RECOMMENDATIONS

Sally Aitchison MBE - Managing Director Cash For Kids charity.

Cash for Kids is Bauer radio’s own charity. Operating in 22 locations across the UK the charity fundraises all year and grants to help children who are living in poverty or living with an illness or disability. 

Owen was the Group Content Director for these stations and delivered a new strategy from local control to a group centrally driven content strategy. This level of change impacts on all relationships and could have been a significant challenge for us. Owen was a Trustee on our England board and worked with myself and our Marketing Director to ensure that we could create a cohesive and successful fundraising strategy. By creating 3 major pillars of fundraising which would live across all sites, unified in all respects, we were able to achieve much bigger results with an ‘all boats rising ‘ effect. Owen and his central team supported us brilliantly and consistently. 

On a personal note Owen is funny and warm with an openness that is a pleasure to work with.

Vicky Davenport - Team Lead - Pharmacy eHospital & Informatics, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Owen’s ability to ask the right questions to get to the route of our challenges was very impressive. With his warm, collaborative style and infectious enthusiasm, he has helped transform the management of our business in just a few short weeks. His guidance and support has helped us energise and engage our team as well as connecting more successfully with the rest of the Trust.

Sarah Barnes - People and Culture Director, Bauer Media UK.

Owen worked at Bauer Radio for six years as Content Director running our City Network across twenty-two locations in the North of England and Scotland.  He led a large team of 150, across multiple disciplines and tiers of management during a transformational period.  As a radio and broadcast strategist Owen is incredibly creative, energetic and enthusiastic and works collaboratively to get the best possible results.

He is an inspirational coach and mentor and a brilliant speaker and presenter with a superb sense of humour.   

I would highly recommend working with Owen.

Julian McBride - Founder and Managing Director - iSecure Group.

Working with Owen gave me the confidence to start my own business, and under his guidance iSecure has grown at a rapid rate in the last 12 months. From the outset he made the whole process simple and straight forward, helping us to identify a gap in the market, and then refining our offering to deliver a best-in-class product and unrivalled customer service.

Owen helped us design the right culture for our business and understands our vision. He’s the first person I consult with when l need to stress-test ideas and explore new opportunities.

If you’ve always wanted to set-up your business, then I can highly recommend working with Owen.

Scott McCullough - Regional Commercial Director Newscorp, Australia.

I had the pleasure of working with Owen at ARN and he was always focused on the big picture outcomes. Whether through his strategy, creative executions or dealing with clients. Owen had a fantastic tenure with regards to his core KPI - the ratings, team leadership and culture as well as playing a key role in our 35% rev jump. 

Being a Commercial Director dealing with content has never been so easy.

Cath Ellington - Group Commercial Director, Bauer Media UK.

In the five years I worked alongside Owen, he helped transform 22 individual radio station content teams across the north of England and Scotland, into what is now the Bauer City Network, a cohesive unit with a clear vision, working towards shared goal. 

As the lead programmer of this change, he faced  some resistance, but with his trademark enthusiasm, belief and persuasive manner, he gradually made the changes needed to bring the network up to date, and the people with him.

He’s a natural leader who understands how to get the best from the individual, as well as the collective. After many years working with high-performing talent across the UK and Australia, his skills in people-management and coaching are second to none.

He’s an expert in content creation who uses his vast international experience to deliver high-value commercial opportunities that clients love.    

A twenty year veteran of an ever-changing industry, Owen is adept at designing and implementing change management across a wide variety of sectors and platforms.

If you’re looking to create market leading content, inject energy, fresh thinking and momentum into your business, or need to implement change, I would highly recommend using ORCC. 

Chris Cotton - Regional Content Director, Bauer Media UK

Owen is a strong leader with a positive and determined approach to this work. He communicates his vision with clarity and contagious enthusiasm. 

Owen’s extensive broadcasting experience means he offers value to a company at multiple levels. His ability as a strategic thinker enables him to formulate effective plans to meet business objectives and construct attractive brand models. On a day to day basis, as a creative he successfully contributes to developing new content, promotional tactics and client solutions. 

He is extremely solution oriented, with a fantastic skill for finding the happy solution between multiple (seemingly) conflicting objectives. An incredible asset to any complex industry with numerous stakeholders.

Owen is passionate about the development of his teams. As an experienced talent coach, his skill in tailoring his communication style to different personality types is so effective it seems as if he has an innate ability for determining what motivates individuals.

He’s a great leader and a great guy, always helpful and up for a chat.