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A Bit About Me
I am the Lead Coach and I provide coaching and consultancy to businesses that are in need of Transformational Change. I have facilitated workshops since 2018 mainly covering aspects of Programme Management, i.e. Benefits Mapping and complexity assessments. Online, I also provide one to one encouragement and coaching to employees who may be new to the world of Projects. Programme, Change or Business Management.
I have also developed a blog to help small businesses. Through my blog, I share my extensive experiences gained through a lifetime of business, programme and project corporate work, all of which are backed up with appropriate qualifications, and which have me to be where I am today, the Lead Coach. I am now semi-retired but I can be teased out of retirement and away from the Golf Course for the right challenge.
My aim is to help enterprises flourish by providing on-line, virtual coaching and facilitation of workshops to contribute to its development in delivering Transformational Change.
I also post insightful blogs and useful step by step guides, while building a supportive community. My blog is driven by my passion for sharing knowledge and my instinctive nature to solve problems. I use my blog as a platform for sharing and I offer encouragement and practical steps to take. Unlike many bloggers who may focus on self-promotion, I believe its not about quantity of hits but about quality of engagement. I prioritise empowerment. My main goal is to help others succeed. I firmly believe that knowledge should be accessible to all. By sharing my journey and experiences, these businesses can learn and navigate their own paths.
However, I am not an administrator nor a hand-holder, my blogs are more likely to steer you into making sound business decisions. A guide through the muddy waters of terminology, tips and techniques, step by step guides for being as effective in your business as possible.
The influence of my blog reaches well beyond simple coaching. My commitment to empowering professionals and for anyone seeking guidance, inspiration and problem-solving on their business journey, my blog exists to give you hope and practical help.
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Relevant Work Experience
Self -employed Consultant
2020-present
Providing remote, virtual coaching & consultancy support to small business owners
Leading delivery of the change through facilitating workshops and developing plans to deliver them
Facilitation of workshops
Providing leadership, strategic and business advise to smaller businesses
Promoting the use of techniques which help with day to day management of the business
Developing coaching tools
Lead Coach & Business Change Manager
2016 - 2020
Providing remote, virtual coaching & consultancy support to programme & change professionals, individually and in teams, for change programmes to aid the development of the programme team, including sponsors, programme managers and change managers.
Leading delivery of the change through facilitating workshops and developing plans/reports for a programme to ensure strategy is developed and is understood, programme is aligned and designed to strategy, and work is undertaken on the right change initiatives.
Facilitation of Benefits Identification & Mapping workshops for change programmes.
Promoting programme management techniques
Promoting the use of measuring complexity of programmes
Developing coaching tools
Delivery of shorter-term change and provision of coaching for staff for longer term change
Programme Manager
2012-2016
Programme Manager for two major programmes on the Sellafield Site with a combined delivery cost for lifetime in excess of £5 billion.
Identifying and producing a programme plan with key milestones, deliverables & decisions. Providing timely updates on programme status, risks and issues, evaluating programme performance and health.
Developing, managing and obtaining senior management approval of a detailed business case, including detailed benefits and links to organisational strategic objectives.
Managing and reporting on the programme budget, acting on any variance and promoting good budget control across the programme’s work streams including developing and tracking efficiencies
Managing and reporting of risks, issues and dependencies, promoting good risk management across the programme ensuring any changes to baseline are managed through change request and all impacts are considered
Ensuring governance processes and decisions are applied consistently, standardised programme metrics and reporting driven out of Clarity. Management by exception of budget and schedule variance. Ensuring accurate and responsible status reporting. Escalating, co-ordinating any mitigates or remedial action.
Management of the EDFE interfaces and developing and implementing strategies to deliver new customer demand requests and new contracted components.
Leading and representing interests in Oxide business affairs in various strategic business projects, business and customer forums and various internal and external stakeholder forums
Leading, on behalf of THORP, the business delivery necessary to meet the Oxide business objectives.
Leading on the Sales and Operational Planning forums, acting as Chair, providing key input and strategic direction to the THORP lead team
Producing all strategic and customer forum reports which are connected with Oxide programmes.
Identifying, proposing and implementing improvements to existing and new business processes.
Acting as Host Interface Representative for THORP during a WANO (World Association of Nuclear Operators) Follow Up Review
Acting as ‘the face of THORP’ with NDA customers such as EDF and regulators, participating in West Cumbria Stakeholder meetings which included representation from pressure groups and local councillors
Senior Consignment Project Manager
2008-2012
Following regulatory intervention - established and implemented consignment improvements, which included chairing the SL Transport Governance Forum.
Accountability for Project managing several high-profile shipments of Radioactive Material (RAM) overseas in line with strategy to repatriate RAM to countries of origin.
Managing operations relating to the routine & non-routine consignments of Radioactive Material from the Site to ensure the safety and compliancy with the regulations. Responsible for pulling together the new and revised arrangements/procedures. Acting as Process Owner for Consignment of Radioactive Materials and Transport of Dangerous Goods and Deputy Head of Operations, Transportation Logistics.
Providing the regulators with confidence that site procedures are compliant with regulations and that they are being adhered to. Interfacing on a regular basis to ensure a common understanding.
Line-managing a team of technical specialists in support of site consignment activities
Acting as Point of Contact for Transportation Logistics (TL) OU Sales & Operational Planning (S&OP) Level 3 and Lead Intelligent Customer for Radioactive Material Transport Consignment activities (licensing, package approvals, specialist advice)
Acting as Peer Reviewer on WANO review for Emergency Preparedness