Associates
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Alice Maynard DBA
Dr Alice Maynard is Managing Director of Future Inclusion. Future
Inclusion works with organisations at a strategic level to improve
their performance, with a particular focus on inclusive practice in
service provision and employment.
Alice graduated from York University in 1980. For the next ten
years, she was employed in the IT industry in a range of roles,
developing and managing high performance teams and delivering
international projects. Following this, she gained her MBA from
Ashridge, and established a consultancy – Equal Ability – which she
ran with her co-Director for four years before re-entering
employment in the transport industry. She was responsible for
disability strategy and policy in Network Rail, established the
foundations for a disability employment strategy for London
Underground and developed the strategic framework for Transport for
London’s social inclusion programme. Her research for her Doctor of
Business Administration, achieved in 2007, focused on transport
economics and access for disabled people.
She has ten years’ consultancy experience, across all sectors. She
has worked with such organisations as Marks & Spencer, Lloyds TSB,
the Environment Agency, Greater London Authority, Specialist Schools
and Academies Trust and the UK Disabled People’s Council. She was a
visiting lecturer at Bradford University on their MA in Social Work
and Social Care, and at Reading University on their MSc in Inclusive
Environments. She chairs the national disability charity Scope.
Recent projects include:
- working with MVA and ERM on an integrated impact assessment of sustainability for the Mayor of London’s revised Transport Strategy;
- a review of the accessibility of the Environment Agency’s flood warning system;
- supporting Transport for London in developing its Disability Equality Scheme as Chair of their Independent Disability Advisory Group;
- developing and implementing an inclusion policy for Crossrail.
Dr. Ossie Stuart
Dr Stuart is an equality and diversity consultant with seven years
of experience as a trainer and specialist adviser. Prior to this he
spent twelve years as an Academic at the Universities of Oxford,
York and Surrey. His academic interest was in race and disability,
diversity and social change. He has written seminal works on the
experience of black disabled people. In 2002 Dr Stuart left academia
to work as a full time freelance consultant and trainer in the
Public Sector. Initially, he specialised in disability advice, but
more and more of his work now deals with equality and diversity.
Dr Stuart is a wheelchair user and is of African Caribbean decent.
He has always considered that we are all entitled to fully
participate in society and have control over our own destinies.
These two ideas have heavily influenced everything he has done and
will do in his working life.
As a equality and diversity consultant, Dr Stuart’s specializes in
three areas. These are Disability Equality Training, Equality and
Diversity (E&D) Training and Consultancy, Research and Report
Writing.
Disability Equality Training (DET)
Since 2002 Dr Stuart has delivered DET to a number of providers.
Naturally, each provider has unique requirements and Dr Stuart has
always been flexible about how the training should be delivered. He
has conducted half day, whole day and, even, two day training
sessions. He has worked with groups from as small as five to over
fifty. He also is very happy using different training methods,
dependent on the clients wishes. However, at the core of his
training is the Social Model of Disability.
It would be impossible to list all the clients Dr Stuart has worked
with in the space available. Nevertheless, it is possible to divide
them into three groups. The first, and his oldest clients, are the
Local Authorities of Camden, Islington, Westminster, Newham, and
Redbride. These clients have large training programmes for Managers
and Frontline Staff. Dr Stuart has been involved in designing and
delivering courses to meet their needs. The same applies to
Universities of London, Imperial College, the London Business
School, Sussex university, with whom Dr stuart has worked with since
2003 and continues to do so. The final group are voluntary sector
organisations. In London and further afield, Dr Stuart has enjoyed
working with these smaller organisations. Dr Stuart values any
opportunity to work with users and their organisations.
Equality and Diversity (E&D) Training
This is a more recent speciality offered by Dr Stuart. Changing
legislation has meant that clients are now more likely to ask for
E&D training over any other kind. As a result, Dr Stuart has, since
2005, delivered E&D training to Imperial College, the Institute of
Education, the Home Office and the Department of Health. In
addition, he has delivered Equality Impact Assessment training to
the latter Government Departments. Since 2007, Dr Stuart has
provided E&D training for United Response. United Response supports
people with learning disabilities, mental health needs and physical
disabilities to live in the community, across England and in Wales.
Consultancy, Research and Report Writing
Dr Stuart has often returned to his academic background to provide
research. He has written numerous reports for organisations as
diverse as the Metropolitan Police Authority, the Greater London
Authority and SCIE, for example. Dr Stuart has designed an E&D
training booklet for the Institute of Education and written reports
on partnership meetings for SCIE. He has provided expert advice to
the Home Office and and the Department of Health. Dr Stuart still
writes on E&D and disability. His next work will be part of an
edited edition on race and health, due to be published in 2010.