Director - UK
Business Transition expert and Project Manager. Experience ranging from Oil & Gas to public sector and NHS. Director in educational not-for-profit for leadership development. Multi-lingual.
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CV
I am an internationally recognised specialist in achieving high levels of organisational effectiveness and change participation. I am a specialist in designing, managing and implementing projects, training and interventions to help leaders, teams, departments and organisations develop and achieve their transition objectives. I have access to innovative, state of the art, thinking on people, change and leadership development.
Both as a coach and as a transition project manager I have helped organisations and their leaders deliver significant business improvements in complex outsourcing and shared services environments, large scale IT strategy and systems implementations, supply chain developments and the development and delivery of business strategy both in Europe, North and South America as well as in global projects. This includes offshoring solutions. My industry experience stretches from Oil & Gas, Telecoms, Pharmaceuticals, Finance and Construction through to Central Government and the NHS.
I also acts as a leadership coach to the senior management of a global consulting organisation and a Eastern-European consumer marketing and media organisation.
Whilst being a founding partner of Symphoenix Ltd, I also holds directorships in a leading organisation in my field, the not for profit ‘Center of Self-Organizing Leadership’ (C SOL) based in Niagara Falls, NY, USA.
I founded the UK organisation of the global not for profit organisation the Plexus Institute, that focuses entirely on organisational health.
Further, as a coach I am working with the establishment of a new a not for profit organisation in San Diego, CA, to change the way social services are delivered.
Employment History
(Feb 2002 & ongoing)
Director
London, UKFounded Symphoenix as director in Feb 2002 to expand on experience obtained as principal consultant and to further my expertise within my own environment.
Founded this with a partner who joined me from Partners for Change Ltd
(Jun 1989 to Apr 2004)
Process Engineer, Planner and Application Engineer
Rotterdam, NetherlandsStraight from university held 3 different technically focused jobs managing:
- Part of the Aromatics Plant (process engineer)
- Process control applications (applications engineer)
- Short term feedstock and product planning (Planner)
(Jan 2000 to Feb 2002)
Principal Consultant
Partners for Change Ltd, London, UKPartners for Change (PfC) was a £15M turn-over specialised business change consultancy. In PfC, I did internal business development work as well as specialised client assignments, focusing in coaching and facilitating large change programmes.
(Dec 1996 to Jan 2000)
Principal Consultant
PW/PricewaterhouseCoopers, London, UKStarted in PW as a senior consultant focused at the Oil & Gas industry. After the 1998 merger with Coopers & Lybrand to PricewaterhouseCoopers, also worked for other industries (e.g. BBC and Utilities) and led the PwC global downstream e-business project.
(Dec 1995 to Nov 1996)
Polypropylene Product Manager and Business Analyst
Exxon Chemical Europe Ltd, Brussels, BelgiumWas the right hand man of the European Vice President for Polypropylene for Exxon Chemical Europe. Combined two jobs that were originally separated: product manager and business analyst.
(May 1994 to Nov 1995)
Section Head Computer Integrated Manufacturing
Exxon Chemical Holland, Inc, Rozenburg, NetherlandsAs section head for a department consisting of 3 disfunctioning sub departments, turned the department around to become 3 separate functioning units.#
Reporting into technical director.
Education
(Sep 2000 to Apr 2002)
University of Western Sydney
MA in Complexity, Chaos and Creativity (social science)
"With distiction"
(Sep 1993 to Jun 1995)
Open University
Propedeuse (first phase) Dutch Law
(Sep 1983 to Aug 1989)
Eindhoven University of Technology
MSc in Chemical Engineering
"With great appreciation"
Additional Certifications
Kobus Neethling Whole Brain Instruments - Certification to apply and teach whole brain creativity and personality instruments as developed by South African authority Kobus Neethling (2001)
Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) - Practitioners certification (2001)
Categories & Skills
Healthcare (Non-Clinical)
Categories
Management Consultancy
Categories
- Business Consulting
- Financial Consulting
- HR Consulting
- IT Consulting
- Languages
- Marketing Consulting
- Project Consultancy
- Security Clearance
Skills
- Back-Office Re-Engineering (IT Consulting)
- Business Integration (Business Consulting)
- Business Reengineering (Business Consulting)
- Change Management (Project Consultancy)
- Cost Reduction
- Counselling (HR Consulting)
- Downsizing (Business Consulting)
- Dutch (Languages)
- e-Business Development
- EDRMS (Project Consultancy)
- English (Languages)
- Excel (Project Consultancy - Microsoft)
- Excel (Microsoft)
- Feasibility Studies (Business Consulting)
- Financial Services (Project Consultancy)
- French (Languages)
- Gap Analysis (Business Consulting)
- General Management (Business Consulting)
- German (Languages)
- Health & Safety (HR Consulting)
- Health Care (Project Consultancy)
- IT Staff Management/Motivation (IT Consulting)
- IT Strategy Development (IT Consulting)
- Large Company - UK
- Leadership (Project Consultancy)
- Man Management (Project Consultancy)
- Management Development (HR Consulting)
- Manufacturing Management (Business Consulting)
- Mentoring (Project Consultancy)
- Microsoft (Project Consultancy)
- Microsoft
- Multinational Organisation (Project Consultancy)
- Multi-National Organisations
- Multiple Projects (Project Consultancy)
- NHS (Project Consultancy)
- NLP
- Offshore Development (Project Consultancy)
- Organisational Development
- Powerpoint (Project Consultancy - Microsoft)
- PowerPoint (Microsoft)
- Private Sector (Project Consultancy)
- Process Change (Project Consultancy)
- Process Design
- Process Mapping
- Procurement/Purchasing (Business Consulting)
- Profit Improvement
- Programme Management (Project Consultancy)
- Project (Project Consultancy - Microsoft)
- Project (Microsoft)
- Project Initiation Document (Project Consultancy)
- Project Management (Project Consultancy)
- Project Office Mgmt (Project Consultancy)
- Project Value (Project Consultancy)
- Public Sector (Project Consultancy)
- SLA's (Project Consultancy)
- SME Sector
- Spanish (Languages)
- Supply Chain (Project Consultancy)
- Supply Chain Management (Business Consulting)
- Systems Implementation (IT Consulting)
- Training (Project Consultancy)
- Visio (Project Consultancy - Microsoft)
- Visio (Microsoft)
- Word (Project Consultancy - Microsoft)
- Word (Microsoft)
- Workshop Management (Project Consultancy)

