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Global

Thought Leadership | Consulting | Facilitation

Middle East And Africa

Leading Organizational Change and Digital Upskilling/Reskilling strategy and execution across industries in Africa, the Middle East and Europe.

Middle East And Africa

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Chris served as Governance Executive, leading a team of 11 consultants in 5 different countries to deliver a comprehensive digital transformation program for a large national telecom provider. Here, he established project charter, communication plan, and all program processes including Scrum, Kanban, risk and issue management, reporting cadence, change.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

In the Project Director role, Chris led the creation of the onboarding strategy for a national transformation program FOAK integrated healthcare and insurance data platform in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He was responsible for the creation, refinement, review, and submission of all program deliverables, as well as for management of all IBM project.

Remote

In response to work-from-home restrictions, Chris designed and delivered enablement sessions for 3 out of 4 of the "Core 4" remote tools for IBM Global Business Services Consultants as part of the “Virtual Becomes Reality” program. He acted as lead instructional designer, defining the templates and format for all 10 courses in the program. Chris delivered.

South Africa

Working as IBM’s Healthcare Subject Matter Expert in South Africa, Chris led several design thinking workshops with industry leaders and consortium stakeholders. By leveraging his combination of industry and facilitation expertise, Chris led the team to successful mapping of journeys for three key personas for the proposed Blockchain healthcare platform..

Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia

As Project Director for an assignment in Saudi Arabia, he led four consultants in a comprehensive maturity assessment for the human resources centers of excellence at a major automotive wholesaler. As a people-focused leader, he personally delivered the assessment for Talent Management (Succession Planning and Leadership Development), Learning and.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Chris was assigned to this role based in Saudi Arabia, located in the office of the Vice President of a prominent system integrator, where he conducted a FOAK assessment of behavioral and technical skills across pre-sales engineers and sales managers in five verticals. Here, he delivered a 12-month roadmap for skills gaps closure. He utilized technical and.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

As a culture-driven executive, Chris was selected as Leadership Development coach for a leading government ministry in the United Arab Emirates, where he wrote and delivered 4 days of a 8-day leadership development curriculum to 10 high performing UAE government leaders. He also provided several months of one-on-one coaching sessions for program.

Kuwait City, Kuwait

After acting as the content owner and one of two presenters who delivered the winning pitch for IBM, Chris was assigned to a FOAK capitated payment health management organization in Kuwait as the Project Director and SME. Here, he set up the project management office, ran the Method Adoption Workshop, generated the concept and model for their Smart Clinic.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

After pitching and winning a training scope for IBM worth more than US$ 8 million, Chris was designated as IBM’s Training and Change Lead at a large healthcare entity in the UAE, supporting their landmark Epic electronic medical records implementation by designing and executing the training and adoption strategy for theer 12,000 employees. Here, he.

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Chris began his journey at IBM as an IT Training Program Manager for a historic greenfield digital hospital opening in Abu Dhabi. Here, he implemented an IT training strategy comprising more than 50 applications for 2500 users in a greenfield digital hospital. In order to achieve this, he intentionally recruited, managed and led a team of over 24.

Pleasanton, CA

Chosen to form and co-lead a new business unit in response to then CEO Robert Pearl’s mandate for an applied technology performance improvement team, Chris selected the 30 highest-performing trainers and instructional designers from across the region and mentored, coached and enabled them through a role transformation from classroom trainers to workflow.

Northern California Region

Promoted to Project Director, Chris was asked to perform a turnaround of the inpatient training program and double the pace of the planned implementation. He interviewed over 100 candidates to select 40 additional team members for the organization’s rapid deployment phase and took overall responsibility for a team of 109 reports, including 3 directors and.

Northern California Region

As a Regional Director Training Resources, his primary duties were designing and overseeing training programs Kaiser Permanente’s historic KP HealthConnect electronic medical records implementation in the outpatient setting. And, subsequently to help clinicians leverage the power of the new system to provide superior patient care. During his time in this.

Golden Gate Service Area

As a forward-thinking Business Area Leader, Chris spearheaded the replacement of 50-60 “home-grown” applications with enterprise-wide solutions and managed IT desktop computing needs of clinicians. Heavily involved in IT Project Management and user activation, he contributed to the successful openings of new medical office buildings in San Francisco, San.

Golden Gate Service Area

Kaiser Permanente is an integrated managed care consortium based in Oakland, California. Chris began his time here as Lead Business Consultant, where he was responsible for supervising 3 trainers, creating curriculum, and directing all computer learning for over 3500 end-users across 4 medical centres, as part of KP’s “California School of Computer.

Ba, English

Activities and Societies: Bicycle Racing Team

International Agricultural Development

Activities and Societies: Director of Experimental College; Worked on UCD Student Farm; Recipient of Ben A. Madsen Scholarship for.

High School Diploma