Mark Wilkinson Email & Phone Number

Falmouth, Gb

Falmouth, Gb

Falmouth, England, United Kingdom

As outlined above I am Director of Headspace Coaching and am associate of ClearVoice both connected by my mission to help people and organisations perform to their potential. From 2020 to April 2024 I also ran Wilkowriting, but have since shut this down and incorporated my copywriting offer into Headspace Coaching. Headspace Coaching: Founded in July 2022. It's the evolution of 'Walkoach' which I founded in 2015 and ran in Bristol, on a full or part-time basis, depending on how much work I was getting. Walkoach specialised in coaching, training and organisational development, with an invitation to take learning outdoors, most of which I've carried over to Headspace Coaching, except that I now run coaching and personal development retreats. Please see the website for more details. Wilkowriting - On target copywriting, founded in early 2021, when copywriting became my principle income for a time. Since March 2020 I've been an associate of the consultancy ClearVoice (see below) who I support with copywriting, employee engagement and culture change projects. This includes copywriting for the management consultancy Org (owned by Morgan McKinley), which ClearVoice are a partner of.NB. During the periods I was engaged in agency work and working eg for the University of Bristol and Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, my part-time work was largely suspended.

Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom

ClearVoice is an employee engagement consultancy specialising in preparing you for a future of work which is human. I joined as an associate on the basis that we could achieve more working together. Initially I helped run Clear Voice's free employee engagement forums, rewrote the its landing page, and led on coaching, leadership and management training. I now support Clear Voice with various commissions such as its work for the management consultancy Org. Please see the website for further details. www.clearvoicecomms.co.uk

Rewrote North Wales Training's new website, supplied copy including news stories for a number of marketing campaigns (promoted on social media), and created presentations for the launch of their new Copa England Apprenticeships service. All of which they were delighted with. I also provided them with project management support including the development of project initiation documents and project plans for a couple of new projects.

I delivered most of the 'soft skills' classroom training programmes for this national training provider such as leadership and management, communication skills, supervision, assertiveness, time management, project management, train the trainer (etc), at Activia's Bristol venue or at client premises about one or two days per week. Tragically Activia went insolvent the day of the UK coronavirus lockdown due to the bottom falling out of the classroom training market.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Working on a part-paid part voluntary basis I project managed 'Unlocking Performance through Employee Engagement' a major new conference, held at University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, 25th June 2019. This was a collaboration between EFS, University of the West of England Business School, Construction Industry Training Board and Institute of Leadership & Management. I chaired the organising committee of sponsoring organisations, helped develop, market and run it, as well as co-facilitating one of its workshops and chairing its afternoon plenary. It attracted 150 delegates, was the first of its type to be held in Bristol and was hailed a great success.

2017 – 2018: Reignited Bristol’s Engage for Success Regional Group by pulling together a team of volunteers which staged a series of speaker led events increasing awareness, collaboration and learning from . This included an all morning launch event and workshop on 17th October attracting a major speaker – EFS's co-founder David MacLeod and 40+ audience. 2016-2017: Volunteered approximately 8-16 hours per week towards movement initiatives including organisation and support for events in Plymouth, Exeter and Bath, drafting a newsletter and creating a Linked In group and drafting a case study on a local company - NTT Fundraising the Cool Centre (on the EFS website). Also contributed to the Engaging Managers Task & Action Group including running a focus group to support its research.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Improved learning outcomes for hundreds of trainees of University Hospitals Bristol NHS Trust by enhancing the content and delivery of its leadership & management training; received excellent feedback for introducing role play, ‘eat that frog’ time management and a more interactive style, despite being parachuted in at short notice.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Temp contract assisting with the project management and implementation of two IT projects, leading on comms, training, and risk management, and demonstrating versatility by standing in for the PM on several occasions and managing and co-ordinating temporary staff. Took an active role advising the Morale Steering Group on how to rebuild morale and employee engagement and facilitated a workshop to help internal stakeholders identify the priorities and engage department staff to move the work forward.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Part of a small team dedicated to enabling the EA to lever third party investment for priority outcomes from grant giving bodies and partnership work. Responsible for: leading our relationship with Lottery funding bodies and EU LIFE (from 2012-13); influencing them to bend their spend towards our priorities (often in consortia); maintaining beneficial relationships with key stakeholders; identifying third party investment opportunities for our Water & Land business functions, developing programmes of projects and bids to meet external funding targets; technically advising and supporting bid development, building the bid making capacity of internal and external partners through advice, guidance and learning aids; supporting and co-ordinating our internal network of partnership funding leads, managing contracts with consultants; supporting the team’s development by eg devising its marketing and communications strategy and representing the team to Directors and our Leadership Team. Principle achievements: • Provided technical advice and leadership which enabled internal clients to successfully draw down over £15m in EU LIFE grants between 2009 and 2013, including guiding in a win for Coalesce, a £5m climate change adaptation project led by the EA. • Designed and managed an external funding capacity building project giving workshops and creating learning aids which included professional quality video (I shot myself), which helped empower more of our staff and partners to make bids for rivers and catchment improvements. • Led the EAs involvement in the consortium developing what became Access to Nature, a £25m grant programme administered by Natural England. Line managed a programme development officer to service our pipeline of projects bidding into this programme leading to us partnering several successful bids

Bristol, United Kingdom

Responsible for developing the EAs internal coaching network and being the lead for coaching. This involved: Researching it, developing its vision, strategy and delivering it alone with little support. Overcame challenges of HRs initial scepticism by positioning it as a pilot and persuading senior managers to buy-in to it by sponsoring their staff to be trained as coaches. Responsible for designing the coach training programme, identifying internal clients for the coaches, devising and implementing a coaching evaluation method. Successfully made business case to HR to let it continue to be developed after my assignment ended.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Technically advised, co-ordinated and serviced the Agency’s lottery funding programme, helping develop partnership projects and bids, influencing funders; managing consultants; helping develop external funding marketing and communications; responding to consultations.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Project Development Officer, National External Funding Team (P/T Aug 2003 - Jan 2004 & F/T Jan - April 2004) Developed a framework for progressing bids capable of meeting Agency bio-diversity targets and supported a £2.6m bid for Bassenthwaite lake Cumbria to secure a £1.6m Lottery grant.Communications Project Manager - Corporate Planning (P/T Aug 2003 - Feb 2004). Reviewed the team’s communications, recommending improvements.Briefing Zone (intranet site) Manager (April 2003 – August 2003)Publishing Assistant (Sept 2002 – April 2002)

Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

Director/Trustee and Chair from November 2005 to November 2006. Guided the development of this award winning independent foster care agency with a £1.5m turn-over. Became chair at a time of crisis and line managed the interim CEO.

Cipd Level 3 Certificate In Learning & Development, Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General

Diploma In Personal Performance Coaching, Merit

Sociology, 2:1