I help leaders survive and thrive through the digital revolution

Be brave. Get digital.

Digital Strategy and Transformation

I can help you create the right digital strategy for your enterprise. I can help you tell the compelling story that will inspire and encourage people to contribute wholeheartedly to the transformation of your organisation, processes and technologies. I can help you set up these programmes for success.

Coaching and Building Talent

I can help you attract talented people and build a brave, innovative and agile culture. I can support you and your executive team as you build your own confidence with digital technologies. I can help you live and lead the changes.

IT Organisational Design

I can design and implement the IT leadership team, organisation, governance and operating models you will need for ongoing success. I can provide 'CIO services on demand' when you need pin point advice on how to drive best value from your supplier partnerships and investments in technology and people.

Executive Partner for Hivemind

Hivemind is a new type of professional services network of brilliant individuals and entrepreneurial micro-firms who work together to help clients adapt and prosper in a digital world. I can help you tap into this pool of talent, create and orchestrate multi-disciplinary teams for the job in hand.

Latest Blog

Organisations are more like organisms than machines

I love the simple truth spoken in this short clip from Sacha Romanovitch. She points out that the prevailing metaphors that we use to think about organisations just don’t work anymore. Tune into the language of many leaders and you will still hear them talk about driving change as if they sat behind a steering...

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My Work

Telling stories to move mountains

I find that nearly all IT teams are travelling the same road. Here’s an animation I’ve created to distil that shared experience and help generate the sense of purpose that every transformation programme needs. It’s called ‘The three ages of IT – an epic tale’. Our hero develops a manifesto for the digital age.

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Mary, you promised we'd have fun and we certainly did! I have loved working with you and am so proud of what we achieved.
Lucy Burrow
Director Global IT Service Delivery, Rolls Royce
Mary arrived at a critical time to help me drive forward our ambitious change programme. Her deep experience of driving similar changes has been invaluable. She is an outstanding leader and quickly won the confidence of the IT team. She challenged and led them through an intensive exercise to design a new operating model. She then created one of the best business plans I’ve seen. It laid out a way forward that was strategic, intelligent and compassionate.
Ben Browne
COO, De Montfort University

How can I help?

What do you need to survive and thrive in the digital age?

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