It’s fair to say, that no one alive has ever experienced a time like this. You have to go back to the post-WW1 flu, the cholera epidemics that would lead to modern sanitation, The Black Death and the great plagues. For all of us, it really is unprecedented, and it has led to us adopting working practices that would have been impossible not that long ago. In fact, before the advent of modern technology and the digital age, this would have been truly catastrophic. We simply wouldn’t have been...
Michael Osbaldeston
Special Advisor
“My-cull Os-bawl-des-tun” | he/him
Michael is the Special Adviser and Skills Ambassador for City & Guilds. He is especially involved with work with our President HRH The Princess Royal and was instrumental in creating the Princess Royal Training Awards.
A major part of his role is bringing people and organisations together so that they can work more effectively and develop long term and sustainable partnerships.
He is a trustee of the City & Guilds of London Art School and music and mental health charity, Song in the City. He is also the member-nominated trustee of the City & Guilds Pension Fund, sits on the Livery Companies Skills Council and advises a number of heritage and skills organisations.
When he’s not at work, he enjoys going to concerts and tending his garden including his banana trees!
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