Leadership and Management
Lyndsay Lewis
Lyndsay has over 30 years' experience of operating at a senior level within the HR arena. She supports boards and leadership teams by helping them get the most from their people and build robust talent management strategies, which meet the needs of the organisation. She worked on the HEFCE report: An emerging profession: The Higher Education Philanthropy Workforce and mentors the CASE Graduate Trainees.
Prior to working as a consultant, Lyndsay was a Divisional Director at BBC Worldwide where she headed up the HR and Employee Development teams and implemented management development and change programmes across the BBC.
Within the higher education sector Lyndsay has developed and implemented training programmes and talent initiatives for a range of institutions including the University of Oxford, King's College London and UCL She has also worked for Richmond Associates as an associate consultant and in this capacity, she has worked with a wide range of educational institutions.
Lyndsay is an experienced executive and career coach and has a particular interest in supporting individuals undergoing career transition.
Mary Howarth
Mary’s focus over the last few years has been to develop York's first ever institutional campaign. York Unlimited: the Campaign for York will raise £120M, unlock 120,000 volunteer hours and capture the insights of York graduates around the world via the innovative York Asks project. The Campaign is seeking to develop major philanthropy, extend York's community fundraising and includes York's first global Giving Day.
Her fundraising career began ten years ago at Newcastle University where she became Deputy Director of Development, and which she left in 2011 to take up the position of Director of Development and Alumni Engagement at the University of York. Prior to fundraising for higher education Mary spent ten years working in sales and began her career as a graduate trainee with Selfridges.
Mary has an MSc in Charity Marketing and Fundraising from the Centre for Charity Effectiveness, Cass Business School, and is a fully certified member of the Institute of Fundraising Management.