Julia Forrester
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Tracey Wilson
I’ve worked Julia for 18 months on a Digital Transformation Programme during which, she’s been an outstanding programme manager. Julia’s comfortable with ambiguity, extremely resilient and very adept at overcoming adversity. With any large programmes, come challenges. Julia’s helped my workstream to overcome these through influencing, skilled negotiation and consequence management. Her programme management skills are impressive – she understands the bigger picture and help others to see it too. A key strength of Julia’s is her ability to pull together information from multiple sources and workstreams to help her stakeholders understand impacts and unintended consequences. This enabled me to make good decisions based on logic and taking into account any risks. She’s seamlessly managed multiple strands of the programme so that it remains on track and her meticulous action and decision logging have saved us all a lot of time and effort. Julia manages people extremely well – both peers and upwards. She encourages a sense of urgency and ownership of action in others so that deadlines are met with quality work. No matter the pressures of the programme, she remains calm, thoughtful and proactive and a role model for how programme management should be done.
Vincent Whitworth
From 2011-2019 while I was a church leader at St Peters Halliwell; Julia was responsible for running and leading the youth band. During this period Julia showed exceptional skills in mentoring and developing these young people aged 14-18 in using their musical gifts. Julia showed great commitment to the young people in leading this group. Julia is gifted at building a rapport with young people and very quickly earns their respect. Julia's strong faith inspired the young people in their own faith and expression of their faith through music. I strongly recommend Julia as someone who has many gifts to offer in the Christian Sector.
Tracey Wilson
I’ve worked Julia for 18 months on a Digital Transformation Programme during which, she’s been an outstanding programme manager. Julia’s comfortable with ambiguity, extremely resilient and very adept at overcoming adversity. With any large programmes, come challenges. Julia’s helped my workstream to overcome these through influencing, skilled negotiation and consequence management. Her programme management skills are impressive – she understands the bigger picture and help others to see it too. A key strength of Julia’s is her ability to pull together information from multiple sources and workstreams to help her stakeholders understand impacts and unintended consequences. This enabled me to make good decisions based on logic and taking into account any risks. She’s seamlessly managed multiple strands of the programme so that it remains on track and her meticulous action and decision logging have saved us all a lot of time and effort. Julia manages people extremely well – both peers and upwards. She encourages a sense of urgency and ownership of action in others so that deadlines are met with quality work. No matter the pressures of the programme, she remains calm, thoughtful and proactive and a role model for how programme management should be done.
Vincent Whitworth
From 2011-2019 while I was a church leader at St Peters Halliwell; Julia was responsible for running and leading the youth band. During this period Julia showed exceptional skills in mentoring and developing these young people aged 14-18 in using their musical gifts. Julia showed great commitment to the young people in leading this group. Julia is gifted at building a rapport with young people and very quickly earns their respect. Julia's strong faith inspired the young people in their own faith and expression of their faith through music. I strongly recommend Julia as someone who has many gifts to offer in the Christian Sector.
Tracey Wilson
I’ve worked Julia for 18 months on a Digital Transformation Programme during which, she’s been an outstanding programme manager. Julia’s comfortable with ambiguity, extremely resilient and very adept at overcoming adversity. With any large programmes, come challenges. Julia’s helped my workstream to overcome these through influencing, skilled negotiation and consequence management. Her programme management skills are impressive – she understands the bigger picture and help others to see it too. A key strength of Julia’s is her ability to pull together information from multiple sources and workstreams to help her stakeholders understand impacts and unintended consequences. This enabled me to make good decisions based on logic and taking into account any risks. She’s seamlessly managed multiple strands of the programme so that it remains on track and her meticulous action and decision logging have saved us all a lot of time and effort. Julia manages people extremely well – both peers and upwards. She encourages a sense of urgency and ownership of action in others so that deadlines are met with quality work. No matter the pressures of the programme, she remains calm, thoughtful and proactive and a role model for how programme management should be done.
Vincent Whitworth
From 2011-2019 while I was a church leader at St Peters Halliwell; Julia was responsible for running and leading the youth band. During this period Julia showed exceptional skills in mentoring and developing these young people aged 14-18 in using their musical gifts. Julia showed great commitment to the young people in leading this group. Julia is gifted at building a rapport with young people and very quickly earns their respect. Julia's strong faith inspired the young people in their own faith and expression of their faith through music. I strongly recommend Julia as someone who has many gifts to offer in the Christian Sector.
Tracey Wilson
I’ve worked Julia for 18 months on a Digital Transformation Programme during which, she’s been an outstanding programme manager. Julia’s comfortable with ambiguity, extremely resilient and very adept at overcoming adversity. With any large programmes, come challenges. Julia’s helped my workstream to overcome these through influencing, skilled negotiation and consequence management. Her programme management skills are impressive – she understands the bigger picture and help others to see it too. A key strength of Julia’s is her ability to pull together information from multiple sources and workstreams to help her stakeholders understand impacts and unintended consequences. This enabled me to make good decisions based on logic and taking into account any risks. She’s seamlessly managed multiple strands of the programme so that it remains on track and her meticulous action and decision logging have saved us all a lot of time and effort. Julia manages people extremely well – both peers and upwards. She encourages a sense of urgency and ownership of action in others so that deadlines are met with quality work. No matter the pressures of the programme, she remains calm, thoughtful and proactive and a role model for how programme management should be done.
Vincent Whitworth
From 2011-2019 while I was a church leader at St Peters Halliwell; Julia was responsible for running and leading the youth band. During this period Julia showed exceptional skills in mentoring and developing these young people aged 14-18 in using their musical gifts. Julia showed great commitment to the young people in leading this group. Julia is gifted at building a rapport with young people and very quickly earns their respect. Julia's strong faith inspired the young people in their own faith and expression of their faith through music. I strongly recommend Julia as someone who has many gifts to offer in the Christian Sector.
Credentials
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Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
Scrum.orgNov, 2018- Oct, 2024 -
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (ICGB)
BQFDec, 2017- Oct, 2024 -
Language Leader
The WriterJul, 2016- Oct, 2024 -
The Warwick Operations management Programme
Executive Education at Warwick Business SchoolMay, 2005- Oct, 2024 -
Financial Planning Certificate
The Chartered Insurance InstituteAug, 1995- Oct, 2024 -
Banking Certificate
The Chartered Institute of BankersAug, 1988- Oct, 2024 -
ISO 9002 Internal Auditor
Lloyds registered quality assuranceSep, 1998- Oct, 2024
Experience
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Canon Slade School
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United Kingdom
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Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Office Manager
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Mar 2020 - Present
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RBS
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Russian Federation
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Business Consulting and Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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HR Transformation Workstream Lead
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May 2017 - Dec 2019
Leading the Workday process design, testing and implementation of Talent, Succession and Performance Management for RBS. Partnering with senior stakeholders and subject matter experts through superior stakeholder managment skills and the ability to adapt and evolve whilst managing colleagues through a change process and sticking challenging them to work to agreed design principles.Additionally, I led the design work on the Colleague Journey, linking together applications and portals to streamline their experience.The programme is on plan to deliver in 2019. Show less
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Global Process Manager
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Nov 2012 - May 2017
I set up a new HR Process Management team to identify, document and improve HR processes, a key strategic deliverable for HR. This work enabled various projects to be approved which I delivered. One example being to remove 25 hours from the process cycle time resulting in a saving of £80k per annum and a much better colleague experience.I achieved the Six Sigma Greenbelt accreditation to support my work and through strong stakeholder management of Global process owners, streamlined and globally aligned HR processes from over 1000 to 560. Show less
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Operations & Business Support Manager
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Jul 1996 - Nov 2012
Provision of operational leadership and support through a variety of roles in different business areas of the Bank. Managing large scale operations to deliver services to customers and colleagues.Typically, this included budget responsibility, risk management, business continuity planning,training and development and building networks with other financial organisations. During this time, I led the relocation and merger of an operational centre of c450 colleagues.
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Bank Official & Adviser
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Mar 1987 - Jul 1996
I joined the Bank from school and delivered all front and back office services to our customers at a variety of small branches.
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Education
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Canon Slade Church of England
GCSE