Who are IWI Associates...

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 IAVM (the International Association of Venue Managers) Europe and ESSMA (the European Stadium and Safety Management Association). Steve is a Fellow of the International Institute of Risk and Safety Management and a registered occupational health and safety consultant. He also has qualifications in MSP programme management and PRINCE 2 project management. He is an active Christian and lives on the coast in Hampshire, UK.  read more +

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 IAVM (the International Association of Venue Managers) Europe and ESSMA (the European Stadium and Safety Management Association). Steve is a Fellow of the International Institute of Risk and Safety Management and a registered occupational health and safety consultant. He also has qualifications in MSP programme management and PRINCE 2 project management. 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 safety and security at sports grounds, events management, policing, programme and project management, strategic and change management, corporate governance, information security, business risk and benefits management. Clients have included public assembly facilities managers and their representative organisations, sporting bodies, universities and publishers as well as various police and criminal justice organisations. Recent clients include UEFA, Aviva Stadium in Ireland, the Millennium Stadium in Wales and the English Premier League clubs Blackburn Rovers and Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Steve has been involved in academia since 1991 and has an international reputation as an independent expert 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 five books and over 100 other papers. Since 2007 he has been 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. Since 2009 he has worked as a main contributor to SSET, the safety and security expert tool published by the European Union, Council of Europe and UEFA. Since 2010 he has worked on the design, development and delivery of stewards training for the UEFA EURO 2012 championships in Poland and Ukraine. He is also currently working with UEFA on a range of other incident-related safety and security projects across Europe.

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 formed IWI Associates.

Alison Frosdick has been the Company Secretary of IWI Associates since 1999 and a Director since 2010. She is responsible for various aspects of administration and compliance. Alison was previously a registered Occupational Therapist with over twenty years experience in the UK National Health Service.

Mark Canning is a very experienced public order specialist who works for a major public sector organisation.

Assignments with IWI include:

• Safety and security management with Superleague Formula motor racing in Europe
• Safety and security audit and operations work at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
• 'Mystery spectating' work at the Oval cricket ground, London
• Safety and security audit work at Blackburn Rovers Football Club
• 'Mystery spectating' work at Thomond Park Stadium, Limerick

Andy Odell is a retired police Chief Superintendent who specialises in business analysis, project management and change management in major large public sector organisations. Andy is a very experienced project and programme manager, with excellent experience of managing and delivering major change in a national police organisation and a police force. He has received formal programme management, change management, risk management, benefits management and PRINCE2 training from four major consultancies whilst working for the Home Office Science & Technology Group, National Police Training and in his own force.
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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. Andy is a very experienced project and programme manager, with excellent experience of managing and delivering major change in a national police organisation and a police force. He has received formal programme management, change management, risk management, benefits management and PRINCE2 training from four major consultancies whilst working for the Home Office Science & Technology Group, National Police Training and in his own force.

He served in uniform posts for the majority of his career and as a senior manager was trained as a Firearms Incident Commander and Pubic Order Commander. For five years he was seconded to what became known as the Police IT Organisation (PITO) with programme and business change management responsibility for the National Strategy for Police Information Systems (NSPIS).

For the last eight years of his police service, much of his work was in leading and/or managing the implementation of force-wide projects ranging from those with an IT element to reviews of force structure. He has acquired a huge breadth of knowledge of the business processes within the police service and in many aspects of the wider criminal justice system. As a result of the senior management posts that he has held in the City of London Police he has acquired an in-depth understanding of the range of administrative, personnel and resource management systems involved. He has been directly involved in national and local inspection processes including Baseline Assessment and the preparation of all force-wide strategic documents. He was responsible for oversight of the Force’s Best Value Review programme. He was responsible for personally reporting the outcome of these inspection processes to the Police Authority.

Assignments with IWI include:

• Crime and Security Management for the railway industry;
• Development of a Corporate Benefits Log for a police force;
• Benefits management work for management of police information;
• Leading the review of a Constabulary’s Police Station Enquiry Office service;
• Programme manager for a Neighbourhood Policing Programme;
• Project manager for an offender management project;
• Project Manager for a Constabulary’s Criminal Justice Review Project; and
• Benefits profiling for a police organisational change programme.

Terry Cox moved into consultancy ten years ago following a successful career in the police service. With the benefit of a Bachelors degree in Law and a Masters in Policy Analysis he is able to blend academic knowledge with real world understanding of management.

Terry has successfully conducted high profile management investigations, acted as an interim senior manager and delivered project and programme management on time and to budget. He has considerable experience of introducing Business Continuity Planning to statutory and non-statutory agencies.
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Terry Cox moved into consultancy ten years ago following a successful career in the police service. With the benefit of a Bachelors degree in Law and a Masters in Policy Analysis he is able to blend academic knowledge with real world understanding of management.

Terry has successfully conducted high profile management investigations, acted as an interim senior manager and delivered project and programme management on time and to budget. He has considerable experience of introducing Business Continuity Planning to statutory and non-statutory agencies.

Terry served for four years as a Non-Executive Director of a challenging National Health Trust delivering mental health and learning disability services across the spectrum from care within the community to high security wards.

Terry has formal qualifications in management, project management including PRINCE 2, process improvement and business assessment.

Over the last ten years Terry has worked at a senior level with an NHS Ambulance Trust, Her Majesty’s Courts Service, the Metropolitan Police Service, Thurrock Council, Essex Probation Service, two private sector IT providers and the Hertfordshire Criminal Justice Board.

His advanced interpersonal skills combine with excellent communication to give a manager with the ability to see the required direction of travel and the personality to take others with him on the journey.

Assignments with IWI include:

• Requirements analysis for the UEFA EURO 2012 Stewards Training Package in Poland and Ukraine
• Content analysis for the UEFA safety and security workshop 2011
• Association of Train Operating Companies programme co-ordination
• Hertfordshire Criminal Justice Board liaison project with Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships
• Hertfordshire Criminal Justice Board police CCTV project

In his leisure time Terry enjoys studying the Great War. A frequent visitor to the battlefield of France and Flanders Terry is an experienced battlefield guide and has written numerous articles on subjects as diverse as the attack on Vimy Ridge, to the underground war of the tunnellers and the army’s use of Bovril as an emergency ration.

Terry resides in Bedfordshire with his wife, Kathryn.

Pawel Kolas is an expert consultant trainer and facilitator from Lowicz in Poland who delivers ‘train the trainer’ courses for the roll-out of the UEFA EURO 2012 Stewards Training Package in Poland and Ukraine. As well as his own work for the Polish Football Federation, he worked with IWI Associates during 2011 to design, develop and deliver such a course to the nominated trainers for the four Ukrainian venues of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv and Donetsk.
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Pawel Kolas is an expert consultant trainer and facilitator from Lowicz in Poland who delivers ‘train the trainer’ courses for the roll-out of the UEFA EURO 2012 Stewards Training Package in Poland and Ukraine. As well as his own work for the Polish Football Federation, he worked with IWI Associates during 2011 to design, develop and deliver such a course to the nominated trainers for the four Ukrainian venues of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv and Donetsk.

Having originally trained for the Catholic ministry, Pawel then took Masters degrees in Philosophy and Business Administration alongside a career in civic administration.

Since 2004, Pawel has been managing director and partner of Jodka Consulting. He speaks five languages and works as an independent consultant and trainer specialising in European projects for local authorities and SMEs