Dave Hider is the founder of Mindgap. He is an experienced and successful senior business leader who has spent the last 30 years leading transformational change in various social and commercial businesses. Dave’s core skills/strengths are Leadership Development, Facilitative Practice, Strategic Thinking/planning, High Impact Training and Executive Coaching.
A quick look back on Dave's career includes:
Pre 2015: Dave has worked in the housing and homelessness sector for many years where he pioneered over 15 supported housing projects in various locations (London, Devon, and various locations in the Midlands) latterly in Herefordshire where he founded the award winning SHYPP Project for Young People). At the end of Dave's time at SHYPP, he was then promoted to the role of Director of Strategy at WM Housing (now 'Citizen') - the 'fastest growing Housing Association in the UK' (2015) with 1,500 staff. 30,000 properties, £160m turnover.
2015: This was a pivotal year where Dave successfully undertaken his own personal career transition from WM Housing, Dave took on a new senior role in a local Group Training Organisation and begun to work in a Workforce and Organisational Development role. This role is where Dave became more passionate than ever about helping individuals and teams through periods of change and transition. The Mindgap concept was born out of this passion!
2020-21: Dave become a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management and then went on to undertake an MBA in Leadership and Management which he completed, with Distinction, in 2021 - yes, in the middle of the Covid pandemic!. As well as immersing himself in Leadership theory and practice, Dave's MBA dissertation focused on 'Facilitative practice and its impact in a training context'. This changed Dave's perspective on training forever!
2021: Dave launched Mindgap and in it's first six months, in the middle of the Covid 19 pandemic the business has exploded with opportunities opening up abroad and in the UK that he could never dream of!
Dave has a range of qualifications to support what he does. These include an MBA in Leadership, ILM Level 5 in Leadership and Coaching, Assessor and IV quals., (Level 4), Transactional Analysis practitioner (TA101), NLP Diploma, PTTLS (teaching qual.) and many more - we wont bore you!
Dave's real passion is seeing people's potential unlocked whether that is in a personal capacity (Coaching), group capacity (Teams), organisational capacity (Businesses) or geographical capacity (Communities).
For more information on Dave from the perspective of 'others', click the links here to read more about the people Dave has coached, his strategic work or about Mindgap customers