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Expert on Leadership and Former General Secretary for the UK TGWU

Lord Bill Morris is renowned for his achievements as one of the UK’s most prominent union leaders. Now retired from the TGWU, he is involved in a range of activities. These include being a member of The Panel for Mergers and Takeovers, Chair of Midland Heart and serving as a lay Judge on the Employment Appeals Council. He is a regular broadcaster on current social, economic and political issues, and he presented a BBC Radio Four series, Workaday World which looked at the changing patterns of work in the UK and further a field.

”Diversity is the compass which guides our moral pathway”
Bill Morris

[expand title=”In detail”] Former non-Executive Director of the Bank of England and the Unity Trust Bank, Bill also served on the Royal Commission on the Reform of the House of Lords, the Commission for Racial Equality and the Advisory Councils of the BBC and IBA. His lifelong enthusiasm for education has led to numerous honorary degrees, and he is Chancellor of the University of Technology in Jamaica and Stafford University. [/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]A “people’s champion”, as the most skilled negotiator and confirmed social reformer, he can guide audiences through the challenges of change like no other. He offers unique perspectives of globalisation and the changing world and his leadership qualities, skills as a negotiator and political acumen have made him a force to be reckoned with.[/expand]

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Leadership

Cultural Diversity

Managing Change

Employment

Education

From Rural Jamaica to the House of Lords

Economic and Social Affairs

2006
Granted a Life Peerage

2005
Director of the England and Wales Cricket Board

2004
Knighted

2004
Chair of the Morris Police Inquiry

2002
The Order of Jamaica (one of Jamaica’s highest honours, for services to Trade Unionism)

1999-2000
A member of the Royal Commission on the Reform of the House of Lords

1998
A Director of the Bank of
England

1988-2003
A member of the TUC General Council and Executive Committee

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