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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!
individualization | strategic | learner | context | activator
The latest stories from Michael Osbaldeston on the City & Guilds Foundation website:
‘Michael! We haven’t had our letter, were we successful?’ Deep intake of breath… this is the call you don’t want to take. ‘We didn’t did we? And I know why - too soon and not enough evidence!’ And from that very perceptive response by Damien McKnight, Training Apprenticeship & Development Manager at Dovecote Park evolved two future very successful applications in 2018 and 2020 for recognition through the Princess Royal...
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...