Chamber Networking Breakfast
Join us for this opportunity to
meet Alex Bailey the new CEO of Worthing Borough & Adur District Councils
Date: 20th September
Time: 7.30am - 9.00am
Venue: Arundel Room, Northbrook College, Littlehampton Road.
Members: £11.00
Non-members: £15.00
Full English Breakfast, Tea, Coffee & Juice included.
Guest always welcome.
ALEX BAILEY
Alex qualified as a solicitor in the 1980’s initially practising with a large corporate law firm in the City of London before working in a variety of legal and policy development roles in public services. He worked for three inner London Boroughs (leading teams of lawyers handling complex child protection, mental health and community care cases, developing a variety of approaches to commissioning social care and handling significant commercial contracts and litigation) as well as working with politicians to develop practical and impactful policy at the local level
Alex had 8 years’ experience as Director of Strategy and Governance at Brighton and Hove City Council (including a year as Acting Chief Executive) leading City- wide strategy, partnership development, policy, communications, strategic commissioning, service transformation, HR and legal and democratic developments.
On leaving public services Alex set up a small business providing consultancy and leadership support to public, private and third sector organisations. The business specialised in strategic leadership, commissioning support, service and organisational transformation, social enterprise, social finance, co-production, governance and performance improvement. Consultancy clients include SMEs, Social enterprises, Charities, Universities, Local Authorities, professional associations and Governmental bodies.
Immediately prior to joining Adur and Worthing Alex was working for the NSPCC as Head of Fundraising Strategy and Performance developing approaches to stronger and more sustainable revenue streams ( c. £120m p.a.) and developing new products for supporters across various donor markets.
Alex is an FSA approved Director (and Vice President) of the East Sussex Credit Union and Chair of a national mentoring charity supporting young men leaving the criminal justice system. For the last 3 years he has be an elected parent governor (and Chair of Finance) of a large secondary school and an occasional Visiting Lecturer at the University of Brighton.
He has teenage twin sons ,lives in Findon….and enjoys wandering the South Downs on foot or by bike; music, theatre and contemporary dance; gardening ; cricket and football.