Lord Victor Adebowale CBE Victor is the CEO of Turning Point, a social enterprise providing health and social care interventions to approximately 77,000 people on an annual basis. He sits as a Non-Executive Director on the boards of NHS England, the Co-Operative Group, Collaborate CIC, IOCOM and Leadership In Mind; he is also the Chair of Social Enterprise UK. Victor has chaired a number of commission reports into: policing, employment, mental health, housing and fairness for The London Fairness Commission, the Met Police and for central and local government. He was awarded the CBE for services to the unemployed and homeless people, and became a crossbench peer in 2001. Victor is a visiting Professor and Chancellor at the University of Lincoln; an honorary member of the Institute of Psychiatry; President of The International Association of Philosophy and Psychiatry, and a Governor at The London School of Economics. Victor has an MA in Advanced Organisational Consulting from Tavistock Institute and City University. Paul Gerrard After twenty years in the UK Civil Service, Paul joined the Co-op, the world’s oldest co-operative business, in 2016, and is currently Campaigns and Public Affairs Director, leading their campaigns on modern slavery, particularly supporting survivors, loneliness and violence in communities, as well as leading the Co-op’s engagement on a broad range of public policy issues. Paul is a Fellow of IEMA, the global body of sustainability professionals. Neil McInroy Neil is CEO of CLES www.cles.org.uk – the national organisation for progressive local economies. CLES’s aim is to achieve social justice, good local economies and effective public services for everyone, everywhere. Their work is focussed around the intersection between policy theory and practice, reflected in CLES as a ‘think and do’ tank. In these times of huge economic, social and environmental crises, CLES sees its role as about developing workable policy and practice, which they seek to amplify and scale, at pace. Amongst a range of work relating to public services, democracy, green new deal and place making, CLES has been at the vanguard of progressing Community Wealth Building practice in the UK for the past 12 years. This movement is growing across major public institutions including Local and Combined Authorities in England and through national and local government activity in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. This work seeks to disrupt mainstream local economic strategy and practice, heralding a new wave of progressive economic and social policy which places people and communities at the centre of local economic development. Primarily this is about addressing wealth extraction by placing more control of this wealth in the hands of local people, communities, businesses and by developing more democratic forms of ownership. Neil has been commissioned, collaborated and advised, a broad range of local, regional and national governments, politicians and agencies across UK and in Europe, Asia, US and Australasia. He is an Honorary Fellow at the Manchester Urban Institute, University of Manchester, and a Visiting Fellow at Edge Hill University. Dr Carolyn Wilkins OBE Carolyn is the Chief Executive at Oldham Council and the Accountable Officer for NHS Oldham CCG. Passionate about the role public services have in improving life chances for people, she has taken forward a wide-reaching programme of reform and integration of services in order to deliver significantly better outcomes. She undertakes the lead chief executive role for Greater Manchester on a range of issues including the Safe and Stronger Communities portfolio. She is the architect for Greater Manchester Leadership and Workforce Development Framework, which aims to support the growth of a community of skilled, connected leaders from all sectors in the City Region. She is the lead chief executive for Population Health, overseeing the wellbeing and prevention agenda for Greater Manchester. She is also Chair of the Oldham Maggie’s Fundraising Board and co-chair of the GM Cancer Board. She was appointed to the NHS Assembly in March 2019. Carolyn has significant public sector experience and a long commitment to understanding public service delivery from different perspectives, so crucial to developing collaborative working. This includes involvement in the Civil Society Future Inquiry, and Centre for Policing Research and Learning, Open University. Carolyn has an MA in Literature from the Open University and a Master’s in Public Administration from Warwick Business School. Her Doctorate in Business Administration focused on the relationship between trust and control in organisations during times of significant change. Carolyn was awarded an OBE in June 2016 for her services to local government and public service reform. Karin Woodley Recipient of the Excellence in Diversity Awards 2016 Lifetime Achiever Award, Karin is Chief Executive of Cambridge House (a social action centre in South London), a fellow of the British-American Project and the RSA, a non-executive director of the MOJ’s Office of the Public Guardian, a member of the Power to Change Community Business Panel and Vice Chair of Community Southwark. Formerly non-executive director of the Economic and Social Research Council, the Legal Services Board Consumer Panel and the Global Social Economy Forum, Vice Chair of Locality and a member of the Wellcome Trust’s Understanding Patient Data Advisory Group. Previous Chief Executive roles held at the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust, ContinYou, Tabernacle Centre for Arts and Learning and the Minorities’ Arts Advisory Service. Past academic and training appointments include the National College of Police Leadership; Home Office; Siberian Federal University, Russia; University of Amsterdam in Johannesburg; Dillard University, New Orleans; Birkbeck College, University of London.
Lord Victor Adebowale CBE Victor is the CEO of Turning Point, a social enterprise providing health and social care interventions to approximately 77,000 people on an annual basis. He sits as a Non-Executive Director on the boards of NHS England, the Co-Operative Group, Collaborate CIC, IOCOM and Leadership In Mind; he is also the Chair of Social Enterprise UK. Victor has chaired a number of commission reports into: policing, employment, mental health, housing and fairness for The London Fairness Commission, the Met Police and for central and local government. He was awarded the CBE for services to the unemployed and homeless people, and became a crossbench peer in 2001. Victor is a visiting Professor and Chancellor at the University of Lincoln; an honorary member of the Institute of Psychiatry; President of The International Association of Philosophy and Psychiatry, and a Governor at The London School of Economics. Victor has an MA in Advanced Organisational Consulting from Tavistock Institute and City University. Paul Gerrard After twenty years in the UK Civil Service, Paul joined the Co-op, the world’s oldest co-operative business, in 2016, and is currently Campaigns and Public Affairs Director, leading their campaigns on modern slavery, particularly supporting survivors, loneliness and violence in communities, as well as leading the Co-op’s engagement on a broad range of public policy issues. Paul is a Fellow of IEMA, the global body of sustainability professionals. Neil McInroy Neil is CEO of CLES www.cles.org.uk – the national organisation for progressive local economies. CLES’s aim is to achieve social justice, good local economies and effective public services for everyone, everywhere. Their work is focussed around the intersection between policy theory and practice, reflected in CLES as a ‘think and do’ tank. In these times of huge economic, social and environmental crises, CLES sees its role as about developing workable policy and practice, which they seek to amplify and scale, at pace. Amongst a range of work relating to public services, democracy, green new deal and place making, CLES has been at the vanguard of progressing Community Wealth Building practice in the UK for the past 12 years. This movement is growing across major public institutions including Local and Combined Authorities in England and through national and local government activity in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. This work seeks to disrupt mainstream local economic strategy and practice, heralding a new wave of progressive economic and social policy which places people and communities at the centre of local economic development. Primarily this is about addressing wealth extraction by placing more control of this wealth in the hands of local people, communities, businesses and by developing more democratic forms of ownership. Neil has been commissioned, collaborated and advised, a broad range of local, regional and national governments, politicians and agencies across UK and in Europe, Asia, US and Australasia. He is an Honorary Fellow at the Manchester Urban Institute, University of Manchester, and a Visiting Fellow at Edge Hill University. Dr Carolyn Wilkins OBE Carolyn is the Chief Executive at Oldham Council and the Accountable Officer for NHS Oldham CCG. Passionate about the role public services have in improving life chances for people, she has taken forward a wide-reaching programme of reform and integration of services in order to deliver significantly better outcomes. She undertakes the lead chief executive role for Greater Manchester on a range of issues including the Safe and Stronger Communities portfolio. She is the architect for Greater Manchester Leadership and Workforce Development Framework, which aims to support the growth of a community of skilled, connected leaders from all sectors in the City Region. She is the lead chief executive for Population Health, overseeing the wellbeing and prevention agenda for Greater Manchester. She is also Chair of the Oldham Maggie’s Fundraising Board and co-chair of the GM Cancer Board. She was appointed to the NHS Assembly in March 2019. Carolyn has significant public sector experience and a long commitment to understanding public service delivery from different perspectives, so crucial to developing collaborative working. This includes involvement in the Civil Society Future Inquiry, and Centre for Policing Research and Learning, Open University. Carolyn has an MA in Literature from the Open University and a Master’s in Public Administration from Warwick Business School. Her Doctorate in Business Administration focused on the relationship between trust and control in organisations during times of significant change. Carolyn was awarded an OBE in June 2016 for her services to local government and public service reform. Karin Woodley Recipient of the Excellence in Diversity Awards 2016 Lifetime Achiever Award, Karin is Chief Executive of Cambridge House (a social action centre in South London), a fellow of the British-American Project and the RSA, a non-executive director of the MOJ’s Office of the Public Guardian, a member of the Power to Change Community Business Panel and Vice Chair of Community Southwark. Formerly non-executive director of the Economic and Social Research Council, the Legal Services Board Consumer Panel and the Global Social Economy Forum, Vice Chair of Locality and a member of the Wellcome Trust’s Understanding Patient Data Advisory Group. Previous Chief Executive roles held at the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust, ContinYou, Tabernacle Centre for Arts and Learning and the Minorities’ Arts Advisory Service. Past academic and training appointments include the National College of Police Leadership; Home Office; Siberian Federal University, Russia; University of Amsterdam in Johannesburg; Dillard University, New Orleans; Birkbeck College, University of London.