
This can be training, advising or mentoring. I particularly enjoy working with purpose-driven SME boards.
Before crafting my portfolio career, I held senior leadership roles in the military and a public sector infrastructure company. What drives me? I'm passionate about creating the future with care.
What I offer

Chartered Director services
I provide support and services to SME Boards, ranging from informal pro-bono mentoring to board training and board effectiveness reviews.
You wouldn't let and unqualified practitioner diagnose your medical needs, so why allow the health of your company to be diagnosed by an unqualified board?

D7 Advisers Ltd
Founded in 2022, D7 Advisers helps founders, boards, programmes and projects make better quality decisions using a high-end blend of business and military planning and decision-making skills.

Board Trustee at HighGround
HighGround helps Service Leavers, Reservists and Veterans to work out what military skills and experience they have, how they will map into the land-based sector and how to access the many opportunities it offers for employment and self-employment.

Onboarding Officers - NED Programme Ambassador
OnBoarding Officers is an exclusive community for exiting military officers to help them transfer their skills into the commercial world and become world-class business leaders.
Experiences

Brexit resilience planning Director
Parachuted into Highways England Ltd as the Special Projects Director to form and lead a new business unit responsible for Brexit resilience planning across the company and into local and central government. A little like being on military operations but without being shot at!

Strategy adviser
Former adviser to The LandApp, an early-stage startup bringing technology and nature together so that everyone from landowners, farmers, farm advisors, land agents, ecologists and surveyors can better protect the landscape and secure its future.

UK Armed Forces
First career spent serving in the UK, Germany, Hong Kong, Nepal, the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan with the British Army and wider Defence. Please just ask if you would like to know more. Best job...forming and leading the UK Media Communications unit in Afghanistan. Left for greater challenge.