walter menzies

Current

• chief executive at mersey basin campaign

Past

• non executive director at waterwise
• commissioner at Sustainable Development Commission
• regional director northwest at groundwork

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Education

• Oxford Brookes University
• Edinburgh College of Art

Connections

67 connections

Industry

Non-Profit Organization Management

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog

walter menzies’s Summary

sustainable development, regeneration, partnership formation+development+management across the sectors in both executive roles and non-executive roles: currently a non-executive director of waterwise...increasingly committed to facilitation as a way of making progress through tricky and conflict stricken problems...energised recently by an intensive refresher course on state of the art facilitation theory and practice delivered by the excellent environment council

walter menzies’s Specialties:

not for profit partnership management - see my review in "guardian public" of mike hudson's excellent book on managing without profit:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/public/features/story/0,,2296758,00.html

walter menzies’s Experience

• chief executive

  mersey basin campaign

  (Civic & Social Organization industry)

  Currently holds this position

• non executive director

  waterwise

  (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  2005 — 2009 (4 years )

• commissioner

  Sustainable Development Commission

  (Government Agency; Government Administration industry)

  January 2000 — December 2005 (6 years )

  i was one of the first commissioners appointed by ministers during the initial, heady days of the commission (SDC) when we positioned ourselves as "critical friend" of ministers and whitehall officials...one of my roles was to fly the flag for the english regions and support the flagflying for the devolved administration in a government system characterised by its dysfunctional centralism

• regional director northwest

  groundwork

  (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  1983 — 1997 (14 years )

  i was the founding executive director of the second groundwork trust to be established in the UK - in macclesfield, then expanding into vale royal in cheshire and now it is groundwork cheshire...i went on to other roles within groundwork finally as the first regional director for northwest england looking after eleven area based environmnetal regeneration trusts

walter menzies’s Education

• Oxford Brookes University

  MA, DipUD , urban design , 1977 — 1978

• Edinburgh College of Art

  architecture and urban design 1967 — 1973

Additional Information

walter menzies’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog

walter menzies’s Interests:

sustainable development, nonprofit partnership management, northwest england, art townscape and street photography

walter menzies’s Groups:

institute of directors, royal society of arts, bollington festival photography,

•    Institute of Directors - Members Only
•    Bright Green Talent

walter menzies’s Honors:

FRSA

walter menzies’s Contact Settings

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