Andy Rhodes QPM is the former Chief Constable of Lancashire Constabulary one of 43 forces in England & Wales with a workforce of 6,000. For 10 years he was the NPCC lead for wellbeing, staff engagement and organisational development. His policing background has been mainly in the uniform and specialist operations disciplines including Counter Terrorism Firearms Command. He was awarded the QPM in 2016 and has an MBA and a Post Graduate Certificate in coaching. Until retirement in 2021 he was chair of CPOSA the Chief Police Officers Staff Association. Andy has worked with experts from across policing and academia and is now the Service Director for the National Well Being Service (NPWS) Oscar Kilo (www.oscarkilo.org.uk)

Cathrine Filstad is Professor in Leadership and Leadership Development, Organisational Learning, Change Management, HRM and Organisational Behaviour at Kristiania University College and the Police University College in Norway. Her research focus is police leadership and police reform, organisational learning and change management, leadership as practice, middle-management and leadership levels, knowledge creation and knowledge sharing, identity work, power and politics, newcomers learning processes and how to create a strong learning culture. She has a substantial number of scientific publications, a total of nine text books and a number of book chapters. The second edition of “Organizational learning: from knowledge to competence” in 2016. The second edition of “Newcomers in organizations – strategies and perspectives” in 2017. In 2020: Police leadership as practice.

has overall command and responsibility for the Police Service of Scotland and was appointed Chief Constable in August 2018, having been Deputy Chief Constable since December 2012 and having served as Interim Chief Constable from September 2017. Before the establishment of Police Scotland, Mr Livingstone was Assistant Chief Constable for Crime at Lothian and Borders Police, having joined the legacy service in 1992. Mr Livingstone served in Edinburgh and West Lothian as a patrol officer, detective, and as head of criminal investigations. Over the course of his career, he has commanded numerous major investigations and international events. During his 28 years in policing, Mr Livingstone has undertaken external attachments to the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland as a senior investigator in 2008, and to Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary. He is active across the public sector and sat on the Scottish Sentencing Council, and continues to sit on the Independent Steering Group for Operation Kenova on Northern Ireland. Before entering policing, Mr Livingstone worked as a solicitor in Glasgow, Edinburgh and London having graduated in law from the Universities of Aberdeen and Strathclyde. A Fulbright Scholar, he also graduated with a master’s degree from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. In 2015 he was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal.

He joined as a board member in June 2018 before being appointed Chair in January 2021. He has wide-ranging executive and non-executive experience in the voluntary and public sectors. Martyn Evans BA (hons) MA (econ) FRSA was the first Chair and Independent Trustee of the Alex Ferry Foundation, a new grant making philanthropic charity which aims to improve the lives of people who work or have worked in the UK shipbuilding, engineering and related manufacturing industries, as well as their families and dependents. In April 2019 Martyn accepted the invitation to become Executive Chair and stood down from that post in May 2020. Martyn was previously Chief Executive of the Carnegie UK Trust for 10 years having been appointed in November 2009. The Trust is an independent endowed Foundation. He was Director of the Scottish Consumer Council (SCC) from 1998 to 2009 and a visiting Professor of Law at the University of Strathclyde from 1995-2001. Prior to taking up his post with SCC he was Chief Executive Officer of Citizens Advice Scotland for five years and Director of Shelter (Scottish Campaign for Homeless People) from 1987 to 1992.

meaning she is responsible for maintaining and developing the AIPM’s knowledge base about leadership and leadership development, its academic architecture and governance particularly in relation to AIPM’s longstanding graduate programs, and developing a suite of knowledge activities involving internal and external stakeholders across the world. Vicki has spent a career in applied, academic and neo-academic organisations across the UK and Australia. She is driven to translate academic knowledge into action and impact, and works at the nexus of academic and practice traditions. Vicki is an active researcher in the field of criminology with a deep commitment to interdisciplinarity. This is evidenced by her publication record found here. Moreover, recognises that knowledge is both generated and digested in many different forms. By recognising the complexity of our operating landscape, and drawing on a broad range of insights, Vicki works to help our understanding of “better leadership”. She holds a Bachelor degree (Hons) in Psychology, a Masters degree in Criminal Justice Studies, both from the University of Portsmouth, as well as a PhD in Criminal Policy (Laws) from King’s College London. She has also recently completed her Executive MBA at the University of Oxford, where she was recipient of the Saïd Business School and 30% Club Scholarship for Women, and was awarded both a Distinction and the Hertford College Prize for exceptional performance.

Denise has been Professor of Criminology at Abertay University since 2019. Prior to this she worked at a number of institutions including the Open University, UWS, University of Brighton and Middlesex University. Her main research interests are in the area of policing and penology. She has been involved in a range of research projects and evaluations and worked with a range of agencies, including the Home Office, Scottish Prison Service, Police Scotland, Mayors Office for Policing and Crime and National Police Chief Council. She is specifically interested in the intersection and Law Enforcement and Public Health and is part of the Special Interest Group for Education for GLEPHA. She has been the Associate Director of the Education and Leadership Network for SIPR since 2016 and is interested in Police Learning and Development and organisational culture and change.