Stephen is an experienced business and charity sector leader with an excellent record of initiating and leading strategic growth, innovation and change management strategies, enhancing performance, and creating sustainability through uniquely challenging environments. Known as an inspirational leader with superior interpersonal and negotiation skills, leading highly successful bidding teams with over £140 million in value of contracts in the employability and youth learning sectors over the last six years. He loves motivating and empowering people to achieve exceptional results and has an excellent track record in contract negotiations and developing strategic alliances including initiation and management of bidding consortiums, acquisitions and mergers.

“Transforming lives by improving skills, preparing for jobs and building careers."Go Train is one of the largest training companies in the South East of England with a fantastic reputation for delivering positive results. With over 20 years success in the learning and development sector our experience is something we use to good effect to provide our clients with the very best learning experience possible.We are fully accredited to the Matrix Standard - A National Policy Framework for Information Advice & Guidance services (IAG). The Matrix framework defines the standards to which IAG services should be delivered - we believe that IAG is core-business in terms of effectively supporting people to achieve the qualifications necessary for basic employability and for progression to further learning and development as required.Go Train helps its learners to make informed choices about their individual learning and development journey by offering IAG from the very beginning, throughout the learning journey, and beyond.Results to us mean that people finish their learning happy, with more skills, greater confidence and support to succeed - all which can lead to improved career and life opportunities.

Best Beginnings is a charity set up to support every child in the UK to have the very best start in life.to this aim the charity provides innovative products, services and solutions to prevent harm and promote the health and welfare of children from pre birth to the age of 3 and beyond, by supporting parents to be, parents, professional and careers with informative products and services that promote their babies early development.

VisionTo break cycles of trauma and abuse through recoveryOur mission is to ensure that recovery from childhood trauma becomes available for all children, resilience is developed and cycles of abuse and neglect are broken. The IRCT will achieve this through the establishment of a professional institute that offers:•The gathering, at one focal point, of existing knowledge•The generation of new knowledge•The transfer of knowledge to all appropriate stakeholders•The development and oversight of accredited training programmesThe IRCT also aims to influence and inform policy, practice, and legislation relating to the recovery from Childhood Trauma

Directing and providing leadership for the business development functions of the charity and its subsidiary companies.Leadership for the operational performance of CXK Trading Ltd, for its staff, of its sustainable growth and for its profitability on behalf of its shareholder, in support of the fulfilment of CXK’s vision and mission.

Our mission is to bring organisations and people together to be more effective in delivering their mission, through making connections and solving problems in a virtual space. Our values are ones of transparency, quality and collaboration. - See more at: http://www.bigsocietyawards.org/blog/mutuals/bigsocietycoop/#sthash.wwU5BPXB.dpufhttp://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmpubadm/902/902vw25.htm

Key achievements • Developed and diversified income streams of KCFN, from 4 to 43 different income sources, whilst maintaining quality and increasing capacity, developing new products and services. • Increased income from £400K to over £1.8 million. • Significant shift away from grants to commissioned work through forward focused strategic planning and rebranding• Implemented new business model and rebranding repositioning KCFN in the market place.• Increased KCFN’s influence, position and reputation at a strategic and decision-making level within Kent. • Received recognition at a national level for participation work, including from the Children’s Commissioner as well as a major piece of national participatory research published by CWDC. • Developing and instigating strategic collaborations and partnerships that positioned KCFN at the forefront of enterprise development of children and young people’s services in Kent and beyond.• Led formation of new consortium of local, regional and national providers winning over £7 million of contracts• Successfully merged KCFN with CXK to create a £13 million organisation that makes it one of the strongest children and young people’s charities in the south east.

providing therapeutic residential care for vulnerable children and young people aged 12 - 21