Global Operational Excellence & Strategic Partnership Leader
I'm dedicated to driving business growth through the lens of operational excellence. With a strategic blend of efficiency, innovation, and a deep-rooted belief in compassion and human-centric values, I navigate corporate landscapes and entrepreneurial ventures alike, catalyzing transformative results.
Specializing in building new organizational capabilities, teams, and departments; managing strategic alliance partnerships; as well as preparing organizations for seamless mergers and acquisitions, I excel in driving efficiency and effectiveness. With a focus on getting more done faster, better, and with fewer resources, I foster a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration.
Let's connect and explore how we can synergize operational expertise with a deeper sense of purpose to achieve sustainable success together.
HOW I HELP
1. STRATEGY
Support understanding the purpose, value, priority and interconnection of opportunities and issues to strategy. Business case and value proposition design.
2. STRUCTURE
Organisational design, target operating model, ways of working, lean portfolio management and prioritisation. Building organisations, departments and teams, that know how to deliver value effectively.
3. ADOPTION
People-centred engagement, change management and capability building. Ensuring change is adopted and sustained.
4. EXECUTION
Full project life-cycle framework design, portfolio management, program management, project management, and re-alignment, re-validation, and recovery for in-flight projects.
TESTIMONIALS
Anna is a breath of fresh air and has built a strong and impressive reputation working across the company.
Dynamic, courageous, fast paced, customer centred are all obvious, clear strengths and I know the teams have been very encouraged with the work Anna has achieved.
Anna is accountable and is very focused on performance and delivery, which again are strong skills to behold across multiple cultures and ways of working in the business.
Anna is a rare breed being both an excellent people manager and a fantastic technical manager.
She is bright, bubbly, and positive, has a natural warmth and always strives to bring out the best in people.
She is exceptionally organised, a great leader and effective communicator, with a knack for problem-solving.
I very much enjoyed working with & for her, and recommend her most highly.
Working with Anna I have discovered that she is a fantastic business partner, who always works with positivity and a can do mentality.
Across any work Anna is involved in, she brings a huge amount of energy, positivity, enthusiasm, drive, and proactiveness. Anna's presentations are polished and she has the experience of handling conversations with very senior audiences and stakeholders. When things don't go to plan, she's brave enough to raise her hand and flag it to the right stakeholders.
Anna headed up a mix of Change, Business Integration and Project Management and "everything else required" to support our growing data science team.
She's a great communicator and organiser, she's very easy to collaborate with and she drives projects through to successful completions.
Anna is able to communicate on both the business and technical sides of a data science problem which is a rare skill. She'd be an asset to any team and will go far.
Anna's ability to build relationships, a feel for boosting team morale, incredibly hard-working nature, and passion to improve the way we work are strengths she brings to the challenges ahead. I am confident she will continue to make a bigger and bigger impact.
Anna has done an exceptional job, taking the initiative to enact solutions and quickly becoming a person to trust with more and more responsibility. She has raised her hand to take on additional duties when the opportunity arose. Anna performs at a consistently high level and I have no doubt she will continue to impress and grow.
I had the privilege of working with Anna on different projects. Anna is proactive, result-oriented, responsible and she is always ready to put all her energy and time to get the job done.
Definitely a great asset to any company.
Thanks for your support, appreciate your good, honest feedback but not 'overkill' in terms of effort to get this piece of work over the line.
Anna has made a huge amount of contribution, creating and enacting a change management strategy to improve the relationship with claims, designing and implementing a data science operating model, improving the use of agile approaches, and organising over twenty data science events to drive adoption and cultural change across the company. She has taken on new responsibilities proactively, going above and beyond as needed for the team.
Really appreciate Anna's efforts in crafting and delivering this (successful) proposal. While this wasn't her subject matter expertise, she quickly got up to speed on the key information, which helped us collaborate very effectively.
Anna's enthusiasm and cross-disciplinary knowledge were uniquely helpful in getting this piece of work across the line.
Anna's profile was broad enough to evolve in different directions as the organisation's appetite demanded. Anna marched ahead and established contacts with various institutions, including regulatory to understand what's on the horizon. She outlined our company's digital footprint and set a European framework. Anna partnered with IT in driving the organisation's adoption of new agile ways of working.
Anna was very friendly and helpful. She has put me at ease during my first investment request process.
Anna had great enthusiasm and good contacts throughout the business, which made getting the right people together to discuss the matters under review easy and helped things move along quickly.
I have really enjoyed working with Anna and have found her very engaging and willing to help solve a problem.
It felt like we were working on a joint problem and she provided advice that I felt was useful with an objective eye and really helped in the investment process.
EDUCATION
MBA Strategic Management
University of Plymouth 2014
Design Thinking & Innovation Management
Design Thinkers Academy London 2019
Design Thinking
General Assembly 2019
Executive Data Science
John Hopkins University School of Education 2018
Customer Analytics
University of Pennsylvania - August 2016
Data Science: Using Agile Methodology
LinkedIn 2018
Lean Business Bootcamp: Lean Prototyping
Lean Business Academy 2013
Lean Portfolio Management SAFe® 5.1
Scaled Agile Academy 2022
Leading SAFe® 4.5
Scaled Agile Academy 2018
Agile Project Management Practitioner
APMG International 2018
Lean Six Sigma Fundamentals
APMG International 2016
Prince2 (Project Management)
APMG International 2013
People Centred Implementation (PCI) Practitioner
Changefirst 2016
Commercial Insurance Underwriting Academy
London 2017
DipHE Commercial Management & Quantity Surveying
London South Bank University 2008
Network Security Associate NSE 1, NSE2, NSE3
2022 Fortinet
PUBLICITY AND SPEAKIING
BOOKS
"Lifelong learning - the ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated pursuit of knowledge." Some of the books from my library, which inspire my thinking.
"The best way to predict the future is to create it"