Dr Simon Davey is an organizational development and change management consultant with twenty years experience working with charities and the public sector and previously within academia and business. He has led programmes as diverse as: the UK national IT volunteering programme, an innovative extended school programme raising aspirations and attainment for disadvantaged young women, a programme to support school leaders in implementing sustainable food skills for children and a national initative within a major UK young people’s charity transforming the application of ICT in social work and e-inclusion of marginalized young people.
Simon also regular consults on business analysis, change management and accountability, good governance, organizational ICT reviews and database/CRM implementations. Simon is experienced in business development and programme management, committed to improving access to justice, to empowering young people and creating sustainable, practical tools and methodologies. Simon currently manages a private sector consultancy and is also a consultant and guest lecturer at Cass Business School’s Centre for Charity Effectiveness.
Simon also takes a policy, governance and regulatory role through activity as Independent Person for he London Borough of Bromley and a Steering Group member for the Legal and Advice Sector roundtable. He is a former school governor (vice chair) and a current trustee of Law for Life and Sound Delivery Media. He served for six years as an Independent Commissioner for the Data and Marketing Commission
Recent projects have focused on the access to justice sector including Strategic Support Consultant for the Access to Justice Foundation (Litigant in Person Network) helping develop its innovation workstream, consultancy for the Free Representation Unit in its digital transformation and change management of a move to cloud and new ways of working, co-developing digital strategy for Law Centres Network, emergency project management for a technology transformation in a new building for a key community organisation, an initial assessment of an innovation chatbot which led to a substantive injection of funding, a change strategy for a key sector organisation and a root and branch review of technology and organisational challenges for a regional law centre as well as an extensive number of scoping and product definition projects for small legal and advice sector organisations.
Former roles include:
- Director, IT4Communities (national IT volunteering programme)
- Independent Commissioner, Data and Marketing Commission and Member, ICO Regulators and AI Working Group (as DMC representative)
- Programme Director, Emerging Scholars' [formerly Programme Leader, Emerging Scholars' Intervention Programme (Saturday school)]
- Project Leader, Urban Scholars Intervention Programme
- Programme Manager, Inspire IT (Action for Children)
- Programme Manager, Supporting School Leadership
- Project Manager, The Jeanie Project
- Board Member, CIM Charity and Social Marketing Group
- School Governor, Harris Primary Academy Shortlands and Harris Primary Academy Beckenham (Vice Chair, Governing Body and Chair, Finance and General Purposes Committee)
Former clients include:
- Access to Justice Foundation
- Action for Children
- Ashiana Project
- Birth Companions
- Bobath Centre for Children with Cerebral Palsy
- Business in the Community
- Carers in Hertfordshire
- Central England Law Centre
- Central Foundation Girls School
- Charities Evaluation Services
- Chatham House (Royal Institute for International Affairs)
- City and Islington College (as part of HA-EET)
- Community First
- Conker Consulting
- Development Trusts Association
- Disability Law Service
- East London Consortium (Schools Partnership)
- Ethical Property Foundation
- Fair Trials
- Free Representation Unit
- Governance Hub
- Grantscape
- Hammersmith Society
- Heart n Soul
- High Peak CVS
- Hornimans Adventure Playground
- Housing Justice
- ICT Hub
- Institute of Fundraising
- IT4Communities
- LASA (London Advice Services Alliance)
- Latin American Womens Rights Service (LAWRS)
- Law Centres Network
- Legal Services Agency
- London Housing Foundation
- Magic Breakfast
- Magic Outcomes
- Manchester Community Information Network
- Mayday Trust
- Media Trust
- Microsoft
- Money Advice Trust
- National Literacy Association
- NCVO (National Council of Voluntary Organisations)
- PAVS (Pembrokeshire Association of Voluntary Services)
- Pfeg (Personal Finance Education Group)
- Prisoners Abroad
- Shell Europe Oil Products
- Toynbee Hall
- TreeHouse
- Volunteering England
- Worshipful Company of Information Technologists
- Youthnet