The people in our team have a wealth of practical insights and knowledge gained from both senior management experience and successful business consultancy careers. In addition they have augmented their experience with academic and professional qualifications that allow them bring a vital degree of rigour allied to native pragmatism in working with clients.
Martin Hazell - has a strong focus on outcomes and a passion for enabling people to understand and overcome barriers to personal and corporate change.
Skilled in decoding motivation and behaviour of managers and in coaching and mentoring people. Rigorously logical analyst who asks questions that others haven’t thought of and persistent in seeking answers. Martin has over ten years managment experience in high technology Industries and sixteen years in transformation consulting.
He was Director at KPMG Consulting responsible for Strategy and Innovation within the Information Communication and Entertainment sectors. He holds an MBA from Cranfield University and is a Chartered Management Consultant, a PMI Project Management Professional, and an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
martin.hazell@simplexity.co.uk
|
 read more... |
Derek Armshaw - A Programme Director with a strong commercial project management background.
He has nearly twenty years experience with major consulting firms and blue chip clients delivering business and technology change projects, and helping organisations improve their programme and project management capabilities.
In-depth knowledge of programme and project management methods, processes and tools, and wide experience of designing and implementing effective governance and controls; Significant experience of project performance evaluation, and of subsequent project recovery and turnaround; Effective manager of third-party suppliers, especially technology vendors, systems integrators, and outsourced service providers; Derek has served on the UK board of the Project Management Institute.
derek.armshaw@simplexity.co.uk
|
read more... |
Neil Harris - extensive experience of managing complex projects gained over the past fifteen years as a management consultant.
His experience has principally been gained with large transformation and change management projects, with significant financial management and new technology elements.
As a Programme Director Neil has been responsible for designing programmes, mentoring senior managers and working across businesses to develop communication strategies, workshops, training programmes and measurements to ensure that change is embedded into the business.
One of Neil’s key strengths is the ability to communicate issues and risks clearly and concisely, only descending into details where they are important. His management style is characterised by a pragmatic approach to reaching solutions that meet the overall need and he is proactive in searching for these solutions. He is able to get to grips with new concepts and situations quickly.
neil.harris@simplexity.co.uk
|
read more... |
Jeremy W G Cox - Jeremy has more than twelve years' strategic marketing experience with IBM including Routes-To-Market & Launch Strategies & Execution planning for IBM's solutions businesses EMEA, AP and NA and Customer Coverage Strategy development for global and major accounts.
Jeremy was a Principal Consultant at KPMG Consulting, working with clients such as HP, Microsoft, Compaq and BT in the fields of: CRM, Organisational Collaboration, Interactive Marketing & integration of channels, agencies, call centres, World-class marketing processes and Multi-Country Project Management. Jeremy holds a masters degree with distinction in strategic marketing management from the Manchester Business School; and a diploma in marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing. He is a frequent speaker on CRM & PRM strategy development, and Strategic Marketing Management in hi-tech industries.
jeremy.cox@simplexity.co.uk
|
read more... |
Rona Lester – Rona is a training consultant with over 15 years industry training experience. She specialises in developing training strategy, needs assessment and training development for clients typically undergoing either a management reorganisation or implementing major new systems and/or IT projects.
These clients are mostly FTSE 100 companies or equivalent, and the companies encompass telecommunications, banking and financial derivatives, pharmaceutical, marketing, heavy industry, and actuaries. She has served her apprenticeship developing, preparing and delivering training and she is adept at both training the senior management level and communicating with technicians and specialists. She prides herself as being practical and professional, and is adept at bringing realism and “the fun of learning” to what are often dry subjects.
Her work is now spent primarily on developing training strategy and the associated training plans together with occasional training development and delivery on an ad-hoc basis. Overall she is both an outstanding professional and is prepared to champion her views at the highest levels of management. She has a BSc in Business Sciences from University of Southern California, is an Associate member of the CIPD and is a full member of the Institute of IT Training.
rona.lester@simplexity.co.uk
|
read more... |
George Karseras – George specialises in change management, coaching and team development. He is a chartered occupational psychologist who uses his eclectic experiences from Big-4 change management and leadership development consulting combined with sport psychology and family therapy training to formulate bespoke and pragmatic change management solutions for his clients.
George can work at all the levels of an organisational system in order to drive through change benefits, from the influence and political nuances of the Boardroom, down through the management layers that connect the strategic thinkers to the operators and right down to the coal face where the strategy and culture come alive.
Fundamental to his style of working is a focus on harnessing the benefits from key relationships across an organisation and ensuring that people at all levels are enabled to perform with high levels of self confidence and self esteem.
george.karseras@simplexity.co.uk
|
read more... |
|
