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What I offer

Simpler & faster strategy & innovation execution

Simpler & faster strategy & innovation execution

I help ambitious companies & teams use the latest and rapid methods to accelerate strategy & innovation execution. Examples include strategy sprints, optimizing the power of structured & thoughtful collaboration, as well as the digitalization of strategy & innovation functions.

Digital 'company' advisor & mentor

Digital 'company' advisor & mentor

I help companies & teams design & implement the changes necessary to become a truly 'digital company'. This involves accelerating the building of digital capabilities & maturity supported with advanced team skills driving a digital performance culture.

Help teams build their best culture

Help teams build their best culture

I help teams be at their best by maximizing the performance factors to achieve successful results. This includes alignment and clarity of ambition, communication methods, culture, roles, skills development and ways of working, structured creativity, problem-solving & solution design.

Design & facilitation of executive & team retreats & workshops

Design & facilitation of executive & team retreats & workshops

Well-planned & well-executed retreats & workshops are superpowers for ambitious companies & teams. I collaborate to carefully design & deliver high-impact events which make full use of all of the talents of the team arriving at tested & aligned decisions & actions.

Design & rapid assessment of corporate governance

Design & rapid assessment of corporate governance

I help with design & rapid assessment of governance arrangements in fast-moving, high-risk & low control environments. Offer includes integration of latest good governance & ethics principles & practices with effective control policies, processes, people, technology & oversight.

Experiences

Advisor & mentor on transformation journey to the 'digital company'

Advisor & mentor on transformation journey to the 'digital company'

Experienced advisor & mentor helping ambitious companies & teams accelerate building their digital capabilities & maturity through rapid strategy & innovation execution, developing advanced team skills & driving a digital performance culture.

Designed & led digital transformation program for senior executives

Designed & led digital transformation program for senior executives

Designed & led 3 day discovery program on digital transformation & advanced implementation methods for 50 senior executives in Mauritius. Content (with case studies) included innovation horizons, 5G networks, automation, data analytics, machine learning, AI, blockchain & IoT with industry partners.

Board experience

Board experience

Board Member of not-for-profit providing specialist services supporting victims & witnesses of crime (£4M pa). Board Member of public agency (Ministerial appointment) responsible for sport development (£30M investment). Chaired development of Outdoor Recreation Strategy & investment programme.

Winning business internationally thru complex procurement competitions

Winning business internationally thru complex procurement competitions

Record of success winning new business through complex procurement competitions in UK & emerging markets including forming commercial partnership agreements. Includes several international multi-disciplinary framework agreements (>$100M) and consulting assignments (up to $10M).

Led delivery unit design & setup in Philippines' largest organization

Led delivery unit design & setup in Philippines' largest organization

Department of Education is the Philippines' largest organization: annual budget of $14B, more than 200 divisions & 1M staff. Designed, recruited & launched in less than 3 months the first program delivery unit to accelerate nationwide delivery of 50 major programs supporting education services.

Awarded MBE for pioneering design & setup of services to veterans

Awarded MBE for pioneering design & setup of services to veterans

Led detailed organisational & service design & launch of an innovative £12M project providing specialist support services for c60,000 military veterans & their families in Northern Ireland. This was a highly sensitive & strategically significant initiative which required Ministerial approval.

Assessments of good governance, accountability & ethics

Assessments of good governance, accountability & ethics

Conducted several rapid assessments of governance, accountability & internal control arrangements in complex, high-risk & low control environments. Diverse experience includes client assessments in Kosovo, Iraq, Pakistan & Philippines plus 'at home' in UK & Ireland.

Coach to World Championship level orienteers

Coach to World Championship level orienteers

Athletic & mental performance coach to junior & senior orienteers selected for & competed at multiple World Championships. Included coaching Ireland's most successful female international orienteer from not qualifying for World Finals to Ireland's highest placed finish within 2 year period.

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  • i.e. Marketing director
  • i.e. Mentor
  • Mentor
  • Board Advisor
  • Strategic Advisor
  • Digital Transformation Consultant
  • Facilitator
  • Team Dynamics Facilitator
  • Change Management Consultant
  • Change Strategist
  • Strategy & Change Consultant
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Industries (/)
  • i.e. Tech
  • i.e. Education
  • Scaleups
  • Digital
  • Defence
  • Business consulting and services
  • Strategy consulting
  • Non profit organisation
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Career experience

31+ years

Regions
  • Africa, 
  • Australia & Oceania, 
  • Caribbean, 
  • Central & South America, 
  • Central & South Asia, 
  • Europe, 
  • Middle East, 
  • North America (east coast), 
  • North America (west coast), 
  • Northeastern Asia, 
  • Southeastern Asia
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Skills (/)
  • i.e. Research
  • i.e. Branding
  • Digital Transformation
  • Change Management
  • Strategy & Business Model Development
  • Strategy Execution
  • Board Governance
  • Corporate Governance
  • Defense Sector
  • Building high performing teams
  • Workshop Facilitation (online/in-person)
  • Collaborative Innovation
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Keywords (/)
  • i.e. Digital nomad
  • i.e. Ex-Google
  • Business mentor
  • Board Advisor
  • culture builder
  • Emerging Markets
  • Facilitator
  • Innovation Consultant
  • Start up and Scale up, Digital, Cultural and business wide Transformation
  • Organisational change leader
  • Team Development
  • Governance Expert
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