Professor Steve Frosdick has been Director of IWI Associates Ltd since 1996. He has two postgraduate degrees (MSc and PhD) and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He was a Founder Member of the UK Football Safety Officers’ Association and is a Faculty Member of both IAAM (the International Association of Assembly Managers) Europe and ESSMA (the European Stadium and Safety Management Association). He is also a Member of the International Institute of Risk and Safety Management. He has qualifications in programme project management and is government security cleared to SC level. He is an active Christian and lives on the coast in Hampshire, UK.
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Professor Steve Frosdick has been Director of IWI Associates Ltd since 1996. He has two postgraduate degrees (MSc and PhD) and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He was a Founder Member of the UK Football Safety Officers’ Association and is a Faculty Member of both IAAM (the International Association of Assembly Managers) Europe and ESSMA (the European Stadium and Safety Management Association). He is also a Member of the International Institute of Risk and Safety Management. He has qualifications in programme project management and is government security cleared to SC level. He is an active Christian and lives on the coast in Hampshire, UK.
Through IWI Associates, Steve has completed a wide variety of consultancy, research and training projects. His strategic risk management experience includes programme and project management, strategic and change management, corporate governance, safety and security at sports grounds, events management, policing, community and race relations, information security, general business risk and benefits management. Clients have included various police and criminal justice organisations, public assembly facilities managers and their representative organisations, sporting bodies, conference organisers, universities and publishers. Recent sports clients include Aviva Stadium, Dublin, Blackburn Rovers FC, West Ham United FC, and the Hellenic Football Federation. Recent criminal justice clients include Hertfordshire Constabulary and the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Criminal Justice Board.
Steve has been involved in academia since 1991 and has developed an international reputation as a risk management expert, particularly in safety and security at sports grounds. He has consulted for clients and taught at universities and conferences in the UK, US, Mauritius and throughout Europe. He has published four books and over 50 other papers. He is a frequent contributor to ‘Stadium & Arena Management’ magazine and was the editor of the UK football authorities’ Training Package for Stewarding at Football Grounds in 1996, 2003 and 2005. In 2007 he was appointed as a Visiting Professor in the Centre for Applied Criminology at Birmingham City University. During 2008 he led the safety and security function for the inaugural season of the football-themed motor racing series, Superleague Formula.
From 1979 to 1995, Steve worked as a police officer in a wide variety of operational and support posts. Operationally, he served as patrol officer, custody officer, shift manager and operations manager. In other roles he gained experience in corporate strategy, project management, the management of risk, information management, quality improvement, performance measurement and cognitive assessment. He retired following a career break during which he successfully developed a consultancy career.
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Andy Odell is a retired police Chief Superintendent who specialises in business analysis, project management and change management in major large public sector organisations.