Founder and Director of Axyom Limited, providing professional consulting and support services to businesses and individuals across the construction industry. Services include:Strategy DevelopmentContract Advice and NegotiationCorporate Governance and LeadershipCommercial AdviceDispute Avoidance and ResolutionTraining and DevelopmentExecutive Coaching and mentoring

Non Executive Director and Board AdviserCommercial AdviceContract Advice and NegotiationCorporate GovernanceStrategy Development and Business CultureExecutive Mentoring

Maximised commercial performance and effectiveness across the company. Elevated skills and capabilities of Directors, commercial and operational teams on financial and legal matters, enhancing business-wide contract negotiation skills with the design and promotion of training and mentorship programmes.Heightened productivity and profitability through critical commercial model assessment. Challenged and analysed commercial growth and financial plans that energised the board and senior managers to accelerate growth plans.Upgraded structure, scope, and impact of the practice; presented transparent and aligned business goals across the construction, housing, interiors, development, and maintenance divisions.Spearheaded substantial improvements in risk mitigation, financial management, legal, budget formation and analysis.Developed new working practices that championed the integration of enhanced diversity and inclusion programmes to elevate Willmott Dixon's talent development abilities and reputation.Drove ESG-driven commercial thinking that enabled operational businesses, customers, stakeholders, and the supply chain to embrace and embed sustainability driven cultures. Improved gender diversity and equal opportunities for minority groups and returners to work; built engaged partnerships with specialist groups that helped shape and sustain inclusive working environments.Negotiated flagship building contracts and shaped framework contract negotiations for the country's largest Building Schools for the Future programme, a multi-contractor joint venture.Revitalised performance and profitability for several distressed business units by mentoring and supporting newly appointed Directors and maximised commercial performance and effectiveness across the company.Improved dispute avoidance and resolution through the successful drive to build specialised in-house legal capabilities that enhanced internal capabilities and lowered external legal costs.

Maximised revenue growth within the Construction division, which focused on new build and refurbishment projects across greater London and the northern home counties.

Supervised and managed department of quantity surveyors of all levels that delivered traditional and design and build contracts from contract award through to final account.

Delivered residential, secure environments and refurbishment schemes for public and private customers as lead surveyor. Critical team member in the transformation project that refurbished, upgraded, and converted a disused prison campus in Sussex into training grounds and accommodation for military personnel.

Hired to undertake broad portfolio of pre-contract and post-contract responsibilities focused on pre-construction, purchasing, construction and final accounts on projects for local authorities and private customers, which included schools, sports centres, social housing, and sheltered accommodation.

Management Trainee at a development of diverse commercial, retail, leisure, and luxury residential properties.