Shani Lee

Current

• Partnerships & Commissioning at CaVSA Hammersmith & Fulham
• Director at Frontline Training

Past

• Visiting Lecturer at De Montfort University
• Director at CDS Training for Enterprise
• Project Manager at Braunstone Employment Project

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Education

• University of Leicester
• University of Warwick
• De Montfort University

• University of Leicester

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Recommended

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Connections

176 connections

Industry

Non-Profit Organization Management

Websites

• Twitter

Shani Lee’s Summary

Shani Lee’s Specialties:

Developing and managing communities
Small businesses and new media
Research and evaluation
Learning and innovation

Shani Lee’s Experience

• Partnerships & Commissioning

  CaVSA Hammersmith & Fulham

  (Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  November 2009 — Present (5 months)

  Supporting voluntary and community organisations in Hammersmith and Fulham to collaborate to tender for contracts to deliver publicly-funded services.
  
  Current projects and pre-occupations include:
  
  Working with Hammersmith and Fulham PCT to develop a quality assurance framework and supporting Training Academy. Lots of interesting issues including proportionate quality assurance requirements according to monetary value of contracts and complexity/level of risk.
  
  Working with LB Hammersmith & Fulham and voluntary sector organisations to learn from the process of commissioning for Generations Together. Again, lots of issues including how to improve collaboration between central government, local government and the voluntary sector.
  
  Thinking about the potential transformative nature of the move to commissioning and what that means for the voluntary sector and voluntary and community organisations. For example, how to embed, value and reward innovation; how to enable open organisations and non-restrictive employment practices; how to share responsibility across organisations for developing people.
  
  Questioning ideas about carving up services, for example capacity-building, between voluntary sector infrastructure support organisations. Would it be better to consider sharing services across organisations as a distributed network?
  
  Wondering what "3rd Sector" means and why the voluntary sector has blindly accepted the imposition of an externally state-determined identity with, apparently, no critique.
  
  Realising the significance of people for organisations, services and communities, the need for truly strategic human resource and co-production policies and what we can learn from the private sector.
  
  Considering how to use social media to further these ideas, following inspiring people and searching for clues on the interweb.
  
  Finding it immensely exciting!

• Director

  Frontline Training

  (Education Management industry)

  April 1998 — Present (12 years )

  - informal adult and community learning projects
  - integrated small business support for excluded groups
  - social networks, web-based learning
  - independent bookselling, cultural development
  - community asset regeneration and management
  - social and economic inclusion, widening participation
  - project development and fundraising
  
  Research
  Small Businesses, Social Networking and Creativity
  Small Businesses, New Media and Innovation
  
  Events
  2006 Narrative Laboratory Seminars
  http://tinyurl.com/y9rqu5z
  2007 Women, Business & Blogging - adviser
  http://tinyurl.com/ye692d7
  2007 Cafe Culturel - Digital Life - speaker
  2008 Social Media for Creative Businesses - LBC Depot workshop
  2009 Social Media Uses and Abuses - panel member/adviser
  http://tinyurl.com/nmqo2j
  2009 ESRC NCRM - Creative Research Methods
  
  Branch Vice-Chair: FSB Leicester City 2007-2009
  Member: Leicester Social Forum, Education Forum 2005-2007
  Committee: Leicester Secular Society 2004-2006
  Investors in People 2005-2008

• Visiting Lecturer

  De Montfort University

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  October 2007 — July 2009 (1 year 10 months)

  NLab: creativity and collaboration
  working with small businesses and new media
  nlabnetworks.com
  
  - social networking: CreativeCoffee Club Leicester
  - business partnerships
  - research and publishing
  - conference and event management
  - developing new projects, fundraising
  
  Research
  Small Businesses, Social Networking and Informal Learning
  CreativeCoffee Club Review
  Small Businesses and Social Media Publishing
  
  Events
  2007 Facebook for Business - workshop
  2008 LIFT08 - conference
  2008 NLab Social Networking Conference - organiser
  http://tinyurl.com/5tvowu
  2008 Social Media for Creative Businesses - workshop
  2008 Amplified08 - unconference
  2009 LIFT09 - conference
  2009 Building Business Resilience and Amplified Individuals - organiser
  2009 Reboot Britain - conference

• Director

  CDS Training for Enterprise

  (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  October 1992 — March 1998 (5 years 6 months)

  not-for-profit Registered Enterprise Agency
  - small business start-up and social enterprise
  - training and support for fastest growing credit union region in UK
  - transnational projects with Reggio Calabria, Sardinia & Ireland
  - training accredited at levels 1-3 with Open College Network
  - community asset management
  
  1994 Supporting Women in Business Conference
  
  1995 set up Digital Media Training Centre; achieved 90% progression to MA MultiMedia at Liverpool John Moores University, Amaze and other private sector companies, including John Lewis.
  
  1997 Host for Liverpool Design Awards
  
  Chair: Liverpool Design Initiative 1993-1998
  Member: Merseyside Labour Market Strategy Group 1997-1998

• Project Manager

  Braunstone Employment Project

  (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  January 1988 — September 1992 (4 years 9 months)

  Not-for-profit Neighbourhood Economic Development
  
  - small business and social enterprise development
  - training, employment and welfare rights advice
  - attracting and retaining wealth eg fundraising, credit unions
  - advocacy and policy work eg fuel debt
  
  1987 Neighbourhood Economic Development Conference

Shani Lee’s Education

• University of Leicester

  MA , New Media & Society , 2008 — 2009

  Digital Economy
  Small Businesses, New Media and Innovation
  Technology, Culture & Power: Global Perspectives
  New Media Concepts, Theories and Cultures
  Research Methods and Management
  Web Research

• University of Warwick

  Cert. Ed , Post-Compulsory Education & Training , 2006 — 2008

  Small Businesses: Informal Learning in Social Networks
  National Post-Compulsory Education & Training Policy
  Learning Theories, Practice and Support

• De Montfort University

  Open Studies , Narrative Laboratory , 2006 — 2007

  2006 creative businesses and monetising Web 2.0
  broadcasting, publishing, blogging, social networking, games.
  
  2007 Women, Business and Blogging Conference
  Member, Advisory Group
  
  Supported by the Higher Education Innovation Fund

• University of Leicester

  Open Studies , HR Training and Development , 1999 — 2001

  Centre for Labour Market Studies
  Organisational and management development
  Intelligence, motivation and learning theory
  Skills acquisition, training methods and techniques

Additional Information

Shani Lee’s Websites:

• Twitter

Shani Lee’s Groups:

Institute for Learning,
Federation of Small Businesses,
Leicestershire Business Voice,
Embroiderers Guild,

•    Social Media Mafia
•    FSB (UK) Members
•    University of Leicester Alumni
•    Social Entrepreneurship and Education Consortium
•    Tuttle
•    Online Community Manager
•    LIFT Conference
•    Institute of Business Consulting: East Midlands Region
•    Social TV - next generation media (Web 2.0, mobile, digital video broadcast, DTV, STB, MHEG, IPTV)
•    Horsesmouth Online Mentoring
•    Reach Further - social media, e-learning & online communities