Executive Mini MBA Accelerator

Throughout his career, Stewart has developed a proven track record in the North West corporate market. In roles covering both relationship management and business development, his key skills of brokering and relationship building ensured the management of multiple stakeholders, at all times undertaken with outstanding levels of integrity. Core to his roles at Bank of Scotland were the management of key entrepreneur relationships for the bank.

In recent years, he has rapidly developed a profile in the not for profit sector, maintaining key board roles across a range of areas, including leisure and social care

Who he works for:

Stewart has a range of financial, operational and strategic experience in the private, public and not for profit sectors, including charities, local authorities, banking and venture capital. This has captured a range of areas, including direct roles in leisure, adult care, the arts, environment and recruitment, coupled with a wide range of sectors including manufacturing, service, retail, building products and housebuilding during his corporate banking career. Stewart is at ease in any environment, from start-up to plc boardroom.

As the former Chief Examiner of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) she was involved with the International launch of the CIM Student Chapter and CIM Professional syllabus. She served on the Quality Assurance Agency review panel for the UK benchmark standards in Business and Management for both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees.

Key areas of expertise include: strategic development for domestic and international programme growth; Business School restructuring; complexity and change management; curriculum development including apprenticeships and international franchises; leading School quinquennial reviews; professional body accreditation; recruitment/selection and mentoring senior academics; developing and designing school identities including visions, missions and communications strategies.

Tim has a diverse range of skills enabling him to deliver considerable savings in efficiency and staff productivity. With first hand expertise in developing systems in the education sector, he is able to provide teams with the ability to apply strong leadership, improve job satisfactions and engagement, increase customer experience and achieve organisational KPIs.

Tim has experience building a rapport through a wide range of recognised business development and coaching methods – he helps clients to develop a deep understanding of their current practices and challenge their habits and beliefs to become more effective and fulfilled in their working lives.

Matt is a director level project and transformation professional with demonstrated ability to create and translate strategy into measured operational performance improvement. He has extensive experience in marketing, customer acquisition, project management, organisational redesign and commercialization, which he has gained across direct and agency environments in Higher and Further Education, Media & Publishing and Local Government sectors. He is an accomplished leader and influencer from the boardroom to front line teams across multiple location.

Warren’s vision is to help 100,000 global businesses successfully sell more products and services through the strategic use of digital marketing by 2020.

To reach this goal, Warren is helping create a radical rethinking though his certified training and speaking on how organisations use technology in pursuits of building brand awareness and new revenue streams.

Andy is a one of the rare breed who has made the successful transformation from working on the services side, through his corporate finance/private equity background, to working on the executive side. This enables a rounded understanding of ALL stakeholders in a funded business. This is an invaluable insight, coupled with the vast amount of businesses Andy has appraised in his corporate finance and private equity career - enabling a quick and accurate appraisal of where a business is, where it needs to go, and most importantly, how that plan is executed.

Andy is incredibly energetic, hungry with a strong desire to succeed in any business he supports

Prior to joining Salford University, she was Associate Dean for PG as well as Director of Research in the private sector of Kaplan Financial (Higher Education Department) from 2010 to 2014 (based in London). After two years at Kaplan, Yvonne was then seconded to Kaplan Open Learning to set up a suite of on-line Post graduate programmes, whilst continuing to manage the Kaplan HE (MBA) programmes in London, Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow. In addition, Yvonne established the Kaplan PGCE programme so that all of her colleagues in Kaplan UK had the opportunity to undertake a formal teaching qualification and to reflect upon best practice.

Before joining Kaplan Financial, Yvonne spent 12 years at Liverpool John Moores University (1998 to 2010) where she was Director of MBA and MBS programmes (for six years) followed by being Head of Doctoral Programmes (during her last year). During her time in Liverpool Business School she undertook two Knowledge Transfer Programmes, spent eight years on the Merseyside Widening Participation committee and introduced the longitudinal induction programme for masters level students.

Via her work on widening participation Yvonne published several articles in the area of student buyer behaviour amongst students’ (with low SES) decisions to enter Higher Education. Delivering summer schools to school pupils was a rewarding time and when Yvonne left Liverpool Business School she continued her WIP work with Kaplan Financial in London. Leading a team of tutors in 2012, she created the Kaplan WIP scheme entering sixth form colleges across London and the south east with a programme of educational activities.

Prior to entering Liverpool Business School in 1998, Yvonne worked at the University of Chester, St Helens College, Salford College and Touche Ross Accountants, each for a duration of two years.