Maggie Stubbs

Maggie is an experienced NHS senior leader with a long-standing interest in women’s issues and diversity. Her early career included primary care executive leadership, and senior strategic management in a Health Authority.

Maggie has experience of working nationally in the NHS Women’s Unit within the then NHS Executive where she worked with Opportunity 2000, a government initiative to increase the number of senior female NHS roles. Within this civil service role, she gained experience of working with Government Ministers.

She worked with Business in the Community with companies as diverse as Marks and Spencer, Halifax plc, Yorkshire Bank, BBC and several Universities. She developed a Learning Partnership, linking directors in the NHS and the private sector.

Maggie was appointed to the role of Director of Nursing, Clinical Quality and Learning at Cotswolds and Vale PCT in 2002. She has worked with the South West Strategic Health Authority, within the Workforce Development Confederation, and the Modernisation Directorate.

She is an Associate Consultant with Beacon Organisational Development Ltd, also working with the FineGreen Group as an independent consultant, and was the Northern Regional Co-ordinator for the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement.

She is the founder and Director of Glamford Associates Ltd, a customer-focused boutique consultancy organisation delivering training, coaching, mentoring, action learning set facilitation and well as change management.

Maggie is an Executive Coach with a range of specialities including Life Coaching, Career Coaching and Coaching for Diversity. She is also an advocate for Diversity and Mentoring. Her wide portfolio also includes Action Learning Set and Training Facilitation. As an experienced coach /mentor she has supported senior managers and others to better understand their challenges and to overcome barriers to successful outcomes.

Being passionate about coaching and personal growth, Maggie feels that coaching helps to improve performance and to support the rapid implementation of changes. She has successfully coached NHS managers aspiring to truly lead their organisation and their lives in an authentic and genuine way. Her aim is to establish clear and challenging goals which lie at the heart of effective coaching with challenging and probing questioning. She helps clients tap into their potential through the awakening of self- awareness, challenging limiting beliefs, understanding motivation and then taking action. Feedback from clients has described her as inspirational, enthusiastic, energetic and warm.

Maggie recently became involved in helping to support practitioners and victims dealing in the area of domestic violence, grooming and sexual exploitation in an effort to help putting their lives back together.

She is a Lay/Patient representative for Health Education England, and a member of the accreditation team for Health Education England Modernising Scientific Careers, as well as a member of Manchester Academy of Healthcare Science Education Curriculum Board and also a member of the National School of Healthcare Science.