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Professional Coach specialising in personal and organisational growth
David McThomas
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Experienced Coach who has an established ability to support all levels of organisations in a wide variety of sectors including
Banking, Pharmaceutical, Telecommunications, and Media. Experienced and passionate about helping people and organisations
reach their potential by helping them understand their unique context on a deeper level and define actionable steps to their next
growth point. David has a strong passion for cultivating cultures that enable people to thrive and operate in higher levels of awareness.
Banking, Pharmaceutical, Telecommunications, and Media. Experienced and passionate about helping people and organisations
reach their potential by helping them understand their unique context on a deeper level and define actionable steps to their next
growth point. David has a strong passion for cultivating cultures that enable people to thrive and operate in higher levels of awareness.
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United Kingdom
Language
English
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Larger project
Ongoing relation / part-time
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My experience
2018 - ?
job
Enterprise Coach
unknown.
Nationwide
Working primarily within Nationwide Digital as well as some touchpoints across the wider organisation(Security, Mortgages, etc.)
Digital Accelerator Platform: I am working closely with the Infrastructure team in the Digital part of the organisation. The
first thing I observed when joining was the challenges with Product focus, prioritisation, visibility, planning and the health/wellbeing of the team. I worked closely with the leadership team and the delivery teams to create a new structure
and ways of working to meet the challenges they were facing. We took a lean approach to optimise the flow of demand to realisation which resulted in increased predictability, clear Product vision and strategy. finally effective planning for
continuous delivery. From a technical perspective, we have also been able to create an infrastructure based on immutable
environments that focus on horizontal scaling to meet the scalability demands of our customers.
Culture: Working with leadership and teams to cultivate and build a culture based on safety, equal voice, individual
growth, organisational growth, and empowerment. With the organisation being multi-partner it's been important to build an environment where we see and experience a single culture across the whole team. Which we have achieved by helping
the team stop and reflect on their journey and build a clear picture of the environment and culture they believed would
give them success moving forward. We then continuously reflected on this and adapted it where required.
Agility: Working with teams to help them build greater levels of Agility into how they operate. Multiple teams struggled
with being able to meet the ever-changing demands of their customers in a responsive way. I work closely with them and spend a period in observation to deeply understand their unique system. From this, I then run various workshops/sessions to help them step outside their context and view it objectively. Helping them identify the areas of their system that
constrain them and providing them with the space to design ways to experiment with new improvements to their system.
Continuously reflecting on the journey and adapting where required.
Whole Organisation Collaboration & Sharing: Helping the organisation build multiple ways of bringing people together to share, learn and grow. Nationwide is a big building society and there is so much great stuff happening across it. It's
difficult to enable people to come together in the right way. I work closely with leadership to create and cultivate various
mechanisms of allowing people to share and come together as a community including; Blogs, Dojo's, Podcasts,
Hackathons, Hosted Conversations, etc.
Operating Structure: Working across the whole team and leadership to build new ways of operating to face the challenges of their system. The teams faced challenges around visibility, decision making, prioritisation, support, etc. I work
closely with them to create a deeper understanding of these problems and to build a hypothesis of how we may solve
them. This has resulted in the creation of ever-evolving structures that meet the current demands of the system, allowing the teams to easily face into any challenge ahead of them.
Financial Agility: Working with leadership to create greater levels of agility within their funding structure. The existing
structure for funding was to typically have a 'Bucket' of funding applied to each specific area based on a time period. This
doesn't provide the level of agility around funding what leadership would like to have. We are now moving towards a model
where funding is allocated on shorter time periods based on certain outcomes being achieved. With the vision being to have the teams funded 'in the moment' and the spend being only what is required to achieve certain measures of success.
The most important parts of my time so far at Nationwide are:
Cultivating sustainable growth for teams, allowing me to step away and support other areas of the organisation
Building a greater level of interconnection across the whole organisation
Helping people to have a greater understanding of their unique system and evolving it to enable growth
The personal relationships and lifelong connections I have made
Working primarily within Nationwide Digital as well as some touchpoints across the wider organisation(Security, Mortgages, etc.)
Digital Accelerator Platform: I am working closely with the Infrastructure team in the Digital part of the organisation. The
first thing I observed when joining was the challenges with Product focus, prioritisation, visibility, planning and the health/wellbeing of the team. I worked closely with the leadership team and the delivery teams to create a new structure
and ways of working to meet the challenges they were facing. We took a lean approach to optimise the flow of demand to realisation which resulted in increased predictability, clear Product vision and strategy. finally effective planning for
continuous delivery. From a technical perspective, we have also been able to create an infrastructure based on immutable
environments that focus on horizontal scaling to meet the scalability demands of our customers.
Culture: Working with leadership and teams to cultivate and build a culture based on safety, equal voice, individual
growth, organisational growth, and empowerment. With the organisation being multi-partner it's been important to build an environment where we see and experience a single culture across the whole team. Which we have achieved by helping
the team stop and reflect on their journey and build a clear picture of the environment and culture they believed would
give them success moving forward. We then continuously reflected on this and adapted it where required.
Agility: Working with teams to help them build greater levels of Agility into how they operate. Multiple teams struggled
with being able to meet the ever-changing demands of their customers in a responsive way. I work closely with them and spend a period in observation to deeply understand their unique system. From this, I then run various workshops/sessions to help them step outside their context and view it objectively. Helping them identify the areas of their system that
constrain them and providing them with the space to design ways to experiment with new improvements to their system.
Continuously reflecting on the journey and adapting where required.
Whole Organisation Collaboration & Sharing: Helping the organisation build multiple ways of bringing people together to share, learn and grow. Nationwide is a big building society and there is so much great stuff happening across it. It's
difficult to enable people to come together in the right way. I work closely with leadership to create and cultivate various
mechanisms of allowing people to share and come together as a community including; Blogs, Dojo's, Podcasts,
Hackathons, Hosted Conversations, etc.
Operating Structure: Working across the whole team and leadership to build new ways of operating to face the challenges of their system. The teams faced challenges around visibility, decision making, prioritisation, support, etc. I work
closely with them to create a deeper understanding of these problems and to build a hypothesis of how we may solve
them. This has resulted in the creation of ever-evolving structures that meet the current demands of the system, allowing the teams to easily face into any challenge ahead of them.
Financial Agility: Working with leadership to create greater levels of agility within their funding structure. The existing
structure for funding was to typically have a 'Bucket' of funding applied to each specific area based on a time period. This
doesn't provide the level of agility around funding what leadership would like to have. We are now moving towards a model
where funding is allocated on shorter time periods based on certain outcomes being achieved. With the vision being to have the teams funded 'in the moment' and the spend being only what is required to achieve certain measures of success.
The most important parts of my time so far at Nationwide are:
Cultivating sustainable growth for teams, allowing me to step away and support other areas of the organisation
Building a greater level of interconnection across the whole organisation
Helping people to have a greater understanding of their unique system and evolving it to enable growth
The personal relationships and lifelong connections I have made
Infrastructure, ME, Empowerment, Enterprise, Responsive, Safety, Scalability, Community, Organization, Coach, Health, Design, Growth, Support, Blogs, Workshops, It, Security, Leadership, Lean, SoMe
2018 - 2018
job
Agile Coach
Vodafone UK.
Worked at Vodafone UK, helping the organisation start on their Agile Transformation. While there I had focused on the following:
Supported the transformation journey of the Consumer Group of Vodafone UK involving 7000 people
Worked with the GMT/C-Suite executives to understand what they want to grow their organisation to and having them co-
create a vision that shaped the transformation efforts.
Worked with Leadership at multiple levels to strategically access the current Red Ocean of the market they are in, which
enables the organisation to shift its lens to the future towards a Blue Ocean of new markets and opportunities.
Built a solid foundation for the transformation efforts by setting up a Transformation Coalition with a single sponsor.
Introduced techniques and practices that enable the organisation to effectively define and track their transformation efforts.
Built a transformation roadmap that is displayed in a public place creating visibility for the whole organisation.
Implemented Marketplace Meetings across the organisation to aid with collaboration, prioritisation, and visibility.
Created a custom Health Assessment for the organisation to use at all levels which provides a clear view of the impact and progression of the transformation efforts over time.
Refined the talent acquisition, growth and retention practices in order to ensure we found the right person for the right team, as well as ensuring they felt a part of Vodafone from day one and had a healthy growth path moving forward.
Developed and provided custom training to the Product Owners, Scrum Masters and Internal Coaches around mindset and
techniques they can use to help people reach their potential. This was aimed at taking a 'train the trainer' approach to speed
up adoption across the organisation and provide greater sustainability.
Created and ran Bootcamp sessions with several squads helping them set the foundation of their journey and having them
define what success looks like moving forward.
Helped the organisation deeply understand the characteristics of their own system(People, Cultures, Customers, etc) in order to create ways of working that where meaning-making for their organisation.
Worked at all levels of the organisation to embed a culture of psychological safety and equal voice as cornerstones on their
journey of people and organisational growth.
Worked at all levels of the organisation to shift the focus from KPI's to Customer intimacy. This provided insight into how happy
customers impact our KPI's and not how KPI's drive happy customers.
Supported the transformation journey of the Consumer Group of Vodafone UK involving 7000 people
Worked with the GMT/C-Suite executives to understand what they want to grow their organisation to and having them co-
create a vision that shaped the transformation efforts.
Worked with Leadership at multiple levels to strategically access the current Red Ocean of the market they are in, which
enables the organisation to shift its lens to the future towards a Blue Ocean of new markets and opportunities.
Built a solid foundation for the transformation efforts by setting up a Transformation Coalition with a single sponsor.
Introduced techniques and practices that enable the organisation to effectively define and track their transformation efforts.
Built a transformation roadmap that is displayed in a public place creating visibility for the whole organisation.
Implemented Marketplace Meetings across the organisation to aid with collaboration, prioritisation, and visibility.
Created a custom Health Assessment for the organisation to use at all levels which provides a clear view of the impact and progression of the transformation efforts over time.
Refined the talent acquisition, growth and retention practices in order to ensure we found the right person for the right team, as well as ensuring they felt a part of Vodafone from day one and had a healthy growth path moving forward.
Developed and provided custom training to the Product Owners, Scrum Masters and Internal Coaches around mindset and
techniques they can use to help people reach their potential. This was aimed at taking a 'train the trainer' approach to speed
up adoption across the organisation and provide greater sustainability.
Created and ran Bootcamp sessions with several squads helping them set the foundation of their journey and having them
define what success looks like moving forward.
Helped the organisation deeply understand the characteristics of their own system(People, Cultures, Customers, etc) in order to create ways of working that where meaning-making for their organisation.
Worked at all levels of the organisation to embed a culture of psychological safety and equal voice as cornerstones on their
journey of people and organisational growth.
Worked at all levels of the organisation to shift the focus from KPI's to Customer intimacy. This provided insight into how happy
customers impact our KPI's and not how KPI's drive happy customers.
Transformation, UP, Assessment, Safety, SOLID, Organization, Coach, KPI, Retention, Health, Scrum, Growth, Talent acquisition, Leadership, Agile transformation, Sustainability, Agile coach, C, Agile, Training
2017 - 2018
job
Agile Coach
Elsevier.
Agile, Agile coach, Coach
2017 - 2017
job
Agile Delivery Lead
GSK.
Agile
2016 - 2017
job
Agile Coach & Digital Transformation Delivery Lead
BuildIt.
Digital transformation, Agile, Agile coach, Transformation, Coach
2013 - 2016
job
Scrum Master and Agile Coach
Sky Plc.
Scrum, Scrum master, Agile, Agile coach, Coach
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