Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Executive leadership development coach, creating future leaders, coaching senior-level managers and building your business strategy. Successful media industry leader, designing and implementing workplace change. https://chrysalis-leadership.com/ I create transformational vision: set strategies, engage stakeholders and build leadership teams to deliver change through coaching and supporting people in their professional development. My credentials: * Leadership Expert: Invited member of global expert panel, delivering leadership development and coaching * Transformation Expertise: Launched BBC/private sector publisher partnership to deliver Government-sponsored local news partnership * Digital Transformation: Successfully led digital restructuring and training programme for two major news publishing companies, achieving industry-leading audience growth, efficient working practice and multi-million pound savings * 20+ years trusted and respected industry leader - track record of digital transformation and building leadership teams * Industry mentor, board director, and former trustee of industry's national charity body * PRINCE2 qualified project manager, ILM qualified Level 7 coach, change management-trained Please feel free to connect, and I’ll be happy to speak more with you. www.chrysalis-leadership.com ✔️Executive Coaching (ILM Level 7) ✔️ Leadership Development ✔️Team Building ✔️Change Management ✔️Cultural Transformation Programmes ✔️Strategy Development ✔️Communication ✔️ Business Transformation ✔️Publishing (Print & Digital) ✔️Content Improvement Strategies ✔️Multi-sector Stakeholder Engagement ✔️Project Management (PRINCE2) ✔️Team Management ✔️Organisational leadership ✔️Internal Communications
Director of Chrysalis Transformations, providing expert advice, coaching and mentoring to support media businesses in their digital transformation. Currently working for Financial Times Strategy Team on a Google-funded project across the news industry to support brands in their digital revenue transformation. Working with Reuters Institute of Journalism delivering training programs for managers. Providing executive-level coaching and heading a corporate mentoring program.
We help news media companies to build an AI-enabled newsroom and subscription business. From basic training needs, workflow design and strategy through to implementation and support with ethical use case. https://www.ai-collective.co.uk/
Digital Transformation * Successfully restructured editorial division, turning around digital performance to year on year growth * Achieved 10% savings in costs while improving productivity Quality Improvements * Instigated quality review process with titles achieving minimum sales improvements of 8 per cent * Daily titles listed in top six circulation performance in the country * Designed and implemented metrics dashboard to monitor audience growth, quality improvements and engagement. Business strategy * Senior executive playing a leading part in company turnaround from loss-making to £2.5m profit in 18 months. * Project-managed 9-month editorial transformation across multiple locations Leadership * Built new leadership team, identifying new talent and promoting 17 people to managerial positions * Instigated skills and learning academy providing career pathways for 230 journalists * Introduced communication and engagement strategy
I chaired the inaugural BBC/News Media Association Advisory Panel, which holds responsibility for deploying £8 million of BBC money into local journalism to meet the BBC’s Charter renewal requirements. Key Achievements: • Represented the News Media Association and worked closely with BBC representatives to develop a strategy for the project that has so far seen the employment of almost 165 local journalists. * Brought together multiple stakeholders in the publishing sector, the BBC and the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, to launch the project. • The ten-year agreement is already considered a success by the BBC and has been presented to state broadcast companies in Europe, Canada, America and Australia as a template.
Responsible for delivering the content strategy and audience development of one of the UK’s largest media businesses with more than 200 titles. Led all editors and editorial directors with a total workforce of 800 journalists. Key Achievements: * Played leading role in presenting the company through sale process resulting in successful acquisition by National World. • Ran the successful change programme to re-engineer digital working practice and culture; Resulted in record year-on-year growth and launch of first paywalls across all daily titles. Delivered £4.5m savings. • Improved staff engagement by 25 points in two years through introduction of new communication strategy and engagement policy. * Implemented coaching and development programme for daily editors with best in company engagement improvement. * Mentored national daily editor of the i newspaper to achieve industry leading improvements in digital and print growth