Managing Director, Senior Consultant
Following a 21-year career in the British Royal Air Force, Mike
quickly established himself as an expert in managing major projects
and programmes of up to US $100 million in value. The core disciplines
of the majority of these projects have been Operational Resilience,
Risk Management and Business Continuity. In recent years Mike has
undertaken strategic roles in a range of sectors such as Aerospace,
Oil & Gas, Energy Supply, Utilities and the Government Sector
building on his experience from Insurance and banking. Working in
these varied sectors has allowed him to explore and further develop
his Programme Management, Stakeholder and Change Management skills
that have resulted in him being a highly successful and experienced
consultant and interim director.
Since 2010 Mike has been working successfully at a strategic level
filling longer term C-grade or director-level management consultant
assisting clients in a range of tasks from Major Project (>$250
million) work through leadership, development and improvement of
teams. Most recently Mike designed and implemented the new Operational
Resilience capability from scratch for the Royal Commission in Jubail,
KSA. As part of this role Mike routinely advised at governmental
level on all aspects of BC and Resilience and through his worked
helped shape the practice of BCM in Saudi Arabia. Above all his
ability to develop relationships, overcome difficulties and break
through barriers to progress is the defining characteristic that he
brings to all his engagements.
In addition to providing consultancy Mike has become a highly
regarded coach, mentor and trainer in the field of Programme
Management, Business Transformation, Operational Resilience, Business
Continuity and Change Management. He has previously been a trainer for
the British Computer Society (BCS), the Business Continuity Institute
(BCI) and the British Standards Institute (BSI). His clients have
included: Prudential, Royal Bank of Scotland, Pinkerton (Royal
Commission Jubail, KSA), Eurocopter UK, General Electric Africa, Shell
(Majnoon Iraq and Dubai), Occidental (Oxy Oman and Bahrain), Terraseis
(oil and gas exploration Afghanistan), IBM India, G4S Risk Consulting,
Credit Suisse, eBay China and DHL.
Mike holds a post-graduate qualification in Leadership Coachign and
Mentoring and is a fellow of the Chartered Management Institute.