Tuesday, June 18, 2013
  Search

                                                                                                       

Paul Mudd Chartered FCIPD, MIoEE, Director & Company Secretary

Paul is a Business Transformation, People Leadership & Organisational Development Professional with more than 20 years experience of successfully executing strategically important, politically sensitive and operationally complicated roles in the education, skills & innovation sectors which have had a significant impact and achieved clear, proven & high level outcomes.

He has led the delivery of programmes under the European Commission's Innovation & Enterprise Action Framework; played a key role in the successful constitution, business development and strategic positioning of 25 new UK-wide sector Skills Councils; provided the lead on a range of initiatives to strengthen employer engagement with the Higher & Further Education sectors to both improve the supply of relevant workplace and business skills and increase performance and productivity across the UK economy; & negotiated a series of high level UK-wide strategic partnering arrangements with Local Government, the Voluntary and Community Sector, the Engineering & Construction Sectors, &, the Teacher Training Agency amongst others.

He also has a background in facilitating Train The Trainer Programmes for Local Government; lecturing on economic development and enterprise trends with SAUS (School of Advanced Urban Studies) Bristol, INLOGOV (Institute of Local Government) Birmingham, &, CLES (Centre for Local Economic Studies) Manchester; as well as developing National Occupational Standards and leading the work which undertook a fundamental review of Occupational & Functional Standards for both Local & Central Government that reset the Government's Skills Strategy for the following decade; & leveraging national & European funding to underwrite innovative development programmes with a real ROI.

Over the past 12 months Paul has had the opportunity to build on a passion for working with people with employment difficulties, which he has had since the mid-1980's when he set-up and ran a very successful 350 place community based employment support scheme. Through the Individual Excellence strand of the business he has developed Personal Professional Re-branding, Career Review and Advocacy, & Presentation and Interview Skills Coaching Support packages and has already achieved excellent results with over 560 individuals coming from a range of sectors and business networks.

For additional information visit Paul's profile on LinkedIn   

     

    Sectors

    • Creative & Cultural Skills

    • Further Education & Higher Education

    • Facilities Management

    • Food & Drink

    • Housing

    • Local & Central Government

    • Publishing

    • Sport & Leisure

    • Voluntary & Community

    Skillset

    • Accustomed to engaging at Board level, responding to challenge and influencing key decision makers

    • Adept at establishing professional credibility & the authority to act

    • Able to demonstrate inspiring leadership across complex partnership arrangements

    • Commercially astute with a track record of leveraging funding from a range of partners at local, regional, national and European levels

    • Analytical, with robust strategic planning, project management and financial planning skills

    Key attributes

    One of Paul’s key attributes is thinking and acting both creatively and strategically to find sustainable, value-added and highly effective win-win solutions, to challenging and complex problems.

    Paul is an Associate with Edinburgh Napier Business School & Tribal UK. He is also a Business Mentor with the Institute of Enterprise & Entrepreneurs & an Honorary Member of the Non-Executive Director's Association. In addition, he is a qualified European Business Excellence Assessor and a Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Personnel Development. He holds a Further and Adult Education Teacher's Certificate & trained as a Master Coach to deliver the Real Change Leaders Programme across local government in a unique & innovative partnership with the Industrial Society.




    In meeting with national agencies, Paul seemed to me a person of vision who could inspire others, yet knew what was realistic and achievable. He showed no partiality or self interest in his dealings, but appeared to genuinely strive for progress through real partnership.

    Freda Tallantyre, Senior Associate, Higher Education Academy


    Paul is an engaging motivational inspirational consultant he inspires confidence a you can do it attitude and has a natural facilitative manner which allowed me to reach my full potential and beyond. Five weeks after meeting Paul I became the confident owner of a new business. 

    Mark Garland, Proud Owner of The Best of Fife


    Paul brings a depth of expertise and insight to one's thinking process. As a consequence of Paul's intervention I secured a new role as Global Business Manager with a Cambridge based technology Company.

    Duncan Gellaty, International Marking Director


    Paul ably and creatively managed the strategically important project to develop occupational and functional maps of both central and local government in the UK. The detailed and rigorous outcomes enabled the UK Government to decide on the direction of its skills strategy for the following decade.

    Trevor Boutall, Managing Director, Management Standards Ltd


    Paul is a dynamic and talented consultant who is successful at delivering innovative and creative solutions.

    Barry Lee-Potter, Head of Marketing Communications, UKCES





     
        The Mudd Partnership T: 01738 561 780
        King James VI Business Centre             
        Riverview Business Park
        Friarton Road  
        Perth  
        PH2 8DY  
       
    Copyright © 2013 The Mudd Partnership