Management Team

Damian Ryan

Damian has over 15 years experience of managing, designing and delivering management development and executive education programmes both in the corporate and university sectors.  He has considerable programme director and project management experience, having designed and delivered executive MBA programmes as well as numerous short courses in business & strategy.

Prior to his career in leadership/management development Damian held executive positions in marketing and planning in the packaging industry with Carnaud Metal Box and also in the food industry.

For 10 years he was a senior lecturer in strategic management & decision making, working at Sheffield University Management School, Sheffield Business School and Derbyshire Business School.  He has presented papers on strategy & strategic leadership at management conferences in both the UK & USA.

Ken Delany-Moore

Ken is a noted practitioner in accountancy training and education, with over 20 years experience.  He learnt his 'trade' in further education colleges before progressing, first to Sheffield Hallam University and later to Sheffield University Management School, teaching on CIMA and other professional courses.

He has worked for a variety of corporate clients, especially in the healthcare & pharmaceutical industries, such as Novartis, Hospital Trusts and biomedical start-ups on financial & management accounting topics.  He has developed distance learning and web-based instructional materials on topics such as performance management for the Institute of Public Rights of Way Officers.

Ken's special interest is in the use of different learning & development methods to increase flexibility of learning and the promotion of deep learning.  His work includes the use of distance & web-based learning, learning journals and problem/learner based learning methods.  He has a Masters degree in Education.

Joan Sidorowicz

Joan has been a highly regarded senior manager at Sheffield Hallam University holding positions at both faculty and central registry levels.

She was head of Examination & Awards, managing a department responsible for over 30,000 university and affiliated students.  Her department organised and conducted conferment ceremonies and all aspects of the examinations and awards process including working with external service providers.

She brings this wealth of management experience to the operation of Azilian's client support and management services activities.