Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Highly motivated and dynamic leader with extensive experience as a results oriented professional within the Training, Learning and Development domain. Strong record of building and leading teams to deliver innovation and high quality human capability development solutions; including personnel and career development, organizational development and improved efficiency across the business output. High level decision making capabilities have been developed over an extensive career and supported by extremely effective analytical, change management and internal consultancy capabilities, with demonstrable strategic influence up to and including board level.
Lead the strategic development and implementation of all aspects of the training, learning and development domains across and within dnata's global businesses; including but not limited to: - Implementation and assurance of all global standards and governance - Global digital solutions and technology exploitation strategy - Compliance assurance against all internal and external regulatory requirements - Development and implementation of dnata Leadership Development Programme - Provide SME advice and guidance to industry bodies, eg IATA, ASA
Responsible for all aspects of Training, Learning and Development for the UN World Food Programme’s ICT Emergency Preparedness and Response function. This includes the provision of technical, soft skills and scenario based training exercises for Government and Non-Government Organisations alike, to support crisis response teams within humanitarian aid operations anywhere in the world. Additionally responsible for developing and implementing the strategic level policy and processes for the organisation, financial planning and control and comprehensive stakeholder management.
A senior Learning and Development specialist leading the delivery of innovative and progressive Training Solutions and Strategies to meet organisational learning and training development needs. Specific examples include: - Led the design and development of extensive training solutions programmes to develop BAE industrial personnel and engineers across a range of requirements. - Acted as a strategic internal consultant, providing direction and leadership whilst developing interventions to determine multi-level requirements for training solutions programmes to be delivered as part of a multi-million pound international contract. - Provided leadership, management and high-level decision making capabilities for multiple teams during all stages of the training project and ADDIE/SAT lifecycle, including the evaluation of training effectiveness. - Provided project management and financial planning oversight across a range of learning and development projects within a complex multinational, organization. - Conducted stakeholder management and negotiation up to board level.
Officer of the Royal Navy with extensive leadership and management experience across a diverse range of roles and areas.
- Wrote and implemented the Strategic level processes and methodology by which to develop and manage senior talent and individual competence across the Royal Navy. - Directed the design, development and implementation of a bespoke Career and Competence Management system for use throughout the Royal Navy to achieve organisational and business improvements at the strategic level. - Influenced and informed the design/development of a Defence-wide system to retain, develop and manage senior officer talent in order to increase the professionalism and effectiveness of Defence. - Directed the Royal Navy position, at Board level, and enacted all key stakeholder management and discussions on a quad service basis to implement the required strategic solutions.
- Introduced new training support contract to the Maritime Warfare School as lead internal consultant and subject matter expert for managing a complex change programme. - Developed modified synthetic training solutions that were presented to external international training, learning and development community. - Directed a diverse team that delivered all training support and development for largest military training establishment in Europe.
- Directed and implemented the strategic level change programme for all RN Marine Engineering career training, achieving marked improvements to operational and business capability through the development of ground-breaking training, learning and development solutions. - Directed and led the mapping of all Defence Marine Engineering training to civilian, vocational and academic qualifications where possible. - Led and directed the extensive activities of a diverse, multi-disciplinary team to provide all training support. This included instructional design, evaluation and quality control for all Defence Marine Engineering training. This amounted to more than 1,000 courses and 150,000-man training days per annum. - Defined and led the implementation of an innovative Instructor Development Programme, resulting in demonstrable improvements across all areas of learning and development within the Defence School. - Directed the development and introduction of an advanced blended learning solution, including the ground-breaking use of a Virtual Learning Environment and Learning Management System, for all Defence Marine Engineering. - Acted as subject matter expert for contract management transition to a new multi-million pound training support contract for the Defence School of Marine Engineering.