Experience

Curium Solutions

• United Kingdom
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director and Co-founder at Curium Solutions

  • Oct 2008 - Present

  Awards won by Curium Solutions: Business of the year 2019 (under 50 employees): Business Masters Professional Services Company of the Year 2019: Birmingham Business Excellence Business of the Year 2018: Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce Excellence in People Development 2018: GBCC Professional Services Firm 2017: Business Masters Business Services 2017: Mills & Reeves Innovation 50 ………………………………………………… Curium is a people-first change specialist that dedicates itself to empowering people and organisations across the world to achieve their personal and business potential. From the beginning, Curium set itself up to provide a new and different class of support for organisations going through change. Though three core Practices: Change Delivery, Curium Digital and Performance Solutions, Curium tackle the system and process side of change with the mindset and behaviour component to drive sustainable success. Curium's award-winning digital platform embeds tools, techniques, templates and Espresso Learning® modules that truly sustain change by enabling people to do a better job in-the-moment. The passion for Empowering Potential runs through the fabric of the organisation and over the past 10 years, Curium has helped some of the best known global brands. Curium's change services span any industry and customers include NASA, Pepsico, Eon, O2, Tesco, Boots, Kingfisher Group, LBG and Prologis to name just a few. James co-founded Curium Solutions in 2008 with his twin brother Adam Farrow and Andy Dawson, all of whom still work as Directors in the business. At Curium, James is responsible for Futures and Solutions. His work takes him all over the globe where James is a personal coach to numerous executive teams. James speaks regularly on the subjects of leadership and mindset change at client conferences and departments in academic institutions, such as Birmingham Business School, Birmingham City University, Oxford University and Georgetown University in the US. Show less



Legal & General

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Head of Change and IT

  • Jul 2007 - Aug 2008

  Head of Change and IT for Legal & General Insurance- Responsible for all project and programme delivery within the L&G General Insurance business (c.1,000 employees)- Includes IT and non-IT change management- Manage full department comprising large permanent teams in addition to contract and development teams- Department comprises the following teams: Business Analysis, Testing, Project Management, Programme Office, Business Improvement and Business Support

• Head of Business Improvement

  • Nov 2004 - Jul 2007

  Head of Business Improvement department, responsible for:- Delivering major change programme across Operations division in General Insurance business (600+ stakeholder group and multi-million pound benefits). This was recognised at the IFS Innovations Awards 2007 as Most Innovative Customer Service Programme, having delivered industry-leading results- Establishing key capabilities for Change Management and Business Improvement, utilising Lean and Six Sigma principles- Consult on various business areas to design and deliver improvement programmes- Coach to several business managers across the General Insurance business Show less



Tesco

• United Kingdom
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Project Manager

  • Jun 2003 - Nov 2004

  Global projects division - Managed design and implementation of global projects in Asian region (South Korea, Thailand, Taiwan and Malaysia) - Responsible for analysis, design and development of bespoke applications for South Korean business Global projects division - Managed design and implementation of global projects in Asian region (South Korea, Thailand, Taiwan and Malaysia) - Responsible for analysis, design and development of bespoke applications for South Korean business



Marks and Spencer

• United Kingdom
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Business Change Consultant

  • Aug 1997 - Feb 2003

  - Managed end to end business and IT projects across range of departments and financial services products, including Credit Card, Insurance, Life & Pensions, Savings & Investments - Process re-engineering across departmental functions (Operations and Marketing) - Responsible for full change budget in L&P and S&I division - Lead Change Consultant delivering Marketing CRM Data warehousing capability (recognised with industry award) - Managed end to end business and IT projects across range of departments and financial services products, including Credit Card, Insurance, Life & Pensions, Savings & Investments - Process re-engineering across departmental functions (Operations and Marketing) - Responsible for full change budget in L&P and S&I division - Lead Change Consultant delivering Marketing CRM Data warehousing capability (recognised with industry award)