Mike is an Executive Coach, Organisation Strategist and LeadershipTeam Dynamicist.He partners with CEOs, senior leadership team members, and “highpotentials”, to enable them to maximise their individual impact andoptimise collective output.He applies human, strategic and business growth skills to deliver stronger results havingpreviously operated at executive level in global technology companies and completing thejourney with scale-up businesses.Mike focuses on one-to-one engagements with his clients to help them identify their personalgrowth needs so that they can achieve more and excel. He facilitates team workshops to enablebusiness leaders to clarify goals, their personal contribution, and determine the level ofpersonal commitment necessary to achieve them.Mike established himself as an HR leader and executive working at at FTSE 100/250 companiesprior to moving across to the rapidly evolving Fintech sector. For the past 10 years Mike hasfocussed solely on executive coaching and building high performance teams.He is skilled in stimulating personal growth and holds a diploma in executive coaching, ICF andEMCC accreditation, and is licenced to use psychometric, organimetric, and EQ profiling tools

Making Strategy and its execution simple so Business Leaders and their teams achieve more

We are a team of dynamic, committed and passionate professionals working at the intersection of purpose, people and performance and with the rest of the crew working tirelessly to make a difference, moving the world forward to a better place by doing the right thing, with the right people, in the right way

Spectrum conducts board and executive searches across all functional disciplines on a retained basis.

 We operate in a global context and most of our searches are cross-border. 

Clients range from scale-ups to multinational corporations.

We are specialists in the technology and related sectors.

Transparency, service and results are our core values.

At Profitry we believe that people and process working in harmony produces the best and most profitable results.Where many consultants focus only on process improvement, we view that the greatest benefit comes from ensuring the right people are doing the right things in the right way.This holistic approach, helps all businesses, large and small, to make better decisions, improve efficiency and be better at what they do.Co-Founded by Grahame Ball and Mike O'DellProfitry n. the art of harmonising people and process to improve profitability

Heading the People team for WorldRemit to help its rapid and successful growth. Ranked 6th in the Sunday Times 2016 Tech Track 100, WorldRemit is an online service that lets people send money to friends and family living abroad, using a computer, smartphone or tablet. It is available to senders in 50 countries, offering transfers to more than 120 destinations across Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and the Americas.

Heading HR for William Hill Online on an interim basis pending appointment of a permanent to energise and accelerate people transformation in a fast moving, fast growing multi-national e-commerce business. Focus on performance management and reward issues to enable quicker transformation of this fast moving Tech business within the WH Group

responsible for transformation of all people aspects of the key Voice business to meet ambitious growth goals, with primary focus on Talent acquisition, step change in mindset and employee engagement within a fast moving, complex international matrix environment

Colt's Infrastructure Services Unit (ISU), led by EVP, Mark Leonard, owns the network, IT infrastructure, technology and internal IT within Colt. It is responsible for our technology strategy, designing, building, delivering and operating Colt's service portfolio, infrastructure and enabling platforms.

In June 2010 co-founded Crowne Finch, an HR Transformation and People Management consulting firm, working with large and complex businesses to support the alignment of people with the organisation and the organisation with its people, supporting HR Directors in their transformation of the HR function itself.

Interim HR Director services for corporate and mid sized businesses, Primary engagement with interim role with Colt Technology Services, as Director People & Change at the Barcelona based Shared Service Centre to drive and invigorate the people agenda embedding Colt values and practices and to support an aggressive growth plan. Colt is Europe’s information delivery platform, enabling its customers to share, process and store their vital business information

Global responsibility for HR Business Partners and for Learning and Development professionals in the Financial Services business with team members based in EMEA, APAC, the US and India.Misys is a leading player in the Banking and Financial Services software arena, employing some 5000 people worldwide

Responsible for HR delivery and business partnering across Europe and India for the Technology, Operations and IT Divisions of Colt with an employee base of some 2800 people and a member of the HR senior management team

HR consultancy to clients such as Volvo AB and Peugeot on leadership development and management coaching and executive search within Telco and Manufacturing sectors with clients such as Qualcomm, Siemens, YKK

mmO2, which subsequently became O2 the European mobile phone business now Telefonica O2. Responsible for HR delivery across businesses in Germany, Ireland and Netherlands through in-country HR teams covering a workforce of 6500 people

within BT Wireless Division which subsequently was demerged to form mmO2 and then O2. Responsible for management of relationship with part-owned businesses in Germany and France

Heading HR and member of senior management teams to two major business units within BT's Consumer business, responsible for HR delivery and employee relations across the UK, with 12000 employees and 100 call centres and subsequently 18000 Field Engineers

delivered full HR and Facilities Management as executive member of semi-autonomous £500m turnover business operating in a high growth market for mobile phones, radio-paging and voice messaging