Consultancy and Interim Leadership

How I can help you:

With extensive experience of senior leadership (with a particular knowledge specialism in the Higher Education sector) I can support you on short term focused engagements or longer term interim roles.

Business Transformation

Helping your organisation plan for and deliver change with robust and effective programme management…

Student Experience

Helping you to improve the end to end Student Experience, driving up student retention, progression and completion…

Process Improvement

Helping your teams transform their operational processes and effectiveness…

Testimonial

“Steve has worked consistently above and beyond the level expected and his contributions to our University have been valued by all colleagues. I cannot recommend Steve strongly enough. His pragmatic, energetic and “can-do” approach to all that he does has made him a pleasure to work with.”

Professor Gavin Brooks.
Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor.
Buckinghamshire New University

Previous Clients

How I have added significant value…

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Director

Delivering multi million pound savings and improving student retention and completion

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Associate Consultant (ongoing)

Work includes Professional Services Target Operating Models, process improvement and benchmarking studies (working with Cambridge, Oxford, Cardiff, UCL, LSTM, Nottingham, Cardiff, Sheffield Hallam and Gloucestershire universities)

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Programme Manager

Delivering transformational change to the end to end student journey and experience

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Business Case Consultant

Working with university stakeholders to develop the vision and business case for a Student Services Transformation Programme and designing solutions for priority needs in the end to end student journey.

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Progamme Manager

Managed the University’s COVID response ensuring a safe campus for learning, living and working for their staff and students. I was as also coordinate the investiture of their first chancellor, Jay Blades, MBE

Change Consultant

Working with WhiteCap Consulting to deliver a new student development and support framework for London South Bank University

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Student Journey Consultant

Mapping the end to end Student Journey and identifying opportunities for service improvement

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OD Practictioner

Supporting Anglia Ruskin University with Organisational Design, and Target Operating Model expertise on their Professional Services Redesign programme

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Change Consultant

Developing contingency / continuity plans, implementing new HR processes, policies and systems and planning for post COVID new ways of working

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Strategic Consultant

Preparing a strategic direction paper to guide the University on their ‘Recognition of prior learning’ offer

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Process Improvement Consultant

Working with the University Student Wellbeing team to improve their services and integrate with digital technologies and with IT teams to improve internal processes

Get In Touch

Tel: 07588 383939