Rob Lambert Email & Phone Number

Winchester, Hampshire

I run a consultancy that specialises in coaching and consulting in:ManagementReleasing Business AgilityAgileHRInterim Service also available. Through this I have held:Vice President Software DevelopmentVice President of AgilityHead of Communication--I help companies release business agility through effective management and high value HR initiatives. I bridge the gap between well intentioned HR initiatives and the implementation of these through management. Business Agility belongs to management. If your managers aren't already working to release it - drop me a DM.I focus on helping, coaching, training and supporting managers in your business as they align around the strategy, set goals, improve the system of work, develop their people and align to the wider business initiatives. At the heart of all of this is a focus on effective communication. We often say that 99% of problems in a business are communication related. Let us help you solve them.---♦ My HR team was once described as "the least evil HR team ever" (A compliment - I think).♦ My work in agility was once described as "frighteningly agile" (A compliment - I think).---If anything above has intrigued you - there's many years of goodies, books, blogs, videos and newsletter here :♦ http://www.cultivatedmanagement.com♦ https://www.youtube.com/c/cultivatedmanagement

Co-host of this sporadic podcast on the potential that analogue and stationery offers us in our digital worlds. We like stationery. We use it. We figured other people would too.

Basingstoke

Due to my success leading the Engineering team, I moved to HR to bring agility to the wider business. As VP of HR, I was tasked with:● Creating a WOW sourcing, hiring and onboarding process across the entire company.○ This included employer branding, pipeline process improvement, interview training, agency relationships and management of recruitment.● Global learning and training using Learning Management Systems, in-person training, conferences and self-guided learning.○ Rolled out LinkedIn learning, Litmos LMS and managed the global training budget.● Increase levels of engagement across the business through management training and personal career growth for individuals.● Global internal communications - from corporate all-hands meetings to executive blogging.○ This included launching intranets, a global communication plan and coaching managers and executives on how to communicate more effectively. ● Corporate Social Responsibility – launching volunteer programs for local and global causes.● Managing a team of HR professionals – Learning Specialists, Recruitment Consultants (UK and Poland) and HR associates.We successfully operated our HR team in a Kanban agile system.

Basingstoke

● Built a “frighteningly agile” team named “UK top start-ups to watch in 2017”. ● Built a team voted “Best companies to work for” - 3 years running. ● Took the team (DevOps) from start-up, to investment, to a successful sale.● Reduced the product release cycle from 14 months to weekly by introducing agile/lean approaches such as DevOps, Test Driven Development, 5 Whys (root cause analysis) and Kaizen.● Grew the Development team from 6 people to 120+ across the UK and Poland in just two years.● Introduced effective recruitment processes that were rolled out across the entire company. ● Introduced systems thinking, process improvement and value-stream-mapping to the company.● Built an agile coaching team who were responsible for coaching managers on business agility.● Responsible for hiring and retaining our team. ○ Our recruitment costs were 4% as a blended cost of agency sourcing, self-sourcing and referrals.○ Our churn rate was just 3% against an industry average of 15%.○ Our engagement numbers were consistently over 75%.

Winchester

As Creative Director I helped to build the brand of The Software Testing Club. I created some of my best written content whilst at The Software Testing Club. The Testing Planet newspaper was my brainchild and I was the editor for the first 6 editions. This role involved representing the brand at events and online, networking, sales, content marketing, writing, editorial responsibilities and helping to build an online community that represented the many voices of testing and product quality.

Southampton, United Kingdom

I was a Principal Test Consultant involved in software testing strategy, project work, consulting, public speaking, training and process improvement.I was involved in a number of projects from online voting portals to financial and banking software.I was involved with hiring, networking and promoting the brand at software events.

I lead the scalability testing of the main core product. I managed a small team of test automation engineers and helped Sophos to deliver it's industry leading product to even greater customer bases.I was involved in Test Planning, Test Strategy and Test Reporting.

I worked on the core accountancy product testing. I looked at ways to optimise the testing using Exploratory Testing techniques.

Software Test Engineer responsible for testing across a number of product sets including school timetabling, reporting to parents and school financial reporting modules.Mentored new starters, improved the testing process by streamlining test cases and encouraged testing earlier in the lifecycle.

Bsc, Media Science

My Media Studies degree was an excellent degree aimed at giving me the skills and ability to communicate any topic to any audience.

Communication, English And Russian

A level Russian Language, English Language and Communication Studies.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Rugby team, Basketball teamGCSE education.