Steven Pleasant is Chief Executive at Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council. He has spent much of his local government career managing Corporate Services. His areas of lead responsibility included community safety, emergency planning, the local strategic partnership and LAA, community consultation and engagement, performance management and improvement, equalities, scrutiny and procurement.

Steven has been involved in mentoring with a range of councils on such issues as performance management, local strategic partnerships, area assemblies, the operation of scrutiny and local public area agreements. He has performed a lead role in five successful Beacon awards.

Steven was Lead Officer for the North West Centre of Excellence for three years and took a leading role in the development of the new Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnership (RIEP). He is now the chair of the North West e-Government Group (NWeGG) which has been successfully supporting public service improvement and transformation across the North West region for the last nine years.