Windsor Leadership Trust
Trustees
Mr Christopher Rodrigues CBE (Chairman): Chairman of VisitBritain and Executive Chairman of International Personal Finance plc. He had been President and Chief Executive at Visa International from 2004-2006. Between 1996 and 2004 he was Group Chief Executive at Bradford and Bingley, from 1988 to 1996 he was Chief Operating Officer and Group Chief Executive at Thomas Cook. Earlier in his career he was a Manager at McKinsey and Co, before spending nine years with American Express.
He was a founder non-Executive Director of the Financial Services Authority (1997-2003). He has been a non-Executive Director at Ladbrokes plc (formerly Hilton Group plc) since 2003, and is an Executive Committee Member of the World Travel and Tourism Council and was a member of the Council and Executive Committee of the National Trust. A graduate of Cambridge University and the Harvard Business School Rodrigues is a past-Chairman of Leander Club and is a Steward of Henley Royal Regatta.
Sir David Omand GCB (Deputy Chairman): was the first holder in 2002 of the post of UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator, exercising overall direction on behalf of the Prime Minister of the national counter-terrorism strategy and building national resilience (“homeland security”). He was the Government’s chief crisis manager for civil contingencies. Omand has spent much of his career in the Ministry of Defence, including as Deputy Secretary for Policy, as Under Secretary in charge of the defence programme, and as Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State. He was particularly concerned in MOD with the reshaping of the long term equipment programme, for the British military contribution in the former Yugoslavia and for the recasting of British nuclear deterrence policy at the end of the Cold War. He served for seven years on the UK’s Joint Intelligence Committee and as Director GCHQ (1996-1997) and as Permanent Secretary of the Home Office (1997-2000).
Mr Manish Chande, Chief Executive, Mountgrange Capital plc: Chief Executive and co-founder of Land Securities Trillium Plc (LS Trillium), the UK’s leading total 'property outsourcing company', Manish was responsible for the strategy, direction and implementation of all aspects of its business. Manish was also a main board member at Land Securities PLC, which purchased LS Trillium (then Trillium) in November 2000.
When it was formed in 1997, LS Trillium it won its first contract to own and manage the majority of the Department for Work property portfolio, and a BBC property partnership and British Telecom contract which had an acquisition value of £2.8billion and over 8000 properties. Manish resigned from the Land Securities Group in March 2002 to form Mountgrange Capital plc with Mr Martin Myers focusing on real estate and other investments. These have included interests in National Car Parks, where he is non-Executive Chairman and MITIE Plc where he is a non-Executive Director. In September 2003, he was appointed by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport as a Commissioner of English Heritage. In November 2003 he became a member of the Corporate Development Board of the National Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC).
General Sir Richard Dannatt KCB CBE MC ADC Gen, Chief of The General Staff: Commissioned into The Green Howards in 1971. He has served in Northern Ireland, Cyprus and Germany and commanded the Battalion in the Airmobile role from 1989 to 1991. From 1994 to1996 he commanded 4th Armoured Brigade in Germany and Bosnia. He took command of 3rd (United Kingdom) Division in January 1999, and also served in Kosovo that year as Commander British Forces. In 2000 he returned to Bosnia as the Deputy Commander Operations of the Stabilisation Force (SFOR). From 2001 to 2002 he was the Assistant Chief of the General Staff in the Ministry of Defence before taking command of NATO’s Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC). In March 2005 he took over as Commander-in-Chief Land Command, and assumed the appointment of Chief of the General Staff in August 2006. Dannatt is Colonel Commandant of the Army Air Corps. He is President of the Army Rifle Association, the Army Rugby Union, the Army Winter Sports Association, the Soldiers’ and Airmens’ Scripture Readers Association, and a Vice President of the Armed Forces’ Christian Union.
Mr Martyn Lewis CBE, Chairman, Teliris Limited: Martyn Lewis worked as a TV (he is the author of "And Finally" which gathers up all those cheerful stories of skateboarding dogs and so forth which traditionally end the news and the self-explanatory “Cats in the News”), before taking up a business career. He is now Chairman and Co-Founder of Teliris, which has pioneered a highly advanced form of realtime, DVD-quality video-conferencing used by many global blue-chip companies; and Chairman of NICE TV, providing high quality bespoke news programmes for major events and conferences.
His charitable work includes the Chairmanship of YouthNet UK, a charity he founded in 1995 and Chairman of the Beacon Fellowship Trust, a charity set up to encourage individual contributions to charitable and social causes.
Sir Laurie Magnus, Vice Chairman, Lexicon Partners
Dr Chai Patel CBE FRCP
Rt Hon Lord Smith of Finsbury, Director, Clore Leadership Programme
Mr James Smith Chairman, Shell UK
Dame Sue Street DCB, Strategic Adviser, Deloitte
Former Chairmen
From 2001 until 2007: Sir Claude Hankes KCVO, Advisor to Iraq
From 1997 until 2001: Field Marshal the Lord Peter Inge KG GCB DL, former Chief of Defence Staff
From 1995 until 1997: Sir Geoffrey Holland KCB, former Vice-Chancellor, Exeter University
Funding Partners
ACEVO, Alfred McAlpine, BBC, BP, CEMVO, Church of England, Defence Leadership Centre, Department for Education and Skills, DSG International, GlaxoSmithKline, Historic Royal Palaces, John Lewis Partnership, KPMG, Lloyds TSB, Mothercare, National Grid Transco National School of Government / Cabinet Office, NHS, Police, Priory Group, Rolls Royce, Royal Bank of Scotland, Shell, Smiths Aerospace,Tate and Lyle.[1]
Windsor Leadership Trust Partners make regular nominations for participants on Initial Windsor Meetings and Consultations for Newly Appointed Strategic Leaders. The Initial Windsor Meetings are "designed for those people who already have operational leadership experience and have the potential to reach senior leadership positions within their field. Meetings aim to support the self-development of leaders, with a focus on the role they can play in society, and within their organisations. There are five Initial Windsor Meetings a year, each with 24 places available. Recent speakers at Initial Windsor Meetings include: [2]
- Dr Emma FitzGerald: Vice President, Downstream Management Consultancy, Shell International Oil Products Ltd
- Mr John Napier: Chairman, Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Group plc
- Mr Martin Narey: Chief Executive, Barnado's
- Mr Conor O'Shea: Director of National Academy, English Rugby Football Union
Consultation for Newly Appointed Strategic Leaders is designed to support leaders through this transition over the first 18 months, and to prepare them for extraordinary delivery in their new strategic role. There are two such Consultations a year. They run over four days, with 20 places available. Recent speakers at Consultations for Newly Appointed Strategic Leaders include:
- Professor John Adair, Windsor Leadership Trust Fellow
- Ms Rita Clifton, Chairman, Interbrand
- Helen Alexander CBE, Chief Executive, The Economist Group
- Professor Keith Grint, Professor of Defence Leadership & Deputy Principal , Cranfield University Defence Academy of the UK
- Sir Nicholas Young, Chief Executive, British Red Cross
- Sir Nicholas Young, Chief Executive, British Red Cross
