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Dave Nave

For the last 2½ years Paul and I collaborated to create, market, and co-author a book about a remarkable strategy visibility tool for companies striving towards management transparency. Paul has the very unique combination of balancing the needs of the people (hearts, head & hands), process, and goals. ‘The journey is as important as the destination.’ I’ve seen Paul masterfully engage participants while he conducted workshops and developed customized solutions to client’s problems. He creates an environment in workshops and in one-on-one situations, where people feel safe while addressing complex and sometimes difficult topics. Paul is proactive, assertive, with a sense of urgency in driving to reach his goal. Openly challenges the world around him. Independent in putting forth his own ideas, which are often innovative and, if implemented, cause change. He is impatient for results, he puts pressure on himself and others for rapid implementation, and is far less productive when doing routine work. Paul is a confident, independent self-starter with competitive drive, initiative, a sense of urgency, and the ability to make decisions and take responsibility for them. He can react and adjust quickly to changing conditions and come up with ideas for dealing with them. He makes decisions about people and situations quickly. He assesses what's generally going on, and rather than exhaustively research, pulls together the information he has and takes action forcefully. He's confident in his assumptions about any missing information, and is comfortable acting even in the absence of complete information. For Paul, continual progress towards the general goal is more important than always being exactly on track; he's flexible and will make course corrections as necessary, when the time arises. I find his personal and professional integrity beyond reproach. I have very few colleagues that I deeply trust, and I count Paul Osborn as one of them.

Teri Battstone, PMP

I had the pleasure of attending Paul’s training seminar earlier this month,

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Credentials

  • Certified Stealer of Stuff That Works Practitioner
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    Jun, 2015
    - Sep, 2024
  • Certified Scrum Master
    Agile University
    Apr, 2009
    - Sep, 2024
  • Certified Holacracy Practioner
    HolacracyOne, LLC
    Sep, 2014
    - Sep, 2024
  • Project Management Professional
    Project Management Institute
    Jan, 2008
    - Sep, 2024

Experience

    • United Kingdom
    • Business Consulting and Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Business Mentor
      • Jun 2021 - Present

      Transmit Startups administer business startup loans for the British Business Bank. Volunteering as a mentor for them allows me to reach a whole group of entrepreneurs that are often overlooked by the Startup community - from hairdressers to coffee shops to machinists and artists. Transmit Startups administer business startup loans for the British Business Bank. Volunteering as a mentor for them allows me to reach a whole group of entrepreneurs that are often overlooked by the Startup community - from hairdressers to coffee shops to machinists and artists.

    • Executive Consultant
      • Jul 2021 - Present

      HiveMind are a group of incredible senior and executive consultants, so when I received an invitation to join this networked consulting group I didn't hesitate. The varied work with large organizations keeps sharp those skills that I have that are not always needed for early-stage startups, while allowing me to stay true to principles of customer-led product development and new ways of working. HiveMind are a group of incredible senior and executive consultants, so when I received an invitation to join this networked consulting group I didn't hesitate. The varied work with large organizations keeps sharp those skills that I have that are not always needed for early-stage startups, while allowing me to stay true to principles of customer-led product development and new ways of working.

    • United Kingdom
    • Advertising Services
    • Founder
      • Jul 2020 - Present

      See https://startupcircle.uk or our meetup groups (Startup Circle London, and Startup Circle Edinburgh) See https://startupcircle.uk or our meetup groups (Startup Circle London, and Startup Circle Edinburgh)

    • United Kingdom
    • Banking
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Agile Expert
      • Nov 2019 - Mar 2020

      How could I refuse the opportunity to return to Edinburgh to be part of an Agile think-tank and standards-setter at the core of the Royal Bank of Scotland / Natwest !? The challenge? How can you get 60,000 people, across 5 major business areas, in a highly regulated and traditional environment, all working in Complex Adaptive Systems within a truly 'Learning Organization'!So that's why I joined...I was hoping to be able to learn from, and to stand on the shoulders of the giants that have started this journey at RBS, and to work with all RBS's amazingly talented agilists and fellow travellers as we figure it out together....turns out that RBS's commitment to Agile wasn't all it was cracked up to be. The team was disbanded early 2020, just as COVID hit. Oh well...on to the next Big Thing!

    • United States
    • Professional Training and Coaching
    • Lean/Agile Management Consultant
      • Dec 2013 - Nov 2019

      Bringing Agile and Lean collaborative work-practices to the enterprise.I help Chief Executives achieve strategic goals by leveraging disciplined governance processes, motivating self-organized teams, and developing trust-based cross-functional cooperation. Bringing together practical experiences with a fundamental knowledge of principles behind the Agile framework I help organizations understand the 'why'​ of Agile. Understanding why it works enables you to choose the appropriate Agile methodology for yourself - or create your own.I also work with teams and managers to understand and implement Holacratic principles of organic process evolution. Read more about my unique approach to Agile in The Agile PMO series available on Amazon: "Succeeding with Agile Governance"​, and "Succeeding with Agile Teams"​. Visit my website/blog at http://the-agile-pmo.org or learn more about the management framework I use at http://adaptivebusinessmanagement.org.

    • Management Engineer
      • Jan 2017 - Dec 2018

      After several years working solo as The Agile PMO, Dave Nave and I spent a good part of 2016 developing a practical and theoretical Skills/Competency model together, and the outcome of that was the Balanced Hoshin Strategy Deployment Tool. At the beginning of 2017, Dave and I decided to take the next step and to jointly market ourselves under 'The Balanced Hoshin'.We are a member of CAMPS. After several years working solo as The Agile PMO, Dave Nave and I spent a good part of 2016 developing a practical and theoretical Skills/Competency model together, and the outcome of that was the Balanced Hoshin Strategy Deployment Tool. At the beginning of 2017, Dave and I decided to take the next step and to jointly market ourselves under 'The Balanced Hoshin'.We are a member of CAMPS.

    • United States
    • Personal Care Product Manufacturing
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • PMO Manager
      • Mar 2010 - Dec 2013

      When the CTO from Pendo Systems asked me once again to join him, I didn't hesitate. Pharmacy OneSource was ready for what I had to offer - it had a brilliant but slightly disorganized Executive team, and passionate Agile proponents on the Technology side. What it was missing was discipline, and it was here I realized that sometimes you just need cross functional collaboration and processes to support that...and this was one of those times. Over time we implemented a light but meaningful two gate Governance process to put a framework around the Strategic aspirations of Keith the Brilliant Strategist Product Manager and Tim the Brilliant Salesman CEO...and before long the whole boat was rowing together. In three years the business doubled from $14M to $29M.Pharmacy OneSource was sold in 2011 to Wolters Kluwer, where I faced another great challenge - how to maintain a responsive, Agile software culture within a large traditional European conglomerate?Lessons Learned: The role of an Agile PMO is to ensure that the Agile software teams have what they need, when they need it. This includes designing the upstream and downstream processes to serve the Agile methodology, and coaching, coaching, coaching.

    • Senior Account Executive
      • Nov 2009 - Feb 2010

      When Pad of HCL asked me to help out on a difficult project they had down in Orlando, I saw it as a great opportunity to apply my ScrumMaster skills in a new context. I made headway in getting the onshore team dug out of the hole they had landed in, but ultimately couldn't save the project. Previous to my arrival the customer had negotiated a $700K fixed bid contract that had extremely murky scope (a consultant's nightmare!). I convinced HCL that Agile was the only way to rescue the project, but the client insisted on having the whole scope or nothing and declined to renegotiate. Needless to say, the iron triangle was doomed to failure and in the end they got...nothing...and HCL had to walk away. By then, however my contract was up and I had moved on to Pharmacy OneSource. Lessons Learned: Agile can't work unless the governance process supports it. This was my first experience of how important both Organizational and Executive buy-in is to succeeding with Agile. This insight was a major influence on how I implemented the Agile PMO at Pharmacy OneSource.

    • Brazil
    • Information Technology and Services
    • Director, Program Management Office
      • Feb 2008 - Sep 2008

      I came to Seattle from the East Coast to help Kaj Pedersen set up a development office here in Bellevue. We set the processes up, lined up some great onshore and offshore development talent, and then ... the company decided to move everything back to New Jersey! However it was a great experience and its here that I really got engaged with Agile and Scrum as a way of working projects.Lessons Learned: Kaj is a great boss and executive, and this job helped me pivot into the PMO role after my experiences as an entrepreneur and product manager.

    • Director of Product & Sales
      • Nov 2004 - Jan 2008

      After I left Thomson I really felt the need to continue developing some of the great ideas that I had started on, so I contacted my friends in India, and put my money where my mouth was. Paul Gill joined me a few months later and we really managed to get both the product shipped and a decent pipeline of customers. Although the business ultimately didn't succeed, we were in the running for a while, and we both learned a great deal - I would certainly do it again!Lessons Learned: too numerous to mention - building your own software company from scratch is an ultimate learning experience. A major takeaway however, and one which informs me to this day is that at the end of the day its not about the technology, its about the market.

    • Financial Services
    • 500 - 600 Employee
    • Senior Vice President
      • May 2001 - Sep 2004

      Thomson recruited me from Tokyo to go work on Product Strategy in Boston. The company was going through a lot of changes at that time - still trying to absorb Primark which it had bought a year earlier. As a result I ended up doing several jobs, ending up running Product for their contributions division. It was fun learning a new set of skills on the other side of the business (as a vendor, rather than a purchaser) Thomson recruited me from Tokyo to go work on Product Strategy in Boston. The company was going through a lot of changes at that time - still trying to absorb Primark which it had bought a year earlier. As a result I ended up doing several jobs, ending up running Product for their contributions division. It was fun learning a new set of skills on the other side of the business (as a vendor, rather than a purchaser)

Education

  • The University of Edinburgh
    BSc (Honours), Business
    1987 - 1991

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