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Laura
Mazur
Professional Practice Stage Two
Mandy
Merron
Professional Practice Stage Two
Barry
Morris
Professional Practice Stage Two
Jeremy
Myerson
Professional Practice Stage One
Shan
Preddy
Presentation Skills, Professional Practice Stage One and Two
Michael
Thomson
Professional Practice
Stage One
James
Woudhuysen
Professional Practice Stage Two
Jan
Casey
With over 25 years experience
in the creative industry, Jan has substantial expertise
from both a business and consultancy perspective. As a
board director and shareholder at Lambie-Nairn, she was
responsible for the development and direction of multi-disciplinary
teams originating and implementing complex, large-scale
projects across a variety of market sectors for clients
such as ITN, Boots, O2 and Channel Four.
As an independent consultant for over five years, she
has delivered a unique set of skills for clients and consultancies,
combining her experience as a brand consultant, project
director, business advisor and coach and psychotherapist
to build brands, implement projects and facilitate organisational
change. Recent clients include NHS, Land Securities, BBC
Broadcast, HM Revenue & Customs, Sky, Royal Mail and
Red Cross. Jan has chaired seminars on the creative industry
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Lorna
Dallas-Conte
Spanning both design
and business through her professional qualifications and her
portfolio career, Lorna is well placed to support the DBA
Professional Practice Programme. A first degree in Banking
followed by a Masters in Design Management, Lorna has first
hand experience of project management from a variety of stand
points. Her own consultancy Views Limited has been commissioned
by the Design Council and the Arts Council as well as Business
Link regionally and nationally to conduct research and develop
tools and services for the sector. Business clients include
Awarding Bodies, Design and Branding Consultancies as well
as micro businesses and individuals. Lorna is currently working
on several projects linked to the regeneration of East Kent
through creativity.
Fiona
Myles
Fiona originally
trained as an architect and then after a Cranfield MBA decided
to specialise in branding. She has worked as a senior brand
consultant at both Wolff Olins and Elmwood, where her experience
has included developing the brands for BTopenworld, Buster,
Durex, Gazeley, NCR, Richardson Sheffield and GNER's catering
brand Go Eat. Fiona currently works as an associate of Viadynamics
and as an independent consultant. Recent clients include the
Royal Mail, the Tabletop Group, RSPCA and she has worked with
the Design Council for the past four years on the Manufacturing
Campaign, which is now part of the Designing Demand programme.
Henry
Lydiate
Henry Lydiate is a legal and business
consultant specialising in the creative arts. An experienced
lawyer, manager, educationalist, strategist and change specialist,
with a life-long commitment to the arts and to the support
of creative practitioners and organisations through innovation,
people development and co-creation. Over twenty-five years
experience of international legal and business consultancy
work in the creative arts, alongside work undertaken in other
content-led industries such as sport, the legal professions,
higher education, and public administration. Extensive experience
as a public speaker, lecturer and trainer; published writer
and journalist with broad experience of media liaison. Sustained
commitment to supporting creative arts practice that has been
recognised nationally and internationally, most recently by
appointment as Visiting Professor to the newly designated
University of the Arts, London (formerly The London Institute).
Liz Lydiate
From a pioneering starting point in
the mid 1970s, Liz has been influential in the introduction
of professional practice teaching in art and design colleges
nationally. She devised and acts as course director for the
DBA Professional Practice Course, and established and managed
BA and MA Design Management Programmes at The Surrey Institute
(now University of the Creative Arts). She is course director
for MA Enterprise and Management of the Creative Arts programmes
at the University of the Arts London, where she specialises
in career and practice development for creative individuals.
Laura Mazur
Laura Mazur is a business writer and
partner in Writers 4 Management, a professional writing firm.
She has been a business journalist since 1978 and was editor
of Marketing magazine from 1986 to 1989. She has written for
a range of publications, including Marketing magazine, Marketing
Business and the Financial Times. She is also the author of
management guides on international marketing and communications
published by the Economist Intelligence Unit and Financial
Times Reports. Books include The Marketing Challenge(Addison-Wesley,
1993).
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Mandy Merron
Mandy Merron
is a partner who works with design and other creative
businesses of all sizes and at all stages of development.
She has lectured and written on management and financial
issues in “people businesses? She has lead responsibility
for developing our services to design businesses. Mandy
writes sections of the annual survey "Financial Performance
of Marketing Services Companies" and contributes to
the quarterly publication “Marketing Services Monitor."
She is a director of WKS Results. Prior to joining the
firm Mandy was at the West End office Spicer & Oppenheim
(latterly Touche Ross & Co) where she worked with a
number of marketing services businesses at all stages
of development. During this period she also spent time
specialising in taxation and working with the firm’s
corporate recovery department on marketing services
assignments. Mandy is also a director of Women in Film
and Television and the Direct Marketing Association.
Barry
Morris
Barry Morris
is an experienced business consultant with a strong
financial and general management background, who has
specialised in working with smaller companies and charities.
He is a former finance director of Lambie Nairn &
Co. and has been an independent consultant for the last
five years.
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Jeremy
Myerson
Jeremy Myerson is professor of design studies and co-director
of the Helen Hamlyn Research Centre at the Royal College
of Art. A former Editor of Creative Review and Founder-Editor
of DesignWeek in 1986, he has written widely on design
and communication as a journalist and academic. His
many books include Rewind: 40 Years of Design and Advertising,
published by Phaidon in 2002, New Public Architecture
and The 21st Century Office (both by Laurence King).
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Shan
Preddy, Partner, Preddy & Co
Preddy & Co specialises in marketing consultancy
and training for the design sector. As a marketing consultant,
Shan Preddy works closely with her clients to develop
powerful new business development and client retention
strategies, plans and activities. Her in-house training
programmes, which run in addition to her popular DBA
courses, are tailor-made for each client and include
presentation, sales and negotiation skills. Preddy &
Co also offers in-depth, qualitative client satisfaction
and impact surveys and pre-pitch coaching. Although
based in the UK, Shan works internationally for a wide
range of companies from all of the major design disciplines.
A skilled facilitator, she is a frequent speaker at,
and chairman of, conferences and she regularly runs
awaydays and brainstorming sessions. Shan is a member
of the Institute of Management Consultancy, Institute
of Directors, Marketing Society and RSA. Preddy &
Co is an Associate Member of the DBA. The expanded and
fully updated 2nd edition of 'How to Market Design Consultancy
Services' by Shan Preddy is published by Gower for the
Design Council (ISBN 0-566-08594-1).
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James Woudhuysen
James Woudhuysen is Professor of Forecasting
and Innovation at De Montfort University, Leicester. He helped
install Britain¹s first computer-controlled car park
in 1968, before graduating in physics. He was editor of Design
magazine, 1979-82, and a co-founder of Blueprint. Director
of research at the designers Fitch, 1986-91; associate director,
the Henley Centre for Forecasting, 1991-5; head, worldwide
market intelligence, Philips Consumer Electronics, 1995-7;
director, product designers Seymour Powell, 1997-2001. His
320pp attack on
outdated techniques in homes and offices, 'Why is construction
so
backward', was published by Wiley in 2004.
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