Recent Projects & Assignments
Assignments vary from Non-Executive Director roles to facilitating strategy development, advisory work, and a broad portfolio of mentoring, coaching and diverse leadership development.
Recent Projects and Assignments
Non-Executive Director - Saudi Arabia: providing governance and strategic support to an established MNC Joint Venture in this fast-moving market.
Leadership Development - Global MNC: creating and facilitating a Finance senior leadership development programme to identify and enable a strong bench-strength of diverse future leaders.
Case study creation, interviewing, development needs assessment, coaching and mentoring.
Strategy Development and Board coaching: facilitating strategy development process for a newly-formed board in North Africa. Enabling the creation of a sharp, value-creating strategy, communications and coaching for board members.
Member of Trustee Board - Brass for Africa: advisory support to charity board.
Corporate Transformation Advisory: supporting a MNC in the transformation of the Finance function as part of a global reorganisation. Specific focus on stewardship and governance roles, capability development, and Finance process evolution.
Non-Executive Director - Cote d’Ivoire: Advisory and governance support to listed business.
Social Enterprise advisory: Advisory Director to a pan-African enterprise, from operational advisory for shared value agricultural and agri-processing, Route to Market, and operational / strategic advisory.
Youth development and mentoring: Coaching and mentoring to an under-graduate enterprise - winners of UAE entrepreneurship competition
Experience and professional capability
At the heart of the impact which James creates is a powerful combination of his experience and professional capability, coupled with a huge personal drive to develop people to realise their full potential, especially in demanding circumstances. He is a vocal advocate for equity, diversity and inclusion in talent development and has an enviable track record of putting this into action.
James offers his direct, personal impact in each engagement. He is able to draw on his broad network of business skills and experience to complement this, but at the heart of the offering is his own direct access to experience, positive energy and deep commitment to deliver - both to businesses and to their people..
Find out how I can help your organisation
Contact me today to to discuss how I can help your to deal with unexpected and challenging business situations– and in creating great, unexpected opportunities and outcomes for businesses and people.