Region 07: South West England
Programme Director, Leadership Foundation
Paul is Programme Director for three key open programmes: Head of Department, Preparing for Senior Strategic Leadership and Senior Strategic Leadership, with a remit to expand capacity over the next four years. He is also the lead contact for the Leadership Foundation in south-west England, where he is based.
In 2001 he was appointed dean of international education at University College Plymouth St Mark and St John (Marjon) where his responsibilities also included the role of director of regional affairs, enabling Paul to take a lead in building capacity in engaging academic staff in activities with business and the community.
A Leadership Foundation Fellowship in 2005 provided the funding for a series of activities designed to boost organisational learning at Marjon, including an internal Change Academy event. From 1990 he was at the University of Central Lancashire for 11 years, where he was head of the department of languages and international studies, and faculty project development manager.
Paul holds a Doctorate in Education, based on using Action Learning Sets to support organisational cultures at middle management level in higher education. He is passionately committed to working with universities to build internal capacity for evaluating the impact of their leadership development activity.