Stephanie Russell Email and Phone Number

Business Agilty managing consultant.

Agile Coach for Finance teams at HSBC, value stream development & training for teams and leadership, including the Group CFO & direct reports.

• Leading Value Stream implementation and Lean Portfolio Management within Finance portfolio• Training C-Suite and teams in Agile ways of working, including the CFO and direct reports• Practical operating model design as well as coaching on behaviours and psychological safety• Business case formulation for Group Treasurer on new Operating Model design including benefits• Lead on the automation of Agile Metrics for the bank’s Global Agile Transformation Programme, meaning a significant reduction in TOIL • Lead on development of Value Stream visualisation within internal strategic application • Contributed to the development of a highly successful digital curriculum and Agile accelerators

Launching the new 'Technology Academy' for HSBC Colleagues including a new digital learning platform on Degreed. Finding and developing the best possible courses for colleagues on a variety of subjects from AI to Agile to Cloud. Promoting and liaising on development of Academy with Technology C-Suite

STRATEGY DELIVERY, AUGUST 2017 - APRIL 2019• Strategy lead on DevOps & Agile Maturity Assessment – interpreting the assessment results, working with CIOs to formulate action plans and collaborating with IT Service Management on improving DevOps metrics•Delivery Lead on rollout of new job catalogue for TechnologyIT TRANSFORMATION, OCTOBER 2015 - JULY 2016• Involved from programme initiation and lead PMO set up for a billion dollar Strategic Programme • Managed all upwards reporting for the Programme (including to IT CIO, Bank COO & CEO, Group Level Committees and Shareholders)

IT RE-ORGANISATION, JANUARY 2015 - OCTOBER 2015• Appointed delegate to manage the re-organisation of IT Infrastructure Delivery (a function with over 8000 people) within IT at HSBC. This was an organisational efficiency exercise to improve our reporting structures, reduce headcount and hence gain cost savings.• Frequent interaction with senior stakeholders including CIOs of Global Business and Functions • Ensuring alignment between global functions and regions• Consultancy with IT Managers to advise on structure changes to increase efficiencies • Dealing with a complex set of challenges in terms of data quality, conflicting priories of teams and system knowledge of individuals working on the blueprintPMO FOR GLOBALISATION STRATEGY, NOVEMBER 2012 - DECEMBER 2014 • Communicating the HSBC IT Operations Strategy (in various forms including creating presentations and scripts for the Head of IT Operations to use at Global Town Halls or to present to the bank COO)• Providing guidance to Project Managers within the Strategy to ensure successful delivery of goals• Ensuring alignment to wider HSBC Strategy (including coordinating Blueprint updates)• Timely implementation of recommendations made by internal and external auditors• Ensuring that projects within clarity (our project reporting tool) adhere to internal standards • Responsibilities outside daily role included facilitating Global Standards workshops, contributions to Board Papers focussed on IT Development and ad hoc support with COO special projects