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EMEA Director at Cognizant
Location: London Area, United Kingdom 15 work roles 4 schools
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Jonathan Yeates previously worked as Service Design Director at Cognizant and Online Sessional Lecturer: Design Strategy Practice and Principles, Service Design and Marketing at Rmit Online. Jonathan Yeates holds Postgraduate Diploma, Leadership And Management from The City & Guilds Of London Institute: Academy Of Leadership & Management.

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Service Design Director at Zone a Cognizant business.Chair of Governors at Watling View School and Advisory board member at Be the BusinessService Design | User Experience (UX) | Strategic Design | Research | Digital Transformation | Visual Design and Content | Non-Executive DirectorI am a senior public services designer who is passionate about human-centred design and how it can be applied to solve knotty, human problems throughout the public service. I firmly believe we cantransform government and deliver better, cheaper services by designing with the people who use them and working across departmental lines using whole-of-government approaches.For over a decade, I have led and worked extensively with a range of government departments, not-for-profits and public bodies on award-winning transformation projects that have had profound impact, at scale. Therefore I understand that to work effectively in political environments requires me to be more than a certified user experience design and agile practitioner. Effective design requires studious consideration of the regulatory environment; clear, aligned communications; and engaging, tailored stakeholder management.I comfortable leading projects across the entire design process; from strategy, research and design; to implementation, product development and capability development. I am also an experienced facilitator, professional coach and I lead regular human-centred design training courses with Zone, RMITOnline and General Assembly.In my spare time I am a competitive club runner and cyclist. I am also passionate about art history and graphic design and have recently formed a strange niche designing beer labels.Notable projects include:IGNITE: New ways of working – Department of Premier and Cabinet Victoria2020 Australian Government Digital Awards finalist - Outstanding digital methodology or approach awardWhitelion Y4Y Youth Force pre-employment program2020 Good Design Award Winner - Social Impact2020 Victorian Premier's Design Award finalist - Service DesignThe Better Approvals Project2018 IPAA Victoria Leadership Awards finalist - Human-Centred Service Delivery AwardPatchwork - Case coordination digital application for child and family practitioners2016 Good Design Australia Award Winner - Social Innovation

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Cognizant
Cognizant
EMEA Director
London, England, GB
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15 roles · 22 years

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Emea Director

London, England, Gb

Service Design Director

Current

London, England, United Kingdom

Service Design Director at Zone a Cognizant business. Currently focused on building an industry leading public sector and healthcare offering at Zone. I specialise in consultative selling and strategic delivery of digital products and services that meet the Government Service Standard. My other roles include programme oversight, growth and development of the Service Design department, and co-leadership of the multidisciplinary Public Sector Community of Practice.

Jan 2023 - Present

Online Sessional Lecturer: Design Strategy Practice And Principles, Service Design And Marketing

Current

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Online Sessional Lecturer for various RMITOnline courses. Including Service Design, Strategy, Research and Marketing. I have also participated in several webinars for prospective, current and alumni students.

Dec 2020 - Present

Head Of Design - Experiencelab

London, England, United Kingdom

ExperienceLab is Serco’s international user-centred research, design and innovation agency and has offices in London, Melbourne and Dubai.I was the previous Head of Design where I led a team of up to 20 consultants, researchers and designers to understand users, analyse data and to map services to transform services, develop new business strategies and develop innovative digital concepts. I led projects with clients including DWP, META, Selfridges, SSEN and Serco. Within the Senior Leadership team I had responsibility for learning and development, developing culture and executing brilliantly – delivering projects to time, cost and quality.

Sep 2021 - Jan 2023

Service Design Instructor

Melbourne, Australia

Lead Instructor of Service Design at GA's Melbourne Chapter and for global classes online.Courses include:- Service Design Bootcamp- Service Design Made SimpleCourses were delivered online and face to face.

2018 - 2022 ~4 yrs

Manager, Experience Design

London, England, United Kingdom

Manager in the Nous London office which specializes in supporting the UK and Canadian higher education sector and UK central government.Clients include: Department for Education, The University of Bath and other Russell Group Universities.

Mar 2021 - Sep 2021

Senior Experience Designer / Senior Consultant

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

I was a senior designer at the Nous Group in Melbourne specializing in public service design and transformation. I led strategic, service, and digital design projects to transform user and employee experiences across all three tiers of government. Notable projects included a strategic redesign of the planning system with the Dept. of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, a future workplace design with the Dept. of Premier and Cabinet, and the development of an innovative service and operating model for a new court building in regional Victoria. Most notably, I led and coached multiple teams on a service design project to help councils throughout Victoria improve their approvals process for small business owners. As the lead designer, I created the end-to-end program approach and designed several service and digital solutions. The project led to a 73% reduction in the time it takes a small business to receive multiple permits. The project was a finalist at the 2018 IPAA Victoria Leadership Awards, in the human-centred service delivery category.I am also passionate about design work that delivers social innovation and impact and I worked with a number of public bodies and not-for-profits to achive this. Notable clients include the University of Melbourne, the University of Technology Sydney, Australia Post and the Transport Accident Commission; Kids Under Cover, Whitelion and Vision Australia amongst others.

Jul 2018 - Mar 2021

Customer Experience Designer

Melbourne, Australia

Mar 2017 - Jul 2018

Policy Manager (Secondment)

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Nov 2020 - May 2021

Committee Member And Events Planner

Melbourne, Australia

Served as a committee member and one of the event planners for the Service Design Melbourne network. I coordinated events to explore the themes of inclusive design and the use of service design in the public sector.

2015 - 2018 ~3 yrs

Digital And Design Consultant

Melbourne, Australia

While at FutureGov, I worked on design strategy, service design, and digital execution projects for the Department of Justice and Community Safety Victoria, the Magistrates Court of Victoria, the NSW Department of Family and Community Services and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in the Philippines.I was also the Australian product manager of Casserole Club, a digital, micro-volunteering platform that enables cooks to share meals with older, socially isolated members of the community; and Patchwork; a smart, secure digital app designed to support better communication and collaboration between practitioners across the public sector. Patchwork was a 2016 Good Design Award winner for social innovation.

2014 - 2017 ~3 yrs

National Management Trainee

Smith Square, Westminster

The two year national graduate development program (ngdp) is one of the Times Top 100 graduate schemes and was set up as national leadership program. As part of the program, I studied towards a postgraduate diploma in Leadership and Management.

2012 - 2014 ~2 yrs

Research Intern

Ihs

London

SupplierBusiness is a practice within IHS Automotive focused on the needs of the automotive supply base and its stakeholders. It provides comprehensive coverage of the global automotive supplier community, undertakes surveys of developments in the industry and is widely recognised for its innovative and original research.Achievements:• Representing the company at the International Automotive Show, Automechanika in Frankfurt, interviewing CEOs and industry executives from some of the main car manufacturers and suppliers.• Led the production of a 'Top 100 Suppliers - Whose Who' report.• Maintained various databases, website content and produced various research and written projects.

2008 - 2012 ~4 yrs

Student Intern - Sky News

Sky

Osterley

Completed three separate placements on the news planning desk, Sky News: Radio and out on location.Achievements:• Conducted extensive planning and research on a special report entitled ‘The Economic Cycle’ which resulted in series of packages presented by Dermot Murnaghan who, on his bike, interviewed a wide range of businesses and individuals around the country on the effects of the 2008 financial crisis.• Wrote news items for the Sky Radio’s two minute national and international news bulletin on the hour.• Assisted production teams and shadowed reporters and on a number of reports. These included an interview with William Hague, the QE2’s last voyage, Prime Ministers’ questions and trials at the Royal Courts of Justice and Old Bailey.

2008 - 2011 ~3 yrs
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Jonathan Yeates education

Postgraduate Diploma, Leadership And Management

The City & Guilds Of London Institute: Academy Of Leadership & Management

Sociology, Applied Social Sciences, 2.1

Activities and Societies: - Triathlon Performance Squad - Half Palatinate Sports Award - Palatinates are awards given to Durham University.

A-Levels

Stamford School

Art and Design - A English Literature - A History - B Performance Studies - A

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Jonathan Yeates is based in London Area, United Kingdom while working with Cognizant.

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Jonathan Yeates has worked for Cognizant, Rmit Online, Serco, General Assembly, and Nous Group.

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Jonathan Yeates holds Postgraduate Diploma, Leadership And Management from The City & Guilds Of London Institute: Academy Of Leadership & Management.

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