About Dave (Mindgap Founder)
Dave Hider is an experienced and successful senior business leader who has spent the last 25 plus years leading transformational change in various social businesses. Dave’s core skills/strengths are Leadership development, facilitative practice, strategic thinking/planning, high impact training and Executive Coaching.
Dave has worked in the housing and homelessness sector for many years where he pioneered over 16 supported housing projects in various locations (London, Devon, various location in the Midlands) latterly in Herefordshire. where he founded the award winning SHYP Project for Young People). This culminated in Dave taking on a senior role of Director of Strategy at WM Housing (now Citizen) - the fastest growing Housing Association in the UK (2015).
Having successfully undertaken his own personal career transition from WM in 2015, Dave took on another senior role in Workforce and Organisational Development where he became more passionate than ever about helping individuals and teams through periods of change and transition. Mindgap was born out of this passion!
One of a number of catalysts for creating Mindgap was Dave's time at Cranfield University Business School where Dave discovered new strategic thinking and tools/frameworks to hang his experience and passion on. Some of these approaches have underpinned Dave's thinking in developing Mindgap's tools.
In 2020, Dave become a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management and then went on to Dave undertook an MBA in Leadership and Management which he completed in 2021 (in the middle of the Covid pandemic!) with a Distinction. As well as immersing himself in Leadership theory and practice, Dave's MBA dissertation was in 'Facilitative practice and its impact in a training context'. This changed Dave's take on training forever!
Dave's real passion is seeing people's potential unlocked whether that is in a personal capacity (Coaching), group capacity (Teams), organisation capacity (Businesses) or geographical capacity (Communities).
For more information on Dave from the perspective of 'others' just click the links here to read more about the people Dave has coached, his strategic work or aboutMindgap customers
Dave has worked in the housing and homelessness sector for many years where he pioneered over 16 supported housing projects in various locations (London, Devon, various location in the Midlands) latterly in Herefordshire. where he founded the award winning SHYP Project for Young People). This culminated in Dave taking on a senior role of Director of Strategy at WM Housing (now Citizen) - the fastest growing Housing Association in the UK (2015).
Having successfully undertaken his own personal career transition from WM in 2015, Dave took on another senior role in Workforce and Organisational Development where he became more passionate than ever about helping individuals and teams through periods of change and transition. Mindgap was born out of this passion!
One of a number of catalysts for creating Mindgap was Dave's time at Cranfield University Business School where Dave discovered new strategic thinking and tools/frameworks to hang his experience and passion on. Some of these approaches have underpinned Dave's thinking in developing Mindgap's tools.
In 2020, Dave become a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management and then went on to Dave undertook an MBA in Leadership and Management which he completed in 2021 (in the middle of the Covid pandemic!) with a Distinction. As well as immersing himself in Leadership theory and practice, Dave's MBA dissertation was in 'Facilitative practice and its impact in a training context'. This changed Dave's take on training forever!
Dave's real passion is seeing people's potential unlocked whether that is in a personal capacity (Coaching), group capacity (Teams), organisation capacity (Businesses) or geographical capacity (Communities).
For more information on Dave from the perspective of 'others' just click the links here to read more about the people Dave has coached, his strategic work or aboutMindgap customers
