Visionary

BBC hacks in the South West of England will have their own views on the departure of Brand Grinnell as Executive Editor.

Mark Grinnell can be found on Twitter as TwitGrinnell, (Visionary leader at your favourite radio station. Sarcasm at boss level. Follow me, you're in for a tweet!) on Instagram as Grinnstagram (Visionary leader at your favourite radio station. Also modest) and at Cranfield School of Management where he has enrolled for a three year MSc in Business and Strategic Leadership. 

Mark has just been appointed as Executive Lead to the BBC's Director of Nations, Rhodri Talfan Davies. It's taken quite a time for him to emerge; the job ad closed in September. 

Part of Mark's visionary approach for Radio Devon involved hiring Dirk Anthony of Blank White Page as a consultant. "BBC Radio Devon’s audience has now had three consecutive quarters of growth. Meetings are useful and efficient. We have increased our community engagement. We only do things which improve our audience connection. Dirk worked with us to find new processes and strategies, which maximise our potential and enable us to deliver clear and measurable improvement with our team. The result is a self-sufficient, focussed and proactive team where things get done. Dirk brings a fresh ‘outside’ perspective and good counsel."

Here are Radio Devon's charts over recent years. Mark arrived in 2009.