David’s coaching and mentoring helped me make the career change I wanted. He is extremely knowledgeable, experienced, and provides sound advice – drawing from his varied professional and academic career.

I’m grateful to know David, and be able to turn to him when in need of an insightful, honest and good-humored sounding board.

I would highly recommend David to anyone in search of a coach / professional advisor.

David has been a friend and mentor over the last year, encouraging me to think about my career and broaden my networks in ways that align with my aspirations whilst maintaining good work life balance. He has given me advice and coaching in relation to problem solving issues in my current role and preparing job applications and interview presentations for future opportunities. He is a great listener as well as being inspiring and motivating. David was a big support in helping me secure a fantastic new job opportunity recently.

David has worked with me for several years on numerous projects. These were varied including support on my Advisory Board, helping with internal management training using the RACI approach and also supporting partnership working at the local University.
David is highly experienced in his field and I have no hesitation in recommending him to others.

Working with David was a pleasure. His attention to detail and analytical way of thinking was invaluable to us while designing and implementing new processes.

David worked for me at the back end of 2014 on a process improvement programme. He added value to this programme, bringing control and governance to a workstream of local process changes and benefit realisation tracking. He provided an independent view to the existing operation and challenged the thinking to ensure strategic alignment. He delivered the key objectives assigned to him and has a strong & professional work ethic.

I worked closely with David whilst he successfully led a major global shared services change programme for EY. As a professional and diligent Programme Manager, David has a great deal of experience in shaping and delivering transformational change. His collaborative and structured approach was instrumental in relaunching this complex and strategically important programme for our Global Shared Services group.

David got a great professional attitude towards the project; he came into our project at a crucial stage and steered the SAP project workstream for a successful implementation. David able to learn the mail business in short time and use his expertise from other business streams and applied it appropriately.

I bought David into my business to deliver an unbiased snapshot view of the company that would give me the grounds to implement a change programme. David delivered a very accurate and succinct report that covered exactly the points I wanted and highlighted very well the areas for improvement and some possible solutions. He was an asset to my business, and I would recommend his services.

I was privileged to work with David as part of the IT Assurance Team at the Olympic Delivery Authority.
David is a knowledgeable and dedicated IT Professional who is an excellent Programme Manager. David’s in-depth IT knowledge combined with exemplary people/stakeholder management skills enables him to communicate very effectively at any level, with both Senior and Junior colleagues alike.
Working with David I saw how he creates a cohesive, dedicated team, engendering confidence and trust from each team member.
David encourages everyone to be ‘the best they can be’ and is very supportive – always willing to learn from his team members as well as sharing his knowledge with them. I would be very happy to work with David again if the opportunity arose.

David is a thoroughly professional and empathetic consultant, who has that rare trait of listening. David worked with me through a particularly complicated and difficult period and was someone that I could trust to give sound, measured advice when I needed it most. In a crisis? This is your man.

David managed a project portfolio with numerous interdependencies with my own projects. I always found the projects under his control to be well-managed with a high degree of professionalism across the board.

David is an intelligent, hardworking and personable IT consultant who has a wealth of client-side practical experience. David worked as an IT business assurance consultant at the Olympic Delivery Authority for some time. He was required to review documentation related to all IT projects, especially business cases. This was early in the programme at a time of high intensity. I found David to be technically sound and highly professional in teasing out of various sponsors the information required to support management decisions, taken as part of the governance process. I consider David to be entirely reliable, proactive, tenacious and diligent, well able to manage concurrently a considerable number of lengthy documents; he was extremely well organised. In summary, I would happily endorse David’s suitability for any task related to IT assurance.

David is a versatile supply chain consultant with many years experience across a variety of sectors. He has a conscientious and detailed approach, always delivering beyond the clients expectations.

A major contribution of David’s, with which I had involvement, was the successful introduction of a web-based Balanced Scorecard application and administration tool, aligned to the Underground’s Strategic Objectives, which spanned 7 levels of organisational unit, and covered over 390 departments.

This programme went live, on schedule, to budget and met all internal quality assurance measures.

David is a brilliant manager to work for – professional and focused yet approachable and friendly. He also has the courage to take an unpopular position when he believes he is right – which most of the time he is. I would be very happy to work with him again.

David is a logical and pragmatic Manager with first class interpersonal skills and a seasoned Assurance Professional. David works well at all levels and challenges constructively whilst assisting to conclude potential solutions. David was a credit to the Olympic Delivery Authority especially when he stood in as interim Head of Assurance for several months. During this time he directly contributed to the acceleration of the IT Programme whilst ensuring value for money and adherence to Governance were maintained. I am more than happy to recommend David for any Programme Assurance or Head of Assurance role.

David can be relied upon to deliver long-term, strategic programmes by keeping a clear view of the end goals while ensuring the detail is kept in good order. He achieves this by being technically gifted while working effectively to lead a team and manage stakeholders.