
Interactive Programmes Manager at The Inspiring Futures Foundation
Redhill, United Kingdom

Interactive Programmes Manager at The Inspiring Futures Foundation
Redhill, United Kingdom
I am an entrepreneurial project manager, strategist and thinker..
I currently work with the Inspiring Futures Foundation, inventing, selling and delivering skills development workshops for students between the ages of 14 and 19.
I am the inventor of The Game of Now - a social network for that allows people to design, organise, find and run games and events in the real world.
I am a director of the Sandbox Collective - an international collective of artists, thinkers, architects, musicians, entrepreneurs interested in experimental approaches to solving social problems.
Project management, communication, negotiation, facilitation, training and development, consultation, innovation, strategic planning, concept generation
(Education Management industry)
April 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)
Developing interactive one-day skills programmes for students of 15-19 years throughout the UK
(Education Management industry)
March 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)
Design, sales and delivery of interactive skills development events and workshops within
schools for young people aged 1319
Nov 2007 Feb 2008 GAME OF NOW DEVELOPMENT
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)
Partnering with Kite to develop Game Of Now game platform concept. Shelved due to time and financial constraints.
(Education Management industry)
October 2001 — Present (8 years 2 months)
Sole trading training and coaching consultant.
Cients: MacLay Murray and Spens (law firm), NHS, Scottish Care Comission, University of
Strathclyde, schools, individual coaching clients
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
January 2007 — March 2008 (1 year 3 months)
Working with my wife on creating and delivering personal development workshops
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
September 2007 — November 2007 (3 months)
Responding to the challenge set by the board to come up with new ways to bring in $1 billion
from new media in the next five years.
Tasks
· Researching the new media landscape for opportunities
· Developing relationships with new media `movers and shakers'
· Researching mobile payments sector
· Researching potential growth of mobile phone recycling
· Brainstorming with directors to generate new ideas
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
July 2007 — September 2007 (3 months)
Managing a multidisciplinary team to produce an international education programme
(budget £20 million) NB This project is `Commercial in confidence'
Jan 2005 Jun 2007 CONSULTANT
Consultant, mentor and project manager for a wide range of entrepreneurial projects Social
Computer, Sandbox, Intelligence Consultancy, individual coaching and mentoring of young
entrepreneurs
(Education Management industry)
May 2004 — January 2005 (9 months)
Coowner and operations management of a bar and restaurant in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
The focus was on developing the concept of a bar as a networking hub for local businesses
and a social hub for local people.
(Political Organization industry)
April 2002 — May 2004 (2 years 2 months)
(Telecommunications industry)
August 2000 — October 2001 (1 year 3 months)
(Telecommunications industry)
January 1997 — October 2001 (4 years 10 months)
Call Centre Industry, working in training and development. Clients: Microsoft, Toyota, Lexus
and Scottish Power
Innovation, thinking, future of human evolution, political economy, education, personal development