Alan Shaw

Key Experience

Alan is a highly experienced Director, who has worked with many private and public sector organisations, to create significant impact upon performance, team working, culture, structure and attitude towards the change requirements essential to compete in today’s highly competitive market.

His proven and successful methods are based upon creating and securing high levels of performance, participation, striving for excellence and challenging the behaviour and style of leaders at all levels. Alan likes to build upon people’s strengths, stimulate ideas for change and improvement, energise and encourage people to ‘Make a Difference’ He sets extremely high standards of performance, is not intimidated by challenge or personalities and is sincere in his beliefs about the importance of valuing and investing in people.

As well as working with idm, Alan is a Non-executive Director for two small to medium sized businesses, where he has brought a clear strategic challenge and sound business experience to the board discussions and plans. Alan has a clear focus upon results, is extremely motivated and has reliably been informed that his enthusiasm is highly infectious in achieving results.

Alan specialises in the design, implementation and measurement of Performance Management and has worked with many leading edge organizations in aligning business and people performance objectives. A skilled Director Developer and Mentor, Alan likes to facilitate the learning of Directors/Senior Managers, strengthening their ability to see, communicate, align and deliver improvements in organisational performances.

Key Achievements

  • Development and delivery of an Innovative and Inspiring ‘Leaders of the Future’ Programme for a Top 100 Architectural Practice.
  • Achievement of two business awards for an Engineering Client for Innovation and Success Through People.
  • Non-Executive Director roles and facilitating strategic change, direction and growth.
  • Successfully negotiating a company takeover with a significant increase in client portfolio and turnover.
  • Keynote speaker at various business leader events on the leadership and change challenges for the UK.
  • Delivery of over 250 Leadership Development Programmes to a broad spectrum of organisations.

Employment History

  • Other Current Roles
    • Non-Executive Director of MHI Ltd
    • Non-Executive Director of Nottinghamshire Enterprises
  • Previous Positions
    • Director of DPG Group
    • Senior HR Manager,
    • Lincolnshire Health Authority Personnel Officer,
    • Independent Broadcasting Authority Personnel Assistant,
    • Scotsman Newspapers

Position:

Managing Director
Maven Investors

Key Skills:

Performance Management Implementation

Strategic Planning

Leadership Development including Coaching and Mentoring of Directors

Business Change Management

Presentation Skills Development for Directors and Senior Managers

Professional Qualifications:

Diploma in Personnel Management

Professional Memberships:

Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Member of the Institute of Directors

International Experience:

Coached 10-12 Year Old Children at Soccer in the USA.