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I specialise in managing complex, large-scale projects and programmes, and providing training and guidance on organisational change, mainly in the HR and IT domains. Certified PRINCE 2 Practitioner
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I specialise in managing complex, large-scale projects and programmes, and providing training and guidance on organisational change, mainly in the HR and IT domains. He is the co-developer and co-author of the Positively Diverse methodology and Field Book, which has been adopted as the standard approach for project and change management in equality and diversity in the NHS.
Brian began his career with the Ministry of Defence, working in information technology, knowledge and project management. After periods in the broadcasting and utilities industries he joined PricewaterhouseCoopers where he lead in providing project and programme management and strategic and operational support to central government and the health and social care sectors.
During his career Brian has worked successfully with a wide range of clients, up to board level, including civil servants, doctors, lawyers, engineers, nurses, information technologists and HR specialists, focussing on the use of information and knowledge to improve corporate performance at strategic and operational levels. His particular interest is in effectively combining the disciplines of project management and change management to ensure that the “hard” and “soft” aspects of organisational change are successfully addressed.
Certified PRINCE 2 Practitioner
BA (Hons) English & Philosophy
Member of the Association for Project Management
Member of the Institute of Management Consultants
NCC Certificate in Systems Analysis and Design
Positively vetted
Employment History
(1993 & ongoing)
Director
Wetherby, West YorkshireBrian's company specialises in the supply of project and change management services. Brian bids for and delivers contracts either individually or in consortia with other consultancies which can provide appropriate complementary skills and experience. During the past 14 years Brian has lead assignments and provided hands-on support to clients including:
Department of Health:
• National Programme Manager for the Positively Diverse Programme: management and coordination of this development programme to devise and pilot a new change management and project management methodology for workforce equality and diversity in the NHS. This involved managing staff from 35+ NHS Trusts and Health Authorities across the country on behalf of the Department of Health.
• Design and delivery of the “train-the-trainers” programme for the Positively Diverse methodology.
• National Programme Manager for the NHS Strategic Tracing Service, involving the piloting of new and integrated software at 5 test sites in England and Wales, management of, and negotiation with, software suppliers.
• Programme Manager for the Integrated Clinical Workstation (ICWS) Programme, involving the development of prototype systems at 6 NHS sites, supplier management, development of the IT Business Case and training strategies.
NHS Employers:
• Project Manager for various national programmes working with government departments, NHS organisations, higher education institutions and other stakeholder organisations around staff training, recruitment and retention and workforce planning for healthcare services.
• Developer of their Equality and Diversity Strategy.
• Developer / co-author of the national report: Positive Action in the NHS.
(1992 to 1993)
Supervising Consultant
London / LeedsBrian was responsible for responding to tenders and creating and managing consultancy teams to provide high quality services to health and social care clients including:
Department of Health:
• National Programme Manager for the Community Information Systems Programme (CISP), involving the development of prototype and operational IT systems to support NHS community healthcare providers.
(1989 to 1992)
Senior Consultant
Coopers & Lybrand / Deloitte Haskins & Sells, Leeds• Various project management and IT strategic study assignments
(1985 to 1989)
Senior Systems Analyst
National Power, Harrogate, North Yorkshire• Systems analysis and project management of small teams developing personnel and power station systems.
(1984 to 1985)
Systems Analyst
BBC Television, London• Systems analysis, design and development of mainframe systems to support information retrieval of Film and Videotape Library artefacts.
(1979 to 1984)
Systems Analyst, Computer Programmer
Ministry of Defence, London• Systems analysis and programming of mainframe and mini systems to support document and information retrieval.
Education
( 1975 to 1978)
University of Hull
B.A. (Hons) English & Philosophy 2.1
Professorial Prize in Philosophy, 1977
( 1968 to 1975)
St Edward’s College
4 A levels; 10 GCSE/O Levels
Additional Information
Publications
The Positively Diverse “Train-the-Trainers" Guide, 2003 (co-author)
The Positively Diverse Field Book, 2000 (Co-author)
Strength Through Diversity, Nursing Times, May 2001
The Integrated Clinical Workstation – Where Can I Buy One?, British Journal of Healthcare Computing, July 1996
Key skills and Experience
AREA: EXPERTISE:
DISCIPLINES: HIGH MEDIUM SOME
PROJECT MANAGEMENT √
CHANGE MANAGEMENT √
STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT √
STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT √
CLIENT MANAGEMENT √
TRAINING √
REPORT DEVELOPMENT √
PROCUREMENT / SUPPLIER MANAGEMENT √
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT √
SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN √
SECTORS:
CENTRAL GOVERNMENT √
HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES √
UTILITIES √
LOCAL GOVERNMENT √
BROADCASTING √
DOMAINS:
IT √
HR / PERSONNEL √
FINANCE √
METHODOLOGIES / TOOLS:
PRINCE 2 √
MS PROJECT √
ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT √
SSADM √
SURVEY SUPPORT AND ANALYSIS SOFTWARE √
Assignment History
(This Seller has recently been shortlisted or contracted for the following people4 assignment)
- HR Consultant: Public sector TUPE - Yorkshire
Categories & Freelance Skills
Healthcare (Non-Clinical)
Categories
Skills
- Application Analyst (Information Technology)
- Change Management (Strategic Management)
- Contract Management (Strategic Management)
- Supplier Management (Strategic Management - Contract Management)
- Workforce Planning (HR)
HR/Training & Development
Categories
- Corporate/HR Strategy
- Employment Law
- Equality & Diversity
- Languages
- Performance Management
- Recruitment
- Talent Management
- Training & Development
Skills
- Age Discrimination (Equality & Diversity)
- Analysis (Corporate/HR Strategy - Organisation)
- Appointments (Recruitment)
- Appraising Performance (Performance Management)
- Change Management (Corporate/HR Strategy)
- Coaching & Mentoring (Training & Development)
- Course Material Development (Training & Development)
- Culture Assessment (Corporate/HR Strategy)
- Culture Change (Corporate/HR Strategy)
- Data Protection (Employment Law)
- Delivery (Training & Development - Training)
- Design (Corporate/HR Strategy - Organisation)
- Disability (Equality & Diversity)
- Diversity Policy (Equality & Diversity)
- Equal Opportunities (Equality & Diversity)
- Evaluation (Training & Development - Training)
- Executive Development (Training & Development)
- French (Languages)
- Harassment (Equality & Diversity)
- HR Process Design (Corporate/HR Strategy)
- HR Strategy (Corporate/HR Strategy)
- Human Rights (Employment Law)
- Human Rights (Equality & Diversity)
- Interviewing (Recruitment)
- Knowledge Management (Corporate/HR Strategy)
- Leadership (Corporate/HR Strategy)
- Leadership Development (Training & Development)
- Managerial Development (Training & Development)
- Managing Difficult People (Performance Management)
- Methods (Training & Development - Training)
- Needs Analysis (Training & Development - Training)
- Organisation (Corporate/HR Strategy)
- Policies (Training & Development - Training)
- Programme Design (Training & Development - Training)
- Public Sector (Corporate/HR Strategy)
- Race Discrimination (Equality & Diversity)
- Religious Discrimination (Equality & Diversity)
- Sex Discrimination (Equality & Diversity)
- Sexual Orientation (Equality & Diversity)
- Social Responsibility (Corporate/HR Strategy)
- Staff Morale (Corporate/HR Strategy)
- Staff Morale (Performance Management)
- Staff Morale (Talent Management)
- Staff Retention (Talent Management)
- Team Building (Performance Management)
- Team Building (Talent Management)
- Training (Training & Development)
- Values Policy (Corporate/HR Strategy)
IT & Internet
Categories
- Application Development
- Electronic Data Interchange
- Foreign Languages
- IT Management
- Operating Systems
- Programming
- Project Management
- Security Software/Systems
Skills
- £1M to £5M (Project Management - Project Value)
- £500K to £1M (Project Management - Project Value)
- £5M to £10M (Project Management - Project Value)
- 10 to 20 (Project Management - Staff (numbers))
- 20 to 50 (Project Management - Staff (numbers))
- 5 to 10 (Project Management - Staff (numbers))
- Analysis (IT Management - Business Process)
- Application Architecture (Application Development)
- Application Integration (Application Development)
- Application Migration (Project Management)
- Assurance (IT Management - Quality)
- Automation (IT Management - Business Process)
- Budget Control (Project Management)
- Business Continuity
- Business Impact Analysis (Project Management)
- Business Process (IT Management)
- Change (Project Management - Process)
- Change Control (IT Management)
- Change Management (Project Management)
- Change Management (IT Management - Business Process)
- COBOL (Programming)
- Communication All Levels (Project Management)
- Configuration Management (IT Management)
- Consultancy (IT Management)
- Contract Management (IT Management)
- Coordination (IT Management - Project)
- Culture Development (IT Management)
- Data Migration Management (IT Management)
- Data Protection (IT Management)
- Design (Project Management - Process)
- Design (IT Management - Process)
- EDIFact (Electronic Data Interchange)
- Education & Training Management (IT Management)
- Excel (Project Management - Microsoft)
- French (Foreign Languages)
- Full Project Lifecycle (Project Management)
- Functional Documentation (Project Management)
- Government Procurement (Project Management)
- ICL (Operating Systems)
- Implementation (IT Management - Project)
- Implementation Management (IT Management)
- Improvement (IT Management - Business Process)
- Large Company - UK (Project Management)
- Leadership
- Man Management (Project Management)
- Management (IT Management - Project)
- Management (IT Management - Quality)
- Managing Suppliers (Project Management)
- Mapping (Project Management - Process)
- Mapping (IT Management - Process)
- Mentoring (Project Management)
- Microsoft (Project Management)
- Multiple Projects (Project Management)
- Negotiation
- People Management (IT Management)
- PowerPoint (Project Management - Microsoft)
- PRINCE2
- Private Sector (Project Management)
- Problem Management (IT Management)
- Process (Project Management)
- Process (IT Management)
- Procurement (IT Management)
- Programme Management
- Programme Management (MSP) (IT Management)
- Programme Office Management (IT Management)
- Project (Project Management - Microsoft)
- Project (IT Management)
- Project Initiation Document (Project Management)
- Project Management (Project Management)
- Project Office Management (Project Management)
- Project Support (Project Management)
- Project Value (Project Management)
- Public Sector (Project Management)
- Quality (IT Management)
- Re-engineering (IT Management - Business Process)
- Risk Management
- Security Policies (Security Software/Systems)
- Senior Management (IT Management)
- Service Delivery Management (IT Management)
- Service Level Agreements (IT Management)
- Software Evaluation (IT Management)
- Software Implementation (IT Management)
- Software Selection (IT Management)
- Solutions Delivery Management (IT Management)
- Staff (numbers) (Project Management)
- Strategy Management (IT Management)
- Subcontractor Management (IT Management)
- Team Leadership (IT Management)
- Technical Documentation (Project Management)
- Tendering Process Management (IT Management)
- Training (Project Management)
- Up to £500K (Project Management - Project Value)
- up to 5 (Project Management - Staff (numbers))
- VME (Operating Systems - ICL)
- Word (Project Management - Microsoft)
- Workflow Modelling (Project Management)
- Workshop Management (Project Management)
Management Consultancy
Categories
Skills
- Business Planning (Business Consulting)
- Change Management (Project Consultancy)
- Communication All Levels (Project Consultancy)
- Company Secretary (Business Consulting)
- Company Start-up
- Computer Security (IT Consulting)
- Contract Management
- Corporate Governance
- Counselling (HR Consulting)
- Course Delivery (HR Consulting - Training)
- Course Design (HR Consulting - Training)
- Feasibility Studies (Business Consulting)
- French (Languages)
- Full Project Lifecycle (Project Consultancy)
- Gap Analysis (Business Consulting)
- Government Procurement (Project Consultancy)
- Health Care (Project Consultancy)
- HR (Project Consultancy)
- HR Policies (HR Consulting)
- HR Strategy (HR Consulting)
- IT Staff Development (IT Consulting)
- IT Staff Management/Motivation (IT Consulting)
- IT Strategy Development (IT Consulting)
- Large Company - UK
- Leadership (Project Consultancy)
- Man Management (Project Consultancy)
- Managing Suppliers (Project Consultancy)
- Media (Project Consultancy)
- Mentoring (Project Consultancy)
- Multiple Projects (Project Consultancy)
- Needs Analysis (HR Consulting - Training)
- Negotiation
- NHS (Project Consultancy)
- Organisational Development
- PRINCE2 (Project Consultancy)
- Private Sector (Project Consultancy)
- Process Change (Project Consultancy)
- Process Design
- Process Mapping
- Procurement/Purchasing (Business Consulting)
- Product Development (Business Consulting)
- Programme Management (Project Consultancy)
- Project Initiation Document (Project Consultancy)
- Project Management (Project Consultancy)
- Project Office Creation (IT Consulting)
- Project Office Mgmt (Project Consultancy)
- Project Strategy Development (IT Consulting)
- Project Support (Project Consultancy)
- Public Sector (Project Consultancy)
- Recruitment - Staff (HR Consulting)
- Requirements Analysis (Business Consulting)
- Risk Analysis
- Risk Management
- Small Business Development (Business Consulting)
- Software Appraisal (IT Consulting)
- Strategic Analysis (Business Consulting)
- Systems Analysis
- Systems Implementation (IT Consulting)
- Systems Planning/Design (IT Consulting)
- Team Building (HR Consulting)
- Tender Process
- Training (HR Consulting)
- Training (Project Consultancy)
- Workshop Management (Project Consultancy)
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