Search begins for new chief executive

28 September 2007 – Chartered Management Institute chief executive, Mary Chapman, has announced that she will be leaving the organisation in Spring 2008 to pursue new challenges in both a professional and voluntary capacity.

Mary will remain as chief executive until April 2008.  Her successor will lead the Institute into its next phase of development and address the challenges faced by employers and managers against a backdrop of the global knowledge economy.  

Advertising begins on 30 September, with executive search firm Odgers Ray & Berndstron also assigned to identify suitable candidates.   The recruitment process is being led by Institute President, Tim Melville-Ross CBE.  He says: “The ideal candidate will have a recognisable presence and will need to demonstrate achievement in building partnerships and influential relationships.  Evidence of general management experience, gained from within the private sector, a knowledge-based business or professional services firm, is also essential.”

Under Mary’s leadership the Institute has enjoyed a major transformation, achieving Chartered status in April 2002, followed by the launch of the Chartered Manager accreditation programme fifteen months later.  During nine years as chief executive, Mary has overseen growth in uptake of the Institute’s qualifications and fulfilment of the leadership role for the National Occupational Standards in Management and Leadership.  Her tenure has also seen greater employer engagement as organisations recognise the impact that management and leadership development has on performance and productivity.

Commenting on her decision to leave the Institute, Mary says: “It has been enormously absorbing and rewarding to serve as the Institute's Chief Executive.  Our efforts to raise the standards of the profession and the aspirations of managers are critical to the long-term career success of individuals to the performance of UK organisations and to the quality of working life.  I look forward to the continued success of the Institute.”

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Further information:

Mike Petrook /Julia Brook, Institute Press Office

Tel: 020 7497 0496; outside office hours: 07931 302 877

Email:press.office@managers.org.uk

Website: www.managers.org.uk

NOTES TO EDITORS

Representing 73,000 individual managers and 450 corporate members, the Chartered Management Institute is the only chartered professional body dedicated to management and leadership. The Institute supports individual members with practical guidance on the issues that affect managers in their day-to-day working lives and, as the guardians of national standards for management and leadership, it is also in a unique position to work with employers to identify and develop the necessary management and leadership skills that drive performance in the UK and internationally.  Through its research and policy programme, the Institute also analyses and shapes the issues that matter to employers and individuals, using its knowledge in open communications with key policy makers and government departments responsible for skills development.  The Chartered Management Institute came into being on 1 April 2002, as a result of the Institute of Management being granted a Royal Charter.