James Rock Email & Phone Number

Trèbes, Occitanie, Fr

United Kingdom

DesignThinkers Group is one of the leading ‘design driven’ Innovation agencies facilitating organizations around the world in making the transition from being strictly product orientated and sales driven, towards being service orientated and human centered. We are a Global Agency, represented in 20 countries and train, develop and facilitate creative multidisciplinary teams and communities to drive positive change.Design Thinking is an approach to develop and deliver innovative ideas and solutions to complicated problems, and manage change within organisations. It is an activity-based process with a strong emphasis on teamwork and co-creation. Our mission is to provide space and time for teams and individuals to be inspired and challenged, to strengthen their ability for creative problem solving and to help organizations build the necessary environment and mind-set.Through DesignThinkers Academy we provide training via ‘Learning by Doing’, so our training sessions are high energy and hands-on events. In all of them, participants are challenged to work in small teams on a real case and learn to work with Design Thinking and Service Design tools, including Personas; Cultural Probes; Customer Journey Mapping; Stakeholder Mapping; Value Network Mapping; Prototyping; Business Modelling; Road Mapping; and more.We offer and co-create Training Programs for Professionals and Teams in Corporate, Governmental, and Third-Sector environments, Study Tours, Masterclasses, Summer Schools and Personal Coaching.For more information visit our websites:www.designthinkersgroup.com and www.designthinkersacademy.com.

London, Uk

Brompton Media is a London based events agency providing event management and PR coverage combined with creative photography. Our primary goal is to help our clients to amplify their publicity via press, magazine, and social media coverage through a combination of written articles, blog posts, and creative photography. We contribute to several magazines and online publications. We are experienced in covering every type of event, for example restaurant and store openings, product launches, art exhibitions, music gigs, theatrical shows, cultural happenings, and a variety of festivalsSee: www.bromptonmedia.com

London, United Kingdom

SocialUP is an EU funded project providing free open-source tools and facilitated training for Design Thinking within the social economy.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

A new entrepreneurial and collaborative venture with a collective of artists, photographers, and furniture designer-makers.See the gallery website: http://www.the-long-gallery.com

Birmingham, United Kingdom

James observes people and places and their interactions via a photo-journalistic style. He works in monochrome film to record visual narratives and creates high quality archive Giclee prints that are mounted and framed ready for exhibition hanging. See my Saatchionline website page to view and purchase recent images:http://www.saatchionline.com/James_Rock

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Managing Director and Chief Business designer at this independent consultancy. Working with clients to improve growth and profitability via innovation in their business and service models. Senior Interim Executive positions as CEO; Marketing Director; Creative Director.

Responsible for P&L of key business unit with 7 regional depots and circa 100 employees across UK. Supplying construction installation and service to support local authorities, housing associations, NHS trusts, Construction firms, and private individuals.

Director of the consulting business, leading and winning consultancy project bids, managing large key accounts, project director for large complex consulting assignments, acted as marketing director for the group.

Working as independent consultant and Interim MD / CEO assignments with RecruitSolve.com and Datatag UK Ltd (a subsidiary of Mitsui industries / Yamaha UK).

Senior consultant in Performance Improvement group; worked in global business transformation practice; helped set up national mid-market consulting practice leading south coast office team, business development/project leader/expert consulting resource.

Senior Consultant and team leader within automotive practice; responsible for high level consulting content and new business development, key account management, practice management, staff development. LE&S was acquired by CSC as part of IT outsourcing contract with Lucas Industries.

Appointed Manager of Special Vehicle Operations supporting low-vol production of bespoke vehicles, major product launches, and operation of company promotional vehicle fleet after working as Principle Engineer in Vehicle R&D and Product Development; followed by period seconded as Resident Engineer at Jaguars North American Headquarters.

Mba, Business And Management

Hnd, Mechanical Engineering

C&Gli, Full Tech Cert - Product Design

6 year course completed in 3 years.