Recruitment — Programme Delivery / SLA: R. Plummer (provisional)

[People & Places]

Curriculum Vitae — Rodney Plummer

Date of birth: 2 February 1966
Certifications: MBA; PRINCE2 (expired); Certified Change Practitioner; Agile-at-Scale
(Foundation); MSP (Managing Successful Programmes)

Personal statement

A transformational, outcomes-focused change leader with a proven track record of driving
synergistic value-creation across complex, matrixed organisations. A passionate and inspirational
leader who empowers high-performing teams to exceed strategic imperatives, unlock step-change in
operational excellence, and land ambitious change at pace. I bring gravitas to the C-suite and
energy to the front line. I do not major in the detail; I major in the vision.

Career history

• 2010–present — Meridian Strand Advisory — Partner, Business Transformation. Led, across a portfolio of clients, enterprise-wide operating-model redesigns, cultural-change journeys and "agile-at-scale" mobilisations. Every engagement delivered against its business case.
• 2006–2010 — Kestrel Vance Partners — Principal Consultant, Change & Delivery. Orchestrated large-scale transformation programmes; recognised internally as a "change evangelist".
• 2002–2006 — Aldergate Transformation Group — Programme Director. Delivered a £40m target-operating-model programme (subsequently descoped following a client restructure).
• 1998–2002 — Halston Blake Management Consultants — Senior Manager, Strategy & Benefits Realisation. Stakeholder alignment and value-mapping across public- and private-sector clients.
• 1990–1998 — various — graduate and junior management-consulting roles.

Key strengths

Strategic visioning; inspirational leadership; stakeholder alignment; benefits realisation;
"leaning in"; managing upward.

[J. Fairhead (People & Places)]

Interviews like a dream — all the right words, a confident deck, warm handshake.

[S. Pardoe (People & Places)]

Every reference is glowing and every project he has touched is a smoking crater. Three people described him, unprompted, as 'a catastrophe in a good suit'.

[D. Pike]

Perfect. Hear me out. A Delivery lead who genuinely does not understand what the programme delivers cannot leak what the programme delivers. He will manage upward beautifully, sign every SLA without reading it, and notice nothing. His incompetence is a security control; his obliviousness is an asset we could not manufacture if we tried.

[M. Ross (Personnel Security)]

Concur. Give him a big title, a dashboard, and nothing sharp.

[G. Naismith (People & Places)]

Appointed, provisional. Keep him well away from anything that actually works.