The Leadership Trust Foundation

TrusteeCandidate RecruitmentPack

May2015

CONTENTS

Welcome

About The Leadership Trust Foundation

Therole

Timetable

Howto apply

WELCOME

Many thanks for your interest in joiningThe Leadership Trust Foundation’s Board as a Trustee. The Leadership Trust has built up a strong reputation over its 40 year working in the field of leadership development. We have come through a period of significant change over recent years and are now looking for additional Trustees with the skills, passion and commitment to help us shape the next 40 years.

The Board is looking to increase its current size, strengthen its depth of knowledge and broaden its experience in order totake full advantage of theavailableopportunities to influence and improve leadership within all areas of Society. This next stage of its strategic development will consist of re-examining how the charity can most effectively meets its objects in the digital age and identifying the most appropriate structures to maximise our impact with individuals, organisations and nations.

In 2015,our 40th year,we will be celebrating our long heritage as a major leadership development provider and re-acquainting ourselves with over 50,000 alumni. We shall be delighted to welcome new Trustees as part of this celebration. We are ambitious to grow our influence and assist the development of more excellent leaders. Please consider whether your experience and passion can help us realise this objective.

Nici Johnson

Chair

The Leadership Trust Foundation

“Leadership begins with learning to know and control selffirst. Then and only then can you lead and enable others”

ABOUTTHE LEADERSHIP TRUST FOUNDATION

The Leadership Trust Foundation (LTF)was founded in 1975 to enhance and influence leadership and leadership development in all aspects of Society. It was born out of the acknowledgement that poor leadership was impacting on the performance and progress of the UK. The causes may have changed but addressing this issue remains as relevant today as it did then. Our core philosophy that we need to know and control ourselves first, before we can lead and enable others effectively, underpins our approach to leadership development. The charitiesobjects are:

(1) to advance education and research in the fields of management and leadership and the training of effective managers and leaders;

(2) to advance the education of the public in their knowledge and understanding of the principles of effective leadership; and

(3) to encourage and support individuals who are or wish to be in positions of leadership to learn about and develop leadership skills.

Our mission is to influence leadership, develop inspirational leaders and support leadership development through the services we provide to organisations, teams and individuals. All our courses and programmes are consistent with this mission. Our open courses andorganisational programmes have been used by 50,000+ managers at all levels, including Board, covering most UK industry sectors as well as international. We are a recognised leader in the field of experiential learning for leadership effectiveness; skilfully blending theory with practice and feedback to develop authentic, high performance leadership.

We collaborate with a number of organisations including The Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO). They are the leading voice of the UK’s charity and social enterprise sector and we are pleased to assist them in helping develop leadership skills in this vital sector.

FUTURE STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT

Since the formation of LTF the importance of leadership development in organisational effectiveness has become more widely accepted and other training organisations are providing these learning opportunities using an experiential approach. It is recognised that LTF cannot stand still. It needs to develop innovative solutions to the leadership challenges of the twenty first century, state-of-the-art ways of working with more sophisticated client organisations and expand on its public benefit offerings.

We are currently in the process of reshaping to create a more flexible provision model following the disposal of our premises in Weston under Penyard. This has strengthened our financial position giving us the opportunity to create an ambitious, agile organisation with a better balance between its core objectives of training, research and support of individuals.

LTF CURRENT STRUCTURE AND RESOURCES

In 2011 weappointed Rob Noble as Chief Executive; a former army officer whose personal drive is to train hard and fight easy in order to be able to respond to the unforeseen on top of business as usual. This has crossed over into his role at LTFwhere he has led the team through significant operational change in order to innovate our leadership solutions and to put the charity on a better financial footing. Gaynor Lewis, a former senior executive at the Institute of Leadership & Management, joined the organisation in 2013 and the new Senior Leadership Team set about focusing on business development and expanding our sphere of influence through increased courses and media exposure. Their success has been that the number of client organisations has doubled between 2011and the end of 2014, and sales revenue has grown.

Whilst LTF is a small organisation it has an extensive network of associated practitioners and academics pre-eminent in the fields of leadership research and development. Their input strengthens our opinions by broadening our perspective and gives us greater diversity and resilience.

We now hold an annual ‘Think Tank’ with our academic associates to discuss “leadership challenges of today” and “the real value and contribution of leadership to business and society”. Discussions are wide-ranging and subsequent reports make interesting reading, touching on the following areas:

  • The role that leadership plays in building an ethical society
  • Leadership as shaper of vision and driver of positive change
  • Leadership as a role model for society
  • Meaning creation and leadership as “calling”
  • Dispersed Leadership as a critical element in understanding the leadership of organisations
  • Disruptive leadership and the ‘tempered radical’
  • Stewardship and building a legacy through teaching is key to today’s ethical leadership
  • The inevitable disappointment of heroic leadership
  • Leadership of and for Generation Y
  • Higher education and the contribution of business schools to the leadership of society

In addition, LTF has the strength of 40 years of alumni many of whom have risen to senior leadership roles in Global Organisations. We are constantly rewarded by meeting these people in all walks of life and hearing that The Leadership Trust was “a life-changing experience”.

Going forward, the Trustees have set the Senior Leadership Team ambitious and shared sales targets; to achieve 50% growth in sales revenue by 2017 and 150% growth in sales revenue by 2019. We believe these are achievable goals and are working with the executive to identify the best market focus and supporting structures to drive this growth.

FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

LTF now seeks to recruit 2-3 new Board Trustees to work with their fellow Trustees and the Senior Leadership Team in the next phase of its development and business evolution. The organisation is currently formulating an exciting and ambitious five year plan, and we are looking for candidates who are able to offer a breadth of business experience at senior level, and can make a strong contribution to the strategic leadership required to help us drive this period of planned growth.

The Foundation is also looking to transition to a new Chair of the Board and would be very interested to hear from candidates who would consider stepping up into this role.

We very much look forward to receiving your application and learning more about you.

Trustees – Role Description

Remuneration:The role of Trustee is not accompanied by any financial remuneration, although expenses for travel may be claimed.

Location:The Leadership Trust Foundation HQ, Ross-on-Wye, and London

Time commitment:6 Board meetings per year including a strategy day

Objective

To be a Trustee of LTF is an exciting and fulfilling role. LTF wants to harness the experience and skills of a diverse Board in order to effectively fulfil the charities objectives and its growth ambitions.The role of a Trustee is to ensure that LTF fulfils its duty to thebeneficiaries and delivers on our vision, mission and values.Trustees accomplish this by deploying expertise in the governance processes and supporting the executive team to accomplish the LTF strategic goals.

The statutory duties of a Trustee are:

  • To ensure the organisation complies with its governing document.
  • To ensure that the organisation pursues its objectives as defined in its governing document.
  • To ensure the organisation applies its resources exclusively in pursuance of its objectives - the charity must not spend money on activities which are not included in its own objectives, no matter how 'charitable' and 'worthwhile' those activities are.
  • To contribute actively to the Board of Trustees' role in giving firm strategic direction to the organisation, setting overall policy, defining goals and setting targets and evaluating performance against agreed targets.
  • To safeguard the good name and values of the organisation.
  • To ensure the effective and efficient administration of the organisation.
  • To ensure the financial stability of the organisation.
  • To protect and manage the property of the organisation and to ensure the proper investment of the organisation's funds.
  • To appoint the Chief Executive Officer and monitor his or her performance.

In addition with other Trustees to hold the charity “in trust” for current and future beneficiaries by:

  • Ensuring that the charity has a clear vision, mission and strategic direction and is focused on achieving these.
  • Being responsible for the performance of the charity and for its “corporate” behaviour; ensuring that the charity complies with all legal and regulatory requirements.
  • Acting as guardians of the charity’s assets, both tangible and intangible, taking all due care over their security, deployment and proper application.
  • Ensuring that the charity’s governance is of the highest possible standard.

As well as the various statutory duties, any Trustee should make full use of any specific skills, knowledge or experience to help the Board make good decisions.

The above list of duties is indicative only and not exhaustive. The Trustee will be expected to perform all such additional duties as are reasonably commensurate with the role.

Trustee - Person Specification

Individuals are sought who have a strong empathy with our mission.

The Board of Trustees are jointly and severally responsible for the overall governance and strategic direction of the charity, its financial health, the probity of its activities and developing the organisation’s aims, objectives and goals in accordance with the governing document, legal and regulatory guidelines.

All Trustees, should also be aware of, and understand, their individual and collective responsibilities, and should not be overly reliant on one or more individual Trustees in any particular aspect of the governance of the charity.

Experience:

  • Successful experience of operating within a Board in a charitable, public sector or commercial organisation
  • Demonstrable experience of building and sustaining relationships with key stakeholders and colleagues to achieve organisational objectives
  • A proven track record of sound judgement and effective decision making
  • A history of impartiality, fairness and the ability to respect confidences
  • A track record of commitment to promoting equality and diversity

We are welcome to applications from candidates with a variety of backgrounds and would be particularly interested in those who can demonstrate the following:

  • Expertise and experience in business development particularly from a commercial trading perspective, or direct experience of establishing a trading subsidiary or social enterprise
  • A background in developing educational courses/programmes
  • Experience brokering partnerships with complementary organisations
  • Expertise in financial management

Knowledge, skills and understanding:

  • Commitment to the organisation and a willingness to devote the necessary time and effort
  • A willingness to speak their mind
  • A willingness to be available to staff for advice and enquiries on an ad hoc basis
  • Good, independent judgement and strategic vision
  • An understanding and acceptance of the legal duties, responsibilities and liabilities of Trusteeship
  • An ability to work effectively as a member of a team
  • An understanding of the respective roles of the Chair, Trustees and Chief Executive

Chair – Person Specification

LTF also seeks to recruit and transition to a new Chair of the Board, with the newly composed Board leadingThe Leadership Trust Foundation into the next phase of its development and business evolution.

The Chair will bring a senior level of strategic experience from a blue chip company, the ambassadorial skills needed to represent the organisation externally and be skilled in brokering and developing lasting partnerships. Business development experience at a senior level within a consultancy organisation, a business school environmentor the wider education sectorwould be a distinct advantage.

Candidates who are interested in eventually taking on the Chair role are welcome to include details of their suitability for this position in their application, such as their prior Chair experience and any other details as relevant.

THETIMETABLE

Theclosingdate forapplications isTuesday 26thMay 2015

Pleasealsonote thefollowing dates:

  • Preliminary interviews with Trustees Unlimited: w/c 1st and 8th June
  • Final interviews with LFT Nominations Committee: w/c 15thJune, actual dates TBC.
  • Attend Board meeting as an observer with a view to confirming appointment/s:

TBC late June/early July.

** remember to please advise us about any dates that are really not convenient for you when your application is submitted

HOWTOAPPLY

Toapplyforthisrole,pleasecreate one document comprising of the following:

  • a short introductory statement demonstrating your motivation for this role;
  • supporting statement,explaining howyoubelieve yourskills andexperiencematch therequirements oftherole,directly addressingthepersonspecification
  • a comprehensive CV includingdetailsofyourachievements ineachrole,andincluding detailsoftworeferees.

Allofthesedocuments shouldbeuploaded via the attach resume field via the application link:

4405TU_LTF application link

Foraninformalandconfidentialdiscussionabouttherole,pleasecontactEmma Patmore on 01582 69 77 65