK representative for South Africa/UK Shoulder to Shoulder Initiative. He was awarded a CBE for services to local government in January 2003 and holds honorary doctorates from Staffordshire University for work on social inclusion and cultural policy and from Birmingham University.

With a keen interest in sports and the arts, Derrick's outside interests include working with aid and development agencies in Southern Africa and the Caribbean. With many years of public service Derrick has spoken both nationally and internationally at conferences and events on local government and community issues.

Peter Daley, Director of College Leadership Services, Protocol National

Peter had over seven years’ experience as a college Principal before he became Director at the AoC in 1999. He established Tribal's College Leadership service in 2003, and in 2006 he moved to his current role with Protocol National.

Peter’s track record in serving the FE sector is impressive and unrivalled, He is a very influential figure in this sector and has personally led and managed more successful senior appointments in the sector than all other recruiters put together.

Peter has helped to position Protocol National as a key partner for the Network for Black Professionals and is seen as an exemplary practitioner of leading edge equality and diversity practice. He has worked with the Network on a range of innovative projects including The High Fliers Programme and Talent Management Service, which are making a real difference to the pace of changing the landscape of leadership in the learning and skills sector, and he won the prestigious national award for Outstanding Contribution to Race Equality in FE in 2004. He was a keynote speaker at the 2009 Women’s Leadership Network conference.

Sally Dicketts, Chair of the Women’s Leadership Network and Principal and Chief Executive of Oxford and Cherwell Valley College

Sally Dicketts has been Principal and Chief Executive of Oxford and Cherwell Valley College since October 2003. She is Chair of the Women’s Leadership Network and serves on several other boards. She has been a Principal for over 12 years and has worked in a number of colleges of further education and in comprehensive schools, including in London and South Wales.

Sally chairs and sits on a number of local and national committees and boards. Among her interests are curriculum design, and the impact of emotional and social behaviour on learning.

Robin Landman, Chief Executive of the Network for Black Professionals

Robin’s family were political refugees from South Africa. A Politics graduate, Robin taught in London schools, including an exchange in Jamaica. In 1987 he moved into FE, first at Brixton College, then Southwark College. Following this, he worked in the FEFC. In 1997 he was appointed as Assistant Principal at Bilston Community College and then in 1999 as FE Adviser to the British Council, he was seconded to work as General Manager of the Colleges Collaboration Fund in South Africa until 2001. His most recent post in FE was as Deputy Principal at Hackney Community College.

Robin is Chief Executive of the Network for Black Professionals (NBP), a social enterprise that promotes the benefits workforce diversity for the local, regional and national economies of the UK. A membership organisation with over 150 corporate members, it offers a range of services for corporate and individual clients, and delivers contracts for a range of organisations, including the Department for Work & Pensions, Department for Communities & Local Government, Learning & Skills Improvement Service and the National College for Leadership of Schools & Children’s Services. The NBP is an approved Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) centre delivering programmes from level 2 to 7 through its award-winning professional development arm, the Black Leadership Initiative®.

John Stone, Former Chief Executive, LSN

Prior to joining LSN, John was Principal of Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College – one of the UK"s largest colleges formed as a result of a successful merger in 2002. John’s career previously took him to Merton Technical College; Kilburn Polytechnic; Kingston College of Further Education; Bournemouth and Poole College; and Swindon College where he was Vice-Principal.

Rob Wye, Chief Executive, Learning and Skills Improvement Service

Rob Wye has more than twenty years experience in education and training policy. After graduating from Cambridge in 1976 Rob joined the Employment Department where he worked in a number of areas including pay policy, health and safety, disability policy and Private Office.

In 1981 he moved to Sheffield and joined the Manpower Services Commission focusing on training and vocational education issues including Training Access Points, Learning Technologies, Open Learning, GNVQs, education-business links, Modern Apprenticeships and New Start.

In 1997 Rob moved to work in the Finance Directorate of the Department for Education and Employment in London.

He was the Executive Director of the newly-formed Northamptonshire LSC from November 2000. From February to July 2002 he was seconded to the LSC to be its National Director of Policy and Development, where he played a key role in working with the then Department for Education and Skills, particularly on developing the Success for All policy and the subsequent consultation. After positions as LSC National Director of Strategy and Communication and National Director of Young People’s Learning and Skills, Rob became Director of Strategy and Implementation at the Young People’s Learning Agency in April 2010 and in January 2011 took up post as Chief Executive of the Learning and Skills Improvement Service.

Rajinder Mann, Executive Director, Black Leadership Initiative®, Network for Black Professionals

Rajinder Mann pioneered, and is Executive Director of, the award winning Black Leadership Initiative®, which has become the training and development service of the Network for Black Professionals (NBP). Working with key stakeholders such as OFSTED, the LSC and the DIUS the BLI provides mentoring, coaching support, secondment and work shadowing opportunities for aspiring Black and Minority Ethnic staff. In 2005 the BLI® was winner of the British Diversity Awards for Education (Gold Standard) and has successfully delivered programmes in other public sectors

Short listed for the Asian Women Achievement Awards in 2008, Rajinder has over twenty five years experience in adult, youth and community education. She was Director of Community Education at Bilston Community College then moved on to developing Lifelong Learning at the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. She has worked in policy development at NIACE, Birmingham City Council and Wolverhampton Borough Council and the Race Relations Council.

She holds a Master of Social Sciences Degree in Race and Education as well as a Bachelor of Education from Birmingham University. The area of expertise in her Masters provides her with the theoretical knowledge for understanding race equality issues particularly in education field.

She is passionately committed to the principles of social inclusion, community cohesion and empowering people through education and training in order to augment economic and social regeneration.

She has a track record in promoting race equality in the sector and her commitment to equalities and promoting social justice is demonstrated through her voluntary roles; as former Vice Chair of the Commission for Black Staff in FE, former Chair and founding member of the Network of Black Managers; and a member of the DfES Stakeholders committee, Equality and Diversity committee for the University for Industry. Current roles include serving on the Association of College Managers’, General Teaching Council, Women Organising Wolverhampton and the Commission on Public Services 2020. She is also a member of the Institute of Leadership and Management and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Other roles include seva (service) in community activities through her local Gurdawara .

Derek Hooper, Consultant on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Derek has 25 years experience as a consultant on equality and diversity, and has also been a senior manager in adult education. He’s worked in different organisations in the private and public sector in UK and India. At the moment he is adviser to Sangama, a human rights NGO in Bangalore. One of his current projects is with West Thames College where he is leading a skills-based programme on Equality and Diversity for senior managers and each of the curriculum and business services teams. This programme has a second strand called ‘Creative Excellence’ which takes the college values and ‘ways of working’, and brings them alive by linking them directly into day to day management practice.

He is consultant to five further education colleges at the moment. Derek has been until recently the Inclusive Design Advisor at CABE – the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment.

Nick Linford, Expert in Funding

Nick Linford runs a new consultancy called Lsect, having spent six years as Director of Planning and Performance for Lewisham College. Four the last five years Nick has played a leading role in capacity building on the use of funding, audit and management information in the learning and skills sector.

Nick is also the author of the Hands-on guide to post-16 funding
and the Hands-on guide to post-16 performance and data.

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Maxine Room, Principal, Lewisham College

Maxine Room is the Principal at Lewisham College, a large urban college based in South East London. With over 14,000 students, Beacon Status and a grade of Ofsted Outstanding; the college is committed to achieving its mission of “Creating Successful Futures”.

Prior to joining Lewisham College Maxine Room was Principal and Chief Executive of Park Lane College Leeds, the largest further education college in Leeds. Following its merger with Keighley College in August 2007, the college grew to over 38,000 students. She was instrumental in facilitating the merger of three Leeds colleges which subsequently became Leeds City College. Before joining Park Lane College, Maxine was Principal and Chief Executive of Swansea College, a post she held for four and half years moving the college from good to great, improving both its quality profile and its financial one.

Maxine has always worked in further education. She was the first black principal to be appointed to a general further education college in London, was the second black woman Principal to be appointed in the UK and the first in Wales. Maxine is passionate about education, training and skills and has a variety of qualifications in education and management. Her career started in teaching at Bridgwater College, Somerset and progressed to management roles there and at Filton College, Bristol, before taking up the post in Swansea.

Maxine is a member of the 157 Group, Chair of the London Capital Colleges’ Group, the AoC Skills Strategy Group, the Network for Black Professionals and is a mentor for the Black Leaders’ initiative. She is also a member of a range of boards and committees linked to education, skills and training in London, Leeds and in other parts of the UK including the Northern Ballet Board, Helena Kennedy Foundation, Women’s Leadership Network, a governor of the Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance and has just recently been appointed as a governor of London Southbank University.

Sunaina Mann, Principal, NESCOT

Sunaina’s background has been primarily in teaching for most of her working career.

Sunaina achieved her ambition and became the first Female Asian Principal in the UK in September 2005 when she was appointed to the post of Principal at North East Surrey College of Technology (Nescot).

The college had been previously inspected in November 2004 and was judged to be inadequate, with college performance below satisfactory in all areas.

On taking up post, Sunaina embarked on a significant programme, addressed through the ‘Journey 2 Outstanding’ (J2O) change strategy that she introduced and implemented. This aimed to modernise, improve and develop Nescot, with quality, teaching and learning at the centre of the college’s priorities.

The college was re-inspected in December 2006. The overall assessment was that the achievements and standards of the college were good, with leadership and management achieving a Grade 2; as are five of the nine curriculum areas inspected. This was a vast improvement overall.

The most recent Ofsted inspection took place in October 2010 when Nescot was judged outstanding for Leadership and Management, Capacity to Improve, Care and Support for Students, Tutorials, Enrichment, Safeguarding and Financial Management. Ofsted noted that Sunaina ‘has provided inspirational leadership which has changed the culture of the college, ensuring that all staff take responsibility for improving the quality of the experience for students’.

Sunaina has been an active member of the Network for Black Professionals, since inception in 1997. In June 2005, Sunaina was invited by the Department for Education and Skills to become a member of the Advisory Group for race issues in the learning and skills sector workforce. She is also a members of the Lloyds TSB Inspirational Women’s Network, the Women Leaders Network.

Sunaina has passed the Principals’ Qualifying Programme, and is a member of the PQP Advisory Group.

Sally Hooton, Project Manager, Women's Leadership Network and Executive Partner / Education Consultant specialising in international and organisational development.

Over the last few years, Sally has been recruited to interim senior management roles to cover a vacancy or contribute to a strategic vision or to develop a particular initiative, where the focus has been culture change, leadership and organisational & international development. Latterly, her overseas travel has focussed on creating business development opportunities for UK colleges in Nigeria, SE Asia, Malta and Syria.

Long, long ago Sally taught languages in London following her undergraduate studies in France. She then moved to the USA and developed her management career track; firstly in personnel & training and subsequently as Executive Director of a state-wide educational organisation in Rhode Island. On her return to the UK, some years later, Sally completed her Masters Degree (MA) at Sussex University and stayed on to run its Marketing Unit – to develop and promote academic and corporate links.

At this point, Sally established an independent consultancy business to design marketing & management solutions and to offer coaching and facilitation to both public and private sector clients. Sally has engaged with all aspects of education: universities, colleges, schools, as well as local & central government departments. Her commercial contracts have included such clients as Transport for London; financial institutions; research scientists; architects, designers and landscape planners; telecom's and power companies. Her voice and presentation skills workshops are always in demand!

An Associate of LSN, Sally taught on their MBA & Management Development Programmes, and is currently involved in some of their research and training projects. She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (MCIM) and The Association of Coaching. A lifelong learner, she has recently graduated from the University of Manchester with a Postgraduate Certificate in Process Consultancy.

Vicki Fagg, Principal, College of North West London

Vicki Fagg first joined the College of North West London in 1992 as Vice Principal, Human Resources. Appointed Deputy Principal in 1997, her responsibilities extended to incorporate control of resources, finance, personnel, estates and facilities. She was appointed as Principal of the College in September 2003.

The College is a large general vocational institution with particular specialisms in construction and engineering, an annual turnover of £35 million. The College caters for more than 13,000 learners each year, and serves an exceptionally diverse part of the capital which is undergoing major regeneration, including that associated with the new Wembley National Stadium.

In her time as Principal, Vicki Fagg has led a drive to raise aspirations and service standards from ‘satisfactory’ by investing in distributed leadership. The College has been reaping the rewards of this strategy through a very positive full Ofsted inspection in 2007, including ‘outstanding’ ratings for employer engagement and social inclusion, the achievement of the Training Quality Standard, the Customer Service Excellence standard and significant improvements in success rates. Amongst her current wider activities, Vicki is the WorldSkills UK London Regional Champion, a mentor under the Black Leadership Initiative Mentoring Programme, an Investor in People Recognition Panel Chair and a member of the Further Education Sector’s Women Leaders’ Network Steering Group.

Prior to joining the FE sector, she played a senior role in national pay bargaining for a wide range of employees including lecturers, at the Local Government Management Board where she also offered a national advisory service to employers. As an Associate of the Further Education Staff College she lectured on employment law and collective bargaining.

She is a graduate of King’s College, London University (BD Hons) and a Member of the CIPD.

Dr Christine Rose, Equality and Diversity Consultant

Christine Rose is a well established and highly respected consultant and trainer. Nationally recognised as an expert in equality and diversity (E&D), she specialises in supporting organisations in the learning and skills sector to improve E&D practice. She works closely with organisations such as the AoC, LSIS, Ofsted, LSN, Skill, NIACE, ACER and the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

She is the author of a range of national guidance publications, briefings and toolkits. For example, she has produced national guidance on disability disclosure and consent, and on carrying out risk assessments with disabled learners. She is one of the main authors of guidance for the education sector, written on behalf of the Disability Rights Commission (DRC), and launched by the DRC in August 2007. She has produced, on behalf of LSIS, guidance for governors on equality and diversity, and is in the process of producing a briefing on the Equality Act 2010. She has carried out research on behalf of the Equality and Human Rights Commission on best practice in meeting public sector duties

She is a regular platform speaker and workshop leader for national, regional and local conferences and training events. A former Senior Manager, she has worked extensively within the education and training sector and has a proven track record in strategic planning, leadership, change management, performance reporting and quality improvement.

Julie Ashton, Deputy Principal, New College Nottingham

Julie Ashton was appointed Deputy Principal at New College Nottingham in May 2009.

She retrained as a teacher in 1992 following a successful career with John Lewis, a company she joined as a graduate trainee following her law degree at Nottingham Trent University.

As a teacher Julie has worked in a school, 6th form college and a variety of Further Education colleges. Married, and with two children, she studied part time for an MBA at Nottingham University, which she completed in 2006.

Prior to her role as Deputy Principal, she was Director of Curriculum at Loughborough College, a role she took after being Director of Learning at West Nottinghamshire College. Interestingly Julie started her FE college experience at ncn where she worked in various roles across the College for 10 years.

Throughout her career Julie has always undertaken some voluntary work ranging from being a Samaritan, Duke of Edinburgh leader and various support roles for local charities.

Earl Laird, Faculty Director Service Sector Studies, City of Wolverhampton College

Earl Laird started to work within the Further Education sector in 1986, rising through the ranks at Bilston Community College and the City of Wolverhampton College to a faculty directorship position in 1999. As Faculty Director for Health, Leisure and Hospitality, Earl provides academic leadership to the Hair and Beauty, Health Studies, Leisure and Sport, Travel and Tourism, Child Studies and Hospitality and Catering curriculum areas. Previous roles within the Further Education sector include: Director for Leisure and Creative Studies, Director for Sport, Leisure and Tourism, Community Development and Planning Manager, Sport and Recreation Development Manager.

Earl was a founder member of the Network for Black Professionals. Other Committee/Board Memberships include:
• Wolverhampton Health & Well Being Board
• Black Country FE/HE Colleges Sports Network (Chair)
• Black Country Sports Board (Vice Chair)
• WM LSC 2012 Education and Skills Group

Kathryn Podmore, Principal, Birkenhead Sixth Form College

Kathryn began her teaching career at a comprehensive school in Stafford. She then worked within Staffordshire Local Authority to establish a Post 16 Centre in Stafford. Following this Kathryn moved into the Sixth Form College sector and became Vice Principal at Eccles College and then into her current role as Principal at Birkenhead Sixth Form College.

Kathryn was Chair of Merseyside Colleges Association for the Principals group for three years. At a national level she chairs a national Post 16 committee for the Association of College and School Leaders and in the North West region represents colleges on the Sixth Form Colleges' Forum Council. Kathryn has organised regional meetings for the Women's Leadership Network in Merseyside and Manchester and is a member of the Wirral Children’s Trust Board and sits on the 14-19 Strategic Partnership group.

During breaks from college life, she enjoys travelling, visiting the theatre and spending time with family and friends in her home county of Devon.

Assistant Commissioner Lynne Owens, QPM, MA

Lynne Owens began her police career in the Metropolitan Police Service, posted to Catford in South East London. She transferred to Kent Police on promotion to Sergeant, where she trained and specialised as a detective. As a Detective Chief Inspector she was posted to the force major crime department as a Senior Investigating officer. On transferring to Surrey in 2002, Lynne became a BCU Commander of a division, covering three boroughs. In January 2005, she was appointed Temporary Assistant Chief Constable (Specialist Operations). During that time she qualified as a Gold firearms Commander and took Gold Command of a number of critical incidents. Following successful completion of the Strategic Command Course, she was appointed Assistant Chief Constable (Territorial Operations), with responsibility for territorial divisions, partnership, criminal justice and neighbourhood policing.

In March 2008, Lynne was appointed as the Temporary Deputy Chief Constable leading a significant organisational change programme, professional standards department and collaboration in the South East Region. In April 2009 she transferred to the Metropolitan Police Service having been substantively appointed as the Deputy Assistant Commissioner responsible for Territorial Policing.

In December 2010 she took up post as an Assistant Commissioner as part of the MPS Management Board. She leads on public order policing, firearms and other specialised, predominately uniformed, support functions across London and Criminal Justice.

She was awarded the Queens Police Medal for distinguished service in the New Years Honours (2008).

Lynne is married with one daughter.

Wally Brown CBE

Wally was born in Toxteth, his Father was a West African seaman and is mother was English. He attended both Primary and Secondary schools in the area.

After leaving school and spending 16 years in the engineering industry, Wally returned to University as a mature student. His University education was spent at the Universities of Manchester and Liverpool. After University, Wally worked initially in Toxteth, as a youth worker and Community Education Project Manager.

Wally left Liverpool to work in Moss Side Manchester in 1982, were he spent eight years as a Community Education Coordinator he then moved to Lambeth South London for a further two years were he was Head of the Adult Education and Youth Services.

He returned to Liverpool in 1991 to become Principal of Liverpool Community College. At the time of his appointment he was the only Black Principal amongst the 400+ colleges in the further education sector; he retired from that position in August 2008.

During is time at the college he lead it to become one of the best performing colleges in the country, he also transformed the college estate in leading investment, of over £150m at today’s values, over an eight year period.

Wally has always been active in community politics within the Toxteth Black Community.

During the 1970s he chaired both the Liverpool Black Organisation and the Merseyside Anti Racist Alliance, both active organisation during the 1970s and 80s. He was also the only Liverpool born Black to Chair the Merseyside Community Relations Council, a position he held between 1980 and 1982. Wally played a leading role in negotiating with the Thatcher government after the uprisings in Toxteth in 1981.

He has remained active in community politics in Toxteth up until the present day, he is involved with numerous voluntary organisations in Liverpool including; A governorship at both the local School, Kingsley Community School and Granby Children’s Centre.

Amongst his other interests, he is a Non-Executive director of Liverpool Community Health, he is a member of the Audit Committee at Liverpool Hope University, and he is also a trustee on the Learning and Skills Improvement Services the national body overseeing the quality and leadership in the further Education Sector. Wally has also served on a number of government advisory committees in the past particularly in relation to Race and Education.

Wally was awarded a CBE in 2002 for Services to Education.

Helen Hughes, Interim CEO, Equality and Human Rights Commission

Helen Hughes took up her post as Interim CEO on 1 October 2010 for a six month period. Ms Hughes joined the Commission in April 2009 as Group Director Corporate Management following a distinguished career in public service, particularly in the health sector. In addition to working with the World Health Organization, the UK National Patient Safety Agency and London health care bodies, she has previously been Executive Director of Resources and Equality for the London Development Agency. At the LDA she had the lead responsibility for all equality and diversity issues in an organisation that itself represented RDAs at a national level in Government.

She lives in South East London with her two sons and is on the Board of several national and local charities.

Gary Chin, Principal, Greenwich Community College

Gary is the first black African Caribbean male Principal and Chief Executive in London having recently joined Greenwich Community College in March this year, a college with over 80% BAME learners and leading the national campaign against ESOL funding changes/cuts at Downing Street.

Gary has over twenty years experience in education having previously worked at Nescot, Greenwich Community College, Woolwich College, South Thames College and London Southbank University.

Gary is a Chartered Accountant and a very active member with the Network for Black Professionals, a body promoting and encouraging black and minority employees into more senior roles, where he has delivered financial and funding methodology training for non financial managers.

Carole Stott, Chair of Governors, City Lit

Carole is Chair of Governors at City Lit in London. She joined the Board there following a long career in, and commitment to adult and further education. She is a qualified teacher who has taught in Further Education as well as in schools and University.

Following her teaching career she worked as a manager in regional and national roles focusing on provision for unemployed adults, and then on curriculum and qualification reform to provide improved opportunities, especially for people from disadvantaged backgrounds. She has worked as a CEO, including CEO of a national qualification awarding body. She is currently a consultant in the sector.

Carole has developed a keen interest and commitment to supporting good governance across the sector. She is Deputy Chair of AOC's Governors Council and a member of the AOC Board.