Nicky Moffat
{{Short description|British Army officer (born 1962)}}
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{{Infobox military person
|honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE}}
|name = Nicky Moffat
|birth_date = {{birth year and age|1962}}
|branch = Women's Royal Army Corps
|rank = Brigadier
|awards = 100 Women (BBC)
}}
Brigadier Nicola Patricia Moffat,{{cite web|title=What Good Leadership Looks Like: People|url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/08821532/officers|publisher=Companies House|accessdate=1 December 2016}} {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE}} (born 1962Aged 49 in Jan 2012 (Hopkins), aged 50 in June 2012 (Rayment), therefore born Jan-June 1962.) was the highest-ranking woman in the British Army from 2009 until her resignation in 2012.{{cite news|last1=Hopkins|first1=Nick|title=Meet Nicky Moffat, the highest ranked woman in the British army|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/jan/11/nicky-moffat-highest-ranking-woman-army|accessdate=1 December 2016|work=The Guardian|date=11 January 2012}}{{cite news|last1=Rayment|first1=Sean|title=Army's most senior female officer quits amid cuts anger|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/9366975/Armys-most-senior-female-officer-quits-amid-cuts-anger.html|accessdate=19 August 2019|work=The Telegraph|date=30 June 2012}}{{cite news|last1=Bennhold|first1=Katrin|title=Why Did Britain's Highest-Ranking Female Soldier Resign?|url=http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/03/why-did-britains-highest-ranking-female-soldier-resign/?_r=0|accessdate=19 August 2019|work=New York Times|date=3 July 2012}} She is now a leadership consultant and speaker.{{cite web|title=Nicky Moffat CBE, Leadership Consultant, Speaker & Coach|url=http://europeandiversityawards.com/portfolio/nicky-mofatt-cbe-leadership-consultant-speaker-what-good-leadership-looks-like-ltd/|publisher=European Diversity Awards|accessdate=1 December 2016}}
Life
Moffat graduated in 1985 with a B.A. in Hispanic Studies from the University of Liverpool,{{cite web|title=Nicky Moffat|url=https://uk.linkedin.com/in/nickymoffatcbe|website=Linked In|accessdate=1 December 2016}} though has said that she "almost got booted out" for neglecting her studies in favour of the Officers' Training Corps' activities. In 1995 she gained an MA in Military Studies, Defence from Cranfield University.
She joined the then Women's Royal Army Corps after university, and stayed in the army 26 years, including a spell as military private secretary to Geoff Hoon while he was Minister of Defence. Her final posting before resigning was as Armed Forces head of pay and strategic manning at the Ministry of Defence. She took voluntary redundancy in 2012, saying "After a long and rewarding career, I am looking forward to new challenges, utilizing the wealth of experience the military has afforded me." Her resignation caused some surprise, as six months earlier she had given an interview enthusing about the army as a career for women. She has founded the What Good Leadership Looks Like consultancy,{{cite web|last1=Jacobs|first1=Katie|title=Leadership lessons from the British Army|url=http://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/article-details/leadership-lessons-from-the-british-army-1|website=HR|accessdate=1 December 2016|date=14 October 2015}} and appears as a speaker on awards panels.{{cite web|title=Nicky Moffat CBE|url=http://www.citywomenflaward.co.uk/judging-process/judging-panel/nicky-moffat-cbe/|website=Future Leaders Award: Main judging panel|publisher=Women in the City|accessdate=1 December 2016}}
In 2018, Moffat appeared as a primary instructor in the BBC living history series Secret Agent Selection: WW2, which later released on Netflix as Churchill's Secret Agents: The New Recruits. Alongside Lieutenant Colonel Adrian Weale and military psychologist Mike Rennie, Moffat was tasked with reviving and recreating the training process of the Special Operations Executive and determine whether the 14 new candidates have what it takes to survive as a secret agent in Nazi-occupied Europe.{{cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8268994/ | title=Secret Agent Selection: WW2 | website=IMDb }}
Recognition
Moffat was appointed CBE in the 2012 New Year Honours, cited as "Late Adjutant General's Corps (Staff and Personnel Support Branch)".{{London Gazette |issue= 60009 |date=31 December 2011 | |page=5 |supp=y }}
She was selected as one of the BBC's 100 Women in 2014, cited as "Highest Ranked woman in British Armed Forces".{{cite web|title=Who are the 100 Women 2014?|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-29758792|website=BBC News|accessdate=19 August 2019|date=26 October 2014}}
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Category:Women in the British Army
Category:Women's Royal Army Corps officers
Category:Adjutant General's Corps officers
Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Category:Alumni of the University of Liverpool
Category:Alumni of Cranfield University
Category:20th-century British Army personnel
Category:21st-century British Army personnel
Category:British Army brigadiers
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