Ian McNeil

My name is Ian McNeil and I have wide experience of working in a number of sectors. I am now semi-retired, but always open to new projects, collaborations and partnerships, or just to chew over ideas. I am comfortable working at cutting edge development activities, but equally committed to much under-estimated and sometimes little-used qualities of realism and common sense!

Ian has experience across several sectors, including industry, Civil Service and as an RAF officer. He subsequently worked within Business Development in Scottish Enterprise and Highlands & Islands Enterprise before moving to the voluntary sector to develop self-management workshops for people with long-term conditions at national and international levels. He was Project Manager to pilot online self-management training in England before becoming Director of Online Training and Quality with the National Council On Aging in partnership with Stanford University, USA from which he retired in May 2012. Until 2012 he was also Board Member for the Long Term Conditions Alliance Scotland (LTCAS), including their Grant Allocation Panel, assessing project applications for Self-management Fund Awards in 2009 and 2010.

Until 2017 Ian worked as a Disability Equality Associate with Capability Scotland, delivering Disability Equality Training to a broad range of clients and contributing to other work of the organization. He recently retired from the Equality Advisory Panel of a major Economic Development Organisation.

Ian is also an experienced conference speaker at local, national and international levels.

He loves walking in the Scottish Highlands, bird watching, reading, gardening and writing short stories, but is now trying his hand at flash fiction with 2 stories published in an e-book collection available at http://www.amazon.co.uk/Less-Than-Words-Paul-Gledhill-ebook/dp/B019GBLPFM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1450377146&sr=8-1&keywords=less+than+100+words