Therese Webb Email & Phone Number

At HI Foods, our mission is to make eating for hormonal health easy and intuitive. Our food products are designed to meet the evolving needs of the female body as it moves through significant hormonal seasons of the 40+ year reproductive journey.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Shaped the direction of Davis College by leading the transition from hierarchy to self-organisation. Following the work and philosophy of Frederic Laloux, I successfully designed a 2-year strategy and facilitated a.
• Drove a 100+ employee change initiative to utilize Holacracy as the new business management structure
• Redefined organisational structure, HR and other business processes, policies and systems (i.e. leave, compensation & performance management, tech, governance) after leading 6 months of internal and external R&D
• Facilated new ways of working by leading curriculum development and workshop design and acquiring content through Subject Matter Experts to ensure employee engagement and transformation success
• Delivered communications plan to optimise employee and stakeholder buy-in, ensuring strategic success

Hong Kong

• Served as thought and strategic partner and gatekeeper for the CEO of a mission-driven, high-growth, global higher-education organisation with a key focus on actualising a 4-year scale and growth strategy
• Operationalised a Blitzscale strategy through building an Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) driven organisation, ensuring effective and efficient departmental reporting, escalating and pivoting
• Launched a fully operational Hong Kong office for scale throughout Asia by recruiting and onboarding a 20+ person strong high-performing team in under 3 months; and creating and implementing policies and processes to.
• Created impact by streamlining project-related communications through the organisation-wide rollout of a digital collaboration tool, leading to transparency between regions and departments, and senior stakeholder.
• Optimised CEO and senior leadership’s capacity through stunt doubling at meetings and conferences, and through ownership of all special projects, such as a virtual internship program linking 200+ students from.
• Ensured cohesion, transparency and forward movement by crafting internal and external communications i.e. speeches and updates for donors, BoD and external councils

Hong Kong

• Designed and launched a successful, process-driven Project Management Office (PMO), allowing for remote-based, flexible working across geographies through agile practices and effective communication and collaboration.
• Led the rollout of a ‘happy remote working’ strategy; improving collaboration and productivity through software implementation & better ways of working
• Championed Smartsheet as project management tool leading to a significant increase in stakeholder trust and satisfaction
• Managed a 20-person remote team while acquiring subject-specific freelancers for customised programmes

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Led all programme and project-related aspects (workflow, budget, scope, schedule) of the development and delivery of the Abu Dhabi Education Council’s Maths and Science Curriculum for Cycle 2 & 3 (11-18 years), a.
• Liaised with the client as key contact and programme sounding board, travelling to Abu Dhabi with authoring team and SMEs when required
• Acquired subject-specific talent while developing and managing a team of 25 in-house and freelance product development experts

Dubai

• Developed and validated new editorial, product development and production processes during a restructuring, ensuring consistency in efficiency with a team reduced by 50%

Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Middle East

• Led the book publishing department in a new strategic direction by publishing the UAE's leading home chef. This led to a multiyear PR and rights-selling campaign with launch events and sponsorship agreements, all.
• Forged successful relationships and served as the key liaison with government media agencies while publishing autobiographies and photographic journals for UAE royal family
• Developing and maintaining product profiles by liaising with key suppliers and by managing client/stakeholder and author relationships
• Coordinating resources and managing workflow by identifying key priorities and resource gaps

London, United Kingdom

• Managed all backlist/reprint titles for Collins Education and, after only 6 months, being promoted to oversee the production of the complete Collins Education Primary and Secondary Maths list for new publishing.

Ma Publishing, New Product Development And Editorial Management

Activities and Societies: Society of Young Publishers, UK

Bachelor Of Music (B.Mus), Music

Activities and Societies: USSO (University of Stellenbosch Symphony Orchestra)