Meet the team

Matt Girdlestone

A passionate and driven leader, Matt thrives in helping teams deliver transformational change and improvements. He helps clients design solutions that achieve tangible outputs building towards a vision or better future. Matt holds a proven track record in service and digital transformation programmes across the public sector and approaches all tasks using the values of transparency and authenticity. Matt is a positive, resilient and versatile leader. Striving for progress and ensuring inclusivity and collective contributions to achieve success.

Matt joined Skills for Health from Wiltshire Police, where he held a number of different operational and leadership roles. He has a record of strong community engagement, and a deep knowledge of justice sector leadership, funding, and meeting challenging public demands. He brings this knowledge and experience to bear through all his client work, providing a sector specialist partnership that helps organisations achieve their aims and support the delivery of better service user outcomes.