About Me

CAREER PROFILE

An accomplished, versatile, proven, commercially astute, and entrepreneurially focused senior level organisational and business leader of outstanding calibre. Have extensive international (UK, EMEAA and MENA) experience; and brings to organisations, operations, and clients an exceptional depth and breadth of multidisciplinary organisational leadership, business and professional knowledge, skills, expertise, and experience. Have successfully lead organisations, and authored, developed, delivered, led and managed specialist, integrated or standalone, end to end, and through life, busness, people, operations and performance services, agendas, and teams within blue-chip, smaller corporate and SME organisational environments; across predominantly government, military, aviation, oil and gas, technical, corporate, professional services, B2B, education and training and mission led environments. Have extensive programme and project management and management consulting expertise and experience internationally. Experienced working as member of SME senior leadership teams across a range of organisational and operational sizes; from start-up, through less than 10 and T/O of £2m, to 250 and T/O of £50m. This is consolidated by previous SLT experience in organisations of up to 3,000+ employees, leading and managing teams of up to 150 and 16 direct reports. I am strongly values, vision, and mission orientated; people, pastoral, performance, productivity objectives, outcomes, and results focused; with a mission command, consultative, and collaborative leadership, and management style; and am unequivocally committed to proactively leading and driving high-impact, high-value, high-quality, high-performance people and talent cultures, ecosystems, environments, and experiences; and smarter, intelligent learning organisations and operations.

PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

A consummate professional with extremely high personal and professional standards, I blend tradition with modernity, am people centric and team orientated, strongly values and mission based, with a strong ethical and moral compass, sense of integrity, loyalty and commitment to duty, service, doing the right thing and doing things right. I am an extraordinarily strong self-starter who takes ownership, responsibility, initiative and is energetic, motivated, passionate, proactive, industrious, agile, adaptable, and resilient. I have excellent communications, analytical, problem solving, soft and interpersonal skills. Enjoy learning new skills.

SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, EXPERTISE AND EXPERIENCE

• Strategic, transformational, operational, and entrepreneurial leadership and management internationally.

• Strategic, transformational, and operational people, talent and raining, learning and development leadership and management internationally.

• Excellent depth and breadth of added value, multidisciplinary, transferable business and specialist knowledge, skills, expertise, and experience.

• Specialist SME business coach (UK Government Growth Accelerator), mentor, and consultant internationally.

• Extensive international expertise and experience:

  • Leading and managing multinational, multi-site, hybrid, and remote operations, and teams internationally

  • Working with boards, internal and external senior leadership teams, and multidisciplinary stakeholders

  • Working in hostile, challenging, VUCA, as well as fast paced and accelerated growth environments

  • Working with and in larger corporate, matrix, and smaller organisations and SME environments.

• Extensive international expertise and experience authoring, developing, leading, driving, and delivering:

  • Talent, training, learning and development capacity, capability, frameworks, and systems

  • Talent, training, learning and development transformation and change management and improvement

  • Talent, training, learning and development orientated programme and project management

  • Talent, training, learning and development innovation, excellence, and high-performance ecosystems, environments, and cultures

  • Executive education, leadership development, management training and professional training, learning and development programmes and courses

  • Talent, training, learning and development products and services; and route to market.

• Established multiple centres, schools and hubs of expertise and excellence.

• Extensive specialist GCC and MENA experience.

International Standards Expertise and Experience

• Military and Aviation - ICAO, IATA, EASA 147, RAF TSP, GIT, DIT, DSAT JSP 822, STANAG 6001.

• Awarding and professional Bodies - such as: ILM, CMI, APM, PMI, LCCI, ABE, IAB, CIPD.

• Quality Assurance – ISO 9001, 21001, 29990, 29993, 30414 / TC260, 21500, 31000, 22316, 27001, 2600, 4500,14001, and BSI 1800); OFSTED, Quality Assurance Agency (QAA), Accreditation Service for International Schools, Colleges & Universities (ASIC), British Accreditation Council (BAC) and British Council.

Technology

I have a wide range of information, communications, collaboration, computing and technology experience and expertise. Am a power user across a range of MS Office; and varied expertise and experience across business, and specialist HRMIRS, HRM and HCM, as well as education, training, L&D and LCMS and LMS software and tools, such as:

• Sage people, Monday, Workday, Oracle Cloud HCM, Netsuite People, Peoplesoft, Gusto, BrightHR, BambooHR, PeopleHR, BerniePortal, and IntellieHR

• Adobe Captivate and Presenter, Inspiring, Ispring, Articulate Rise and 360, Velsoft, and Blackboard

• Project management of platforms and systems procurement, implementation, and training.

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