About Me
My name is Alun Davies. I am a self-employed consultant advising on equalities, diversity and inclusion. I focus on disability equality, and also have considerable experience of all diversity and equality issues.
My CV sets out my experience, knowledge and skills. I am a blind person who has worked across the voluntary and public sectors, and with local and central government at senior levels. I combine lived expertise with a unique breadth of work experience: local authority councillor; local authority senior officer; non-executive NHS primary care trust; and community activist.
I am a skilled negotiator who thrives on the challenge of understanding an issue from a range of stakeholder perspectives and finding solutions, through collaboration and partnership, to complex situations.
I genuinely enjoy the decision-making process in central and local government. I excel at writing clear and concise papers; reading and analysing written material, and contributing effectively to meetings. I have considerable experience of writing and implementing strategies and policies across a wide range of issues.
I am passionate about:
Engaging and empowering people with lived expertise to play an active role in policy design and service delivery;
Supporting service-providers to deliver genuinely inclusive co-design and co-production that bring about sustainable change;
Ensuring a cross-impairment approach and a recognition of intersectionality;
Education and awareness-raising through training
My skills include:
An excellent memory for detail
Effective communication in voice and word
An attentive and perceptive listener
I bring hard work, energy and enthusiasm to anything I work on. Equally important, I will learn from every project. I fiirmly believe that the day you stop learning and developing as a person or a professional is the day you are no longer getting the most from life.