Our Members

Steve Dickie

Founder ODNL and Outcome Delivery Consulting:

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Steve is a Change Leadership and benefits realisation coach and MBA educated Programme Director with a track record of leading & delivering large-scale £multi-million business transformation programmes successfully.   He co-authored our benefits realisation-focused transformation approach, called Assured Outcome Delivery, AOD, with Alan Fowler. AOD is a new methodology which incorporates "how-to" guides and training materials that update innovative ideas to strengthen and challenge traditional approaches to business change programmes.

Steve has implemented AOD, and the predecessor ideas on which it is developed, successfully across a range of private and public sector organisations in: strengthening governance frameworks, driving profit and efficiency through process re-engineering, organisational restructures and cost rationalisation programmes, and in embedding robust performance management to drive enhanced productivity.

Steve loves the challenges in recruiting and developing high performing delivery teams, blending consultants within client teams and coaching skills development to ensure appropriate skills are transferred and embedded before the consulting teams transition out of the business.

Alan Fowler

Founding ODNL Partner:

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Established Isochron as a UK company specialising in designing and delivering futures for organisations; now advisor to CTAG. He authored the D4 method on which AOD is based, having originated the core concepts with colleagues in 1987-91. Alan is experienced in public speaking, teaching, change management, programming, systems analysis, PPM, structured methods, procurement and quality. He has developed original insights into time in business which have led to practical techniques to accelerate and secure change.

John Armstrong

High Performance Team development coach and Trainer:

High Performance Team Development Coach and Trainer http://ontracktosuccess.co.uk. On Track Training and Coaching delivers programmes and bespoke workshops that make a difference to how the workplace “works”.

Helen Bell

Procurement & Business Improvement Specialist

Helen has more than 20 years’ Procurement and Business Improvement experience delivering strategic supply chain solutions and major transformation projects within the Automotive and Public Sectors. Her career history has enabled her to gain extensive experience across multi disciplines including Coaching High Performance Teams, Quality Management Operating Systems, Auditing, Problem Solving and Structuring Complex Commercial Negotiations.

Graham Black

Estates-Enabled Transformation & Commercial Advisor

Graham is an experienced consultant specialising in creating, funding & delivering property-enabled business change programmes and major capital development projects. He provides impartial advice and delivers innovative solutions that enable private & public sector organisations to maximise their return on investment Previously a European Director at Jones Lang LaSalle responsible for optimising assets and maximising the strategic value of global real estate portfolios. He has delivered small business relocations for 100 people; to the rationalisation of a 100,000m2 city-wide office portfolio for 5,000 staff; to the optimisation of a 1,000,000m2 country-wide portfolio for 45,000 staff..

Duncan Chesnutt

Financial Analysis and Benefits Realisation Specialist

Duncan is a Finance professional, with extensive experience across the Public (Civil Service, NHS and Local Government) & Private Sectors, with senior leadership roles in both - including as Finance Director, Commercial Director and Business Development Director. His key focus has been the delivery of business improvement, transformation and cost savings within complex organisations. With 14 years’ experience in outsourcing, Duncan is expert at both creating Win-Win solutions and business cases and in working with and managing stakeholders at all levels. Duncan’s core consultancy expertise is in the development of business cases, financial analysis and benefits realisation to support organisational change.

Russell Chopping

Business Solutions Architect

Russell is an experienced solutions architect with many years’ experience in helping organisations in local/central government, health, private and voluntary sectors.  His skills in lean/kaizen, six-sigma, ITSM, ITIL and CoBIT enable him to identify where services are less than optimal, when compared against the clients current and future needs, and design a solution that assures the delivery of the clients required outcomes and take this solution right through the project lifecycle through to delivery. His experience of working both in public and private sectors, mean that he can create innovative solutions in a collaborative manner whilst also seeking to maximise the talents within the client organisation.

Debbie Dickie

Network Co-ordinator

Debbie is an experienced business administrator through her earlier career in banking and more recently in office management at a top Scottish Independent School. Having spent the last 17 years providing excellent administrative support within an academic environment she fully understands and appreciates the importance of, as well as the challenges in, 'getting detail right first time'! Debbie looks forward to working with our consulting team, and ODN's business expansion, in assignments within the UK and internationally; she will support our team in contact management, event management and ODN marketing.

Struan Dickie

Consultant

Struan joined ODNL to develop further his project management, change management and communications skillsets to build on logistics planning and management capabilities which helped him achieve ‘best in UK’ KPIs in the fastest growing supermarket in the UK for teams of up to 150.  He is a consultant with successful management, planning and retail supply chain experience gained in Lidl, and PMO and benefits realisation experience with the National Enabling Programme.  Struan is a highly results-oriented, strategic logistics and operations professional with an aptitude for delivering training, change and communications initiatives to help teams meet, then exceed, nationally set performance targets.

Shabir Hussain

Programme Director & Change Specialist

Shabir is a Senior Change professional who has a proven track record spanning over 20 years, with FTSE 100 companies, Government agencies and the Public sector. He is an AOD and PRINCE2/MSP practitioner, expert at creating a vision, setting direction, and mobilise resources to realise business outcomes reliably. His consulting background, leadership skills and ability to influence and work with senior stakeholders helps him to create a culture for success with clients. Previously the CEO of Isochron, Shabir is a strategic thinker and is passionate about building internal capability to consistently deliver value for clients.

Neil McArthur

Business Leadership & Board Level Strategic Advisor

Neil is ODNL’s board level commercial and strategic advisory specialist. His career as a successful global leader and CEO of Arcadis and as Senior Vice president and Managing Director of Booz & Company enables Neil to offer advice to organisations to assure performance improvement across a number of sectors. His advisory skills include: Corporate strategy and mergers & acquisitions; Holding company and business unit organization; Post-merger integration; Major capital projects; Major cost restructuring; Process redesign and transformation; Procurement and supply chain redesign; and Shared services design.

Ian McEwan

Mobile Solutions subject matter expert

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Ian is an experienced transformation consultant with a specialism in developing and delivering digital and mobile strategies for business and securing the benefits desired from investment in these technologies. He couples enterprise architecture and infrastructure expertise with knowledge of the people and change challenges of delivering leading edge solutions to support changing the way businesses work.

Ian has helped bring the benefits and excitement of mobile into a number of businesses, including Balfour Beatty, ISOS Housing, and Cofely.

Willie Maltman

AOD Lead Trainer, leadership and management development practitioner

Willie set up Future Proof Learning following a highly successful career with Eglinton. An accomplished leadership and management development practitioner, he led the Assessment & Development unit for RBS for several years, dealing with Senior Managers and Directors.

Willie has worked with senior teams and individuals, taking them through structured change processes, helping to aid communication and shared understanding.   He is a highly-experienced facilitator whose empathetic yet direct approach is particularly valued by Directors and senior colleagues who can appreciate the value of being challenged yet dealt with sensitively. This is why ODNL selected Willie to be our lead trainer in Assured Outcome Delivery for Network members and our clients!

Gavin Hall

STRATEGIC PROCUREMENT ADVISOR

Gavin is a practiced provider of advice, guidance and leadership to the public and private sector on sourcing, procurement and supplier management. He is passionate about suppliers, directly or indirectly, contributing sustainably to the business outcomes of their clients. He is experienced in all aspects of procurement: Sourcing Strategies;  Complex Contracts – outsourcing, joint ventures, PFI, shared services, health/care commissioning; Supply Chain Optimisation; and Procurement Transformation – equipping organisations to buy products and services efficiently and effectively. Gavin is an expert in multi-stakeholder and multi-departmental environments and regularly brokers relationships and solutions which support business transformation delivering significant service improvements and cost savings both in the private and public sectors. He specializes in developing bespoke and adaptive contracts to deliver client’s  outcome needs.

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Vikki Perkins

TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE SPECIALIST

Vikki qualified as an Occupational Psychologist, who after a 20-year senior leadership career as an HR Director is now a Consultant and Coach with a passion for helping people and Organisations grow through applying positive change. Working with global companies she has developed an understanding of motivation and performance that challenged the standard Corporate approaches. Her mission now is to help Executives reach their own and their Organisations goals, through supporting Organisational and behaviour change. Her expertise includes Culture change, Transformational change, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Leadership effectiveness, coaching and development.

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Claire Penny

PROCUREMENT SPECIALIST

Claire is an accomplished and highly effective senior executive with extensive experience in leading procurement transformation, change and integration programmes for large FTSE organisations. Thriving in several challenging Procurement and Supply Chain roles across multiple sectors  and geographies, she has an excellent track record of motivating teams and delivering results; and is accustomed to operating in complex, diverse and constantly changing businesses. .   Claire is passionate about procurement and is an active practitioner. Claire currently holds the position of Vice Chair, Birmingham Branch, Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) as well as CIPS congress member for Central England.

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Alan Rowley

TRANSITION & PROGRAMME DELIVERY SPECIALIST

With over 30 years’ senior experience in both Management Consultancy and IT Services companies, Alan has been at the forefront as an advocate of digital change to support and drive business growth, across consultancy, outsource services, financial services, aerospace, insurance sectors and government agencies. He led £multi-million development from the early days of digital services through to the current “cloud by default” models and brings a pragmatic and innovative approach to digital change that always focuses on the business benefit and successful outcomes.

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Mark Samuel

TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND ACCOUNTABILITY MOVEMENT COACH

Mark Samuel is the CEO and Founder of IMPAQ, and the Author of B STATE: A New Roadmap for Bold Leadership, Brave Culture and Breakthrough Results. His B STATE methodology represents a new paradigm and roadmap for rapidly transforming an organization’s business and culture at the same time. His specialty is getting alignment with Senior Leadership Teams and executing strategy through an aligned Middle Management Team accountable for Operational Excellence and Culture. ODN are excited about collaborating with Mark to combine the benefits of AOD and B STATE thinking for our clients in delivering their desired outcomes more reliably.

Andy Thomas

Programme Management Office and Planning subject matter expert. Creator of the DataShaper service offering with Dave Galbraith

Datashaper is an innovative PMO service that delivers significant productivity and quality improvements without the need for a costly software solution or implementation. Andy is an experienced senior PMO professional with more than ten years experience across a wide range of industries. He has significant programme governance experience across multi work stream programmes including close engagement with executive stakeholders as well as the design, implementation and management of teams and processes that add significant business value.

Simon Tuck

SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT & BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT SPECIALIST

As Director and Principal Solutions Architect at Optiv8, Simon has developed a unique blend of strategic business acumen, analytical expertise and advanced technological understanding over thirteen years providing powerful and innovative business trans-formation skills and IPs to my clients. Optiv8's flexible dynamic approach has benefit-ed fast-growing small companies to global enterprises across sectors such as Logistics, Utilities, Construction and the Public Sector. Many clients have benefited from Simon’s passion for implementing successful, long lasting change.

Iebe Ypma

STRATEGIC BUSINESS CONSULTANT

Iebe Ypma helps organisations to build effective and practical business strategies that enable them to get measurable value out of their investments. His contribution to major projects has spanned a range of roles, from executive responsibility as global project director to a mentoring role as an external adviser. Iebe’s 30-year career in consulting spans significant periods with A T Kearney and Ernst & Young and he is now a director of Alastor. He developed strong skill sets in the areas of benefits realisation, project management, process mapping and process innovation, logistics, IT strategy and procurement., with major private and public sector organisations in the UK, across Europe, the US, the Middle East and Central Asia in delivering major savings and achieve major transformational change. He provides unique business insights with his own business models, data collection and analysis. He is trained and experienced in AOD.

Hugh Anderson

STRATEGIC WORKPLACE CONSULTANT

Hugh Anderson is an architect and ‘Workplace Consultant.’ He is Managing Director of haa design who have been responsible for establishing the strategy and undertaking the design of several major relocation and estate rationalisation projects including Glasgow City Council and University of the West of Scotland. Similar consultancy projects have included advising on the rationalisation of numerous public and private sector organisations including Scottish Prison Service, Historic Environment Scotland, NHS Tayside, NHS 24, Falkirk Council, West Dunbartonshire Council, Copeland Borough Council, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley and others. Hugh Anderson is backed up by an integrated design and consultancy office based in Glasgow. Haa design is I turn a member of the Space Solutions Group.