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Cecilia Wells, Director
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Ian Barr
Cecilia Wells
Cecilia is a qualified teacher, a business studies graduate, and has a BSc Honours (2.1) in Psychology. She is Graduate Member of the British Psychological Society and is currently undertaking PhD research. She has an Advanced Diploma in Personal Construct Psychology.

Cecilia Wells is a Director of Astar Management Consultants Limited. She is an experienced Human Resources Consultant and has worked with clients in the private, public and voluntary sectors over the past ten years in equality and diversity policy development and implement, management development, training needs analysis, training design and delivery.

Her other work experience includes three years teaching, nine years in Human Resource Management with the former British Leyland, and seven years with Manpower plc working as a Branch Manager then as Manaement Development Manager for the UK.

Cecilia is a qualified teacher, a business studies graduate, and has a PhD and a BSc Honours in Psychology. She is a Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society. She has a Diploma in the advanced applications of Personal Construct Psychology in organisational development and change and is a qualified assessor in psychometric tests. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Her public appointments include:

Non-executive Board member, Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education (OIAHE) 2005 - present
Non-executive Board member to the Office of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman 2004 - present
ACAS Arbitrator
Independent Assessor for Public Appointments
Vice-Chair of Centrepoint (Homeless Charity)
Member of the Employee Relations Advisory Panel - DTI
Council Member, and Acting Chair (2000), of the Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) (1992 - 2000)
Non Executive Director and then Vice Chair of Bedford and Shires Community and Care Trust (1995 - 1999)
Chairwoman of the Regional Advisory Council, BBC South East (1995 - 1998)
Commissioner of the Equal Opportunities Commission (1990 - 1996)
Member of the Race Relations Advisory Group to the Department for Education and Employment (1990 - 1996)
Member of the Ethnic Minorities Committee to the Judicial Studies Board (1992 - 1996)
Member of the Parole Board for England and Wales (1988 - 1994)

Cecilia was awarded an OBE (1996) for work in Equality.


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