Board
Allison Ogden-Newton, Chair
“Pioneers in independent public service deliverythat deliver thehighest possible social value need their own platform: to share best practice, debate the critical issues and help others tackle the obstacles to sustainable, independent public services.
The Transition Institute is that space. It has quickly become the place where UK based Global leaders on this agenda are gathering to create the path towards public services built from this innovative new social business science.”
Allison Ogden-Newton is Chair of the Transition Institute; based at the Royal Society for the Arts the TI is the world’s first platform for the support and promotion of public sector spin-outs that have at their heart social value. Allison has been a civil society ceo for 19 years which included running Social Enterprise London and as a result has become recognised as a world expert on social enterprise. Whilst at SEL, being Deputy Chair of ACEVO, the organisation for civil society CEOs and serving on the Government’s Women’s Enterprise Taskforce, Allison developed her interest and understanding of new forms of public service delivery and how the role of mutual’s could act as a positive force to increase overall social value.
Allison is the Chief Executive of World Child Cancer, a charity dedicated to helping children with cancer in low and middle income countries. She is also a Fellow of Northampton University and Deputy Chair of the National Migraine Centre. She often writes for the Guardian, and is renowned for her reputation as a blogger.
Allison’s Blog
http://allisonogdennewton.blogspot.co.uk/
and Tweeter @aogdennewton
Andrew Burnell, Board Director
CEO, City Health Care Partnership CIC
Andrew is the Chief Executive of the City Health Care Partnership CIC (CHCP CIC), into which Hull Teaching Primary Care Trust transferred its provider services on 1st June 2010.
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After starting his career as a Registered General Nurse (RGN), Registered Mental Nurse (RMN) and Registered Health Visitor (RHV), Andrew held numerous NHS clinical and managerial positions before progressing to the Northern and Yorkshire Regional Office and the Department of Health (DoH) in Leeds. Andrew then became the Director of Primary Health Care Services and Nursing for West Hull PCT.
“My hope for the Institute is that it will become the first port of call for anyone wanting to access the practical know-how around creating, delivering or managing new models of service delivery”
Following the reconfiguration of PCTs through the governmental white paper ‘Commissioning a Patient Led NHS’ (2005), Andrew was successful in gaining the post of Director of Provider Services and Nursing for NHS Hull, which led to his current appointment. The team at CHCP CIC had been working as a DoH Pathfinder for the externalisation of the PCT’s provider services into a Social Enterprise CIC since early 2006 and where the first “Right To Request” organisation to go live .
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Ben Lucas, Board Director
Director, 2020 Public Services Trust
Ben was formerly Head of Research and Communications at the construction trade union UCATT, before moving to become Jack Straw’s adviser. He was chair of the Labour Coordinating Committee in the mid-1990s and then co-founded LLM Communications, a public affairs consultancy. He is now a member of the international advisory board of FD International, a business communications consultancy, and a Trustee of the New Local Government Network.
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Sir Stephen Bubb, Board Member
CEO, ACEVO
Stephen Bubb is Chief Executive of the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO) – a dynamic and high profile UK body – where his work on leadership, sector funding and public service reform has radically shifted attitudes and policies.
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“Leadership is vital in any organisation. It sets the culture and tone of a winning social enterprise so I’m delighted we have a Transition Institute to help drive that better leadership.”
In 2011 Stephen was asked by the Prime Minister to conduct a review into choice and competition in the NHS. He has been in major national roles in the TGWU, NUT and the AMA (Association of Metropolitan Authorities) and was Founding Personnel Director of the National Lottery Charities Board. He was a Councillor in Lambeth and an active member of the health authorities for Guys and St Thomas’ over two decades. Much in demand as a speaker and media commentator both here and abroad promoting the country’s Third Sector. His Bubb’s Blog (http://bloggerbubb.blogspot.com/) is the most widely read in the sector and is part of the national blog archive.
Born and brought up in Kent, he read PPE at Christ Church, Oxford. He lives in Lambeth and in Charlbury in the Cotswolds. He has been a Youth Court Magistrate, Open University Tutor, non-Executive Director in the private sector, Chair of an Orchestra and Founder of a Charity.
Baroness Thornton, Board Director
Glenys Thornton is a Labour and Co-operative member of the House of Lords. She was previously Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health. She is currently Shadow Equalities Minister in House of Lords, an adviser and patron of SEUK and a Senior Associate of Social Business International.
A graduate of the London School of Economics, Thornton was Political Secretary of the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society from 1981, joining the public affairs team of the Co-operative Wholesale Society upon their merger in 1985 and working there until 1992. Additionally, she was General Secretary of the Fabian Society from 1993 to 1996.
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Glenys was National Co-ordinator of the charity Gingerbread as well as Project Director at the Institute of Community Studies in Bethnal Green. She also founded the All Party Parliamentary Social Enterprise Group in 2001 and is now Hon Secretary.
She served as a board member of Social Enterprise London from 1997 to 2009, and in 2001 she founded the Social Enterprise Coalition and was their chair until 2008.
Glenys joined the House as a life Peer in 1998.
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Greg Parston, PhD, Board Director
Greg is an organisation consultant and social entrepreneur, respected internationally in the fields of governance, strategy and change management. Currently he is the part-time Executive Director of the Centre for Health Policy at Imperial College’s Institute of Global Health Innovation. He has extensive experience in public service delivery and policy and has advised leaders in government and civil service around the world on how to improve social and economic outcomes and strengthen civil society. He is Chairman of the English Theatre and on the boards of SkillForce and Collaborate.
Greg is well regarded for successfully establishing new initiatives and organisations, including commercial enterprises (the Office for Public Management), research centres (the Institute for Public Service Value) and charitable campaigns (Take Our Daughters to Work UK).
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Mark Sesnan, Board Member
Managing Director, Greenwich Leisure Limited
Mark is Managing Director of GLL (Greenwich Leisure Limited) which is the pioneering staff led not for profit Leisure Social Enterprise that took over the operation of Greenwich Council’s leisure centres in 1993.
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“I would have welcomed the Institute with open arms when GLL was spinning- out into independent delivery in 1993″
GLL itself now operates all the public leisure centres (65) in Greenwich, Waltham Forest, Newham, Barnet, Merton, Camden, Ealing, Hackney, Hammersmith and Fulham and Tower Hamlets London Boroughs as well as being involved in a range of other partnership and regeneration initiatives. GLL has a turnover of over £ 70 ,000,000 and employs more than 3 ,000 people in London.GLL also operates Crystal Palace National Sports Centre on behalf of the LDA and has ambitions to be significantly involved in the London 2012 Olympics and particularly the Legacy thereafter.
Mark is also a member of the Council of the Social Enterprise Coalition (SEC) , Secretary of the Sports and Recreation Trusts Association (SpoRTA) and Chair of ProActive Central London.
Sophia Looney, Board Member
Divisional Director, Policy, Equalities and Performance at London Borough of Lambeth
Sophia started her career as a youth worker, working in Kent leading the development of detached work and introduced an embryonic focus on the measurement of outcomes. After a short spell supporting performance management in the economic development service there, she moved to the Audit Commission.
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“I hope the Institute will enable anyone thinking of implementing change locally to have some of the tools, knowledge and networks to make things happen”
She now leads the transformation programme and directs the strategic policy function; as well as equalities, performance and programme management. Sophia’s policy team wrote the ‘cooperative council’ white paper and are now leading the implementation of the citizens’ commission conclusions and recommendations; alongside introducing new operating practices for core support services within public services.
Sue Bruce, Board Member
CEO, City of Edinburgh Council
Sue Bruce took up the post of Chief Executive of the City of Edinburgh Council on 1 January 2011 having previously been Chief Executive at Aberdeen City Council and East Dunbartonshire Council.
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Sue began her local government career with Strathclyde Regional Council in 1976 spending the early part of her career in social and economic regeneration and then in the wider education field.
Sue has held a number of senior positions, serving in the Strathclyde Regional Education Directorate until local government re-organisation in 1996 after which she held the post of Deputy Director of Education with East Ayrshire Council. In 2000 she joined East Dunbartonshire Council initially as Strategic Director responsible for Education, Housing, Social Work and Cultural Services and had a corporate lead role in social inclusion and equalities.
She has wide ranging interests, has served on a number of external boards and has worked on several national and international initiatives.
In May 2010 Sue received the Prince’s Business Ambassador Award for 2010 from HRH The Prince of Wales and in October 2010 was recognised as the Scottish Public Sector Leader of the Year Award at the Scottish Leadership Awards.
Professor Simon Denny, Board Member
Social Enterprise Development Director, The University of Northampton
In his role as Social Enterprise Development Director at The University of Northampton he is responsible for devising the University’s social enterprise strategy, and implementing initiatives designed to make Northampton the number one university for social enterprise in the UK by 2015.
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Simon has been responsible for setting up Inspire2Enterprise, a national business support organization for social enterprises and social entrepreneurs. He also leads on an initiative to encourage the UK university sector to develop a strong social enterprise supply chain.
The University of Northampton’s work in social enterprise has been recognised by the HEFCE/UnLtd award for the Outstanding University supporting Social Entrepreneurship (June 2011) and the Enterprising University of the Year award in the Midlands Business Awards (February 2012).
Born and brought up in Essex, he has a BA from the University of Exeter, a MA from the University of Warwick, and a PhD from the Open University. He is a director of two social enterprises. He has published a number of articles in academic journals on aspects of social enterprise, regularly gives presentations at conferences, and is currently preparing a book, to be published by Routledge, entitled, ‘Social Enterprise: Accountability and Evaluation around the World’. In 2010 he was awarded The Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion. Before joining Northampton in 1992 he spent 10 years in the Army and five years with Tesco.
Professor Simon Denny, Board Member