Stephen John Isakhanyan Newton

Consultant on Policy İssues at Renaissance Marketing Consultants

Malta

About

Specialist in International Governance and Change Management. Well respected for the straightforward yet innovative approach used to drive through change strategies and to adopt new projects. • 25 years managing and developing Multi-disciplinary project teams to influence key stakeholders and build and maintain effective working networks and coalitions with a wide cultural spectrum of stakeholders and partners • 25 years In-depth knowledge of institutional and administrative structural reforms at national and regional level through Organisational Structural and Functional reviews • 30 years’ experience in programme management/team leading, including experience of working with civil society, private sector and government in the identification and management of issues-based projects • Expert in devising and implementing innovative, value-for-money and best practice approaches with multiple International Donors Projects. • 15+ years working with government agencies on tax administration developing integrity and anti-corruption programmes for public sector organisations; • Over 20 years’ experience in Public Administration Reform programmes of Policy design, formation and integration into Strategic plans. • 30 years’ experience of designing and implementing, HRM/D policies. • 15 years of experience in large scale organisational review and design of administrative units, including in depth functional analysis, within general framework of Public Administration Reform • More than 25 years of experience in decentralisation of public administration to local and regional level. • 15 years managing programmes of economic restructuring and regional economic development, monitoring and evaluation across a wide spectrum of projects. • 20 years’ experience in Public Finance Management & capacity development programmes including Business planning. • 20 years developing change management strategies successfully negotiating change at National and Regional levels with at least 6 governments. • 30 years Leadership/managerial training and implementation for public sector reform organisations • Designed and delivered 36 Module Management Development programmes for Senior Civil Servants and Professors in 8 countries. • Team building expertise- first class from recruitment, selection, management and release. • Reviewed and strengthened ethics policies and integrity, anti-corruption programmes; making revisions, where required, to the Code of Ethics • High-level negotiations at Central, Regional and Municipal/Villages-

Experience

  • Renaissance Marketing Consultants (57 yrs 11 mos)
    • Consultant on Policy İssues
      May 2019 - Present · 7 yrs 2 mos

    • Owner
      Aug 1968 - Present · 57 yrs 11 mos

      * International governance and change management in ex Soviet states * Designed and implemented Management development programmes * Specialised at Policy and Executive level transformation and Quality Services improvement in 9 countries * Implemented major re-organisation and rationalisation programmes in Great Britain and Ireland * Designed and implemented Logistical Supply Chains for Private Sector Internationally.

  • Independent Consultant and Professor of International Governance and Change Management at Renaissance Marketing Consultants.
    Nov 2018 - Present · 7 yrs 8 mos

  • Intelligence Officer at HMG
    Jan 1975 - Present · 51 yrs 6 mos

  • Team leader at Nicolaas Witsen Foundation
    Jan 2008 - Dec 2010 · 3 yrs

    Leading Civil Service Reform projects in Kyrgyzstan