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Public Sector Consulting

Building capability together

Capability & Capacity Building New Market Entry

Leadership Development Technology Solutions

O S T L I N G O’ S U L L I V A N

About us

Technology to support recruitment, career management and employee engagement.

Advanced leadership coaching and mental toughness programmes.

What makes us different is the leadership experience of the Optimize Now Partnership. Each partner has led successful corporate businesses at executive level and taken this experience to develop a rich expertise within their own business. We know how to motivate and develop high performing teams, develop innovative and culturally transferable solutions and maximise return on investment.

But most importantly, we care about maximising the potential of people. As the name implies, we want to optimise all of these individual business skills and capabilities to offer a broader service to our clients. We believe that together we are stronger and can make measurable and sustainable differences to the organisations we work with.

We are also committed to sharing and transferring the extensive learning and experience that we have gathered, including our knowledge of global best practice in terms of what works and why, in pursuit of these goals.

So whether you are a private sector, public sector or voluntary sector business looking to make a step change in performance, change your business focus or enter a new market, we can help your people to make the difference and equip them to meet the global challenges of tomorrow.

We are truly passionate about our services, so please contact us if you would like to know more.

Kevin Browne Managing Director

E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +44 7557748365 www.optimize-now.co.uk

I would like to introduce Optimize Now, a business that brings together a number of specialist consultancies delivering a range of positive outcomes for organisations, underpinned by the same ethos and goals. Our mission is to build capability and capacity in organisations to make a real difference to themselves, their families, communities and nations.

What we offer is based on proven methodologies across multiple sectors and in different countries, such as UK, Poland, Spain, Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East. Working with our customers we deliver results within three key disciplines:

Capacity Building: leadership development, skills transfer, coaching, employee engagement.

Business Development: market analysis, new market entry, product launch, building sales pipelines, enhancing customer relationships.

Business Transformation: vision and strategy development, performance turnaround, organisational change.

With a broad range of strategic leadership and operational delivery experience the Optimize Now business partners bring specialist knowledge and skills in the following areas:

Public sector transformation: helping national and local governments to establish policy and translate this through appropriate procurement and delivery frameworks.

Design and delivery of employability, apprenticeship and work based learning programmes.

Bidding, contracting and new business mobilisation.

Private sector engagement with government commissioning through employer focused solutions.

To build capability into individuals, teams and organisations to make a real difference to themselves, their families, communities and nations.

To transform existing organisations from where they are to where they want to be.

To demonstrate clearly measurable return on investment (ROI) in everything we do.

We do this by connecting smaller specialist consultancies, sharing proven global practices and advice to offer innovative solutions founded on demonstrable delivery not just management theory.

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Six unique businesses, one clear mission

The Optimize Partnership

Six unique businesses, one quality brand

What we offer our clients

Strong history in operational delivery (core USP)

Global knowledge and experience in a range of consultancy sectors

A track record of building high performing indigenous teams in different markets/sectors and commercial businesses

Success delivered through proven quality & continuous improvement frameworks

A digital technology partner with international expertise of delivering leading careers management and outplacement solutions

Proven recruitment, assessment and training approaches to enable the right people, in the right roles in the right businesses

Ethical and passionate people with committed to delivering “real” return on investment (ROI) solutions for their clients


Optimize Now is led by Kevin Browne, an experienced CEO with a 20-year track record of successfully working with governments, employers and local people to establish new businesses in new markets. With a legacy of building high performing leadership teams from indigenous populations across UK, Europe, Australia and Middle East, Kevin is now developing an exciting partnership with the following Optimize Now businesses:

Workpays led by Helen Richardson who has been an MD of large corporate businesses such as JHP Training and has been successfully delivering apprenticeship solutions in the UK for the last 10 years. Also, instrumental in the design of the IEP qualification for the employment and skills industry in the UK.www.workpays.co.uk

Public Sector Consulting a European public sector transformation specialist with over 15 years helping central government, municipalities and not for profit organisations. They design and implement human capital projects, innovative management models and provide advisory services for increasing citizen involvement.

AMPW led by Andy Whitehead, a qualified executive coach with a breadth of leadership experience across a range of sectors in the UK and Middle East. With effective coaching and mental toughness at its heart, AMPW help leaders to fulfil their potential and has successfully worked with senior teams and high profile leaders in local government, industry and the voluntary sector. www.ampw.co.uk

Think Straight Consulting led by Mike Sixsmith, a business development specialist, with over 20 years’ international experience in the recruitment, employability and skills sector. Mike helps business improve sales performance and growth by creating competitive differentiation and providing bespoke tools for sales teams. www.thinkstraightconsulting.co.uk

Ostling & O’Sullivan led by David O’Sullivan & Julian Ostling with over 20 years of experience in providing evidence based solutions in New Zealand, Australia, the UK and the Middle East. They analyse operating processes and systems against business objectives, identifying where these could be better aligned to build the capabilities required to succeed; and producing the evidence you need to evaluate and demonstrate your success. www.ostlingosullivan.com

Abintegro led by Tony & David Heard who provide engaging online technology & e-learning content for career management & transition. Used by hundreds of academic institutions, careers firms and businesses of all shapes and sizes to support the employability and career development needs of people in Europe, Middle East, America and Australia.www.abintegro.com

The Optimize Journey

Six unique businesses, one integrated approach

Where is your business now, where does it want to be?

Fire Fighting

Orderly

Innovating

GameChanging “Greatness is not a

function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out,

is largely a matter of conscious choice, and

discipline.”

Jim Collins, author of ‘Good to Great’

Leadership PeopleCulture OrganisationalDesign

ChangeManagement

Building high performing teams of individual leaders that drive urgency and direction, that are resilient and mentally tough

Establishing clear succession plans for future leaders based on core skills and market needs

Ensuring middle managers understand, translate and embrace the business strategy

Company culture enables and accelerates strategic objectives

Employee engagement is designed and nurtured to secure increased commitment and effort

Customers are valued, understood and actively managed

Structure and resourcing reflect business priorities and maximise ROI

Limiting tiers between senior leadership and frontline through broader spans of control that support collaborative team working

Decision making & accountability devolved to appropriate level and enabled

Individual capabilities are matched to clearly specified job requirements

The brand resonates with the employees and attracts external talent to join the company

HR is recognised and used as a strategic partner

Business critical roles and people are well managed/rewarded

Robust and disciplined change procedure in place

Application of a continuous forward looking approach to change & markets

Technology is used as an enabler and multiplier in service delivery

If your business has the desire to change we have the people, discipline, methods and experience to enable this with you.

All businesses sit somewhere along the business continuum of ‘firefighting’ (those struggling to perform and grow) to ‘game changing’ (the world’s market leaders). To help businesses move along the continuum, we focus on building capability around five essential constructs that drive high performance:


“Think Straight’s most recent work in Saudi Arabia involved scoping a completely new market with complex cultural requirements. They brought a very systematic and practical approach in producing a high quality analysis and a suite of focused business recommendations, and then were able to develop these to full proposals that led to commercial sales in the market.”Director of Emerging Markets at Ingeus Deloitte.

“We are delighted with the impact of the Employment Related Services programme being delivered by Workpays. In the first month we have seen our job outcomes increase seven-fold which is a real positive for the team and of course, our customers. The programme has raised our performance levels and has exceeded our expectations and has certainly justified our investment.” Director of Employment - Advance Housing and Support Ltd

“The AMPW Coach very skilfully provided Directors with a sounding board for strategic decision making and, during a time of significant change, supported the development of key leaders.”Local Authority Chief Executive

“Bank of Ireland and Harmonics selected Abintegro Gateway as the Career Portal for the My Career Best initiative, which is providing in excess of 14,000 staff with best practice career development support. Gateway is a core part of My Career Best and provides a customisable platform which has been designed to meet the career needs of staff across the Bank. We are delighted with the rollout and are looking to develop the Portal even further over the coming months to provide our staff with best-in-class career support.”Head of HR, Retail Banking

“We have contracted with Think Straight Consulting over the last 2 years, initially considerably adding to our bid and then when we were successful for the last 12 months helping establish the new strategic direction of the company. We could not have achieved what we have done if it weren’t for the pivotal role that Think Straight played”Privatisation of UK Probation Service

Strategic leadership

development

What our clients say

New market development


Six unique businesses, one customer focus

Developing people

through technology

Public SectorTransformation

Customer focused performance improvement

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