Description

I’m a strategic advisor and transformation specialist with two decades of experience helping CEOs and leadership teams cut through complexity and lead with clarity. Former EY Director, now Founder of ARC Consulting, I work internationally across FMCG, pharma, government, defence, and sovereign technology.

Example work includes guiding a FTSE3 FMCG leadership team to design a unifying “Compass” that drove 80% of growth, redesigning the IT operating model of a Fortune 100 pharma company to enable digital/Factory 4.0, and partnering with Core42, the UAE’s sovereign AI company, to build leadership intimacy, define purpose, and catalyse cultural transformation.

My goal is simple: to help leaders and organisations move forward with shared conviction, cultural alignment, and transformation that sticks.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

English
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Bath (up to 50km)

ARC
Founder
April 2024 - Today (2 years and 2 months)
Founded ARC, a boutique strategy and leadership advisory helping organisations unlock transformation through purpose, clarity and human connection. Highlights:
• Designed and facilitated executive offsites for Core42 (UAE Tech/AI firm) to build leadership intimacy and align on strategic plan, purpose and core values
• Developed Bloom Growth's 2.5-year 'Elevated Relationships' curriculum to grow emotionally intelligent, purpose-led leaders; delivered across four intensives with full facilitator toolkit
• Leading strategy for the Follicular Lymphoma Foundation to accelerate the path to cure; created system map, guiding policy and big bet architecture to position FLF as a catalytic force in oncology
• Advised CEO of a private London healthcare clinic on strategic focus and scaling; applied operating model and alignment frameworks to support sustainable growth
Leadership Alignment Corporate strategy Purpose and Culture Transformation Leadership Development
EY
Director, People Advisory Services
September 2017 - February 2024 (6 years and 5 months)
Bath, United Kingdom
Leader in our Consumer Product and Retail (CPR) practice, I have advised executives and c suite of FTSE20/100/350 companies on a range of transformative agendas. Highlights:
• As the People Advisory Services leader for CPR in FY21 and FY22, I led our team to grow the business from $2m to $5.3m (Year 1) and $9m (Year 2); extending our client footprint and putting in place the foundations for further growth
• In the last FY (Jul '22 – Jun' 23), contributed to $27m total sales, $5m direct sales, and managed and delivered $3m in revenue
• Working with an entire FTSE 3 CxO, drove purpose/sustainability and commercial strategy integration to create new sources of value, and accelerate new purpose / sustainability business models that accounted 80% of the total growth of the firm
• Worked with the CEO/CFO of a major pure play fashion retailer to create their new purpose, 7-year strategy and roadmap; delivering >30% CAGR over first 3 years
• Working with the CEO/CHRO of a global Brazilian beauty firm to define their Sustainability-backed 2030 Ambition and Cultural DNA to guide the next decade of their development (just finishing, ID'd new adjacent businesses to move into)
• Developed new talent interventions for a global FMCG's digital talent in Poland and India; increasing talent attraction 3x and driving up retention by 40%
• Supported a FTSE20 FMCG to assess the impact of their HR policies on DEI and identified a series of improvements to improve inclusivity and belonging
• Worked with the Manufacturing Tech leader of a F500 Pharma business to create a new product- and platform-based op model/OD for their technology function, underpinned by a new Workforce Strategy/Plan to guide their evolution. The new design/skills mix increased service levels and reduced workforce cost over 5 years
Leadership Alignment Corporate strategy Operating Model and Organization Design Purpose and Culture Transformation HR Transformation
EY
Senior Manager
ENERGY AND UTILITIES
October 2014 - September 2017 (2 years and 11 months)
Built out and led the EY's Energy Retail People practice; supporting major UK energy retailers to transform their business in light of huge sectoral change. Highlights:
• Led the client account management for two major retailers - SSE and Centrica - with a focus on helping clients navigate their people/HR agenda; creating £2m and £1m accounts from zero within 18 months
• Working with the CHRO, created a flexible organisation design for a major Energy Retailer to scale their workforce five-fold in 18 months to meet the challenges of smart metering; enabling them to meet an installation ramp up of 300% in that timeframe, and avoid £multi-million fines from the Government
• Helped another Energy Retailer MD to have confidence in their new OD pre-Go Live; bringing together the designs from Strategy and Boutique consulting houses, and assuring the new org would be 'fit-for-purpose. The org launched on time and to cost
• Led EY UK's OD practice; scaling the team from 30 to 60 FTE, integrating new technologies e.g. OTH, and improving go-to-market
Organisational Design Capability Development Business development