Head of People Performance - The Adaptavist Group
(2025-10)
Leading the global people performance and development agenda across an international workforce of approximately 1,100 employees following acquisition. Working with senior leaders and teams across NAMER, DACH, UK and APAC to strengthen leadership capability, embed a consistent approach to performance and support continued business growth.
- Designing and implementing the organisation's first global performance framework, bringing greater consistency and clarity to performance conversations across the business.
- Partnering with senior leaders across multiple regions and acquired businesses to strengthen leadership capability, align expectations and create a consistent approach to performance.
- Shaping the organisation's approach to leadership capability across a complex international workforce.
- Reshaping Learning & Development to build organisational capability aligned to future business growth.
- Developing leadership support to strengthen managers' confidence and capability in leading performance and development conversations.
- Supporting commercial transformation by introducing clearer performance expectations and greater visibility across the sales function.
Director of People & Performance - D|OPS Digital
(2023-10 - 2025-10)
Appointed to establish and lead the People function within a fast-growing DevSecOps consultancy, working closely with the leadership team to strengthen organisational capability, develop leadership and create the people foundations needed to support sustainable growth.
- Established the organisation's People function, introducing the people strategy, employee value proposition and performance approach to support growth from 32 to 45 employees.
- Worked closely with the CEO and senior leadership team as a trusted sounding board, providing support, challenge and guidance on organisational design, leadership effectiveness and complex people matters.
- Led organisational design across Engineering and Delivery, creating greater clarity, accountability and scalability as the business grew.
- Led the people integration of a £4m acquisition, overseeing TUPE, benefits alignment and organisational integration in partnership with legal, operational and HR stakeholders.
- Designed and facilitated leadership workshops that challenged thinking and supported organisational change.
- Designed and delivered a consulting mindset programme that strengthened engineers' client engagement skills, contributing to the renewal of two strategic client contracts worth £400k–£600k.
- Introduced the organisation's first structured employee engagement approach, creating a meaningful "You Said, We Did" feedback loop that strengthened communication, trust and organisational alignment.
- Embedded a performance review process with 100% completion, improving the quality and consistency of performance and development conversations.
- Managed complex employee relations matters, including senior-level exits and organisational restructuring, balancing commercial priorities with fairness, professionalism and care.
Head of People & Change Partner Services - Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
(2019-10 - 2023-09)
Partnered with senior clinical and operational leaders across one of the Trust's largest Care Groups, leading organisational change, workforce transformation and leadership support within a highly complex stakeholder environment.
- Partnered with clinical and operational leaders to deliver complex organisational change, workforce planning and leadership support across a major Care Group.
- Led a multi-agency transformation programme within Pathology, bringing together approximately 150 staff to improve collaboration, rebuild relationships and establish more effective ways of working.
- Worked alongside clinical leaders throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, helping them navigate uncertainty, support their teams and make difficult decisions during one of the most challenging periods in healthcare.
- Improved collaboration across partner organisations by creating clearer accountability and more effective ways of working.
- Contributed to improved operational performance through organisational redesign and stronger cross-functional collaboration.
- Supported Care Group-wide restructuring and workforce planning activity, balancing operational priorities with employee wellbeing and engagement.
- Expanded the People & Change Partner team, strengthening capability and increasing capacity to support organisational transformation.
Senior Business & Education Manager - Health Education England – Thames Valley
(2018-05 - 2019-10)
Seconded into a senior leadership role to stabilise and strengthen a regional team, improving organisational effectiveness, leadership capability and operational delivery across medical education and workforce programmes.
- Led the redesign of team structures and ways of working, creating greater clarity, accountability and consistency.
- Worked with senior clinical and education leaders to strengthen relationships, improve collaboration and support more effective decision-making.
- Built confidence across the team by establishing clearer priorities, improving engagement and creating a more collaborative way of working.
- Supported delivery of regional workforce and medical education priorities during a period of organisational change.
National Programmes Manager - Health Education England
(2012-10 - 2018-05)
Led national workforce transformation and education programmes, working across NHS organisations, regulators and government bodies to improve workforce capability, education quality and patient outcomes.
- Delivered national workforce transformation and education programmes across the NHS, translating national strategy into practical delivery.
- Worked with senior stakeholders across healthcare, education and regulatory organisations to align priorities and improve collaboration.
- Built strong relationships across complex stakeholder groups, helping to navigate competing priorities and deliver sustainable outcomes.
- Contributed to improvements in education quality and workforce capability through effective programme leadership and stakeholder engagement.
