I deliver agility with impact.
From revitalizing complex programs to shaping product operating models and building high-performing teams, I help organizations adapt faster, align better, and deliver what matters most.
With over 30 years of hands-on experience across engineering, product leadership, agile delivery, and enterprise transformation, I offer flexible, high-impact services—available on a fractional, part-time, or project basis. Whether you’re scaling up, recovering momentum, or laying foundations for future growth, I bring the experience, tools, and thinking to accelerate your journey.
Let’s Work Together
Whether you need strategic direction, team support, or a trusted partner to guide transformation — I offer tailored engagements that meet you where you are and help you move forward with clarity and confidence.
Let’s Connect If You’re Looking For:
One-off workshops or targeted interventions to unlock clarity or alignment
Fractional or part-time leadership to strengthen agility, product, or transformation capability
Strategic consulting engagements to shape direction and accelerate change
Embedded coaching and facilitation to support teams, leaders, and real-time delivery
Strategy, Systems Thinking & Change
Systems Thinking & Strategy Workshops
Apply systems thinking to explore root causes, dynamics, and interdependencies across change efforts.
→ Enable smarter decisions by revealing the bigger picture behind the day-to-day.
CIRCA Leadership Facilitation & Sensemaking
Use the CIRCA model (Complex, Insecure, Rapid, Contradictory, Anxious) to help leaders and teams navigate today’s turbulent environments.
→ Build shared understanding, make sense of complexity, and design more adaptive strategies.
Organizational Agility & Delivery Excellence
Agile Transformation Leadership
Guide organizations through enterprise-wide agile transformations—grounded in context, not dogma.
→ Align leadership, teams, and systems for greater adaptability, resilience, and flow.
Agile Team Coaching & Capability Building
Work directly with teams to embed agile ways of working, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
→ Improve delivery performance, increase autonomy, and unlock team potential.
Agile Maturity & Readiness Assessments
Assess teams, departments, or entire organizations to identify strengths, blind spots, and improvement opportunities.
→ Provide practical, actionable roadmaps to improve agility and value delivery.
Agile Operating Model & Strategy Design
Co-design operating models that align structure, governance, funding, and flow to modern ways of working.
→ Enable sustainable agility by connecting strategy with execution.
Continuous Improvement Consulting
Set up feedback loops, retrospectives, learning mechanisms, and light-weight governance.
→ Support a culture of learning and iterative improvement at scale.
Fractional Leadership & Strategic Advisory
Fractional Agility or Product Leadership
Act as a part-time or embedded Agility Lead, Product Advisor, or Transformation Strategist.
→ Bring senior leadership without the full-time overhead—ideal for scale-ups or evolving functions.
Program Recovery & Prioritization
Recover faltering programs through strategic clarity, vision alignment, and effective prioritization.
→ Restore confidence and focus, unblock delivery, and achieve meaningful outcomes faster.
Leadership & Culture Transformation Coaching
Coach senior leaders to lead with agility, shape culture, and role-model adaptive behaviors.
→ Build the foundations for empowered teams and long-term cultural resilience.
Product, Innovation & Customer Value
Product Discovery & Innovation Consulting
Facilitate discovery workshops and innovation sprints to explore needs, validate assumptions, and align on value.
→ Reduce risk, build the right thing, and shorten time-to-impact.
Product Leadership Coaching
Coach product leaders and teams to mature their mindset, practices, and strategy.
→ Strengthen product thinking, customer focus, and end-to-end ownership.
Four Decades of Diverse Professional Roles
My career has been a testament to the value of versatility—and the rich learning that comes from navigating a wide range of professional roles. Whether as a full-time leader, external consultant, or independent advisor, each engagement has offered fresh challenges and rewarding opportunities to create meaningful impact.
Finance Sector
With over two decades of experience in financial services, I’ve worked across retail banking, investment platforms, insurance, credit cards, and financial markets. My journey began at NatWest Bank—first in business management and technology roles, and later as a returning consultant. Since then, I’ve partnered with building societies, global financial institutions, and digital-first challengers to enhance agility, product delivery, and customer value.
Cross-Sector Experience
Beyond finance, I’ve supported organizations across a diverse set of industries—including government, public sector, non-profit, and private enterprise. This has included impactful work in:
- Logistics & Transportation
- Retail & E-commerce
- Telecommunications & Utilities
- Professional Services & Consulting
- Technology & Digital Innovation
Each of these sectors has deepened my understanding of how to tailor agility, leadership, and transformation approaches to real-world complexity—while staying grounded in outcomes that matter.
Testimonials
Neil is fantastic! He played a key role in our Business Agility initiative at Elavon Europe.
Jan Otterbach, Head of Transformation & Agility, Elavon Europe
Neil has a wealth of Agile Coaching experience across many different industries. He is a thought leader and I learned a great deal from him, especially around business agility. He was able to positively influence mindsets in the teams he worked with and helped create a continuous learning culture.
David Lilley, Lead Agile Coach, Sainsbury’s
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