Robin Stephenson

Robin Stephenson

Independent consultant, governance, corporate and legal affairs

Robin Stephenson is an independent governance, corporate and legal affairs consultant undertaking projects for a variety of organisations within the charitable and public sector.

In his role he writes articles for a variety of governance journals, and is actively involved as a member of the Nursing & Midwifery Council fitness to practice panels (having previously served on its governance committee), serving as the clerk to a dental professional review committee and vice chair and  trustee of the Public Service Broadcasting Trust.


He has previously been a member of the European Foundation Centre European Union Committee, the Charity Law Association and has also served on the executive council of the Association of Charitable Foundations, been a non-executive director of an NHS Trust and served for ten years as vice chair of a state secondary school governing body.

He was previously director of corporate affairs ans secretary at the Health Foundation from 1998 - 2007.

 

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Dealing with an ineffective trustee

Whilst the vast majority of trustees are engaged, courteous, effective and contribute a great deal to the cause, all on an entirely voluntary basis, there are exceptions. The ‘ineffective trustee’ is one such example.

Dealing with a reticent trustee

Whilst the vast majority of trustees are engaged, courteous, effective and contribute a great deal to the cause, all on an entirely voluntary basis, there are exceptions. The reticent trustee is one such example.

Dealing with a self-important trustee

While the vast majority of trustees are engaged, courteous, effective and contribute a great deal of their time and energy and expertise to the cause, all on an entirely voluntary basis, there are exceptions. The "self-important trustee" is one such example.

Dealing with an invisible trustee

While the vast majority of trustees are engaged, courteous, effective and contribute a great deal of their time, energy and expertise to the cause, all on an entirely voluntary basis, there are exceptions. The "invisible trustee" is one such example.

Dealing with a bullying trustee

The vast majority of trustees are engaged, courteous, effective and contribute a great deal of their time and energy and expertise to the cause; all on an entirely voluntary basis. But there are exceptions – one such example is the bullying trustee.

Assessing the health of the board

Robin Stephenson, director of corporate affairs at the Health Foundation, considers the results of a review into board performance.

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