Stephanie Alden

Experience & Adoption Lead Cyber Maturity Programme

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Salary / Daily rate

2 people recommend

London, UK

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Skills

Change ManagementFullstack DevelopmentCoachingE-LearningProcess ImprovementPower BIServiceNowNegotiationNLP / Natural Language ProcessingCopilotDevOpsCybersecurityITILMicrosoft 365SharePoint

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About me

Intro

 Versatile and accomplished Senior Management professional offering over 30 years of cumulative experience in the areas of Change Management, Training & Development and Communication Management  Professional Business Consultant for 10 years of concentrated experience in implementing business change management programmes focused on technology advancements and mitigation of business risks, thereby contributing to a high level strategic change and facilitating the achievement of business milestones  NLP Practitioner / Hands on Leader & Trainer with expertise in understanding the impact of the change, designing training, development & communication programmes at individual & team level to minimize the impact of the change  Highly experienced with a customer centric attitude and outstanding track record in managing Corporate Business Communications and projects for renowned clients such as GlaxoSmithKline, PWC, Coopers & Lybrand, BBC and Royal School of Military Engineering, to name a few  Possesses strong business acumen delivering a wide range of end-user training and sharing the best industrial practices to improve ROI  Recognised for hands-on experience in identifying training needs, implementing challenging learning events and bespoke training programmes in alignment with the business mission; supporting individual & organisational development  An excellent communicator and a skilled negotiator with the ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced, time sensitive environment as well as interact effectively with people of diverse nationalities.

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Work experience

Experience & Adoption Lead Cyber Maturity Programme

Haleon

Jul 2024 - Present

2 years 4 months

London, UK

Providing support to the programme to increase Cyber security maturity to enhance Haleon's ability to identify, protect, detect, respond and recover

Shell

Feb 2022 - Mar 2024

2 years 2 months

Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Change Lead DevOp@Shell

Feb 2022 - Mar 2024

2 years 2 months

Greater London, England, United Kingdom

• Joined the Core Team, taking over from a part-allocated resource. DevOps@Shell is a multiyear journey to enable DevOps teams to become autonomous and end-to-end accountable for delivering and operating IT • Developed and delivered all Business change artifacts, ramping up the frequency and targeting of communications using multiple channels to raise the profile, together with the delivery of a new brand • Collaborated with the Touchless Change Management team to create a range of content to deliver a schedule of sessions to an audience including Product Managers, Software Engineers, IT Ops Managers. This included interviewing teams with success stories for inclusion • Created a selection of ‘how to’ videos for newly released Codified Templates; these (together with ‘readme’ content) will be used to support f2f/virtual education sessions using a ‘Hello Shell’ lab environment to teach software engineers (yet to be scheduled) • Together with the Site Reliability COP Lead, delivered a 3-day event for Software Engineers in Bangalore. This included presentations from Microsoft and AWS, together with hands-on lab sessions, attended by ~700 • Took an in-progress Portal and together with designer/developer delivered a fully-functioning one-stop-shop portal for DevOps@Shell covering each of the four workstreams • A member of the IDE Change Team, ensuring Change/Comms activities align and a regular attendee of the DevOps@Shell monthly SteerCo which includes IDE/IDT Leadership

Change Lead (Central Team)

Feb 2022 - Jul 2023

1 year 6 months

Greater London, England, United Kingdom

 Responsible for all Business Change deliverables for the enterprise-wide initiative to migrate all existing content (1 Petabyte) from Shared Drives to SharePoint Online inline with Information Management Compliance requirements. A Change Manager also reported into the Change Lead  A member of the Central Shared Drives Team (hub & spoke model) which developed and delivered tools to support the programme; a PowerBI drive inventory generator and Content Analytics. They enabled all six Lines of Business to analyse the content on their drives, identifying both owners and content type to agree next steps, eg delete, migrate or freeze  Created Central Guidance materials to support the tools and the associated processes with regular education sessions developed and made available to the LoB Project Teams  Led the Business Readiness weekly connect, provided updates on activities, invited review and input to communications and materials; assessed and reported back on business impact and analysis  Created a range of communications for the programme, including for automated attestation, emails to be incorporated into the migration process, ad hoc emails requesting review/approvals on a variety of materials  Due to the lack of a migration lead, worked closely with the PM and Process Lead to develop the migration pilot processes, together with all supporting change collateral  Developed an excellent relationship with the Central Comms Lead which resulted in a range of both awareness and educational videos being co-created and which gainied excellent feedback from the LoB audiences  Due to change in leadership and funding, during Q2 2023, a complete redesign of the approach was agreed. This resulted in a ‘pause’ once the pilots were successfully completed, in addition resources were reassigned to other projects

Business Change Manager

Kantar

Aug 2020 - Dec 2021

1 year 5 months

Greater London, England, United Kingdom

 Responsible for all Business Change deliverables implementing ServiceNow as a platform together with building and increasing maturity and capability across ITSM practices and processes  Developed Business Change Strategy for Phase 1 (completed in July), delivering the basic processes and tooling to Support Teams in the Technology function. Revised the strategy for Phase 2 to deliver a Service Management Transformation programme  Together with the Workstream Lead for Data and Discovery, conducted analysis across the Technology org. to understand current working practices, identify existing tooling and ITIL/ITSM expertise/capabilities  Devised and delivered a programme of training including, ITIL4 Foundation, ServiceNow Process User Training, IT Service Management Simulation sessions with our Platform and Learning partners  Identified key stakeholders in each Division ensuring regular access to decision makers with whom we built excellent relationships  Responsible for the training budget of $120,000 to end 2021. Negotiations with our ITIL Learning Partner realised a significant reduction in costs by purchasing a public course in bulk and developing an on-demand training of ITIL aligned service management processes; reducing our spend for 2022, the budget for which was in discussion at the time of leaving  Developed a blended learning offering within Workday to enable enrolments for all delegates attending training  The discovery effort for Phase 2 continued with newly identified support teams to end 2021, together with a separate ‘project’ for the Media subset. From November they moved their support teams to from SysAid to ServiceNow, to complete March 2022 with its own project schedule, change strategy and all training delivered in Spanish  Further analysis identified a need for train the trainer training for LatAm colleagues to be self-sufficient. Programme sponsor approved the extra spend

Business Readiness Lead (Legal)

Shell

Aug 2019 - Aug 2020

1 year 1 month

Greater London, England, United Kingdom

 Joined Shell as the first part of the GRM Programme (to ensure compliance with current GDPR regulations) completed to implement Non-records disposal (NRD) and labelling on SharePoint online. The next stage was in planning for OneDrive during the handover from the existing BR Lead  A member of the Global Functions BR team, responsible for BR change and engagement related to both initiatives for the Legal function. The ~1200 staff in Shell Legal are located globally  Responsible for ensuring the change strategy and its associated plans and communications were created for Legal 365 and updated/adjusted, for GRM, to include Line of Business specifics  Reviewed change and communications collateral, provided significant input Central Team ensuring it was fit for purpose/aligning with the end user journey  Accountable for managing the BR risks & issues, POAP updates and KPIs  Established relationships with existing key stakeholders: reflected on the programme so far, determined what to carry forwards/change/improve. Led to a more consistent approach across 10 Legal entities – adapted for their ways of working  Met with all Legal Focal Points (73) who comprise the Legal Change Network to reset the roles and responsibilities; set expectations of the support we would provide. Provided feedback to the IM Compliance Managers to address; resulted in an understanding of FPs strengths, identified where we needed to step in  Adapted the Central Team approach for OneDrive NRD to fit the needs of Legal. Developed process for Legal users to ‘self-certify’ to track education and communications. This process was repeated for email records NRD  Implemented a comprehensive tracker across all types of user and change network engagements; also automated for the email records (as detailed above)  Designed, developed and delivered education sessions for the Focal Points for use when educating their Legal Teams. Delivered open sessions where there was no Focal Point support

GlaxoSmithkline

Apr 2009 - Aug 2020

11 years 5 months

Brentford, UK

Business Change Manager Lead - Updating GSK Collaboration Tools - move to Office 365

Nov 2015 - Aug 2020

4 years 10 months

Brentford, UK

Programme of change to upgrade 140,000 GSK staff and contractors to Office 365 across all Microsoft products - Developed the change management structured approach; created the strategy to support and drive adoption of Office 365 tools across GSK - Senior leaders were engaged and coached to develop the vision for the programme - Obtained agreement to an unprecedented budget for the development of graphics and videos to support the change vision - Built on evidence from previous change programmes, initiated the Collaboration tools champion programme, over 500 individuals were recruited globally - Identified, tracked and agreed change management deliverables, the BCM team integrated into individual workstream project plans, the ability to act quickly and respond to risk or newly identified requirements has been key to the success of the programme - Developed and agreed script (with BCM team) for 'Buzz' live demonstrations delivered by third party vendor. 99% stated ‘sessions were useful and informative’ - Responsible for managing the BCM budget across training, help articles, videos, translations - Facilitated the Customer Board monthly call which surfaced both resistance and support across the business units; tracked deliverables and actions - The holistic approach of the BCM team ensured stakeholders and end users could approach any team member for information related to the programme - Tasked mid-Feb 2017 to design, develop and schedule training on Office 2016 for 1000 GSK users by end March. The modular programme was delivered in 13 languages on budget and on time and was extended to end September. Feedback on quality of delivery and content was always 95-99% - Managed the related changes to the programme that resulted due to organisational change during 2017/2018; engaging the business leads on a 1x1 basis ensured migrations were completed on time - Received recognition awards during the programme both as an individual and as part of the BCM Team

Business Change Manager - SharePoint and Exchange 2013 Upgrades + Lync Meeting from Jan 2015

Jan 2014 - Dec 2018

5 years

- Completed change management assessments, conducted impact analysis, identified and engaged key stakeholders - Agreed the sponsor action plan with IT sponsor; identified and engaged the Business sponsor (VP of Global Communications) for portal migrations - Developed BCM strategy,and associated plans. The stakeholder management analysis identified resistance in the business and resulted in the development of relationships to mitigate the possibility of delays - Key participant in feature selection and recommendations; presented to the business and invited input on business impact - Designed a ‘brand’ approach to the change programme; GSK users found it easy to relate to the graphic representation and the visual association better engaged audiences across all business units - Initiated a ‘champions’ programme to help drive awareness, desire, knowledge, adoption across GSK - VoC feedback stated the well-honed and well-rounded change and communications plan was key to the success of our completion of the Team Site migrations three months early and on budget - Training analysis resulted in the design and development (with third party vendor) of help and training materials, scripted videos and webinars. Managed a schedule of live training webinars for three months, extending to six due to demand - User facing intranet site designed and developed with in-house specialist; a one-stop shop for all user-facing materials. The wireframe was subsequently used as a ‘template’ for ‘steady-state’ service - Provided input and support to assigned communications specialist on user facing content, stakeholder overviews, and targeted email communications - Managed the budget for training, communications, translations - Scripted the 'What's new-Exchange 2013' video - Agreed project interdependencies with project leads for SharePoint/Exchange/Lync 2013 upgrades - Evaluated end user readiness with Business Unit representatives across 3 workstreams

Business Change Manager - GO Programme/Active Directory Domain Consolidation

Mar 2010 - Jan 2014

3 years 11 months

Brentford, UK

Responsible for all Business Change Management activities across two very different projects. - Recommended by the EIS Director of Business Change Management for this role. Working on a major contract consolidation project to reduce 30 Network and Telephony contracts down to 1 strategic partner - Developed BCM plans, analysis of the stakeholder roadmap and RACI - Coached the project team, managers and team members, on the benefits and change management approach, the result brought about a consolidated front when working with business partners - Developed a communications network for each project to assess user impact on the impacted sites to ensure appropriate training and communications were provided for their respective audiences - Appreciation of the different kind of user and their individual needs was key to transition from the current to future state - Played a major role in the design of a new telephony dial plan and the development of a web-based ordering and billing system and a software bridge between the two help desks of each organisation. Resulted in much improved processes for the GSK audience - Simultaneously assigned to the Active Directory user domain migration project, developing BCM plans & liaising closely with the communications specialist for developing a communication framework to align with Global business needs - Designed an intranet site (SharePoint) for both projects as the primary customer-facing information resource - Created Sharepoint Team Site for the project team to ensure secure & accessible collaborative space for the team members - Ensured VoC and issues were tracked and reported and clearly articulated for appropriate audiences

BCM Project Support - Corporate - Information Workplace

Apr 2009 - Dec 2012

3 years 9 months

Brentford, UK

- As Part of the BCM for the Information Workplace project, liaised with Corporate Business Communication leads and Customer Representatives to develop communications plan facilitating accurate & precise understanding of business needs - Served as a member of the Business Change Management team, analysed risks associated with change - Managed change management activities across all Corporate Business Units; devised and developed a variety of mechanisms to communicate the change and provided regular updates, both remote and face to face sessions - Developed web content using Plumtree and Sharepoint as a key mechanism of communication - Collaborated with Global Financial Services management, planned communications and controlled migration to Outlook for 3rd party offshore vendors requiring strict security controls - A member of the training stakeholder team planning relevant communications and training to meet future needs - Scheduled personal & group mailbox migrations and ensured accurate identification of blackout periods and others to gain compliance with legal preservation and retention policies - Analysis of a variety of applications in readiness for decommissioning or seeking resources for alternative solutions after the legacy environment is no longer supported - Organised promotional road shows at various GSK sites as well as developed quick reference guide handouts - Managed the testing analysis of all Office dependent applications in preparation for upgrade to Office 2007

Business Change Manager

Feb 2012 - Dec 2012

11 months

Brentford, UK

- Assisted the Change Lead for the first phase of a three-phase reorganisation of the EIS (End-user Infrastructure Services) function at GSK - Developed the stakeholder management analysis and plan and agreed implementation with SVP - Assisted with the development and delivery of the communications plan aligned with legal and HR processes - Together with the Change Lead and SharePoint specialist, developed intranet pages with secure areas, where needed, together with the various presentation templates for Senior Leaders to complete to share their old/new org structures and forward planning - Worked closely with HR representatives to ensure legal and employment procedures were followed accurately - Liaised with Senior Leaders to agree schedules and content for announcements to be published internally - Carried out an After-Action Review and was directly responsible for the appointment of ‘Transformation Leads’ for each EIS function being appointed for the next two phases of the reorganisation. This released Senior Leaders to continue with their day-to-day responsibilities and empowered the nominated Leads to handle Q&A sessions for those impacted, together with the ongoing planning and delivery of the transformation

Business Change Manager

Tate & Lyle

Nov 2018 - Aug 2019

10 months

London, UK

Joined the project team to continue the work already initiated to migrate 1500 staff across UK, Poland and the US to Office 365. Scope comprises the mailbox migrations and enabling OneDrive for Business and prepares the way for the new IS/IT roadmap coming from April 2019. • Develop the change management strategy and schedule for the remaining effort to move mailboxes across the seven sites in scope • Responsible for change management deliverables, align with PM and track to agreed timelines • Building stakeholder relationships across plants and admin buildings to validate data and agree schedule to avoid business disruption • Scope has changed from redirecting Home drive to OneDrive to just enabling OneDrive at this time, causing rework across both materials and planned educational sessions, together with direct user communications and additional stakeholder management • Design, develop and deliver awareness and information sessions and all materials relevant to the change • Create short videos to support the change to new product for T&L – OneDrive for Business and OneNote which had been used by some but not all • Work with communications lead to create content; develop intranet pages as a one-stop-shop for Office 365 resources and information • Build a change network across the sites in scope as a means of supporting those based on the sites in scope and advocating the benefits of change

Training Manager - MIS Project

Babcock Defence Services

Nov 2008 - May 2009

7 months

Responsible for design, development and delivery of IFS training, including Call Centre, Queue Management, Purchasing. Scheduling and analysis of courses for all Authority and Contract Personnel.

Training & Communications Stream Lead/Change Manager

GlaxoSmithKline

Jan 2007 - May 2008

1 year 5 months

•A member of the Project Team for the eMail Preservation Tool. From May 2007 also stepped into the role the previous Change Manager had vacated •Co-ordinated and created the Deployment Plan for the ongoing project, implemented the key tasks assigned to me in this plan •Created the BDR observation script and tasks to be completed by a sample audience and supervised the team carrying out the observations.. Responsible for gathering, presenting and analysing the data to prove a £17m saving. This translated to an 82% reduction in time per year for users under Preservation Notice •Liaised with the Communications Stream Leader in the development of the Communications Plan for the Business •Engaged with separate Business Units – R&D, GMS, Pharma, Corporate, Consumer Health - e.g. website, direct mail, overview presentations •Developed an eLearning activity for use on eForce and myLearning with third party vendor that was to become a mandatory course for approx 22,000 clients


Education

Twynham Comprehensive

1970 - 1975

5 years 1 month


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