Services

Helping build high-performing teams

The right leadership, structure and culture enable risk management and rapid delivery, and I help you make sure they're in place.

Where to start

Structure and culture problems rarely announce themselves, but there are signs your structure is slowing you down.

Which one sounds like you?

Decisions stall, or get made at the wrong level.
- Because teams don't have context or authority to make a decision.
  
  → Start with Agile or DevOps Coaching, or a supporting planning process.
- Because leadership can't make the decision.
  
  → Start with Leadership Coaching, or a supporting planning process.
- Because too many people are involved in making it.
  
  → Start with Organisational Design.
Problems don't get raised, because
- problems only surface at the last minute.
  - Because people don't want to be accountable for risks.
    
    → Start with a Risk Culture Uplift.
  - Because there's no mechanism for raising them.
    
    → Start with Governance Design.
- teams don't seem to know about them.
  
  → Start with Team & Organisational Design to ensure that ownership is clear.

These problems tend to travel together. Most engagements start with one and touch two or three.

Services

Team & Organisational Design

Structuring a team function so accountability, skills and workload line up. This can include

role design
capability assessments or planning, including developing skills frameworks or adopting SFIA,
hiring or transition plans that support delivery while transforming, or
development and succession planning

Operating Model Design / Agile Coaching

Implementing planning cadences, metrics and agile ceremonies that keep a technology or risk team accountable without drowning it in process.

Risk Culture Uplift

Building the habits, incentives and psychological safety that get people to report problems early instead of hiding them. This can include

risk culture assessments
maturity assessments of risk appetite adoption, risk tolerance or risk delegation frameworks, or
risk training and workshops

Governance Design

Designing committees, charters, decision rights and risk delegation frameworks that give people the authority to make decisions at the right level. Can include

Increasing collaboration and oversight: by creating or establishing effective governance
Streamlining governance: by simplifying processes to reduce overlap or increase velocity without reducing risks
Tailoring governance to address risks identified in a risk assessment, or
Making governance data driven: supporting managers in what they need to report to governance, or training leadership on what to ask

Leadership Coaching

Coaching technology, risk and security leaders — and the peers and managers around them — on planning, prioritisation, and stakeholder management.

This list is a starting point rather than a fixed menu — every engagement starts with a conversation about what you actually need. I also love helping run workshops to help you identify what you need.

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