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Business Health-Check

Business Health-Check

Conducts comprehensive assessments of operations, processes, and team dynamics to identify inefficiencies and risks. This service delivers actionable recommendations that optimize performance and ensure sustainable success.

Executive Advisor

Executive Advisor

Provides strategic advisory to executives and boards to navigate challenges, align teams, and drive impactful decisions. This service enhances leadership capabilities while ensuring alignment with organizational goals.

Leadership Development

Leadership Development

Builds high-performing leadership teams through tailored frameworks that foster collaboration, innovation, and alignment. This service equips leaders with the tools needed to drive strategic growth and inspire change.

Change Management

Change Management

Guides organizations through transitions by aligning teams with new strategies while minimizing disruption. Tailored frameworks ensure smooth transformations that embed resilience and adaptability across all levels.

Program and Executive Governance

Program and Executive Governance

Develops governance models to enhance transparency, accountability, and decision-making. By implementing real-time tracking and clear criteria, this service aligns stakeholders to deliver strategic outcomes effectively.

Service Improvement

Service Improvement

Reimagines service delivery models to enhance customer experiences and operational outcomes. By leveraging customer insights and continuous improvement frameworks, this service transforms functions into enablers of growth and innovation.

Innovation Strategy

Innovation Strategy

Identifies opportunities for technology adoption and process innovation using proprietary tools. This service implements scalable solutions that future-proof businesses while enhancing competitiveness in dynamic markets.

Third-Party Supplier/Business Partner Rejuvenation

Third-Party Supplier/Business Partner Rejuvenation

Optimizes supplier relationships by renegotiating contracts, improving terms, and embedding collaborative practices. This service drives efficiency, reduces costs, and fosters mutually beneficial partnerships.

Business Acquisition and Integration

Business Acquisition and Integration

Manages acquisition transitions by stabilizing operations, integrating best practices, and revitalizing teams. This service ensures seamless transitions while positioning businesses for long-term growth and operational stability.

Target Operating Model Design

Target Operating Model Design

Designs and implements Target Operating Models that align strategy with execution. By embedding maturity frameworks and continuous improvement, this service optimizes processes, enhances collaboration, and builds resilient structures for sustainable growth.

Cost Rationalization

Cost Rationalization

Identifies inefficiencies and delivers measurable cost-saving opportunities across procurement, shared services, and operations. This service embeds sustainable practices, streamlines processes, and ensures long-term financial efficiency.

Experiences

Shared Services Transformation for a $17B Retail Giant

Shared Services Transformation for a $17B Retail Giant

Reimagined the shared services operating model during a VUCA event, addressing inefficiencies across eight functions. Integrated customer insights, a maturity framework, and continuous improvement elements, resulting in enhanced resilience and customer-focused operations.

Operational Transformation for an $8B Insurance Company

Operational Transformation for an $8B Insurance Company

Led a operational transformation by redesigning the operating model, onboarding leadership, and identifying 10-15% cost-saving opportunities. Delivered a comprehensive roadmap to improve efficiency, supplier diversity, and strategic alignment.

Operations and Procurement Transformation

Operations and Procurement Transformation

Achieved a 35% reduction in third-party supplier spend (exceeding the 30% target) within 18 months. Delivered $350M in annual savings by streamlining supplier relationships and embedding sustainable cost-saving measures.

PE backed M&A Acquisition and Functional Turnaround

PE backed M&A Acquisition and Functional Turnaround

Directed TSA obligations for a PE-led JV’s acquisition of a mortgage lender. Stabilized operations, revitalized teams, and cultivated a $6M portfolio within 12 months while establishing an independent licensed bank and integrating another entity.

Governance Model Design and Implementation | Government

Governance Model Design and Implementation | Government

Designed a governance and IT change model for global stakeholders. Improved transparency, accountability, and decision-making with real-time tracking. Elevated the Business Architecture Group to a global Centre of Excellence.

PE Backed Technology Rationalisation, Restructure and Governance

PE Backed Technology Rationalisation, Restructure and Governance

As interim Global CIO/Transformation Director for a $175M fintech/BPO firm, led technology stabilization and sale prep. Managed 700 staff, optimized services, and enabled £120M sale through cost-saving measures and consolidation.

Cost Rationalisation, Company Restructure and Sale | Financial Service

Cost Rationalisation, Company Restructure and Sale | Financial Service

Restructured shared services as Interim CIO/COO post-overexposure. Navigated administration, facilitated PE sale, and ensured operational continuity during complex restructuring.

Contract Design and Negotiations | International Utilities

Contract Design and Negotiations | International Utilities

Negotiated the group’s largest outsourcing deal with follow-the-sun IT support. Secured 30% better terms, improving service delivery efficiency while fostering mutually beneficial outcomes for client and supplier.

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Roles (/)
  • i.e. Marketing director
  • i.e. Mentor
  • Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
  • Chief Operating Officer (COO)
  • Chief Information Officer (CIO)
  • Interim CxO
  • Board Advisor
  • Strategic Advisor
  • Fractional CxO
  • Fractional COO
  • Fractional Strategy And Operations
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Industries (/)
  • i.e. Tech
  • i.e. Education
  • Government
  • Retail
  • Insurance
  • Banking & financial services
  • Utilities
  • Professional services
  • Information technology (IT)
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Career experience

21-30 years

Regions
  • Australia & Oceania, 
  • Europe, 
  • North America (west coast), 
  • North America (east coast)
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Skills (/)
  • i.e. Research
  • i.e. Branding
  • Resilience
  • Decisiveness
  • Executive Leadership
  • Cross-functional Collaborations
  • Passion and enthusiasm
  • Creativity and innovation facilitation
  • Optimism
  • Self-confidence
  • Persuasion - Winning Others Over
  • Relationship Building
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Keywords (/)
  • i.e. Digital nomad
  • i.e. Ex-Google
  • Ethical
  • supportive
  • Empowerment
  • humble
  • Shared services
  • Perceptive Listener
  • Outcome driven
  • Builder of High Performing Teams
  • enabler
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