Donna Bradshaw
Joint managing Director
MSc Management
Cert Coaching
Diploma in Management
MAAT
Donna co-founded ODS with Carol Brooks in 2006. Prior to this, Donna spent 20 years working within the public sector. This included senior management experience in local government, including financial, quality and performance functions, and five years experience as an academic at Manchester business School.
Donna’s work focuses on change and reform across the public sector. Donna is an energetic and enthusiastic facilitator – bringing constructive challenge and support to all her projects. She has particular expertise in the design and delivery of organisational development programmes including workforce planning, service commissioning and re-design. This work spans national and local delivery and includes working in politically sensitive, complex settings.
Donna works with boards and senior teams designing interventions to support changes in services, culture and leadership. Clients include the NHS, local government, the police and voluntary organisations. Donna also mentors small businesses.
Donna has led research and academic programmes, written for academic and practitioner journals and has spoken at national and European conferences. Donna spent 3 years as a non-executive director for the Centre for Public Services.
Donna and Carol were awarded the prestigious Manchester Evening News Young Business of the Year Award in November 2007.
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HR departments can find themselves overstretched dealing with the additional activity required, or nervous and unsure exactly how to meet the requirements; from consultation, people transition policies, equality impact assessments, function and people mapping and associated ring fencing and selection criteria.
ODS can provide practical, strategic help and support ranging from template policies and people and mapping frameworks, to reviewing and adding to the overall strategy, or working on specific areas. ODS’s commitment to skills transfers allows the organisation to build skills for future transfers.
If you can answer yes to any of the following questions, please look here to find out how we can support you or your organisation, alternatively contact ODS Ltd and ask to speak to one of our consultants.
- Struggling to meet the many requirements of the HR transition framework?
- Don’t have the capacity to write a people transition policy?
- Nervous about people mapping frameworks or selection criteria?
- Don’t know when you’ll address the equality impact assessment of changes?