Aidan Ward

Aidan's skills are in improving people's ability to collaborate to achieve difficult or risky outcomes. He works on the basis that communication always depends on trust and building that trust is an active process. In multi-agency environments with each agency having different accountabilities, this is a considerable challenge to much current practice.

Aidan founded Antelope in 1991 and is managing director and principal consultant. He developed the Scimitar Risk Management System with Susannah Finzi and recently co-authored the book Trust and Mistrust, published by John Wiley, with John Smith.

He has managed projects and business risks in many sectors, including retail supply chains, telecoms, insurance, foodservice and local authorities. He has applied his risk management knowledge in many domains such as ICT security, multi-agency smartcards, supply chain development, major programmes, health and safety and project evaluation.