About Us
Our Team
Adrian Watson
Adrian works nationally with public sector clients to help them make the most of their property and places. He is an award-winning project leader with an extensive track record of delivering complex multi-agency programmes and projects and has worked with clients in both Central and Local Government. He is known for his hands on leadership and ability to unlock challenging regeneration, education and economic development programmes and projects, often in challenging environments. Clients have described him as having an “unwavering dedication and tenacity to achieve the best programme or project outcome”.
Russell Eacott
Russell has experience of working in the public, charity and private sectors in the UK, Europe and far east. With a specialism in large and complex capital programmes in regeneration, schools and property including historic buildings he has led many multi- disciplinary teams to successful outcomes in local and central government. Known as a person who is a ‘trouble shooter’ who can identify problems in projects and programmes he can readily produce and implement turnaround plans. He is experienced in advising boards and chief executives as well as coaching and mentoring. He assisted the largest Local Enterprise Partnership in the country in distributing grants to commercial businesses, developing skills, cultural enterprises and training organisations. Russell is also a Chartered Civil Engineer, has a diploma in Management Studies and an inventor developing and patententing a motorcycle accessory.
Chris Gill
Chris works nationally with public sector clients to help them make the most of their people property powers and places. He is recognised as a leader and influencer of people in complex multi agency environments and has worked with clients at all levels of English Local Government, LEPS and Combined Authorities including London Boroughs. A Chartered Surveyor and Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute he is known for his pragmatic approach and ability to deliver challenging regeneration and economic development programmes and projects in difficult partnership settings. Clients describe him as having a “rare combination of strategic vision and attention to detail”.
Our Professional Associates
Dr Dave Riddick
Dave is an Education Operations Consultant spearheading educational operations development and service delivery. He has repeated success guiding cross-functional teams in improving the financial stability, expanding resources and service delivery in a tight economy. With skilled project management in the education sector, he is conscious of time and budgetary constraints. Able to forge solid relationships with partners he has achieved demonstrable success building consensus across multiple levels. His expertise includes Strategic Operational Leadership, Capital Procurement & Cost Reduction, Performance Improvement/ Benchmarking, Contractor/Vendor Management, Project/Capital Management, Management Reporting, Rapid Project Deployment, Budget Administration /Management. Team Building and Leadership, Site and Premises Management, Lead Accreditation School ResourceManagement Advisor, Compliance (GDPR, ESFA, HMRC, H&S) Risk Management. Offering consultancy services on School Finance and Operational Management. Dave is also accredited to support the DfE and ESFA with their School Resource Management Advisor programme.
Our Guiding Principles
We are a new consultancy established by seasoned professionals each with an outstanding track record for getting things done in challenging multi-agency environments. We are committed to leaving a lasting legacy for our clients and their teams helping at corporate, team and individual levels to ensure that organisations and their teams can be the best that they can be.
We deliver our services by strictly applying our guiding principles of:
Honesty - We are an honest broker bringing people and organisations together to harness their collective strength and knowledge.
Innovation - We are an enabler of innovative solutions and a catalyst for collaborative working.
Advocacy - We are highly respected and influential in our field; promoting good practice and helping clients secure resources, powers and freedoms necessary to deliver their projects successfully.
Expertise - We are an invaluable resource of specialist expertise and capacity; providing advice and support to our clients on key issues.
Partnership - We absolutely get the importance of developing & managing relationships across the scope of the project and are recognised across the UK for delivering challenging projects in complex partnership settings.
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