Viv Lacey

Viv specialises in improving performance and assisting leaders to turnaround failing organisations. She combines expertise in organisational development and project management, with techniques for developing top management thinking, to deliver fresh insights and strategically consistent change. This results in strengthening corporate capability and improving value for money.

Viv is a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management and a skilled Mentor Coach and Counsellor. She graduated from Salford University’s Post Graduate School of Management with a Masters in Human Resource Management. In 2000 she was appointed by ACAS as an Independent Arbitrator.

Viv had a varied career in Central Government between 1974 and 1999. As a civil servant, her later roles included Head of the Department for Education and Employment’s Pay Strategy Unit and Head of Personnel for an organisation of 3,500 people. Whilst in this role she became non-executive advisor to the CEO of a multi-national manufacturing PLC.

Subsequently, Viv established her own company Integral HRC Ltd to meet the need for strategic, integrated approaches to change and organisational development. Since 1999 she has provided consultancy across the public sector, most recently in central government where she was involved in developing Commercial Strategy and in Sector Skills Councils strengthening their contribution to the skills economy.

Through Business in the Arts Viv has been a Trustee and Board Director of the Zion Youth Arts Centre in Hulme, Manchester since 200 and has served as a Parish Councillor for Walton for some seven years.

Room 101: Anne Atkins giving her 'Thought for the Day'- plus every episode of Andy Pandy
Heaven on Earth: blasting a 1966 Triumph Bonneville down a sunny English lane before watching Warrington Wolves win the RL Challenge Cup (again!)