Board members

• Chair: Wyn Prichard - Construction Skills Wales

  

  "Strong management teams are key to leading Welsh businesses through the downturn; businesses must therefore invest in training for managers and directors to ensure they have the correct skills to guide their businesses successfully through these challenging times. A good leader will embrace change and recognise how this can impact positively on their business and the necessary steps needed to maximise any opportunities that change might present. They will be able to inspire and motivate their employees and possess a clear sense of the direction in which the business is going, as well as an ability to portray this clearly to the workforce."

• Vice Chair: David Phillips - Wales Quality Centre

  

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• Mike Edmunds - Arup

  

  "People make organisations and good strong leadership comes from knowing when to listen, when to encourage and how to say no to the people in the team for the overall benefit of the organisation."

• Steve McGuire - Aberystwyth University

  

  "Let’s be clear: management quality matters.  Productive and growing economies have large numbers of well-led and managed firms, while weaker economies have a longer ‘tail’ of poorly-led companies.  LMW thus plays a crucial role in Wales’ economy by acting as a advocate for the development of motivated and trained business leaders. Management development is essential for the progress of the national economy."

• Mike Wallace - Cardiff University

  

  "Companies stand to benefit from temperate leadership and management: fostering significant autonomy over individual areas of work; displaying a high degree of trust in others, coupled with unobtrusive verification; encouraging innovation for improved performance; and generally taking the strain exerted by external pressures, to minimize employee stress."

• Claire Edington - Legal and General

  

  "Quality leadership is central to the survival and success of a business. Leaders need to paint a compelling picture of the future and have the ability to move both people and situations forward and deliver results."

• Neil Wooding - Public Services Management Wales

  

  "Leadership is the golden thread that connects aspiration to outcome. In all our successes the presence of high quality leadership is always evident. The challenge we face is not to assume that leadership just happens by accident or through luck but to actively work towards becoming better leaders by building skills, developing insight and reflecting on our experience."

• Adrian Roberts - Schaeffler (UK) Ltd

  

  "It will be no surprise to anyone that effective leadership is critical to the success of an organisation. But all too often , the development of leaders is focussed at the top of an organisation at a small group of individuals or even an individual. Yet to be effective an organisation needs leaders at every level of an organisation. In effect a network of leaders, equipped with the necessary skills and abilities, aligned with the organisation’s goals, providing drive and innovation to achieve success."

• Russell Lawson - The Ideas Distillery

  

  "Effective leadership is an organisation’s most valuable assets: an organisation is at its most effective when leadership provides teaching, mentoring, coaching and motivation to empower every individual to fulfil their potential. One of the hallmarks of any leader is a dedication to continual self-improvement. Leadership is fundamentally teaching, so a leader must communicate information and enthusiasm. In business this translates directly to increased productivity and decreased losses due to disengagement, uncaring workplace practices and lost personnel."