Abdul Chowdry
B.Ed
Abdul has thirty years of work experience in the UK. He has held front line, managerial and Board level positions in public sector and independent voluntary organisations, where he gained experience of line management in community arts, social care, backing victims of
crime, healthcare and capacity building sectors.
Abdul has a particular expertise and interest in supporting organisations to improve service delivery to a wider range of customers and users. As a consultant with mainly public and not-for-profit organisations, he has supported them in facilitating changes at individual, group and agency-wide levels. His clients have included agencies working with young people, within social care, health trusts, district health authorities, local authorities, social landlords and charitable sectors.
His recent assignments include:
- Co-facilitating with a team of consultants the delivery of a modular-based leadership programme for minority ethnic staff from healthcare agencies to support their development. This has involved working with senior managers and staff at all levels, delivering practical skills development workshops, individual coaching, and mentoring. Working with the Board of an NHS Trust, facilitating them in developing their equality and diversity strategy and, in particular, focusing on how they can deliver a comprehensive practical programme of service change with practitioners, partnership building with significant voluntary organisations and leadership development with staff.
- Working with key strategic leads within a multi-agency partnership of statutory and non-statutory agencies, assisting in actions to improve a regional profile of social inclusion, particularly in respect of initiatives designed to nurture the levels of influence and leadership by minorities across business, public and voluntary sectors.
- Designing and implementing learning programmes and consultancies for personnel in public agencies addressing how to re-design services to demonstrate:
- improved cultural competence and the development of race equality
- a proactive approach in tackling racially motivated harassment and crime
- the benefits of a multi-faith, multi-cultural investment in neighbourhood renewal with ‘hard to reach’ groups, for example, disabled people.