Brian Cavanagh Email & Phone Number

Brian Cavanagh Consulting is a consultancy that specialises in leadership; governance and strategic positioning for the public, not for profit and corporate sectors.Brian works with CEOs and Boards on their leadership and governance approaches, helping to build brilliant boards, and excell through purposeful leadership. He uses expertise and knowledge of.

Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland

Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom

Chair of Board at Synaptik. Synaptik is a successful small medium enterprise. We offer insight, personnel and strategic support to develop effective Healthcare Strategy for organisations in the healthcare industry.

• As a certified business coach I worked with business owners to grow their businesses into commercial and profitable enterprises. Key achievements:
• Coached a regional opticians, devising a distinctive brand, increasing customer loyalty and market hold. This enhanced profile helped the business compete effectively with an international brand and resulted in market.
• Positioned a family bakery business to win a contract with Applegreen and increase 10% market share

Providing briefings, advice, political and policy intelligence to a number of large UK companies in their relationships with Scottish Government, Westminster, NI Assembly and Local Authorities in Scotland. These included John Lewis, Ibredola, Servier and the British Heart Foundation.

• I was appointed by the Minister of Health and Community Care (Scottish Government) to chair the board of NHS Lothian, the second biggest Health Board in Scotland with a budget of £1.2bn and 27,000 employees. My core.
• Drastically improved performance resulting in a reduction of waiting times from 18 months in 2001 to 18 weeks in 2006
• Led a ground breaking acute service redesign model that improved access to health facilities across communities, released capital and revenue to invest in modernisation of primary and community care services
• Created and delivered a partnership with local authority to establish an integrated health and social care model – the first in Scotland
• Established a strategic partnership between NHS Lothian, a prestigious academic institution (Edinburgh University) and leading pharmaceutical companies, including Wyeth (now part of Pfizer). In addition, I introduced.
• Devised innovative training and support programmes for Board Non Executives resulting in more dynamic, effective leadership

Responsible for the strategic direction and service performance of Scotland’s largest ex offender organisation.

• Responsible for budget of £250 million and the strategic direction and service performance of the second largest social work service in Scotland. Selected key achievement:
• Resettlement of 300 adults from a traditional long stay hospital to modern, community based housing and support models