You can often find our thought leaders leading our customer-facing consultancy teams. Please reach out to them to find out how CMC can help your business become more agile and successful in delivering your business change projects and programmes.
John Daley
Managing Director
An accomplished leader of large transformational teams, John has extensive experience of working at enterprise level within business analysis, strategic organisational change, organisational design and project and programme management. A professional member of the BCS, John is certified in Business Architecture, Agile Business Analysis, Team Leadership and also holds an MBA.
Jeanette Lane
Deputy Managing Director
A business transformation lead with over 20 years’ experience, Jeanette is highly accomplished in delivering large scale change in digital transformations, organisational change programmes, efficiency saving programmes and strategic transformations. An experienced Prosci® Practitioner, Certified Agile Leader, Managing Successful Programmes Practitioner along with holding an MSc in Project Management, Jeanette has significant leadership experience working with both private and public organisations.
Lyn Girvan
Head of Business Analysis and Agility
With over 25 years’ experience of supporting organisational transformational change by applying business analysis and agile techniques, Lyn is an Agile Coach with the Scrum Alliance, a Fellow of the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT and a Prosci® Practitioner. Lynda is co-author of the BCS books, ‘Agile from first principles’ (2022) and ‘Agile and Business Analysis’(2017) and experienced speaker and key note speaker on these subjects at European and international conferences.
Mick Brian
Head of Change & Transformation
An experienced change agility leader and facilitator, Mick is a keen advocate of helping people understand and thrive during complex change without overcomplicating situations. A Certified Change Management Professional, Experienced Prosci® Practitioner, Advanced Scrum Master and holding an MSc in Security Risk Management, Mick is also currently undertaking his Certified Agile Coaching qualification.
Mark Dalrymple-Smith
Head of Portfolio, Programme & Project Management
With 30 years’ experience in government service, Mark is a highly skilled programme management professional and leader, with an extensive background in delivering organisational change, security, ICT and technology projects. A Certified Prosci© Change Management Practitioner, SAFe 5 Agilist, Scrum Master and AWS Cloud Practitioner, he is also one of our qualified Mental Health First Aiders, with a passion for motivating and developing highly performing teams and individuals.
Karen Gibbard
Head of Communications & Engagement
An experienced communications, events and engagement specialist and Certified Prosci© Change Management Practitioner, Karen has over 14 years’ experience working on portfolio-level large-scale, multi-disciplinary, complex change programmes and events. She engages successfully with multi-cultural stakeholders and audiences to deliver accessible, creative communications solutions and events in both the public and private sectors.
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How do we make our New Year’s resolutions stick?
4th January 2023
How do we make our New Year’s resolutions stick? It’s early January… That time of year when many of us decide to make lots of changes and commit to resolutions for the year ahead. But how often do we...
Let’s talk about Agile anti-patterns…
8th December 2022
Let’s talk about Agile anti-patterns… I get asked a lot of question about Agile. By far the most common question is, ‘What are the most common anti-patterns people fall into when adopting Agile?’ So here are my top 3…....
Presentation skills to engage your audience
7th December 2022
Presentation skills to engage your audience The ability to stand in front of an audience (in person or virtually) and keep them engaged, for a set period of time, is a skill all leaders should have. The first presentation...
How can tribalism help your teams?
6th December 2022
How can tribalism help your teams? Today’s papers were full of England’s victory in the World Cup against Senegal. My favourite headline was, ‘Here Oui Go!’ from the Metro, referring to the upcoming quarter-final against the French. There is...
It’s time to acknowledge unconscious bias
22nd November 2022
It’s time to acknowedge unconscious bias We all hold internal views of others, our vision of what we think people are like. This also extends to other things, including animals. Over lockdown we adopted a rescue Staffordshire Bull...
What is the key to successful change?
28th October 2022
What is the key to successful change? For any change to be successful, there will inevitably be multiple people and stakeholders involved. Everyone needs to be on the same page and moving in the same direction for change to...