SUMMARY Anne McMurray is an independent organisational development consultant, specialising in leadership and team development, strategy formulation and change implementation. She combines a focus on the people side of organisations with the realities of sustaining performance in a complex and changing world. She draws on career experience which has included youth and community work, family therapy, health and social service senior management and organisational development consultancy through Ireland, GB, Europe and Canada since 1989. Anne is an associate trainer with the Centre for Creative Leadership in Brussels and is a registered consultant with Cognitive Edge, a knowledge network specialising in working with complex organisational systems. Anne’s client base is north and south of Ireland as well as England. In a voluntary capacity Anne is chair of east Belfast economic and social regeneration partnership in Belfast and Mexico Child Link Trust. Anne was awarded the MBE in the 2008 New Year Honours List for her work with women in enterprise in Northern Ireland. LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Anne specialises in leadership development with the aim of strengthening the quality of leadership at all levels so that organisations are create value and are positive places for people to work and develop in. EXPERIENCE Examples of recent relevant experience includes - Leadership development for Client Services Citigroup, Dublin, (2006 – present)
- Leadership development programmes with local government organisations north and south of Ireland, i.e. Belfast, Derry, Antrim, Cavan and Armagh (2005 – present)
- Director development programmes in the HPSS in N. Ireland, (2000 – present)
- Occupational Health Service Leadership Programme, N Ireland, (2008)
- Institute of Public Health in Ireland Leadership programme, (2002 – 2008)
- Leadership and team development programmes for Enable Ireland, (2003- 2007)
- Development of the Northern Ireland Management Leadership Strategy, (2006)
- Senior Management Development in the Housing Executive, N. Ireland (2004 – 2006)
- Health Service Executive Ireland Leadership development programmes, (2002 -2006)
- Executive mentoring and coaching for senior managers and executives in the public and private sector
STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT Anne uses a range of methods to help clients design processes to develop strategies and plans for future organisational sustainability; particularly in the face of an increasingly complex environment. EXPERIENCE
- Strategy development for the Ombudsman for Children’s Office and ongoing support , Dublin, (2006 – present)
- Programme for Action for Children Ireland National Framework for services, (2004-2005).
- Strategy development for Funeral Services Northern Ireland (FSNI) and ongoing review and business planning, (2005 – present)
WORK WITH WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP Anne has worked with women to develop their leadership in business and management careers through a number of programmes since the 1990s. EXPERIENCE - Designed and delivered the Pathclearing and Pathbreaking programmes for Invest NI. Pathclearing Programme increased the integration of the Northern Ireland business support system at a local level to provide more seamless support and advice to women entrepreneurs. The Pathbreaking Programme helped 36 women to use innovation grow their businesses and 200 women to develop a business idea; the Idea Workshop for Women has been disseminated through a trainer network as a model workshop throughout Northern Ireland in 2008 (2006-2008).
- Worked with the PSNI Equality Unit in the development of the Diversity strategy (2007).
- Ran the Women in Leadership workshop at the all-Ireland Women in Policing conference in May 2007.
- Delivered a successful leadership development programme for female Belfast City Council elected members and senior officers (2007); this was written up as a case study and published in the GB local government IDEA bulletin Spring 2008 as an example of best practice.
- Consultant to Enterprise Northern Ireland on the evaluation report of the WRAISE programme, European funded programme and presentation of results at closing conference (2007)
- Provided career planning workshops for 200 women in local government throughout Northern Ireland as preparation for Reform of Public Administration (2006-2007)
- Executive mentor, role consultant and coach for senior women leaders in the private, public and NGO sectors in Ireland north and south (2000 – present).
- Strategic consultant to Invest NI to increase women starting up or developing their own businesses. This involved consultation and strategy development; establishment of a stakeholder and policy forum; increasing the connectedness of the local systems of support; development of the Gender Lens for Business Support delivered in Northern Ireland, Ireland and England (2001 – present).
- Commissioned by Derry and Donegal councils to undertake research and prepare strategic recommendations on the employment access and barriers to career and promotion for women (2004-2005)
- Design and delivery of Making the Most of Difference a women’s’ business leadership programme targeted at women in middle management in the private sector which won a National Training Award in 1998 (1997-2003).
TEAM DEVELOPMENT Anne specialises in designing and facilitating team development processes to address issues such as cross-functional working, geographically dispersed teams, new team formation, conflict resolution in teams, problem solving and vision building. EXPERIENCE - Customised design of Corporate and Senior team development with organisations including Health and Social Services, the Water Management Unit, Northern Ireland and The Food Standards Agency Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland Consumer Council, (2005- present)
- Western Trust Children’s social services team development through action learning to adjust to organisational restructuring and the development of new working practices and relationships, (2004-2008)
- Senior Team Leadership development for Health and Social Services organisations across Ireland North and South, (2000 – present)
- Network stimulation to promote collaborative working for health and social services sector, business support and economic development
INTER AGENCY WORKINGAnne works with a range of multi-agency and multi-sectoral partnerships to facilitate joint planning, governance, vision building and strategy development. EXPERIENCE- Donegal Children’s Services Committee involving health and social services, local government, education, community and police representatives, 2004 - present
- Evaluation of the Multi Agency Team Development pilot programme for the National Council for School Leadership, (2006-2007)
- Facilitation of joint priority setting and planning for the North Eastern Domestic Violence Forum in Louth, Cavan and Monaghan (2006-2007)
- Strategic Priority setting with the Public Health Alliance Ireland (2006)
- Evaluation of Atlantic Philanthropy Inter-Agency Pilot to increase older people’s benefit take up in Northern Ireland (2006)
- Chartered Institute of Environmental Health consultation on the development of the NI Food Poverty Strategy, (2007)
- NIO Youth Justice system: creating a shared vision for developing services (2006)
ROLE CONSULTING and MENTORINGOne to one strategic executive mentoring and consultations for senior managers and executives in the public and private sector throughout Ireland which includes personal leadership development, career planning and preparation for selection processes. EXAMPLES of CONFERENCE PAPERS and PUBLICATIONS- Collaborative Leadership Workshop Series, Atlantic Summer Institute, Prince Edward Island, Canada, August 2007
- Women in Leadership, PSNI and An Garda Síochána Joint Conference, May 2007
- Embracing Diversity, Atlantic Summer Institute, Prince Edward Island, Canada, August 2006
- Using Social Network Analysis to Evaluate Multi Agency Collaboration, UK Evaluation Society Conference, December 2005
- Cross Border Survey into Barriers to Access and Progression for Females in Local Government, Launch of Council Action Plans at Conference in Letterkenny, March 2005.
- Reflecting Leadership, IPH, January 2003
- Optimising Performance, Irish Association of Hospital Pharmacists, April 2002
- Business Process Re-Engineering, CoCo Conference, Denmark, March 1999
- Business Success Through Quality, IPM (NI Conference), April 1992
- Quality Delivery- Strategies for Success, IPM (Harrogate), October 1991
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