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Trainers Presentation
Trainer: John Reynolds
John Reynolds has wide experience at Director/Board level in Government Departments and
Agencies. He has a proven track record of delivering results and bringing innovation into developing
strategy and the associated change process.
In 1998 he was asked to set up the Future Unit, which generated influential reports
and established future thinking across Whitehall. He also invented the unique
creativity centre futurefocus@dti. He later took over responsibility for the
Department of Trade and Industry’s Innovation Unit and became Director of the
Future and Innovation Unit.
Most recently he was responsible for leading work on the protection and resilience
of the critical national infrastructure, principally energy and telecommunication. This
included the preparation of the National Risk Assessment and the associated planning scenarios.
His other experience includes, acting as an advisor on science and technology to 2 Prime Ministers;
the successful privatisation of 2 laboratories; developing and implementing ‘market based’
management of the radio spectrum; achieving large efficiency saving (40%); and the merging of
organisations with rationalised services and new branding. He has also managed successful IT
programmes and was one of the first Government e-Champions.
He has a 1st Class Honours degree in Marine Technology from the University of Wales, Cardiff; and
is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Since joining SAMI he has worked on projects for the dti, Foreign and Commonwealth Office,
Department of Health, HMRC, and a number of NGOs.

Trainer: Martin Duckworth
Martin Duckworth is a strategist, with a proven ability to develop business solutions
and the processes needed to move an organisation forward. Experienced in
assessing strategic situations, and in developing new markets and new business
models: uses futures thinking and scenario planning to enhance the analysis of the
external and competitor environment, and develop new business.
In ten years with The Boots Group PLC he was responsible for competitor analysis
and developed an intranet to increase cross-company awareness. He took part in a number of
strategic and innovation projects, taking the ideas through into generating new business
Earlier he was a Global Derivatives Analyst at Citibank, and a Systems Engineer with IBM and BT. He
has an MBA from Manchester Business School and a First Class degree from Cambridge University,
and is a SAMI Principal.
His SAMI projects have included work for the National Trust at Avebury, future proofing CSR for
BNFL, for the Environment Agency on emerging themes and creating scenarios for the Health and
Safety Executive