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London, England, United Kingdom

Senior Business Manager for the Football Operations and Legal and Governance Divisions at The Football Association. I work closely with the Director of Professional Game Relations and General Counsel, supporting their departments with business operations and strategic projects and programmes.

London, England, United Kingdom

Chief Product Officer for a challenger consultancy, which provides human centric transformation solutions that enable organisations to enhance the value they create for customers, employees and broader society.Key achievements:• Formulated the organisation’s Product function, including developing the operating model, processes, support services, resource profile, supplier selection and management.• Spearheaded the development and delivery of Digiworkz's flagship product Nexus (an AI-powered knowledge and collaboration platform harnessing collective intelligence) and Digiworkz’s smaller analytics solutions. • Exceeded £250k product sales in year 1; on track to exceeding year 1 product sales in year 2.• Joined forces with the Managing Director and a Technical Advisor (Partner) in the successful application for a £100k ‘Innovate UK Grant’ to support product development.• Collaborated with the Managing Director and a patent legal partner in the development of Digiworkz’s successful patent application for Nexus.• Delivered multiple successful product implementations to Professional Services, Financial Services, Public Sector, and Technology clients; including Barclays, KPMG and Fujitsu.• Serve as a Board member to define the company vision and strategy; this involved working closely with the CEO on Digiworkz’s investment funding efforts.• Assembled the Product team from scratch, to a team with professionals across the product, account management and technical development capacities.• Up-skilled a staff member from having no product-based skills, to a fully fledged Product Manager, also heavily contributed towards the promotion of an Intern, to a qualified Product Analyst. • Played a pivotal role in the development of thought leadership topics; including Collective Intelligence, Learning re-imagined, Digital transformation and the Metaverse, as well as the Future of Work and Workforces.

London

Mobilised a team of resources (comprising of managers, consultants/associate consultants, analysts, graduates, and contractors) towards delivering projects primarily focused on analytics, employee experience and change management within the Workforce Management and Digital Transformation Space.Key achievements:• Pioneered an employee and digital experience analytics capability with a public sector client as Experience Analytics Lead; this involved building the overall service framework, metric and dashboard development, as well as co-ordinating the new data architecture with the technical team.• Established a capability to measure employee mindset with a global bank as Analytics Lead; this involved data identification, metric and dashboard development, in addition to a capability build.• Coordinated the enhancement of a workforce planning capability within a global bank as Project Lead; this involved selecting new analytics software, identifying data sources and building new processes.• Directed the development of an employee experience capability with a technology company as Project Lead; this involved building the proposition and delivery assets.

London, England, United Kingdom

Managed 15 Future of Work focused start-up clients on Digiworkz’s start-up accelerator programme to help clients develop their proposition, market positioning, customer landscaping, business and team operations and funding opportunities.

Woodford, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Secondment as the Client and Consulting Services Lead for an award-winning SaaS company, which offers workforce management solutions for small, medium and large-sized firms.Key Achievements:• Orchestrated the implementation of the ProFinda software, and delivered account management services for large-scale clients.• Fronted the successful implementation of the platform for 3 of the Big 4 global professional services firms; including a global implementation across 3 regions and over 30,000 employees.

London, United Kingdom

Part of the Workforce Transformation Practice delivering large-scale Workforce and HR Transformation projects.Key achievements• Fulfilled the role of Capability Framework Project Lead on a project for the largest national builders’ merchant, which involved defining and developing a framework for “What makes a successful Branch Manager” using a qualitative and quantitative approach.• Headed an end-to-end detailed process design for HR within the Shared Service function of a large UK transport authority as HR Process Design Lead.• Delivered a time and activity analysis and capability assessment for the programme management function of a Global Defence and Aerospace company as Talent and Capability Analyst.• Led successful deliveries of projects for various clients as Talent/People Analytics Strategies Lead; including a Professional Services Firm, Global Oil and Gas company, and a UK retailer.• Managed Deloitte’s Consulting Charity Football tournament for 3 years; this involved overseeing a team of 6 to deliver a tournament for over 200 employees, which resulted in generating more than £10k a year for Deloitte’s chosen charity.• Active participant in the Deloitte Access Programme to support inner-city school children.• Supervised the People and Workforce Analytics Community of over 30 people; this involved working with the Practice Partner to secure budget, also managed team meetings, and socials. • Key contributor to a Future of Work focused products; including a Future Talent Optimisation tool.

London, United Kingdom

Consultant within the Human Capital practice, aligned to the People and Workforce Analytics team.

London, United Kingdom

Part of the Deloitte Consulting Graduate Programme align to Human Capital.• Completed several SuccessFactors implementations; this involved managing the implementation of the Recruitment Module on HR transformation projects, including process design, technology requirements, platform build and testing

Slough, United Kingdom

Graduate programme consisting of rotations through sales and marketing roles:Territory Manager for the South and West London and surrounding area for the large scale business. My responsibilities included liaising with store managers of the biggest DIY, Paint and Builders merchants in the UK to ensure strategic products placing and negotiating additional sales deals.

Lakewood, Pa, Usa

Part of the camp Key Staff team and leading the Senior Boys division at a stay away summer camp.I was responsible for 40+ boys aged 14-17 and Manager for 20+ counsellers.My responsibilities included:- Orientation activities for counsellors- Guiding counsellors in roles and responsibilities- Resolving campers issues- Organising evening activities- Planning and running event days- Meeting and greeting parents and conducting camp tours

London, United Kingdom

Ba (Hons), Politics, 2:1

Activities and Societies: University Rugby Club, Hall of Residence Treasurer, Week One Representative, Politics Society I studied Politics.

A-Levels: Aab Gcse'S: A*'S & A'S

Activities and Societies: Head Boy, Senior Prefect, School Council, Sports Council, 1st Team Football Captain, Cricket Team, Rugby Team.