MEET SOME OF OUR ASSOCIATES

We have an extensive expert network, each personally referred to us, covering a diverse range of expertise.

Amanda Toussaint

Change & Transformation Lead

Fortnum & Mason, McColl’s, Selfridges

Mike Greathead

Project Manager / Business Analyst

Fortnum & Mason, JLR, Boots

Kawita Sareen

Business Analyst

Fortnum & Mason, McArthurGlen Group

Jen Draper

Senior Project Management

Boots, Halfords, Holland & Barrett

Jag Herar

Senior Consultant

UK Gov, Western Power, British Gas

Chris Bacon

Project Manager

Associated British Foods

Bruce Martin

Technical Solutions Architect

Amicus, WCI, Harmoni

Amanda Toussaint

Amanda is an experienced change lead, passionate about driving change and transformation. She is skilled at developing an engaging vision or strategy that helps stakeholders gravitate to the new world that the organisation is fostering.

Amanda predominately works in the gap between the business and IT to ensure that technology solutions are not only delivered but are truly adopted. Some major initiatives have included introducing agile ways of working, leading colleague adoption of iPads in stores, transitioning from an outsourced IT organisation to an in-sourced model and a new culture and designing leadership change programmes.

Mike Greathead

Mike has worked within IT project delivery for over 25 years across a variety of roles and sectors, gaining extensive experience throughout the full project and software delivery lifecycle. Working within analysis, design, development, testing, delivery, post-delivery and project management. His varied roles have seen him working within a number of sectors including retail supply chain, manufacturing, services and hospitality.

For the last 9 years Mike has specialised as a business analyst. Being highly experienced in every aspect of a business analyst role, Mike understands business needs and aligning project and business objectives, to eliciting requirements with real business benefits via workshops and stakeholder interviews, from compiling compelling business case documentation to supporting projects throughout the business change lifecycle and beyond into benefits realisation.

Kawita Sareen

Kawita is a multilingual and highly skilled, qualified, results driven and delivery focused agile Business Analyst from a technical background in IT (20+ years). IT and Business Analysis experience across public and private sector organisations, including Banking, Charity, Construction, Government, Insurance, Media, Pharamaceutical, Publishing, Retail, Travel and Utilities.

She is a business analyst helping to deliver complex gloabl projects, successfully as part of a matrix project team. Understanding an organisations current operating model with a view to transitioning to a target operating model, whilst achieveing objectives which align to an organisations strategic direction.

A wealth of experience across a diverse portfolio of projects, including, retail customer journeys and personalisation, digital marketing, IT, compliance, supply chain, digital transformation, workplace transformation, aviation-specific projects, to name a few.

Jen Draper

Jen is an ambitious senior product and program manager, with a passion for transformation, process improvement and business change. With over 12 years experience working on complex projects and programmes, from blue chip to established retailers and start-up businesses. Key examples include Boots, Holland and Barrett, Halfords and NFU Mutual.

Over the years she has managed a range of projects from large scale business system implementations to process change and operational programmes. Jen thrives in challenging environments and thoroughly enjoys stakeholder management and engagement as well as taking pride in the fact she has turned problem projects around in a matter of months.

Jag Herar

Jag is a Senior Consultant / Head of MI Development, with over 20+ years of experience delivering management information, business intelligence and big data analysis solutions for the likes of British Gas, Western Power, UK Government and Transport for London.

Taking a collaborative approach to problem solving, Jag confidently enagages with business stakeholders at C-level / Board & 3rd Parties. With a formidable library of technology and software expertise, Jag is fully equipped to realise rapid, effective change, developing creative and workable solutions based on client and market insight to deliver tangible value gains.

Jag specialises in:

management information and business intelligence
stakeholder management and engagement
business analysis and requriements gathering
process design, data modelling and development
technology-enabled change management

Chris Bacon

Chris is a driver for change, with over 20 years leading and managing IT and Business Change in the Financial and Construction industries. He is highly customer focused with a broad range of IT Change Management experience including mergers and acquisitions.

With a tenacious drive for success, and demonstrable skills to deliver technical solutions to complex business problems whilst maintaining high levels of communication with stakeholders, colleagues and customers at all levels.

He has a proven record of successful delivery of projects and programmes that improve collaboration, agility, and business efficiency, that enhance accessibility and management of customer information, that reduce business risk and increase levels of regulatory compliance, and strengthen the organisation's ability to attract new customers and new talent.

Bruce Martin

Bruce is a senior level IT professional with over 20 years combined Technical Solutions Architect and Director expertise. Bruce displays versatility and creativity, offering strategic IT solutions to address business problems and design requests. Responsible for delivery of complex IT programmes, developing entire IT platforms, new approaches to service delivery and creating business strategies and vision plans on a global scale.

Bruce has vast experience in radically transforming and refining companies to become highly profitable business ventures by embedding improved technology solutions, achieving significant savings on capital investment. His previous clients include pharma companies, NHS, schools and commercial enterprises.