I support ambitious companies & teams successfully scale & transform faster. I help them gain a decisive advantage by focusing on rapid strategy & innovation execution, developing advanced team skills & performance culture. This is typically in the context of a serious commitment to accelerate building digital capabilities & maturity. Open to discuss opportunities as a mentor, facilitator of strategic workshops & retreats or board advisor.
What I offer
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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 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 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
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
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
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
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.
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.