Professional Profile

PhD qualified Enterprise and Business Architect and Technical Polymath delivering cutting-edge, complex and multi-million-pound technology programmes in challenging, complex and regulated environments

black and white Karl Phillips

Key Strengths

Leading on projects that are failing due to unanticipated technology challenges, using critical enquiry to deliver innovative solutions to customer’s problems; rapidly assembling project teams to ensure human capital is employed to deliver value-add activities and drive best-in-class continuous project improvements; applying deep knowledge of management, engineering systems, IT processes and best practices to deliver governance and guidance to teams across the whole project lifecycle; and delivering multiple concurrent projects in complex, regulated environments with budgets of up to £100M.

Who I am

I am a Consulting Enterprise and Business Architect and Technical Polymath who has worked for a wide spectrum of sectors and companies, delivering capabilities and adding value.

Award Winning Challenges

As an award winning Leader, I have a deep knowledge of management, engineering systems, processes, tools and best practices to help me deliver leadership, governance and guidance to teams across the whole project lifecycle.

I have extensive experience of leading on projects that are failing due to unanticipated technology challenges and using critical enquiry to deliver innovative solutions to business and technology problems.  One of my key strengths is rapidly assembling project teams to ensure human capital is deployed to deliver value-add activities and drive best-in-class continuous project improvements.

Why Choose me?

It is always difficult to choose the right people for the job in hand, so here are a list of ten differentiating Unique Selling Points (USPs) that I can bring to your organisation.

Right Data at the Right Time

The ability to track down and obtain accurate information to help drive business insight.

Outcome Focused

Visible leadership that is motivated and helps embed the right behaviours into the business.

Consistent Delivery

High performance delivery through a commitment to the right quality and appropriate excellence.

Deconstructing Complexity

Navigate the complexities of business enterprise and make the needed structural changes.

Repeatability & Accuracy

Focus on sustainable performance, identify the necessary skills, build discipline and optimise process controls.

Critical Thinking  Approach 

Beyond the Box Thought Leadership as a means of approaching problems in new, innovative & efficient ways.

Trust and Confidence

Partnering and joint team working to foster trusted collaborative approached engagements to finding solutions.

Building Legacies

Creating extraordinary teams with the focus on delivery and quality that are left behind to continue the journey.

Changing what you have to be Great

Transforming your business from routine to a high performing, committed and passion driven focused entity .

Visible Leadership Culture

Who motivates and helps embed the right behaviours into the business, ways of working, attitudes, mindsets and culture.

Client Testimonials

Karl is a pleasure to work with, understanding the tensions between customer and supplier on a tight project. His enthusiasm to "get the job done" is to his credit.

TONY WHITE – CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER, ULTRA ELECTONICS PCS
Karl is very much a “completer finisher” who, having established an activity, will follow it through to a successful conclusion. Not afraid to ask the difficult questions; Karl, using his highly analytic approach, provided a sound foundation for many of the initiatives conducted.

DAVID MUIR - BUSINESS ADVISOR/TRANSFORMATION SPECIALIST, GLASGOW
I worked with Karl on several Change Initiative deployments in the USA and UK. He was a valued member of the team combining hard work, with good humour. He has a creative, artistic ability and engaging personality that proved to be very useful is helping people change their behaviours.

ROY DUFFEE- ENGINEERING IMPROVEMENT MANAGER, COBHAM

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