John spent the first half of his working life in various sales, marketing and operational roles. Since 2006 however he has built a successful training and consultancy business with three principal strands:1. Consultancy - working with clients on a one to one basis to solve challenges in areas including sales training, team building, new business and product development. 2. Commercial training - delivering training on negotiation, leadership and many other subjects to more than a dozen blue chip companies in the UK, Europe, the United States, and the Far East. He derives huge satisfaction from helping individuals and teams arrive at “Eureka” moments. 3. School governance - using his extensive experience as a school governor, John works for a number of local authorities to improve school governance including governance reviews and involvement with individual schools. He also delivers leadership programmes for school governors.He also co-owns and runs a wine importing business (www.hcwines.co.uk).More recently, he has become fascinated by the potential of simple businesses to alleviate poverty in the developing world and has spent some pro bono time in Rwanda, Uganda and Nigeria exploring this.

John chairs the Board of the Pathfinder Multi Academy Trust Board. Pathfinder is a well regarded and high performing partnership of church and community schools underpinned by a shared vision, common values and a commitment to providing an excellent education to all the young people we serve.

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John was appointed for a 3 year term in September 2018 by the Archbishop of York to the Chapter of York Minster, the executive body responsible for overseeing the day-to-day running of York Minster.

Appointed to Board of Hull & East Yorks NHS Trust as a Non Executive Director in 2008 and served as Senior Independent Director and Deputy Chairman. Resigned October 2014.

As co-director of Scintillate, ran behaviour change programmes in the NHS and elsewhere, marrying behavioural science with commercial customer relationship management to tackle social issues, particularly in the area of health.