What Does Mike Chitty Do?

People often ask me this question, so I thought I would list some of my projects:

Ongoing Work

• Developing the Leeds Community Enterprise Accelerator – Elsie
• Developing Progress School in Leeds and Bradford
• Researching barriers to recruitment and training in micro-enterprise in Bradford
• Designing and delivering ’The Web Changes Everything….’
• Working towards an Innovation Lab in Leeds
• Developing support for an Innovation Lab in Leeds
• Running The Entrepreneur’s Workshop
• Evaluating a major cross discipline leadership development programme for a consortium of NHS Trusts
• Tracking a group of leadership training participants over a 12 month period to explore if and how their learning is applied at work
• Training and coaching a variety of managers from the public, private and third sector in the principles and practice of progressive, person centred, management and leadership
• Developing alternative person centred approaches to social and economic regeneration for local authorities and development agencies
• Working with management teams and organisations to develop and implement strategies and plans for organisational development and transformation – clients include a mental health organisation and an economic development agency

Completed Projects

• Helping out with cultural conversations
• Facilitating strategic development in a Development Trust
• Providing training for Enterprise Coaches in a financial inclusion project
• In house development programme for enterprise coaches in the North East
• Developing Enterprise Coaches in the North West
• Helping clinical and non-clinical leaders in the NHS to manage their own leadership development using action learning
• Providing a leadership development programme for directors in a Local Authority with an emphasis on project management
• Providing Action Learning sets for managers and leaders in the NHS
• Delivering CPD on enterprise in Further Education
• Delivering Workshop on Person Centred Development at Schumacher North conference
• Developing Key Note Address for Voluntary Action Leeds and Leeds Voice AGM

• Helping to bring together two teams in a major mental health charity
• Contributing to Social Innovation Lab, Danone, Paris
• Delivering a workshop for students on the International Entrepreneurship Educators Programme
• Helping a local mental health charity with strategy development
• Running workshops for Enterprise Coaches
• Key note for primary and secondary heads in the East Midlands on Enterprise Education
• Working with a small team to evaluate a major business support organisation for a regional development agency
• Facilitating a large national group of residents of social housing to help them influence government and other stakeholders on housing and related policies
• Working with FE on ‘embedding enterprise’ – What does it mean?  Why should we do it?  How can it be done?
• Training enterprise coaches for various LEGI projects – improving both effectiveness and efficiency
• Researching and writing on person centred development, enterprise, entrepreneurship, economic and social development, management and leadership and community development
• Helping with Social Media Surgeries in Leeds
• Developing fresh approaches to community engagement in learning and development
• Delivering key note address for West Yorkshire Life Long Learning Network Event – Mind Your Own Business – Workshop on developing Arts based business
• Delivering key note address for Unleashing Enterprise Conference – Enterprise for All?

Last Updated August 2011