Experience

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  Brother Industries, Ltd.

  • Professor, Founder & Managing Partner

    • Feb 2019 - Present

    Delivering an extensive suite of Leadership Development Programmes, L&D workshops, toolkits, designed and delivered for both public sector and private sector Blue Chip clients [including 6 of the Top 10 UK companies].

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  Brother Industries, Ltd.

  • Leadership Development Programme Manager

    • Sep 2015 - Jan 2016

    Designed, developed & facilitated a company-wide talent management programme to develop future leaders for this Japanese manufacturer, based in Wales & Slovakia

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  AirTanker

  • Interim Transformation Director

    • May 2014 - Aug 2015

    New company formed out of a £13bn PFI between Airbus, Rolls Royce, Thales, Cobham & V.T.Group. Brought in to manage the cultural integration using an active engagement process for employees to produce an integrated and shared Mission, Vision and Values. Built a behavioural competency framework aligned with the values, and used these competencies to create a new performance development review process. Laid the foundations for a high performance culture with a dashboard of metrics to drive it forward.

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  International Sports Management, Inc.

  • Interim Change Director

    • Aug 2013 - Apr 2014

    A rapidly growing leisure and sports goods business, supplying prestige Premiership Football clubs and national chains of health clubs. Tasked with improving capabilities across the entire business end-to-end, in order to deliver consistently high quality products and services for customers.

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  BAE Systems

  • Change Consultant & Trainer

    • Feb 2012 - Aug 2013

    Worked across many sites within BAE, including Vickers Defence Systems (Leeds & Newcastle), Royal Ordnance (Radway Green), Chester/ Broughton (now Airbus) ... products included main battle tanks, small arms & ammunition and wings for the Airbus.Brought in as a consultant, trainer and facilitator on various cultural change and transformation programmes. Delivered highly interactive workshops for groups ranging from graduates to Directors to facilitate the transformation, and provided coaching support for the leaders throughout the process.

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  Greater Manchester Police

  • Transformation Consultant & Facilitator

    • Sep 2011 - Jan 2012

    Brought in to improve trust and confidence between community groups and the police as part of a government backed strategy to improve cohesion and reduce crime and disorder.

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  The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

  • Cultural Change Leader

    • Jul 2010 - Aug 2011

    The merger of 5 hospital trusts into one formed this new Trust. As part of an integration program aligned with NHS reforms, I led a successful cost reduction project for Bury General Hospital.Facilitated the new Clinical Area Teams into a cohesive group highlighting interdependencies and relationships necessary to improve care. Developed an holistic approach for improving operational efficiencies and effectiveness.

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  Virgin Media

  • Change Consultant and Facilitator

    • May 2008 - Jun 2010

    Devised and managed a leadership development programme to create change champions with a common language and toolkit for making change happen. Project managed the various change strands including O.D. and team development across 3 sites: Lewisham, Watford and Manchester.

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  Lloyds Banking Group

  • Service Excellence Consultant

    • Mar 2007 - May 2008

    The advisor on evaluating the effectiveness of the “Developing Service Excellence Programme” (DSE) throughout the retail bank, prior to rolling out the second phase “Delivering Service Excellence” (DSEII). Improvements made to accelerate the cultural change to embrace service excellence across the branch network.