About Deta Associates

A former Adviser to the ADC, AMA and the DOE he was Honorary Editor of the Technical Journal ‘Wastes Management’ for 11 years and a co-author of several technical publications.

A past President of the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management and a Director of the Tidy Britain Group, he has twice received the Queen Mother’s Award for work on Environmental Education and was recipient of the President’s Centenary Medal for “outstanding contributions to the waste management industry”.

Following his retirement from Bury in the Autumn of 2001 he established Deta Associates Ltd, a public sector and environmental consultancy.

In June 2003 Mr Taylor was appointed to the Board of the East Lancashire Partnership, serving as its Chief Executive until its merger to form the Lancashire Economic Partnership where he occupied a similar role until March 2010

A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Chartered Management Institute and Institute of Wastes Management, he is a Member of the Courts of the University of Lancaster and Central Lancashire.

Within Lancashire he sat on the Board of both Chambers of Commerce and the Pennine Lancashire Groundwork Trust.

At regional level he was a member of the Regional Employment and Skills Board, the European Operational Programme Monitoring Committee and the Regional Strategy Advisory Group.

He chaired Lancashire 2012 Legacy Committee and was a member of the Preston Guild Advisory Board and the Lytham 2012 Open Golf Steering Committee.

In April 2010 he returned to Deta Associates as Chairman and Managing Director supported by a high profile team of Associates across the fields of Management Consultancy,. Economic Regeneration , Inward Investment,, Marketing, Sport, Transport, Funding, Procurement, Rural Issues, Tourism. Recruitment and Selection, Conference and event facilitation/management.

He is currently Patron and Life member of Bury Groundwork Trust and a Board member of Bury Football Club Community Trust.

In 1999 she joined East Lancashire Partnership in a similar capacity developing and managing SRB, ERDF, ESF, RDPE, Leader+ and Regional Development Agency funded programmes with budgets ranging from £50k to £60million.

Promoted to Director of Economic Regeneration when ELP became a limited company her remit was further widened when the company merged to become the Lancashire Economic Partnership. Management of multidisciplinary teams, including professional, technical staff and paid consultants, sat alongside deputising for the Company Chief Executive (Dennis Taylor) and reporting direct to Board and Shareholder's Committees.

A key player in the development of the Lancashire Economic Strategy and the Central Lancashire City Region Development Plan her work has included input into the development of the NW Regional Spatial and Economic strategies, the Regional Strategy 2010, Rural Development Programme for England, Lancashire Rural Recovery Action Plan, North West Operational Programme (ERDF), Co-ordinated Actions for Rural Lancashire and the Lancashire Green Infrastructure pilot, managed the Lancashire's Hill Country and Climate Change action plan.

Across Lancashire she has supported the aerospace, nuclear, rural and tourism sector's strategic development, managed the Lancashire Hill Country Tourism Consortium and worked with rural community groups to develop an infrastructure of new/refurbished sustainable resource centres.

A trustee of the Mid-Pennine Arts organisation, she has sat on the following boards/committees:

• Regional Programme Monitoring Committee of the North West Operational Programme
• Lancashire Rural Development Board
• JESSICA regional steering group
• NW Regional Strategy Advisory Group
• Regional Employment and Skills Board steering groups
• Pennine Lancashire Leaders and Chief Executives groups
• Lancashire and Blackpool Tourist Board management groups
• Lancashire European Steering Group
• Lancashire Worklessness Programmes Board

Janet, who is a Common Purpose Graduate with Diplomas in business studies and management is a Prince 2 qualified practitioner. She has sat on the development groups for Lancashire’s 3 MAA’s and the Vision Boards in Pendle, Burnley, Lancaster and Preston and has provided strategic support and economic evidence to the Re-Blackpool Urban Regeneration Company and its emerging counterpart in Pennine Lancashire.

Key Skills
Strategic thinking - a proven track record of initiating, developing and successfully implementing strategies to transform organisations

Problem solving - able to identify and pursue innovative and highly creative customer driven strategic and operational solutions

Leadership – accustomed to operating at Board level. Able to create, motivate and lead teams to achieve challenging corporate transformations

Communications - able to communicate effectively at all levels in highly challenging and politically complex environments to achieve strategic goals

Programme management - experienced in the commissioning and management of multimillion pound contracts with external suppliers

Networking - has close links to key public and private sector organisations and stakeholders across Lancashire, the North West of England and nationally.

In 1987 he formed the Mawdsley Consultancy, an Executive Search and Selection business with some equity holding from Collinson Grant.

Paul has a Diploma in Management Studies and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management, the Institute of Personnel and Development and the Institute of Directors. He is a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants and a Freeman of the City of London. Having held prominent office in The Recruitment Society, Paul is also a member of the Council of Professional Liverpool.

Paul’s Executive Search and Selection activities include Non-Executive placements across the private, public and third sector and interim management provision.

In addition to expanding the YPO brand to its position of pre-eminence with over 100 local authorities and several thousand other public sector clients, John has developed an annual programme of INSET courses attended by over 3000 teachers each year. He has promoted and led the YPO team at a wide range of Conferences, Exhibitions, Workshops and Seminars for customers across the U.K.

Committed to Total Quality Management and IT solutions to meet customer needs he has experience of developing e-procurement solutions for customers and local authorities and has led on team building and one-to-one training initiatives for staff and clients alike.

Actively involved in sports coaching and working with young people he has led groups in twinning visits to Europe and the USA including a two year project to take a 400 strong party to New Jersey and Pennsylvania to celebrate the Millenium.

In his early business career, Terry led a project team developing engineering and other projects in the Middle East. Following his MBA Terry was recruited to an Anglo-US Company, IWL, as the Middle East Director responsible for a number of major engineering projects.

After providing training in Europe and the Middle East in the 1980’s and early 90’s, Terry was a visiting lecturer to the UK Foreign Office, the Dept of Trade and Industry and Manchester Business School on business matters and corporate governance. He has spoken at and acted as Chairman for a number of major trade conferences worldwide.

Terry is an experienced trainer and coach, and about 5 years ago he established his own business offering training and development services – focussing largely on communication skills for Directors and Managers.

Terry has successfully designed and delivered a major training programme for the management of a large UK company, achieving significant improvements in business performance and employee morale. More recently, he was asked to provide greater impetus to a company seeking to engage with and increase the investment of foreign-owned businesses - “exceeding all expectations” in a successful contract.

Terry has also held recent senior management roles at the Institute of Directors and the Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Following an early career as a Research Assistant and Analytical Chemist she set up her own management consultancy working on various projects for both public and private sector organisations including The Rail Safety and Standards Board, DEFRA (Quality Assurance/Risk management), Food Standards Agency, DWP, London Underground, Liverpool Housing Trust (Sustainable Homes programme) and providing Business Solutions Advice to aerospace, housing and shipping industries.

Joining the Lancashire Economic Partnership in 2006, Naheed provided economic research and data analysis to assist the development of the Lancashire Economic Strategy and worked on projects on travel to work patterns, Blackpool Casino bid, migrant workers, entrepreneurship, disadvantaged communities, worklessness, skills, social enterprise and internationalisation.

Recently Naheed has led the work on developing Lancashire’s pilot Green Infrastructure Strategy which is being rolled out across the North of England, managing a team of 6 Masters of Planning under graduates from Manchester University.

Working extensively on rural policy issues and the climate change agenda Naheed is part of the team which developed the Lancashire Skills Strategy and she sits on a range of regional skills groups across the North West.