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London, Gb

London, Uk, Gb

London, Uk, Gb

London, Uk, Gb

FlowMotion is a joint venture focused on generating cultural change within large and global organisations in order to deliver immediate and lasting business benefits. Between myself and my co-founder, we share more than 25 years of experience of successfully delivering organisational transformation; coaching, mentoring and training; and coaching for delivery performance across project, programme and portfolio management.As an Agile Coach within this context, I excel at introducing cultural change initiatives as well as at connecting the elements of delivery projects, such as finance, marketing and HR. What sets me apart is my ability to enthusiastically bring about the necessary steps to organisational transformation: inspiring people to challenge, grow and improve.

London, London, Gb

This globally dispersed team of 45 (mostly in London, Paris and Bangalore) faced the challenge of having to integrate two highly complex systems while simultaneously trying to adopt an Agile way of delivery. They had to deliver to a client on an aggressive immovable schedule. What’s more, many of the team had not worked together before. The approach was to facilitate a week-long Project Kickoff to set the project up for delivering in an Agile way; teach the team a select set of Agile techniques to get things started; keep the team constantly prioritising work; provide on-the-ground coaching in the early days to support them with the complexities of distributed Agile; provide intensive coaching of a new ScrumMaster, moving him from being practice-focused to principle-focused.

London, London, Gb

The team was not achieving benefits from their approach to Agile delivery and wanted training as well as day-to-day coaching to support 2 business-critical client deliveries. Using a problem-centered style I devised custom training directly aimed at addressing the challenges they were facing and delivered it using a unique VAL (Value Added Learning) approach. I provided coaching support on a day-to-day basis to entrench the mindset shift they encountered in training. Against the odds, the team successfully delivered on both client commitments. Soon after they employed a full-time ScrumMaster to whom I've provided periodic coaching and guidance.

London, England, Gb

The first team had a good deal of Scrum experience, but lacked the focus available by having a fully dedicated ScrumMaster. The 3-month engagement was focused on bringing energy into the team, increasing team engagement, and providing a fresh perspective on ways to get the most out of the Scrum approach.The second team was using Scrum effectively and, for the most part, were self-organising. This 3-month, parallel engagement was thus focused on providing a deeper understanding of the Agile principles to allow them to better address the complexities they encountered. Furthermore, focus was placed on the heart of Agile: creating a high performance team. Along with day-to-day coaching I facilitated a visioning process and developed a plan for the team to move beyond “just doing Scrum well”, towards becoming a high-performing team by many measures.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

Provided executive-level consulting and coaching to the number one publisher of medical and scientific journals in the world, positively impacting 115 staff members. Directly responsible for introducing new approaches to measure and shorten the delivery lifecycle end-to-end. Led the re-design and implementation of a delivery methodology for Business and IT organisations.

London, England, Gb

Utilizing Agile and Lean principles and practices, Emergn helps clients drive IT change initiatives that fundamentally enhance organizational agility. As a coach for Emergn, I helped to provide full lifecycle support by means of advisory, consultancy, delivery and education services.

Edinburgh, Scotland, Gb

Co-led the Agile transformation of a large programme of work involving 80 people and a £50 million investment over 3 years. Introduced the team to Agile/Lean ways of thinking and working in order to complete the project successfully and deliver change across 3 business functions. Coached and applied delivery techniques in a cultural change initiative that included Active Communities, process design and a corporate-wide project delivery improvement programme.

Windsor, England, Gb

Coached a number of teams across all business functions (HR, logistics and hand-held systems), ranging in size from 5 to 80 people, to improve delivery performance for an SAP implementation using Agile/Lean principles and practices. Developed change management processes to support these principles for enterprise delivery. Introduced efficiencies into the delivery process, prioritised by return on investment.

New York, Ny, Us

Introduced clear priorities and a strong focus on value, driving web-based initiatives for ‘Futures & Options’ line of business with $1.5m annual budget. Directly influenced the cross-Investment Bank CRM programme with a $6m annual budget by developing and communicating a value-driven roadmap and advising senior management on strategic direction. Used positive energy and clear thinking to help the team maintain alignment between global and specific-line-of-business plans.

Reston, Va, Us

Provided management consultancy, coaching and team leadership across analysts and specialists working on requirements analysis, technical solution development and implementation and testing of a PeopleSoft CRM system. The application of Agile development approaches provided focus and direction to the project. Used dynamic coaching style to energise staff and develop consulting and business skills.

Bcomm, Computer Science

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