Introduction


I have had the good fortune to experience extremely high performance team environments.

Achieving what other businesses called "the impossible" and being "...first to..." and "...best at..." was normal.


I have also experienced the more common other-world businesses, performing well below their potential.


PwC recruited me to build a Lean Practice. The mindsets, behaviours and routines based approach, which emulated the high-performance businesses I worked in, grew massively. Clients loved the award-winning approach, generating huge top and bottom-line benefits very quickly and with zero technology investment, It simply blew clients minds and left them capable of being self-sufficient in continuously improving their businesses.


I am now independent, creating huge benefits for clients at a fraction of the cost of "Big-Four".

Career


My entire career has been involved in transformation, in both program roles and operational leadership roles.


From my Electronics and Telecommunications apprenticeship, I developed business systems to support the the creation of Europe's most advanced factory floor, in the new age of digital communications.


I went on have lead roles in several systems design and implementation programs including one of the UK's first SAP R/3 full ERP systems.


I enjoyed the ambitious business outcomes more than the technology and moved into a lead role in establishing and operating one of the world's most respected global shared services.


My reputation, lead to PwC hiring me, where I built the Lean practice, which simply transformed, client businesses, made PwC a lot of money and established my client reputation as a "Trusted Advisor" throughout businesses from the C-suite to the core operation.


I now enjoy the variety of independent consulting to learn and influence in even more business sectors, creating "game-changing" solutions, from the "best consulting spend ever".

I have delivered over £500 million of unexpected value to employers and clients, at a career cost of less than £4 million

My Career Path and Experiences

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Qualifications


  • MBA with Distinction, Liverpool University, 2009
  • MSc Information Systems, Liverpool University, 2001


  • Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute
  • Member of the British Computer Society
  • Chartered IT Professional


  • Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, George Group, 2006


  • BTEC HNC Computer Studies, 1988
  • BTEC ONC Electronics and Telecommunications, 1985

Psychometrics


Belbins Team Member Profile:-


  • Plant - I generate creative ideas with a strong strategic view, handling great complexity very well
  • Monitor/Evaluator - I have the integrity to honestly evaluate ideas and see the weaknesses to be addressed, coupled with the ability to drill down to root-causes and "reality"
  • Resource Investigator - I influence across networks effectively, to draw together the right people to achieve the most challenging outcomes


Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®️:-


ENTP - Inventive, enthusiastic, strategic, enterprising, inquisitive, versatile. Enjoy new ideas and challenges, value inspiration.


  • Extraversion - Focuses energy from the outer world of people and experiences
  • iNtuition - Focuses on possibilities and what might be
  • Thinking - Steps out of situations to analyze them dispassionately. Prefers to make decisions on the basis of objective logic
  • Perceiving - spontaneous and adaptable, keeping options open

Traits


Many times, I have proven myself as someone that "...does the right thing...", even in the most challenging situations


People tell me that I am a very strategic thinker, seeing the bigger picture and able to create complex, sophisticated ideas


I connect well with people throughout organisations, from the c-suite to the core operation, displaying experiential empathy and hearing what concerns people


As a routinely "trusted advisor", I am able to share observations and ideas, to an extent that others will not or cannot do so, in a coaching style


I am told I can see things that others miss, like a tell-tale sign of an underlying issue, over in one-direction while everybody else is looking in another direction


I have an eye for detail, getting very hands-on into finding the truth


I have a natural coaching style with the habit of enabling others to fill my role or eliminating the need for my role


360 feedback demonstrates a strong self-awareness and an ability to adapt well

You Maybe Interested


Since leaving PwC I have been an external advisor/SME Presenter at PwC Global Masterclasses (Lean & Business Transformation)


I have a photography hobby business, for my spare time, doing commercial shoots, portraits, actors' headshots and so on


I volunteer as a Responder for 4x4 Response Wales, an owner/driver charity providing critical transport at times of difficulty


I passed my NPTC C&G Off-Road Driving and Winch Recovery in 2012 and I passed my HGV Cat C licence in 2021


Swimming is my preferred exercise having been a competitive swimmer and water-polo player through my teens, twenties and thirties

The Medici Effect


I'm fascinated by how businesses create value for their customers and generate profit for themselves.


I bring together impactfull experiences and ideas from a broad range of sectors including:-

  • high-tech manufacturing of electronics and telecommunications
  • high-hazard, safe, bulk chemical manufacture
  • pharmaceuticals and highly regulated environments
  • global business services
  • private hospitals and healthcare
  • food FMCG
  • global investment banking
  • airlines
  • asset management and financial services
  • global, multi-channel media
  • hospitality operations
  • packaging manufacture and recycling
  • global shipping and logistics

Roles I have played


To my great fortune my entire career has been spent involved in massive transformation from various angles:-

  • as a systems developer creating new capabilities
  • as a project member delivering change
  • leading segments of an overall program
  • managing small project teams
  • leading small permanent teams
  • leading large international teams
  • delivering through influence and networks
  • leading a business division and geography
  • covering all aspects of business from employment through welfare, controls assurance to business continuity, health and safety to rewards and recognition - all matters of general management
  • c-suite coach
  • mentor
  • as an educator and business developer
  • a Trusted Advisor to all