Introducing Jamie
I have extensive experience as a leader and manager in engineering and operational businesses. My core skill is leading large multi-disciplinary teams in delivering strategic and operational outputs.
I have worked in Government and Defence, Commercial business and Third-Sector. This gives me a unique cross-sector view on strategy and operations, and more importantly on safety.
I have enjoyed working in and being responsible for Aviation, Marine, Leisure and Theme Parks, Infrastructure, Building Management, Construction, and Manufacturing.
I have managed teams of over 600 people, budgets of £75m, portfolios worth over £0.5bn, and delivering operations globally.
Across my career, in every sector, I have been a leader in Supply Chain and Logistics, Procurement, Project, Programme and Portfolio Management, and have won awards and accolades for all of them.
With all this experience, skill and expertise, I have a learned a lot about people, leadership, management and culture and I’m delighted to bring all my professional skills together to help you.
Why Safety?
I have, in every role, been responsible and accountable for safety of people, equipment and systems.
I have been a Chief Engineer and Accountable Manager, personally and legally responsible for the safety of my products and team working for me and understand the complexity of people and product safety.
I have designed, implemented and improved safety systems to comply with new legislation.
I have written policy, designed training, created systems and processes, and built not just systems but a culture around it.
I have led quality management systems, implemented effective assurance programmes, led ISO9001 certification, and regulatory compliance.
I am a Human Factors Facilitator, helping teams understand the impact of Human Factors on operational delivery and safety.
I am perfectly placed to review, assess, improve or even design your safety programmes, focusing on leadership and culture. Deeply understanding both people and systems across so many organisations, I am excellently placed to help you.
Wellbeing, Allyship and Inclusion
I have, throughout my career, been a champion for mental health and wellbeing, putting my teams and people before the output. Only by getting excellence from those working with/for me have I ever been able to achieve the amazing things I have in my career.
I have always focused on improving mental health and wellbeing, and recently won an award for a Health, Safety and Wellbeing programme, to improve the engagement, wellbeing, retention and absenteeism of my workforces.
I have also been an ally and champion for inequalities, supporting under-represented groups where-ever I have the chance. Not just standing by, or silently supporting from the side-lines, but taking positive action.
I have set up and run women’s networks, been an executive sponsor for young professionals networks, and supported all other networks. I have run award winning STEM and outreach programmes, particularly around women in engineer, and managed award-winning apprentice programmes.
I also co-chair a men’s network for EqualEngineers, leading by example when it comes to showcasing positive masculinity, good men’s behaviours, mental health support, and great allyship.
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Safety, Wellbeing and Inclusion?
I have extensive experience in Safety, Wellbeing and Inclusion as a Manager, Coach and award-winning Leader.
Safety Culture is all about leadership, attitudes and behaviours, turning a simple system into something effective and powerful.
What if you included wellbeing and mental health in your safety system, rather than run it as a separate department/system? It is possible to merge the two, save costs and significantly improve your organisation.
What if wellbeing does improve, particularly for men? Better behaviour, more positive masculinity? It leads to better allyship.
What if allyship improves? Then you get better and more natural inclusion across your whole company without having to run so many different DEI/EDI initiatives that are disrupting organisations and the media at present.
By rethinking your strategy and integrating your safety culture across all departments more closely to your strategy, you can improve safety, quality, staff engagement, wellbeing, productivity, profit, reputation, inclusion.
Wouldn’t you like a better fairer place for all while reducing administration and avoiding having a number of separate programmes across multiple departments?