Kevin has been a successful entrepreneur in both social and commercial worlds for over thirty years. He currently balances a mix of public service; consultancy projects focused on business planning, leadership and change; investment and business activity.

He was actively involved in the rethinking of delivery models for public services. This  included the development of leaders to understand how publicly funded enterprises differ from traditional businesses, and how to build a culture of enterprise in non-profit distributing ventures. He has worked as a business planning adviser to range of local authority spin out enterprises, including cultural services, public libraries, probation, housing, adult learning and youth services.

He was appointed as a Visiting Fellow by Cranfield University School of Management in 2016, working specifically on business planning for not for profit enterprises, including multi-academy trusts.

He founded FPM Training in 2001, an award-winning company which specialised in providing contextualised management, leadership and organisational development to the public service sector in England. Kevin built the company’s reputation as an innovator and provider of first class services, leading it to an annual turnover of over £3.5 million. The company delivered over 60,000 days of leadership and management development to 20,000 leaders at all levels, in extended schools, public libraries, adult learning, FE colleges, youth services, the NHS, the Fire Service, museums and archives. It ran national programmes for the Department for Education, Department for Media Culture and Sport, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, the Cabinet Office and the Local Government Association. FPM programmes were accredited by De Montfort University and the University of Leicester.FPM was an approved centre for the Chartered Institute of Management and the Institute for Leadership and Management. In 2013 he decided to wind down the company in the face of austerity cuts and focus on personal consultancy work,

He specialises in business planning and development, inter-organisational relationships, (networks, partnerships and federations), leadership, business strategy, organisational change and development, governance and the involvement of users in decision making processes. Before that he worked in the health service and charity sector.

Kevin has written and advised widely on leadership and management issues relating to civic organisations, including board development work with some of the largest charities in England (SCOPE, RNIB, Mencap, Groundwork). He was an Academic Consultant with the University of Leicester Management Centre, where he taught on the full-time MBA programme for six years, and has also contributed to management programmes at the Judge Institute, Cambridge, City University and the University of Birmingham. In 2013 he collaborated with the Centre for Employee Owned and Mutual Business at Kellogg College, University of Oxford, to offer a series of national seminars on the development of public service mutuals as stand-alone businesses.

He has advised Ofsted on commissioning youth services and provided briefings to the Department for Education on young people’s mutuals. He was invited to contribute to the Mutuals Task Force set up by the Cabinet Office and gave evidence to the DCLG Select Committee on cooperative councils.

He holds an MA in anthropology from Cambridge University. Away from work he devotes his energy to making stone sculpture, painting and travel.

To contact Kevin, please email: [email protected]