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Recent Contracts
Experience and Expertise
Recent Clients
Summary of Employment History
Other Interests
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General Information:

Mobile number: 07973 362353
Email address: margaret@margaretdavey.com

Profile:

An education specialist with a background of achieving change in the provision of adult learning. Experienced in leading complex institutions, motivating and bringing out skills in individuals and disparate teams. With a strong focus on business practices and quality, she has substantially improved the performance of the organisations she has led.

She is currently using her skills to assist senior managers in the process of quality improvement and the management of change and to research and write up good practice for wider dissemination. She is an experienced contributor at Board level both nationally and locally.

Examples of recent contracts:

Examples of assignments undertaken in the past couple of years are:

Organisational and communications review for private sector company
National lead for project in adult community learning
Curriculum review for major learning and skills provider
Management of change training for managers
Project management for good practice guides
Preparation and support for successful re-inspections
Teachers' resources for national website
Keynote addresses on issues relating to quality improvement and change
Management of teams of consultants working on national projects
Team member on national leadership programmes
Organisational health checks for local authority adult learning services

Experience and Expertise:

Over twenty years' leadership experience of public sector organisations during periods of substantial change, ensuring quality improvement, financial stability and growth during times of funding constraint and policy shift
Strategic thinker, with the ability to convert strategy into operational plans
Experienced leader of teams with the ability to inspire and motivate
Considerable expertise in recruitment and selection, including chairing panels
Experience of processes required for quality improvement, such as self-assessment, target-setting and action planning
Significant experience of teaching, training and facilitation in a wide variety of settings, including leadership programmes for senior managers
Extensive experience of report-writing for a range of local, national and international groups and for different purposes
Experience of working one-to-one with leaders in a coaching or mentoring role
Substantial experience as a local, regional and national board member, including chairing committees
An analytical approach to problem solving and the scrutiny of management accounts and other board papers
Excellent inter-personal skills, able to work at all levels and with large and small groups

Recent Clients:

Learning & Skills Improvement Service
HOLEX
Local Government Association
Greater Manchester Learning and Skills Council
Lancashire Learning & Skills Council
Association of Colleges
Lambeth College
Highlands College, Jersey
National Institute of Adult Continuing Education
Institute for Learning
South East Quality Improvement Network
Surrey County Council
Lambeth Council
Illumina Digital
ESCO, Essex
Generalitat de Barcelona

Summary of Employment History:

2004 -	Self-employed	Independent consultant, specialising in business improvement, organisational review and strategic and change management, leadership programmes
1996 - 2004	Chief Executive	Principal City Lit, London: £14m turnover college with 23,000 students, employing 1,000 staff, achieving "Beacon" status; £21m new build project in 2004
1989 - 1996	Head of Service	Head of Continuing Education and Training (CETS) for London Borough of Croydon; 134 staff, 18,000 students
1983 - 1989	Adult Education Organiser	London Borough of Croydon LEA
1975 - 1983	Deputy Principal	Mole Valley Adult Education Institute, Surrey County Council
1973 - 1975	Head of Languages	Dorking Institute, Surrey County Council
1960 - 1975	Partner	Large dairy and arable farm
1959 - 1960	Assistant	Education Department, Hispanic Council

Other Interests:

2005 -	Governor & Vice Chair	East Surrey College
2009 -	Chair	Surrey Lifelong Learning Partnership
2009 -	Fellow	Chartered Management Institute

Qualifications:

University of Surrey	MSc in Educational Studies, specialising in Management of Change
Garnett College	Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Management
Garnett College	Postgraduate Diploma in Further Education
Royal Society of Arts	Diploma in Teaching Foreign Languages to Adults