NAMSS National Conference 2012

Nick Lindford

Nick is passionate about the contribution that the post-16 learning and skills sector makesto peoples lives and the UK economy. Since 2006 Nick has been playing a leading role incapacity building on the use of funding, performance, data quality and curriculum planningin the learning and skills sector.

Training
Since 2006 Nick has been delivering masterclasses across England to more than 3,000staff from colleges, training providers and other related organistations. See commentsfrom delegates on the Lsect website at www.lsect.co.uk/comments.asp

Presentations
For many years Nick has presented at numerous national and regional conferences.Download a range of these presentations from www.lsect.com

Advisory work
Between 2004 and 2009 Nick was a member of the LSCs Technical Funding Advisory Group

Books
In 2008 Nick authored the first Hands-on guide to post-16 fundingwhich was published by Edexcel.With more than 10,000 sales the secondedition was published in 2009, whichwas shortly followed by writing theHands on guide to post-16 performanceand data, published by Pearson

Christine Rose

Chris Rose is a well established and highly respected consultant, nationally
recognised as an expert in equality.

She has a consistent track record of working in partnership to deliver
consultancy support and solutions tailored to meet the specific requirements of
each client. Flexible and supportive, she acts with integrity, objectivity and
impartiality, respecting any information that is confidential.

‘Dr Rose has provided excellent services to the college’ Sue Coole, Director,
South East Essex College

She has an impressive portfolio of clients, providing support and training to
over a hundred FE and VI Form Colleges, ACL and WBL providers, and
Universities

‘Her personal motivation to provide an extremely high quality service,
whatever the subject matter, is second to none. She has extensive experiences of
services related to equality and diversity. Organisations regularly re-book
Christine’s services. She is highly organised, she has excellent communication
skills and her interpersonal skills are second to none’. Fiona Mackenzie,
Consultancy and Training Manager, AoC

Christine has considerable experience in designing and leading national and
regional equality research and development programmes to identify and share best
practice. She is the author of a range of national guidance publications,
briefings and toolkits. These include carrying out equality impact assessments,
disclosure, disability equality (written on behalf of the DRC), and inclusive
risk assessments

‘She has a deep knowledge and understanding of managing change and promoting
equality – her organisational and project management skills are exceptional,
with a close attention to detail’. Sally Faraday, Research Manager, LSN