Chief Information Officer
At the point I am at in my career I love to help others progress their careers and importantly take the change profession forwards. I still feel we have lots to do to make this a core profession recognised and respected as a management discipline and I would love people to be able to build on what has been done to date. I am proud of what we have all achieved but I am not sure that the profession will move forwards having only a few voices. We need to learn from what is happening in organisations today, share what we are seeing and learning and start to work out how we can ensure the needs of members of organisation is taken into account as organisation change and transform. When we started this community we had some key principles which we have maintained and I am proud of that. We start a conversation and listen to all the knowledge and experience out there.
I love to engage others around change and have some creative problem solving and being creative around overcoming the impacts of the change on people. I love to create workshops where people in organisation have an opportunity to tell their organisations what the change mean to them and get them to engage in creating ideas to make the change work for them, their teams, their department s and the organisations success.
I began my career in the energy sector where I specialised in managing change on major projects, Organisational Design and Organisational effectiveness. I became an independent consultant and have worked in the public and private sectors including energy, healthcare and engineering. I have worked in the UK and spent time working with an organisation in the US. I have done everything from IT to HR. From working in a technical role to being an Industrial relations manager. I spent a few years heading up a training organisation but for the last 20 years concentrated on managing change as a subject matter expert but also helping organisation design new structures and implement major projects.
I am the author of “Working with people to deliver successful projects” and I am the former Chair of the Change Management Institute UK and I was a global board member for the institute. Along with Melanie, I am Co-Founder of the Change Capability Community, a global thought leadership and networking group for change management professionals. I mentor managers building their capability in change and transformation.
