Hilary Samson-Barry - Training Consultant
Hilary Samson-Barry has a wide range of experience initiating and driving change to tackle inequalities in health, well-being and prosperity, and in bringing partners together across policy makers, statutory and non statutory agencies, as well in the private sector.
She led children's families and maternity policy in the Department of Health for five years, marked by significant policy and strategy achievements and increasingly focusing on how policy and strategy can become effective implementation. Prior to this she was a director of the Women and Equality Unit in the then Department of Trade and Industry and the Cabinet Office.
Hilary also has a range of other public sector experiences at local level, including Head of Policy Integration and Health at the GLA, where she set up the London Health Commission in a public, private, voluntary sector partnership committed to improving health and tackling inequalities across London.
In her earlier career she was a personnel manager prior to gaining an MBA and becoming a general management consultant. She consulted to FTSE and Fortune 100 companies in Europe and USA as well as public sector organisations at a national, regional and local level.
