Max Wide is the Strategic Director of Business Change at Bristol City Council. Previously, Max worked for the Local Government consulting firm IMPOWER, where he led their work on Children’s Services Partnerships in Sandwell MBC and Doncaster. Max’s career began in welfare rights and led, through working with the homeless in the third sector, to Local Government. As a published author, Max has written extensively about Organisational Development, Cultural Change and Leadership in Political Environments. Max also spent six years at BT Global Services as Director of Local Government Strategy and has been recognized by LGC as one of the top thirty most influential voices in Local Government.
