London, England, United Kingdom
๐ Part business guru, part thrill-seeker. I thrive in discomfort, challenge the status quo, and ask 'Why not?' more often than a toddler asks 'Why?'. My clients rely on me to bring in a dash of urgency, a sprinkle of curiosity, a chug of right questions and a hefty dose of momentum. Work between London and Bay Area. How I help: ๐ AI Accelerator: Zero to working AI prototype in 3 weeks ๐ Go-To-Market Accelerator: Growth hacking, product launches, market expansion ๐ง Strategy & Innovation Labs for transforming business rapidly ๐ง Interactive workshops, Speaking & hackathons: teaching effective collaboration, value proposition, design thinking, visual thinking, and AI. What You Get: โ Scale faster in fraction of the time โ High-performing teams without the burnout โ Results in days, not months Currently Open For: โ AI Strategy & Innovation Lab engagements โ Specialized CRM, Customer & Digital Transformation projects โ Fractional/interim transformation roles โ Post-M&A integration โ Process automation & digitization โ Outsourcing โ SaaS implementations โ Change Management I spent the first part of my 22+ year career avoiding the messiest part of business transformation: "the people". As a computer nerd who loved math, algorithms, and databases, they were logical. Until I couldn't avoid the truth anymore: every transformation failure I witnessed wasn't technical โ it was human. My breaking point was when I spent six months, in weekly meetings with a senior leadership team, discussing the same slide deck, trying to make one decision. One. Decision. I was trapped in never-ending tunnels of circular meetings โ because nothing ever gets decided in a single meeting, does it? I had a choice: accept this as "how the system works" or find another way. What Changed Everything - I went to Silicon Valley to learn how high-growth startups solve complex problems rapidly. The difference wasn't better technology โ it was better collaboration. So I combined my 22+ years of transformation experience with neuroscience-based collaboration methods. Turns out, when you fix the group dynamics, everything else follows. That's how Solved Together was born โ with a mission to fix broken collaboration and help businesses develop a human-centered approach to growth and transformation. What I Do Now - I help companies solve complex challenges in days instead of months using these methods. DM me if you want your team to learn to do the same! ๐๏ธ Off-duty: Found defying gravity on mountains, seas, or slopes. Because life's too short for sensible hobbies.
Turning mid-size businesses (5M+) into scaling machines. We're not about years of planning โ we're about weeks of doing. We use a potent brew of: ๐ง Strategic problem solving ๐จ Design Thinking & Visual Thinking, Neuroscience & Lego Serious Play (yes, really!) ๐ก Innovation that makes Edison look like a slacker ๐๏ธโโ๏ธ Leadership Coaching that turns managers into caped crusaders ๐ Decades of cross-sector strategy & transformation experience (we've got the battle scars to prove it) to solve complex challenges ridiculously efficiently. Ready to scale? We're your dream team for: ๐ International expansion ๐ฌ Diversification (new products, services, customer segments - the whole shebang!) ๐ Feature deepening (making your offering more irresistible than a puppy in a bowtie) ๐ฐ Revenue model shake-ups ๐ Business model redesigns (when "business as usual" is putting you to sleep) ๐ค M&A + Post M&A Integration (making 1+1=3, without the migraines) Unless you want to spend another few years in strategy limbo, let's chat. Because at Solved Together, we believe the best time to scale was yesterday. The second best time? Right now. Let's solve this... together. ๐ช
I specialize in: - CRM Implementation - Implement & fine-tune CRM & connected business systems, including optimizing and automation of Sales, Marketing & Customer Service. End-to-end project management from strategy, product roadmap through to implementation, change management & training - Customer-centric Digital Transformation - Focus on all customer touchpoints, redesigning processes, systems & teams to refine and elevate end-to-end customer experience - Change Management - Human-centric change management, starting & ending with people, addressing communication, alignment, user training, rollout and benefits tracking. - SaaS implementation - product selection, vendor & partner management, resourcing, end-to-end implementation of SaaS products. - Process Redesign, Automation & digitization - IT Outsourcing - RFP, procurement, partner selection, negotiation, resourcing and project management - M&A integration - IT & Operational integration of systems, processes & people post M&A
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