about Wendy Pritchard
Curriculum vitae
AIRSHIP HERITAGE
2010 - 2018
2023 -present
Invited talk 1st September 2021, Royal Aeronautical Society "Jack Pritchard and the R.38/ZR-2 Airship Disaster, 100 years on"
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Invited talk 3rd June 2019, Royal Aeronautical Society "Major Jack Pritchard's personal account of the pioneering 1919 double-crossing of the Atlantic aboard the R.34 Airship"
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2021
2019
WENDY PRITCHARD ASSOCIATES
Consultancy to help top management of organisations to manage complex strategic change and improve effectiveness
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WOLFF OLINS BUSINESS LTD
Director of Organisational Behaviour
A Board appointment leading a new service to help clients adapt their organisation's style and capability
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SHELL INTERNATIONAL PETROLEUM COMPANY LTD
Head of Organisational Effectiveness
The focal point for organisational effectiveness and management of change. Provided a consulting service to top management of Shell Operating Companies worldwide, as well as to corporate management. This has included work with Shell companies in Australia, Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Brunei, Gabon, Kenya, Norway, Netherlands and UK
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Organisation Development Adviser
Developed and ran a department of organisation development consultants engaged in helping different parts of Shell to diagnose problems and develop ways of coping effectively with their changing environments
Whilst at Shell advised outside organisations on planning and managing change
These included the National Health Service, Department of Health, British Telecom, F-International, Video Arts, London University
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RANK XEROX (UK) LTD
Organisation Development Manager
Set up and ran a department of behavioural scientists developing personnel systems. Provided general advice on organisation diagnosis and change
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1990 - 2019
1989 - 1990
1974 - 1989
1981 - 1989
1974 - 1981
1969 - 1974
EDUCATION
London University, Birkbeck College
MSc Occupational Psychology
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1967 -1969
Exeter University
BSc (Hons) Psychology
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1964 -1967
Oxford High School
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NON-EXECUTIVE APPOINTMENTS
Trustee of Camden Garden Centre Charitable Trust
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Governor Burnham Market Primary School
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Chairman of Camden Garden Centre Ltd
(which provides work and horticultural training for disadvantaged people. Awarded "Garden Centre of the Year 2002")
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Chairman of Management Committee, Burnham Overy Harbour Trust
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Trustee of Citizens Advice
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Member of governing Council of Royal Holloway, University of London
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Member of Highways Agency Advisory Board
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2017 - present
2012 - 2017
1989 - 2017
2003 - 2007
2000 - 2005
1990 - 2000
1996 - 1999
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Senior Associate, Cambridge University, The Judge Institute of Management Studies
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Member, King's Fund College Committee
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Member of National Health Service Teaching Authority
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Fellow of British Psychological Society
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Member of editorial board of Personnel Management
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Chairman of Occupational Psychology Division of the British Psychological Society
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2001 - 2006
1994 - 1995
1988 - 1990
1989 (elected)
1985 - 1989
1984 - 1987
PUBLICATIONS
"Changing the Essence. The Art of Creating and Leading Fundamental Change in Organisations".
Co-author with Professor R. Beckhard, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1992
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Capabilities
Capabilities I think I bring:
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some wisdom in understanding the complexity of and humanity involved in change
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an ability to make what may seem "soft" and invisible, visible and thus manageable
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experience and insights from working with many complex organisations living through change and with their leaders
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an ability to conceptualise and integrate different aspects of change to make a more coherent and manageable whole. A capacity for making the complex simple
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an ability to anticipate and voice implications and consequences of change and so help people to anticipate and manage them themselves
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a capacity to work "in real time" with leaders and teams, understanding the essence quickly, helping them get to the heart of the matter and creating possibilities for moving forward
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an ability to work one-to-one, lead small and large groups in an effective, professional but unobtrusive way
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a capacity to empathise and tune in quickly with many different sorts of people
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a capacity to integrate fruitfully for the organisation the three areas of my work
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Clients included:
Resources, Oil & Chemicals
Shell International
Statoil/BP Alliance
Statoil
Borealis
BP
Anglo American
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Financial Services
Lloyds Bank plc
National Westminster Bank
Standard Chartered
The World Bank Group
N.M Rothschild and Sons Ltd
AXA-IM
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Legal Services
Clifford Chance
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Publishing/Media
The Economist Group
Oxford University Press
Wolff Olins
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Outsourcing and consulting
Hewitt Associates
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Public/private partnerships
Kalyx (previously UKDS)
Westminster City Council
National Savings and Investments
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Public sector
Cabinet Office
HM Treasury
Home Office
Department of Health
National Health Service
Department of Social Security
Department of the Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Legal Services Commission
Prison Service
Northern Ireland Office
Middlesex University
South Bank University
Surrey County Council
Commission for Social Care Inspection
Care Quality Commission