John Barclay

 

A retired RAMC Lieutenant Colonel, John is now a proactive and versatile University Senior lecturer experienced in people development, coaching and mentoring across a wide variety of organisations including the NHS, MoD, Nuclear Industry and local councils. An industrious and flexible lecturer, he is adept at facilitating complex, multi-stakeholder activities that require diplomatic finesse and astute decision making to achieve successful outcomes. Orchestrating detailed organisation and individual development plans, engaging in an empathetic warm manner that adds value resulting in improved business outcomes and healthy staff. He also programme leads the delivery of transformative learning and leadership for the Defence Medical Leadership programme and London Ambulance Service. He is the Programme lead for the Cumbria and Derbyshire Health and Wellbeing UG Dip too and the Singular coaching and mentoring module as part of the practice framework scheme.

 

Currently John’s academic interest is laser focused on advancing the understanding experienced in his delivery of leadership programmes that espouse a unique sense of belonging amongst student groups that leads to them to wanting to maintain contact with each other post programme delivery and how to develop professional communities of practice model that supports this phenomena and has the potential to deliver sustainable learning communities in healthcare organisations.   

 

Outside of work, John is a keen long-distance runner who recently completed his first ever marathon in London raising close to £2,000 for the SSAFA charity and also the odd spot of gardening.