Paul Ayo

Paul is a very experienced and well qualified diversity, HR and development specialist. He has held senior Organisational Development positions with the Royal Free Hampstead, and Barts and the London, NHS Trusts. At the Audit Commission Paul was responsible for conducting inspections of local authorities, including Comprehensive Performance Assessments. As national chair of the Audit Commission's diversity and equalities representatives, he designed and facilitated diversity training interventions to ensure diversity and equal opportunities were integrated into the Commission's regulation of, and on-going support to, public sector organisations.

Other relevant positions have included Senior Lecturer in Management and Professional Studies at Warwickshire College, part-time lecturing at the University of Westminster, and Head of Training and Quality Assurance for Westminster City Council Social Services Department. Senior Lecturer in Management and Professional Studies. Warwickshire College. Formerly a Major with the British Army. Major, Paul's final Army appointment in 1988 was Group Education Manager managing an Army Education Centre responsible for the education, training, and resettlement needs of 5,000 staff in Kent and East Sussex.

Paul has an MSc in Manpower Studies, is a Fellow of the CIPD, and is qualified to administer Myers Briggs and other Personality Type Tests.