Where I can provide strong partnership.
Shifting the development focus from content to context
Defining your Reskilling and Capability Strategy
Partnering with you to provide the challenging questions to get to the 'why' your reskilling strategy is essential for the business. What is the organisational problem that needs to be solved, how will success be defined and measured, how to fully engage key stakeholders and how to turn this into a connected and coherent roadmap?
Building an Employee Narrative to Ensure Adoption
Partnering with you to create an employee narrative that clearly demonstrates purpose, benefits, recognition and development. Whether you have a brand new strategy, or an existing one with components already in progress, the most important element is to turn this into a living, breathing one with employee engagement, adoption and tangible business, and personal, performance results.
Deeper Leads for Suppliers and Solution Providers.
Having had corporate responsibility for sourcing and purchasing solutions, I have a unique inside perspective on how to ensure that you are marketing your products and services in the optimal way and that you are prepared for the right strategic conversations when discussing potential opportunities with clients.
Or maybe you are just looking for a thought partner to discuss new and existing challenges.
How it works
A step by step path to success
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A 20-minute free discovery call to understand the opportunity for partnership.
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A kick-off meeting to understand the scope and nature your requirement(s).
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A creative one-to-one, or workshop to examine the current status and future vision.
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Further interviews (if needed) with relevant partners to enrich the context and knowledge gathering.
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A report outlining finding, proposals and priorities for future roadmap.
About Nick.
30 years’ experience in leading large global transformation programs for Mars and Vodafone, has exposed me to a number of complex challenges that I have had to overcome across all levels of an organisation. I have particularly focussed on the people change element, helping manage the process of understanding, accepting and embracing new behaviours. My process involves:
- Helping understand the ‘why’. If leadership teams can’t answer this then how can they expect others to follow.
- Simplify the challenges. Work with teams to really get to the crux of what the priorities are to address.
- Bringing creative thinking. By providing an external challenge to what and why things are done the way they are can provide huge insights into different and more innovative ways of operating.
Providing partnership for success.
What are people saying about Free to Achieve?
Nick really is fantastic at his day job. For me at Vodafone what he did was take my excitement, ideas and frantic energy around transforming learning and he facilitated turning them into tangible user stories and actions that could be achieved within a corporate environment and quickly. He asked the right questions to sharpen up the business case and he turned what was a rather erratic ambition into a reality by cutting through to the elements of my projects that really mattered. He also helped get them adopted by multiple stakeholders across the company. He was an incredible partner who patiently translated hugely complex needs into clear achievable outputs.
I was lucky enough to work with Nick at Mars Incorporated and benefited from both his expertise and his style of partnership. Nick is a good listener who understands the importance of getting to the root cause of issues. He has a warm, friendly and professional style making it easy to work with him. He can solve the most complex of problems by pulling in the required expertise, working together to ensure the wider perspective is taken into account for long term solutions. You know you are in safe hands when Nick is partnering with you as he does what he says he will do, finding practical yet innovative solutions. It was a pleasure to work with him.
I was fortunate to have Nick in my Vodafone global learning team. Nick makes a tremendous contribution to driving innovation, making change happen and engaging people along the way. Whilst he has an impressive track record of digital transformation, Learning & Development and change management, the best thing about Nick is how he goes about his business. He's a role model and a leader to others, someone many look up to because of his credibility, warmth and integrity. He builds lasting relationships, diffuses tensions and is a strong people leader. Customer experience and personal growth are at the heart of what he does.
Want to explore a little further?
Take advantage of a free 20-minute call with Nick to discover how this partnership could be valuable in navigating your route through the next 12 months.
