Interim leadership when you need experience, momentum and delivery.
You might need interim support to fill a temporary leadership gap, mobilise a major programme, lead a period of transformation or simply add experienced senior capacity when your existing team is stretched. I can step in quickly, provide focused leadership and help move priorities from ambition into delivery.
Previous Interim roles include Digital Curriculum Manager, Assistant Principal, Group Director of Digital Transformation and Director of Digital Technical Excellence College. I've worked with a range of highly respected education recruitment agencies, including FEA, Real Staffing and Dovetail and Slate.
Interim leadership that turns priorities into progress.
I provide senior interim consultancy to organisations that need experienced leadership for a defined period – whether that’s mobilising a major programme, leading transformation, filling a temporary leadership gap or providing additional capacity at a critical point.
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I can quickly step into complex environments, establish what needs to happen and work alongside your team to move things forward.
Why Me:
I bring more than 20 years' experience across education, technology and transformation, including senior leadership and CEO experience. I combine strategic thinking with hands-on delivery, I'm comfortable working in complex environments, and I don't need months to get up to speed before I can start making an impact.
How I Work:
I work as part of your organisation for the duration of an assignment, building strong relationships with colleagues, leaders, partners and stakeholders. My role is not to create dependency – it is to provide the leadership and capacity you need, deliver what I've been brought in to achieve and leave the organisation in a stronger position.
Areas of Expertise:
My expertise spans digital and technology strategy, curriculum design and development, learning technology, emerging technologies, digital transformation and major programme mobilisation. I bring particular experience of working across education and skills, helping organisations turn ambitious ideas into practical, deliverable programmes.
I have worked with Billy both as an in-house procurer of his support and as a consultant running a large programme of activity in need of his expertise on curriculum development. Billy has the ability to provide useful strategic oversight for curriculum development whilst also able to deliver operationally on curriculum authoring. Often innovative in his approach, he has provided real impactful services for contracts I have worked with him on. Billy is personable, able to manage employers well to inform curriculum content and is passionate about delivering the best service he can. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend him.
Sonya Mallin, Consultant
Billy immediately understood what we were looking to achieve with this innovative project and, even at proposal stage, his input helped us to envisage a really ambitious outcome for our learners. From involving our learners in user research and testing to accommodating the emerging requirements of our broader project team, Billy has gone above and beyond at every stage of planning and delivery. Thank you for delivering a project that far exceeds our expectations!
Group Head of Business Development, East Kent Colleges Group
I just wanted to say how highly I value the work you have produced thus far, the quality of the products and perhaps most importantly, the way in which you are engaging with us and all our stakeholders. Your professional, affable and warm approach, coupled with a good dollop of genuine humility and an inner confidence in your own and others abilities does you great credit and sits perfectly with the values and behaviours we as an organisation (as well as individually) would want to convey. It has meant that our collaborations and trusted partnerships have not been difficult and we are seeing the results of that in terms of product quality and pace AND in very enjoyable and productive ways of working.
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I have had the great pleasure of working on several Further Education assignments with Billy. He is remarkable in his ability to add value both in breadth and depth to any Further Education scenario, particularly in relation to technology based cutting edge subjects such as AI and Cybersecurity. Constantly overdelivering on expectations marked out Billy as the go to person to achieve goals, targets and objectives to deadlines. He has a particularly innovative approach and is able to liaise comfortably at all levels. A superb asset and I hope to work with him again soon.
FE Consultant at FE Associates
"In the time Billy was with us, he catapulted the Group into new levels of Digital creativity and innovation. His digital vision, experience and drive is exceptionally creative and intuitive. From a standard digital base, he took us on a digital journey of discovery which led us into new ways of thinking, working, and promotion, for example through digital blogs and podcasts. If you want your organisation to be digitally savvy, then he’s your man!"
Vice Principal (Quality & Innovation) at South Thames Colleges Group
Want to find out more?
If you have a leadership gap, major programme or transformation that needs experienced hands, I'd be happy to have an initial conversation about what you need.