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Keep up to date at www.iod.com/westmids and at www.iod.com/east-midlands IoD Midlands Structure, Ambassadors and Committees Your IoD in the Midlands IoD East Midlands continued Leicestershire and South East Midlands Sarah Canning Shamir Ghumra Gareth Thomas Rhiannon Stafford Craig Bentley Nicola Moss Mark Eydman Kyra Williams Branch Chair Vice Chair Skills and Education Diversity and Inclusion Policy and Governance PR & Comms Employee Engagement Digital & Creative Ambassador Sarah Canning Sarah is an award-winning solicitor and dual accredited mediator. With over 25 years’ experience in dispute resolution, Sarah works with corporates and individuals to achieve their best solution to a problem. In addition to her role as Branch Chair, she is also an External Associate at the University of Northampton’s Centre of Sustainable Business Practices. Shamir Ghumra As Head of Building Performance Services at BRE, Shamir is well connected to both industry and academia and his is a hugely respected voice within industry associations. Shamir is a former board member and co-founder of the Supply Chain Sustainability School and also former co-chair of the Construction industry coalition on Modern Slavery. He plays an active role in standards and is involved with both European and International work. Craig Bentley Craig is director of Bentley Management & Consulting, a small consultancy helping organisations improve performance through building capability and supporting design and implementation of improvement programmes. Craig’s career includes leadership roles in operations, marketing, and commercial development, and consulting experience across numerous sectors including construction, logistics, education and financial services. He is also a mentor and an Enterprise Advisor. Nicola Moss Nicola has many years of experience in operations events marketing comms and PR. Having most recently supported small businesses while working for the FSB, she understands the challenges businesses face and the role of the membership organisation in supporting its members by providing signposting, familiarisation with new business regulations, compliance, learning and networking opportunities. Nicola is proud to be the ambassador for PR and Comms in the Leicestershire - Northamptonshire area. Contact her on 07432 766001 or via nicola@mosssocial. co.uk if you have stories you feel your fellow IoD members would be interested to hear. Rhiannon Stafford Rhiannon is a leadership development and talent management consultant. Her career spans over 20 years working in HR, resourcing and leadership development roles for large corporate companies. Now Rhiannon works independently with organisations who want to grow or transform, providing bespoke leadership development programmes, coaching, personal development and team effectiveness solutions. At the heart of her work is a belief that a diverse and inclusive organisation is innovative, creative and high performing. She can be contacted via rhiannon@ bluegrape talent.co.uk Kyra Williams Kyra has worked in media production in various guises for 25 years, with experience editing videos for broadcast TV, music videos and documentaries. She runs a small production company and provides a varied range of media services for a mixture of SMEs and Corporate businesses. Kyra frequently works in an advisory role to support communication goals, often using multimedia to achieve objectives, and has taught and run workshops on media and communication. She is keen to use her ambassador role to improve communication with current IoD members, particularly in the creative industries, and find out how ‘leadership’ differs in the creative industries. Mark Eydman An IoD Member since 2015, Mark is a passionate advocate of quality, customer loyalty and employee engagement as drivers of business success. Originally trained as an engineer, Mark has held operational, management and leadership posts in complex international settings and is especially experienced in commercial construction. In addition to current consulting and NED positions, Mark now lectures at two universities and supports a quality related apprenticeship scheme. Gareth Thomas Following 15+ years working in public sector roles managing skills policy implementation for the Government, Gareth set up his own consultancy in 2014. Supported by a couple of trusted freelance associates, we advise businesses, training providers and public sector bodies on skills programme development and implementation such as Apprenticeship programmes. His aim with the IoD is to ensure members are aware of local opportunities to influence public sector business and skills investment decisions (such as through LEPs) and raise awareness of different skills and employment support opportunities that are available, as well as raise the profile of the IoD. 30 www.iod.com/emidlandsevents
IoD West Midlands Coventry & Warwickshire Dean Kavanagh Branch Chair Zeynep Turudi Connect: Trade/Export Paul Fairburn Develop: Education & Skills Jenny Bettany Diversity & Inclusion Denise Taylor Connect TBC Develop (CDir) We are actively recruiting for these Ambassador roles in the West Midlands. Coventry & Warwickshire Chartered Director Ambassador Worcester & the Marches Comms/Events/Membership Ambassador Chartered Director Ambassador Greater Birmingham Policy and Governance Branch Ambassador Chartered Director Ambassador If you are interested to know more, contact Sophie Breeden at sophie.breeden@iod.com Zeynep Turudi Zeynep has been an active member of the IoD since 2016, and a committee member since 2019. She is the founder & MD of Truede Ltd, a confectionery company that has been in business since 2003 and now exports its products to 20 countries. A DIT Export Champion, an awardwnning entrepreneur and an alumni of Barak Obama’s New Innovation & Entrepreneurship Program, she sits on the Advisory Board of Coventry Business School. Paul Fairburn Paul is an experienced Director of Innovation, with a background in the pharmaceutical industry, healthcare, utilities, and higher education. With significant experience of leadership, organisational change and strategy implementation, Paul has a deep understanding of supplier/client management, building value propositions, collaborative partnerships, innovation management, and the development of large-scale projects. A member of the Coventry & Warwickshire Branch Committee since September 2015, as an IoD Ambassador Paul is looking forward to building on previous activities in what is a challenging economic environment, but an exciting time of change for the IoD. Jenny Bettany A Chartered Occupational (Business) Psychologist, Jenny has worked extensively with organisations all over the world to help them bring out the best in their people and create positive high performance environments. She strongly values diversity and inclusion and is keen to support the IoD to create an organisation that works for and embraces all of its members. Denise Taylor Denise is a sustainability practitioner, strategic marketing specialist, and educator. Her business, Wylde Connections Limited, brings these three professional areas together in a unique blended approach of consultancy, learning and communications aimed at helping clients achieve their business goals. Denise has been a proactive member of the IoD for the past four years and has regularly delivered workshops on the business case for sustainability and writing compelling winning awards applications. As the Coventry & Warwickshire branch communications ambassador, Denise will be putting her many years’ experience in marketing communications to good use for branch members. Worcester & the Marches Jo Hodgetts John Painter Michael Doolin Vacancy Vacancy Branch Chair Influence Diversity & Inclusion Connect Develop John Painter John Painter has been a Chartered Accountant for over 40 years. For almost 30 of those years he has been an equity partner, and was Managing Partner for 13 years, until he merged the practice with Haines Watts in 2018. He also developed a business advisory business with the aid of Mindshop, an Australian company. John joined the IoD in 2017. He regularly contributes to the Mastermind groups for both the Black Country and Worcestershire and the Marches. As Ambassador for Governance and Policy, John says he hopes to influence the policy of local and national governments, and is looking forward to rekindling some old contacts as well as making new ones. Michael Doolin Having led global HR Teams within a number of blue chip companies, across a number of sectors, Michael’s experience has given him the opportunity to provide SMEs with flexible access to their own HR teams. He has been involved with the IoD for a few years and has thoroughly enjoyed the experience of leveraging from the experiences of colleagues as well as developing my own Professional Network. As the Ambassador for Inclusion and Diversity, Michael says he is “excited to bring new ways of thinking to the table to help raise awareness and understanding of key issues and challenges that employers and their businesses face today. “I am keen to meet as many of you as possible. ” See overleaf for Greater Birmingham and Black Country & Staffordshire www.iod.com/westmids/events 31
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