Career history:
Chairman of Field Enterprise Limited, specialising in Leadership Development
and Coaching of Boards. Prior to this, he was for ten years Chairman of
The Dyson Group plc. Dr Field’s interests extend across the whole
field of company, and community development and growth. He has a passion
for individual, team and organisational growth and development, and his
love of leadership and learning are the threads that link many of his
past appointments, including:
- Finance Director of Bridon Wire Ltd – Responsible for finances,
and group IT and administration
- Director of Bamford Business Services – Company turnarounds
and financial planning
- Formation Chairman of the Sheffield TEC and a member of G10
- President of the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce and a member of
the ABCC
- Master Cutler of The Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire in 1996/97
- Chairman of the Executive Committee and Council Member of the Industrial
Society
- Formation Director of the Sheffield Hallam University
- Formation Director of the Prince of Wales Volunteers
- Formation Trustee of Common Purpose
- Formation Chairman of Queen Margaret’s School York Limited
- Formation Director of John Carlisle Partnerships – Promoting
co-operation in Industry, Commerce and the Public Sector.
His qualifications and experience include:
- Visiting Professor at Sheffield Hallam University
- Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA): ‘Working with
Top Management Teams: Conversations Contributing to Board Development’.
- Master’s Degree in Total Quality Management and Strategic
Thinking (MPhil).
- Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants
- Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, and Chartered Marketer
- Companion of the Institute of Management
- Gained Institute of Directors’ Chartered Director qualification
- Ten-week General Management Course at the Manchester Business School
- Participated in Cabinet Office’s one-month Top Management
Programme
- Instructed for Dale Carnegie Courses
- Instructed in Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective
People
- Qualified to train in Stephen Covey’s First Things First
and Principle-Centred Leadership Courses
- Coached on Tony Robbins’ Mastery University in Maui, and
attended full Life Mastery programme
- Master Practitioner and Trainer for the International Neuro-Linguistic
Programming Trainers Association (INLPTA).
- Qualified as an assessor of the EFQM’s Business Excellence
Model
- Chaired, as a non-executive and as a consultant, boards of directors
in manufacturing, IT, retail and leisure industries
- First non-Industrial Society person to lead the Runge Effective
Leadership Course at Balliol College
- Awarded The University of Sheffield’s Centenary Medal
- Awarded an Honorary Fellowship by Sheffield Hallam University
- Has been coaching/mentoring senior and chief executives for the
past thirty years; now jointly designed and runs a ten-day advanced
executives programme named Integral Leadership
- Designed and led numerous leadership and development workshops at
all levels within organisations large and small, including Yorkshire
Water, Boots The Chemists and Sainsburys.
- Within the recent past, working as a coach to boards including A4e
Work, GB Posters, Highlander Business Solutions – as Chairman,
and Yorkshire Water: main board, board of Waste Water, Vision 2020
team and AMP4 Capital Alliances both Large and Area schemes. Also
the top executive team of The myhotel Group, and managers within Nabarro
Nathanson.
His other interests include Family, Tai Chi (black jacket), exercise and
reading. He holds a second Dan black belt in jujitsu. |
