Colin
Colin is the owner and managing director of StrategySkills.org Ltd. Our business is to help you understand policy, and get the policy skills you need. We can help you to nail your vision. We can help prepare you to deliver.
Experience? Colin has spent decades in public and private sectors, including 15 years in Whitehall, and 10 years in a lobbying firm. He’s an ex-insider who wants you to know what they know. He wants you to feel empowered.
Colin also loves reading, playing guitar, and 1970s music. He has written two books, academic papers, and magazine articles, and had a brief interlude as a stand-up comedian!
Colin loves to meet people face to face and do training in person.
He has empathy for those who have to make public policy in difficult times and a confusing world.
He’s an engaging communicator, with years of experience of training.
He wants to help budding politicians, town councillors, and political organisers get to grips with the strange world of policy. He wants to help you drive positive change.
And he also wants to help small businesses health-check their business strategy.
Whether you’re a beginner at policy, or just want to refresh your skills, this is your gateway.