James Leach Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

Dublin 2, Ie

Dublin 2, Ie

At Accenture I now lead our UK&I Client Innovation Services Team, a team of over 60. My role has 2 hats, firstly help our clients succeed in this period of epic disruption and secondly act as an accelerator for Accenture’s new way of doing consulting. I am lucky enough to work across all industries, and have first hand experience in helping organisations not only with the methods and skill sets needed in this new era, but also on changing organisational mindsets, thus enabling them to disrupt rather than be disrupted. Throughout my career I have grown start-ups to scale ups and have built many innovation capabilities for a wide range of organisations across many sectors. I have a particular focus on data-driven innovation, and organisational change.

Dublin 2, Ie

I joined Accenture, in part to see a new world, but mainly because I believe in innovation not being a side project and that the challenge with Innovation is how do you take it to scale. At Accenture I now lead our UK&I Client Innovation Services Team, a team of 50 who work across Strategy & Inspiration, and client co-creation, focused on delivering value and taking Innovation to scale. I have built innovation capabilities for a wide range of organisations across many sectors. A particular focus on data-driven innovation, ie how can you take data-science to form a detailed understanding of user behaviour and use the understanding to create experiments to see if you can change the behaviour for the better.

South Bank, London, Gb

Part of the UKI leadership for this high growth innovation agency. I spent this 5 years helping organisations handle digital disruption. Originally joining Chelsea Apps as one of the first employee's I have led the commercial function as the business has grown from £60,000 per annum turn over to a turnover of £8m, with a staff of over 100. Leading the commercial function of the business I have been integral to the changing and evolving position of Chelsea Apps and our route to a future of sustained growth. Originally the business started making mobile apps in a nascant market, we have evolved and now we help organisations with innovation particularly Digital service design, product and proposition design. The belief is that the enterprise needs to be different, to act different, to think different and to do different. We have seen them have continual and sustained growth for many years, and this growth has focused on great products, great brands & great marketing. The advent of digital along with a growing global free market, created a platform for competition. What this has meant is that these traditional businesses don't know who there competition is, suddenly the enterprise has to not only look at its known competition but the unknown disruption from startups. The common theme for them is that they are competing against companies who are now the opposite of what they are; small, young, quick. That is where i help. Specialties: Start Ups, Digital Transformation, Company Growth, New Business, Account Management, Lead Generation, Client Retention, Account Development, People Management, Staff Motivation, Lead Nurturing, Client Services, Exceeding Targets

South Bank, London, Gb

New business leader at this cross platform App Development & Consultancy. Working with FTSE100 clients to deliver internal and external facing solutions.

Running of the UKI commercial division responsible for all clients sales and marketing campaigns. • Reporting directly into the CEO.• Directly responsible for all departments client retention and client growth.Summary of Role:• Managing a 50 strong team• Working with Heads of Marketing and Heads of Sales at multi national companies to hit their strategic goals• Working on the creation of new product structure.• Delivering daily, weekly and monthly performance reports for the CEO and the board.

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