Deep Dive: Achieving Financial Agility in Local Government Organisations
This is the second event in our ongoing support for leaders in local government. Following our initial discussion about agility and leadership, we're diving deeper with John Mark Williams, CEO at The Institute of Leadership & Management, and Mark Maidment, CEO of Richmond and Wandsworth Council, to explore financial agility within the public sector.
Speakers
John Mark Williams
Chief Executive Officer
John Mark Williams was appointed CEO of The Institute of Leadership in September 2020, having previously held a number of CEO and Director positions in the UK, Middle East and Far East.
John is a Global Advisory Board member for the Commonwealth Enterprise & Investment Council, and has been a consultant to the UN International Trade Centre.
He has been a Diversity Champion for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, and an adviser to the Cabinet Office on strategy and leadership. He collected an Association Leadership Award in the UK’s Association Excellence Awards 2023.
John is a member of the Business Advisory Board at Newcastle Business School, and has chaired SME Symposia at successive Commonwealth Trade & Investment Summits.
John has been a guest lecturer on Strategy and International Business at universities in the UK and Europe for many years, has written chapters for business books, and occasionally writes about business for online publications. In 2024 John was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Civil Law from Northumbria University, in recognition of his services to international business.
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