The SDDC Faculty - Tutors

Fiona is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and has held senior positions in both the private and public sectors. She began her career with Procter & Gamble and has worked in the services sector, health, communications, education and the media. She is currently the MD of a marketing consultancy, Chair of the IOD’s Edinburgh Branch, and represents Scotland on the Ofcom Consumer Panel. She has previously held positions as the Chair of The Essentia Group, Vice Chair of the Broadcasting Council for Scotland, Vice Chair of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, and as a board member of the Edinburgh Healthcare Trust. She has worked as a mentor on the Scottish Enterprise ‘Women into the Boardroom initiative’ and for Business Mentoring Scotland and was a member of the Secretary of State’s Expert Panel on the Media in the run-up to the opening of the Scottish Parliament. Fiona teaches ‘Effective Marketing Strategies’ on the IoD’s Company Direction Programme and is a member of the SDDC faculty of coaches and mentors.

Dean is director of a strategic change consultancy and an NED for an NHS Health Authority. Dean has experience of the automotive industries, construction, distribution, education, government, health, manufacturing and the media. He specialises in organisational development, strategic planning and executive/management development and is a lecturer, broadcaster and consultant at board level. Dean teaches change management on the IoD’s Company Direction Programme.

MA (Hons) MSc (Eng) MErgS Cpsychol. Is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and qualified Ergonomist. She has worked for Standard Life, West Midlands Police, and Scottish and Newcastle plc. She specialises in behavioural change and has undertaken work at strategic and operational levels for a range of assignments including John Menzies, Motorola, Compaq and the Scottish Executive. Elaine is a member of the SDDC’s team for director development networks.

MBA. Johanne has a background in Human Resources (HR) at both the operational and strategic levels. She has developed and implemented HR strategies and policies in both public and private sector organisations. Johanne is the tutor for the ‘People Means Business’ course on the IoD’s Company Direction Programme and is a member of the SDDC’s team for director development networks.

Donald is Professor in Strategic Management at the University of Glasgow. He has experience of strategic change and innovation in businesses. Recently his work has focused on conducting strategic transformation projects with private and public sector bodies. He has a BSc (Hons) from Strathclyde, a PhD from Cambridge University and an MBA from Kingston Business School. Don teaches strategy on the IoD’s Company Direction Programme and is a member of the SDDC’s faculty for director development networks.

Jan has over 20 years public sector experience and was subsequently CEO of a private limited company. She is now self employed, providing advice to a range of companies and organisations. Jan was a Senior Civil Servant in both the Cabinet Office, London and the Scottish Executive and had responsibility for the food industry, as well as working with businesses in the farming, fishing and rural sectors for many years. Having sat on several public sector boards and then been CEO, Accountable Officer and Director of a private company which was accountable to Parliament for its funding, she has seen both public and private sector boards at work.

MBA MCMI ACIPD. Nigel is an Organisation Development consultant with 14 years experience in blue chip, SME and public sector businesses. His work has focused on the development of effective leadership and management skills. In addition to the UK and Europe, he has worked in Hong Kong, Cyprus, the Falklands, America and Canada. He has supported companies wishing to achieve IIP and provides mentoring and coaching to directors wishing to achieve change. He has consulted with large and small businesses including The Scottish Executive, Deloitte & Touche, Scottish Power, George Watson College, United Distillers and Shepherd and Wedderburn. He is the IoD’s Head of Coaching & Mentoring in Scotland.

BSc, MBA: has operated at Board level in a career spanning engineering, production, marketing and general management. He has worked in the UK, Belgium and France. As a divisional MD with Christian Salvesen, he was responsible for providing logistics services to Marks & Spencer. His early career was in ICI, followed by two years in recruitment with Tyzack & Partners. More recently he was managing consultant with Penna Plc, delivering executive coaching services. Allan is a member of the IoD’s coaching and mentoring team.

Ralph trained originally as a mechanical engineer and later became a Chartered Accountant with Coopers & Lybrand. With further experience as an audit manager, and after lecturing on accounting, he joined a practice based in Scotland. Ralph’s work is divided between practice work, consultancy and lecturing/writing in the UK and overseas. Ralph teaches ‘Finance for non financial directors’ on the IoD’s Company Direction Programme.

David has wide commercial experience in global marketing with blue chip companies including Del Monte, Bacardi and Finlandia. He worked at Charles Letts as Group Marketing Director and was a member of its MBO/turnround team. He has extensive experience of working in Europe, Scandinavia and the US and assignments have included: packaging, the fish industry, drinks, consumer durables, forestry and software. David is a member of the SDDC’s faculty and is the manager on one of the IoD’s director development networks.