Potentiality UK is focused on understanding and acting on disruption to enable clients to achieve their potential. We deliver value by bringing leading thinking and practice on risk and planned organisational change through projects and programmes.

Having spent a career providing advice, I am learning how to be a fabulous executive coach where I help my clients do their own thinking to find ways forward in complex situations.

I am an independent member of the Home Office ARAC, supporting robust risk-based decision making and good governance of public money in pursuit of Government policy.

I work on a variety of projects for the School, including cohort manager and impact group facilitator on the UK government Major Projects Leadership Academy, and as faculty on the SRO Fundamentals online programme.

Excited to join the Smart Resourcing team to bring my change and risk expertise to their offering to clients.

Enabling learning and hopefully inspiring Warwick Business School MBA students

Supported the partnership bringing my experience in shaping and delivering transformational change through a risk-based lens to both BTD's practice and for the benefit of our clients as they sought to create value through mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and strategic alliances.

ABP has ambitious and exciting plans for change. My role, reporting to the CEO, is to help the Board of Directors to manage the portfolio and to ensure that the intended benefits are realised. I also lead the work to transform how ABP gets value from intelligent risk-taking.

Advising clients how to make the behavioural and cultural changes to create bottom-line value from the analysis and management of risk.

Designed and delivered executive education for international oil company Impact and Development manager for joint venture between university and global IT organisation for 5 yearsDesigned innovative risk management maturity framework.Completed Doctoral research into planned organisational change from the perspective of change recipients as well as change agents

A bespoke consultancy focused on delivering value from planned change for a range of clients, including Rio Tinto, Shell, SAP, Hoffman La Roche, Hewlett Packard, ING Bank, Qatar Petroleum and Friends Life.Examples of work completed since 2003 are:• Change leader within the corporate risk group of a global mining firm.• Provided consultancy to improve the ‘business of projects’ across the global IT services company.• Strategic consultant supporting the risk-based decision making within major government programmes.• Coached senior management sponsors of planned change in a major insurance firm.• Conducted doctoral research into the impact of planned change on strategically significant organisational routines.• Co-authored four books addressing strategic and human aspects of risk management. • Co-authored Starting Out in Project Management – the Study Guide for the APM Introductory Certificate in Project Management.• Author of the 2010 version of the UK government’s ‘Management of Risk’ publication.• Led the application of the ‘Managing Successful Programmes’ approach within a government-funded programme involving eight UK universities.• Managed a project to change technology, processes and behaviours for an industrial recruitment company.• Introduced project management disciplines within two major law firms.• Developed the syllabus and examination materials for the APM qualifications at three levels (Certificate, APMP and Practitioner).• Provided team coaching and facilitation to improve the application of the value management within a privatised water utility.• Designed and delivered an extensive range of programmes and project management development events across most business sectors.

Dear All It is my great pleasure to announce that Ruth Murray-Webster has today successfully completed her DBA. Her thesis was entitled “What does it take for organizations to change themselves? The influences on the internal dynamics of organizational routines undergoing planned change”. Ruth was supervised by Harvey Maylor and further supported by Panel Chair Mark Jenkins and Panel Member David Denyer. I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the new Dr Murray-Webster and wish her all the best for the future. Best regardsEmma Emma ParryReader in Human Resource ManagementDirector, International Executive Doctorate (DBA)School Of ManagementBuilding 111, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedfordshire MK43 0ALThis is what I did...I researched planned organisational change, purposeful investments that are intended to transform strategically important work through a temporary organisational structure (a project, programme or change initiative). There is lots of existing research in this area, but much of this focuses on change agents, the people who are tasked with bringing about the change. My research focuses on the organisational routines that are intended to be changed, and the people whose work would change if efforts were successful – I call those people change recipients. I’m also interested in the role of the change recipients’ line manager as they often are required to span the boundary between the change agents in the temporary team, and the change recipients in the standing organisation.My work makes a contribution to practice and practitioners, and not just knowledge. I am particularly motivated to provide new insights for change agents who are tasked with crafting approaches to bring about strategically beneficial planned change in their organisation.

Responsibilities:• Designed and delivered consultancy and training in Project and Programme / Strategic Management, including published work for conferences.• Conducted academic research into the effect of cultural diversity on business success.• Assessed organisations against the EFQM Excellence Model and BS EN ISO9001 – both 1994 and 2000 versions. Developed quality management system development and ‘hearts and minds’ focused training.• Developed and delivered a web-enabled assessment tool for project management knowledge.• Designed a practitioner level award in project management for a professional body, designed and implemented methods to define and assess project management competency.

Responsibilities:• Created business and management support for two companies in the UK and Norway, importing and selling French and German manufactured musical instruments.• Project Manager for establishing new manufacturing facilities and processes for the manufacture of nuclear products in the UK and Japan.

Quality and Operations ManagerResponsibilities:• Managed the programme to build the quality, regulatory and operational aspects of a British/Russian joint venture company.• Responsible for ensuring the new company had quality management and operational systems for the technical design, purchasing, distribution, and servicing of radioactive products procured predominately from Russian suppliers.• Accountable for operational systems and for ensuring that performance met global customer and regulatory expectations so that shipping licences were granted.

Corporate Quality ConsultantResponsibilities:• Evaluated business systems across the Amersham group (1,500 personnel in the UK and 1,500 in 25 subsidiaries worldwide).• Led operational managers towards the development of value-added business systems.

Responsible for Total Quality Management, quality assurance, training and development for a manufacturing department comprising 400 staff.

• As Office Services Manager: Created new successful organisation with significantly improved staff morale and service levels, major change to service provision for all senior managers on the site; team of 50 people line managed.• As Training Manager: Designed and delivered a range of knowledge and skills based management training.Previously Scientific Assistant - Process Technology Department.