Ann Porter BA MBA
Career Social Entrepreneur
Working at CEO and Managing Director level, I have specialised in transforming organisations facing complex challenges. I thrive on complexity, finding solutions and getting things done, regardless of sector. As a result, my career has spanned boundaries at a senior level.
I have held Executive Director posts in London’s NHS; led a Scottish national charity from a basic start to significant growth; built arms-length enterprises from scratch to improve public service productivity and founded my own commercial, design-led innovation company. I navigate easily between commercial business disciplines and public service ethos.
Experience
-
Experience of senior leadership roles (Board level) in tough, target driven multi-million pound public service organisations
-
Excellent analytical, financial and decision making skills integral to strategic thinking, planning and governance in complex organisations
-
Experience of founding and building new, sustainable ventures both within and outside public service
-
Knowledge of how to navigate between commerciality and public service ethos
-
Knowledge of how to innovate in complex public service organisations
-
Adept brokerage skills with the ability to forge partnerships easily to get things done
-
Systems thinker, intellectually curious with the ability to absorb complex information rapidly
Fuel for Innovation Track Record
-
Creation and delivery of innovation programmes for public service organisations across the UK
-
Design and delivery of a pioneering education programme for Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Entrepreneurial Competencies for Doctors
-
Patient-led, ground-up innovation venture in partnership with NHS London worth £250k per annum
-
Feasibility study for NHS Fife about the potential of NHS-led social enterprises as a measure for business growth
-
Scotland-wide innovation education programme for NHS Education for Scotland, delivered in 11 locations
-
Introduction of commercial thinking (customer experience) into the commissioning plans of NHS Leicester and Rutland
-
Business development for a major, national disability charity that included a high volume tendering function to maintain existing business and secure new business in a saturated marketplace with contracting investment
-
18 month contract with NHS South West Essex to improve the experience of patients across the system as an integral part of the quality assurance framework
-
Senior Advisor with the Young Foundation, a social innovation think tank. Advisor to a Nesta-funded social investment fund to support innovation across health and social care; founder of a major income generation scheme, Social-Entrepreneur-in-Residence
-
Co-founder of Feisty Women, a Scottish charity that exists to advance equality and economic justice for women over the age of 60.