Adam Skinner Bsc, Msc (Oxon), Chpp

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Chief Consulting Officer (CCO) - Deecon @ Deecon
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About Adam Skinner Bsc, Msc (Oxon), Chpp

Adam is Chief Consulting Officer at Deecon Consulting, the award-winning European commercial, procurement and transformation consultancy. Adam's role involves overseeing the consulting community, the consulting offering and the consulting strategy. Adam is a member of the Senior Lead Team.Prior to this Adam was Partner, Head of Consulting, UK, for Valcon - the 2000 strong north-european transformation consultancy where he sat over the 200-strong UK Consulting arm that focused on digital and organisational transformation.Prior to this Adam was Director of Consulting for P2 Consulting.Adam leads the APM's Portfolio Interest Group and is a published author and regularly speaks on the topics of Scaled Agile, PMO, Portfolio Management and Digital Transformation. He is a certified Chartered Project Professional (CHPP).Adam has an MSc in Major Programme Management from Oxford University (Said Business School) and an MSc in Applied Psychology from Cranfield University. He is a SAFe consultant and AIPMO trained.Outside work Adam is an avid reader and is a rugby coach at Amersham & Chiltern Rugby Football Club.

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Chief Consulting Officer (CCO) - Deecon
Adam Skinner Bsc, Msc (Oxon), Chpp Work Experience Details
  • Deecon
    Chief Consulting Officer
    Deecon Aug 2024 - Present
    London, England, Gb
    Adam has responsibility for the consulting community and the continued high quality of consulting delivery for this award winning European consultancy, as well as driving its successful scaling and growth.
  • Association For Project Management
    Lead - Portfolio Management Interest Group
    Association For Project Management Apr 2024 - Present
    Princes Risborough, Gb
  • Valcon
    Partner, Head Of Consulting
    Valcon Apr 2022 - Apr 2024
    Utrecht, Nl
    Adam leads European consultancy Valcon's 150-strong Consulting Capability within its UK arm. This covers Valcon UK's capability in operational, business and digital transformation design, delivery and control across all pillars and sectors. Valcon is a European-wide 1300 strong consultancy dedicated to delivering value to our clients through combining world-class digital, data and technical delivery capability to a deep-understanding of operational and business transformation. In December 2021 it acquired P2 Consulting to add their well-established business and digital transformation capability to its existing operational, data and technical capability.
  • P2 Consulting
    Director Of Consulting
    P2 Consulting Jun 2019 - Apr 2022
    Director and Lead Team Member with ownership of the quality and innovative nature of all consulting activity and delivery across the 5 practices: Business Analysis, Testing, Programme Delivery, Portfolio and Programme Management Office and Business Change. Adam also has responsibility for developing P2 Consulting's future offering including its automation, analytics and scaled agile services.
  • P2 Consulting
    Director
    P2 Consulting Sep 2018 - Jun 2019
    Director and member of Lead Team at P2 Consulting with particular focus on Programme Management Office (PMO) implementation, Corporate Portfolio Office implementation and Portfolio Optimisation.
  • P2 Consulting
    Practice Manager - Pmo & Portfolio Management
    P2 Consulting Jan 2018 - Jun 2019
    Responsibility for the excellent performance of all P2's Programme Management Offices and Portfolio Management services, the creation and development of these service offerings - their tools, templates and techniques, and the recruitment and development of all consultants aligned to these services.
  • P2 Consulting
    Managing Consultant
    P2 Consulting Oct 2015 - Sep 2018
    Managing Consultant with particular focus on Programme Management Office (PMO) implementation, Corporate Portfolio Office implementation and Portfolio Optimisation. Adam has responsibility for the running of the organisations IP generation via their innovation group and takes direct responsibility for Portfolio Optimisation and Corporate Portfolio Office intellectual property and health-checks.Delivery activities of note include:PMO Manager, MS Amlin Solvency II Programme - June 2016 to PresentAdam is the PMO Manager on this multi-million complex reporting and regulatory requirement programme for one of the Countries largest insurance organisations.PMO Controls & Internal Lead, John Lewis Omnichannel Programme - October 2015-June 2016.Adam was change, continuous improvement and internal lead for the PMO within John Lewis’ flagship Omni-Channel programme. Adam oversaw the continuous improvement of the Programme Governance across this complex business-led customer channel improvement programme that fundamentally re-designed the IT architecture for the organisation. This has included major improvements to the planning, risk and issue and change control aspects of the programme.
  • P2 Consulting
    Head Of Intellectual Property
    P2 Consulting Dec 2016 - Jan 2018
    Adam has responsibility for the maintenance, expansion and exploitation of P2 Consulting's suite of Intellectual Property. This includes the Service Proposition Catalogue, the PMO Maturity Model, the Portfolio Maturity Model, the Planning Engine, the PMO in a Box, the P2M Methodology, the Delivery Methodology and their associated apps and support systems.
  • Atkins
    Managing Consultant - Project & Programme Management Practice, Atkins Management Consultants
    Atkins Feb 2013 - Sep 2015
    Epsom, Surrey, Gb
    Over this 30 month period Adam was an Account Director for Central & Local Government within Atkins MC with specific responsibility for DWP, Office for National Statistics, Cabinet Office and Transport Systems Catapult. Adam was also proposition lead for all Portfolio Optimisation and Management work. Specific delivery roles of note included:Portfolio Management Office - Transport Systems Catapult (January 2014 – September 2015): Adam oversaw a range of roles within the Transport Systems Catapult (one of the government’s innovation hothouses overseen by BIS) focused on establishing and improving their Portfolio Management Office. These included a range of process and standards design (including lifecycle design, standards design and resource management tool design), procurement and statement of requirement support to procure an ePPPM tool and general planning and PSO support into TSCs major programmes sets.Portfolio Directorate - major capability review & uplift - Office for National Statistics (July 2014 - Sept 2015): Adam led a 4 man team in a full review of the ONS’ capacity and capability to deliver its portfolio of projects and programmes (including the £500 Million Decennial Census) which led to a significant uplift in their Portfolio Resource and capability.CAP-D Programme, Trader Project Review - DeFRA (Sept 2013 - Dec 2013)Adam led a four man team to review the requirements to support Trader within the CAP-D programme and how the governance, business case and the current to-be architecture support these requirements. Adam’s team explored existing gaps and made a range of recommendations to support filling those gaps.
  • Atkins
    Principal Consultant - Project & Programme Management Practice, Atkins Management Consultants
    Atkins Jun 2010 - Jan 2013
    Epsom, Surrey, Gb
    Over this 3 year period delivered a number of cutting edge roles focused on the control of change across Government and the Energy Sector. Some highlights of this period were:Account Director: Energy (July 2011-June 2012) - where Adam oversaw Atkins MCs' work into the energy space (primarily supporting Sellafield and eDF) and was directly responsible for establishing PPM governance and structures over EDF's Lifetime and Fleet Programmes and major improvements to the eDF Capital Projects PMO.Universal Credit Programme PMO Improvement - Department for Work & Pensions. (Sept 2012-June 2013) - where Adam led the team, that flexed between 4 and 8 consultants, directly managed the PMO design and optimisation work as well as filling the roll of Head of Information Management overseeing all dashboard and information reporting within the programme on this £2 Billion flagship government Agile programme.Atkins MC - Graduate Team Lead (January 2011 - June 2013) - Adam led Atkins MCs graduate recruitment team growing intake from 8 to 16 pre annum and overseeing the training and development of these young consultants. On exit this team consisted of some 40 junior consultants delivering significant value to the organisation.
  • Pa Consulting Group
    Principal Consultant
    Pa Consulting Group Mar 2008 - Jun 2010
    London, London, Gb
    Principal Consultant in PA Consulting's Government Practice. My major focuses over the course of my time as a PC have been in the control of large scale programme & portfolio change - particularly in the central and local government space.My Primary Expertise has been in:-• Portfolio management through diverse local agents – Adam has worked at the cutting edge of delivering central government policy through a portfolio of diverse local agents over the last three years and is a published expert in this area. His national level work in this area has included the DCSF Children’s Centre Programme to all England Top Tier Local Authorities (LAs) and DWP WWEG group to all UK LAs.• Programme & portfolio management office – Adam has advised on and established programme & portfolio management offices and centres of excellence across a number of organisations include Hull City Council, the Qualifications & Curriculum’s Agency and JobCentre Plus. Adam’s experience in establishing these offices provides invaluable experience for running and implementing projects within Government. • Project Implementation Planning & Delivery – Adam has developed implementation plans to deliver key policy goals for a number of organisations including DCSF, DWP and JobCentre Plus. Beyond implementation planning Adam has project managed a number of these projects, or workstreams within those projects, to successful completion.
  • Pa Consulting Group
    Consultant
    Pa Consulting Group Mar 2006 - Mar 2008
    London, London, Gb
    As a Consultant at PA I focused on a range of roles primarily related to programme and portfolio change including:1) portfolio management within JobCentrePlus and the welfare space2) developed and delivered the portfolio management methodology for delivering DCSFs Children Centre agenda as part of the TogetherForChildren Consortium.
  • Hm Revenue & Customs
    Grade 7 Policy Advisor
    Hm Revenue & Customs Mar 2004 - Dec 2004
    London, Gb
    On promotion to grade 7 Adam was made project co-ordinator for the team implementing the EUSD in the UK. This involved managing the project using a benefit realisation approach, identifying both benefits and obstacles of the implementation and ensuring there was ownership for all realisable benefits at the appropriate level. He had particular responsibility for the ministerial and business facing end of the project. Adam ensured industry was aware of their obligations through a series of presentations to representative bodies and their members and by ensuring the website and guidance notes were accurate and informative. He provided succinct briefings (both written and oral) for the Board and Ministers to be used in varied situations as well as FAQ's for the website and responses to the business community.Adam was also division lead on the merging of IR and Customs and Excise (specifically looking at the merging of the revenue collection facilities) and liaised with other members of IR as well as HMT and C&E on a number of potential budget starters/ operational changes
  • Hm Revenue & Customs
    Fast Stream Graduate Recruitment Scheme
    Hm Revenue & Customs Sep 2000 - Feb 2004
    London, Gb
    As a graduate Fast Stream recruit into the Civil Service (HMRC) I performed a number of policy and operational roles including Assistant Private Secretary to the Paymaster General (HMT):As part of a two man Private Secretary team to the Paymaster General Adam’s key roles were to provide the Minister with accurate, timely, relevant advice and to ensure that her decisions were communicated promptly to all who needed to know. He had policy responsibility for: the administration of the Inland Revenue, Personal & Business taxation issues, enterprise, closer working between IR and C&E and National Insurance Contribution and NICO issues all of which areas Adam needed a good working knowledge of. He had responsibility for all Parliamentary Questions and Treasury Oral Questions briefing & for supporting PMG in the Commons box in any debates/ Finance Bill clauses within his subject areas or where necessary as well as developing close working relationships with the DWP and C&E.

Adam Skinner Bsc, Msc (Oxon), Chpp Skills

Programme Delivery Pmo Design Portfolio Management Portfolio Optimization Programme Governance Change Management Project Management Project Planning Stakeholder Management Stakeholder Analysis Local Government Central Government Project Governance Pmo Development Pmo Services Pmo Program Management Management Strategy Policy Management Consulting Public Sector Business Process Improvement Business Transformation Project Delivery Governance Project Management Office

Adam Skinner Bsc, Msc (Oxon), Chpp Education Details

  • Saïd Business School, University Of Oxford
    Saïd Business School, University Of Oxford
    Major Programme Management
  • Cranfield University
    Cranfield University
    Applied Psychology
  • University Of Birmingham
    University Of Birmingham
    Psychology

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