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Craig Buchan joins the NXDTeam


 

  

We are delighted to welcome Craig Buchan MIoD to the NXDTeam.


Craig is a seasoned professional with extensive expertise in business development, specialising in steering strategic direction for revenue and growth plans across diverse business stages.


His entrepreneurial journey includes founding and managing businesses in financial services, U/HNW real estate, and musical instrument manufacturing.


With a track record of effective leadership, Craig excels in goal setting, developing marketing and tactical plans, managing commitments, and ensuring compliance with legal frameworks, health and safety regulations, and brand standards.


His adeptness at quickly building trust and strong relationships contributes to positive customer outcomes. With a rich international network, Craig possesses a unique ability to identify connections others may overlook.


Beyond the business realm, he values quality time with his family and is passionate about football. Craig actively contributes to his local church community, serves as the Vice Chair of Harrogate Town AFC CIO, and is a familiar voice as a paper reviewer on BBC Radio.

 

 

  

Wayne Marshall

Sales Performance - Sales Strategy - Sales Growth Consultant

We are delighted to welcome Wayne Marshall to the NXDTeam.


Wayne is a dedicated, tenacious, clear thinking and strategic business professional with a proven track record over the last 25 years in helping businesses and their owners achieve their goals.


An experienced and successful founder and CEO of a start-up business growing it from zero to over £18M turnover inside 4 years.


Wayne has an excellent track record in diverse business environments, involved in both start up and challenging turnaround environments and specialises in sales performance improvement and delivering tailored strategic solutions for sales and business growth.


Wayne has worked in varied and diverse business environments including Financial Services, Manufacturing, and Digital Marketing.


Key Areas of Expertise

Sales and Business Development - Strategic Planning and Leadership - Business Growth and Scaling - People Management - Turnaround Management Skills - Sales Strategy - Implenetation of expansive and creative sales routes to market.


Skills

· Leadership and self-awareness, ability to gain respect and attention

· Critical thinking, creativity and strategic awareness - the ability to take the wider, strategic view -

· Political astuteness, diplomatic, able to deal with conflict-

· Integrity - high ethical standards


Certificates and Licensing

· CeMAP , CeRER, London Institute of Banking and Finance

· PRINCE 2 Practitioner


Welcome Wayne to the team - we look forward to introducing you to our clients.





Hannah Horner

HR Consultant

Our latest addition to the team affords us the opportunity to offer assistance in the HR World to our range of clients that may not have the budget to employ their own HR Director or, indeed, that may have specific requirements that need specialist HR skills and expertise.

Let us introduce
Hannah Horner to you!

Hannah is a qualified HR professional and accredited mediator with over 20 year’s experience within the private and public sectors supporting to director / C-Suite level. Hannah’s approach is rooted in collaboration and partnership, working to provide bespoke HR solutions that deliver on an organisation’s objectives.
 
As well as bringing a deep understanding of HR practice and employment legislation Hannah has significant experience in supporting change, driving inclusive leadership and dealing with conflict, all to maximise the potential of a workforce.

Welcome to the NXDTeam Hannah - we are excited to have you on board.


If you have any HR related questions and want to chat to Hannah or the team, please feel free to contact us on hello@nxdteam.com





Mark Barrett joins NXDTeam

Either way, we are delighted to welcome Mark Barrett to the NXDTeam

Mark is a multi-award-winning leader in Data innovation. With over 15 years of experience creating, growing and leading data science and analytics teams he has worked with organisations of all sizes, across several sectors. Mark creates data strategies that are practical and easily adopted to create data-driven cultures within organisations. His enthusiasm, entrepreneurial skills, and friendly collaborative approach help him work across teams to understand what businesses need from their data.

Mark has a knack for spotting new opportunities that can develop into data-driven products. Transforming initial workshop ideas into data science solutions using AI and ML, Mark has generated £millions in new revenue streams. He also specialises in creating automated efficiency savings for teams - helping them find extra time for key work, rather than having to manually generate reports and data insights.

Key Areas of Expertise
Data Science and Analytics, Data Leadership, Data-driven decision-making, Collaboration, Machine Learning, Data Strategy, Private sector growth (from Startups to Large Organisations) Public Sector experience.

Skills
Passionate about all things data.

Calm under pressure and lots of experience resolving conflict
Ability to motivate teams to create amazing, useful projects and products.

Mark has worked at all levels within businesses, from founding his own companies to being an active board member for others.

Mark will ultimately lead a team of Data Scientists on behalf of our clients.


Dr. Phyl Hughes

Corporate Psychology and Strategy Consultant

Dr Phyl Hughes: Corporate Psychology and Strategy


PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Dr Phyl is a highly motivated and driven individual with over 25 years of leadership development experience in both Business School settings and in the Corporate environment.


Outstanding interpersonal skills complimenting an extensive knowledge of the theory and practice of; strategic change, personal development, Corporate Governance, future trends and the development of female leaders.


Driven and passionate about truly making a difference to individuals and their organisations.


KEY STRENGTHS and USPs


· It is rare for a consultant to be able to work across: Psychology, Strategy & Organisational Analysis.


Phyl is experienced, deeply knowledgeable and accessible in all three of these alone and interacting with one another. This is a specialized and impactful combination.


· Insightful one-to-one and in terms of team and organizational level analysis. She is naturally gifted but also her academic and research pedigree mean she is able to see, distill and articulate patterns, causes, and solutions rapidly


· 25+years of experience all combine in her engaging personal style which is a genuine differentiator. A confident communicator, she skilled in the expression her views. Often using a gentle humor to ensure she heard, she is also willing able to speak concerns that others find challenging to express.


· Public Speaker & Media Interviewee


o Appeared on many public speaking platforms on leadership, change, women in business, CSR

o Confident media Interviewee.


Dr.Phyl will be an integral part of the NXDTeam and not only will she be pivotal in shaping the future of our client, she will also play a hugely important role in helping NXDTeam create a high growth and inclusive Corporate Advisory Business


NXDTEAM®️ Expands into the South with the appointment of Steve Fowler as Senior Consultant


The NXDTeam expands into the South

We are delighted to welcome Steve Fowler to the NXDTeam as a Senior Consultant based in and around London and the Home Counties.

Steve is a technology and services executive with 35 years experience in large scale, full scope, complex services delivery. Steve has a proven ability to transform organisational capability, culture, cost base and performance through implementation and management of technology, operations, people and process solutions across organisational, cultural, functional and geographic boundaries.

Steve has led and transformed global delivery organisations for IBMFujitsuHewlett Packard EnterpriseTelefonicaAtos and LIMELIGHT NETWORKS LTD and has delivered complex technology services to organisations including JPMorgan Chase & Co.Lloyds Banking GroupABN AMRO Bank N.V.UnileverFCDO Services (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office), bpSiemensAmazon and the BBC.

Steve specialises in COO and operational services, business evaluation and improvement, business process review and recommendations, business, operating & delivery model creation and transition / transformation services.

Steve is also a pro-bono consultant in the charity sector for the Cranfield Trust

Welcome on board Steve - we are looking forward to welcoming you into the fold and further developing our network of talented advisors in the South of the UK.

Simon Kamen 

Senior Consultant - Procurement


Creative Director

NXDTEAM are delighted to have procured the services of Simon Kamen as its Fractional Procurement Consultant. (See what we did there?)

For the past 30 years Simon has worked within the business world in a variety of positions serving his customers to ensure that they procure high quality products and services at extremely favourable commercials terms.

Over the last 11 years, he has tailored his skill®️s to act as an “Outsourced Procurement Director” exceeding clients’ expectations along the way.

Simon’s career has been littered with success working with companies both large and small thus creating numerous case studies to share.

As an individual, Simon has tremendous drive and attention to detail and always going above and beyond the call of duty for his clients.

Talking of the appointment, Chris McDonald, Founder of NXDTEAM®️ said “we are delighted to have secured the services of Simon within the NXDTEAM®️.

In a world where fixed and variable costs can make the difference between thriving or surviving (or worse!) we are keen to help clients in their procurement activities to ensure they have secured the best possible terms and value and where we can, make significant savings across their cost base.”

For a confidential review of your cost structure, contact us directly and we will be happy to engage.




NXDTEAM®️ welcomes Brogan Huntington into the fold

NXDTEAM®️ welcomes a true marketing talent in Brogan Huntington

Hello, My name is Brogan and It is a pleasure to meet you! 
 
For the past 10 years Brogan has worked within the creative marketing space delivering multi-million pound campaigns on a global scale. 
 
On her career, Brogan comments "I have had the pleasure of working with some incredible businesses as a “Virtual In House Marketing Director” building brands that people want to buy. (and do)" 
 
Over the past 5 years, Brogan has been working hard  to build a multi award-winning marketing agency, that delivers everything a business needs to build a brand.

Alongside her team of incredibly skilled creators, Brogan has worked with celebrities, influencers and businesses of all sizes across the world delivering film production, videography, photography and strategies that deliver marketing campaigns that REALLY work for her clients. 
 
As an individual, Brogan is a true creator, she LOVES listening and working with business owners to create ideas that blow them away and of course making their ideas become reality via 1-1 marketing direction and brand strategy.

Chris McDonald, Founder of NXDTeam commented about Brogan joining the NXDTEAM®️ "I have been blown away by some of the campaigns that Brogan has created for her clients - a true marketing visionary and one that I am delighted to welcome on board as part of our elite team.

This is a further exciting development for us and one that will enable our clients to build a creative marketing strategy that delivers results".

NXDTEAM®️ have a creative marketing agency offering!

Get in touch to find out more about how we can light up your business with some of the most creative marketing strategies available today.


NXDTEAM®️ Welcomes Lisa Howell as Senior Consultant

Change Management and Culture

NXDTEAM®️ is delighted to welcome Lisa Howell to the senior team.

Lisa is an organisational development change consultant and psychological coach working with organisations, teams and individuals wanting to transition their companies, leaders, and lives with 30 years’ experience.

Working on transformation projects and change programmes developing bespoke strategy, approach, methodologies, and tools to the desired vision and developed strategic goals, Lisa delivers multi-year, rolling programmes through to strategy and Vision development and team building Away Events and Days.


Coaching internationally, Lisa enables Business Owners, CEOs / Directors / MDs / Leaders / High Net Worth Individuals and Senior Teams to develop new and developing organisations and cultures working at a 1-2-1 level right through to large scale peer and leadership disruption coaching as well as developing coaching cultures.

Her expertise lies in her ability to deliver client and individual bespoke requirements against complex situations whilst taking the leaders and people involved with her.
Lisa has led local and global organisational transformation and leadership programmes and initiatives for Corporate, Public and Not for Profit sectors across a wide variety of cultures including Japanese, American, Italian, Middle Eastern and Chinese including: Kepak Group, Landsec, NHS Primary & Secondary Care, Morrisons, Amazon, Reckitt Benckiser, Boots the Chemist, Bowmed Ibisqus, Travellers Insurance; Hitachi Capital Finance, Envirocare and Greencore Group.

Lisa’s business model includes pro bono local community group work supporting long-term unemployed to build confidence and resilience and mental health initiatives.

Using her psychology and business knowledge together with her wealth of multi-sector experience, down to earth, authentic, holistic, and collaborative people approach as a foundation, this enables long-term relationships to achieve and exceed aspirations.

For a complementary insights session to work on your goals / issues and / or vision, contact us to evaluate if we can support your next steps towards achieving and even exceeding your goals and aspirations.

www.nxdteam.com

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