Donovan 💻 Grant

University of the Arts London

Imparting my knowledge in business analysis, I dispense job focused training and coaching, enabling student progression, advancing experience and ensuring wellbeing. As a business coach, I manage numerous training programmes, providing instruction and coordinating activities. Handling stakeholder communications, I partner with senior management to formulate bespoke plans. Orchestrating and facilitating groups and one to one workshops, analysing training results and testing knowledge to confirm understanding.

Here are some of the highlights of my achievements:

• Coordinating efforts with Business Analyst Managers, facilitating workshops; improving capabilities throughout business analysis teams.
• Identifying skills gaps presenting training and career coaching; enhancing careers of junior and senior staff.
• Forming strong and mutually beneficial relationships with internal and external stakeholders, collaborating with business
teams to share ideas and best practice; troubleshooting and resolving issues.
• Delivering Business Analysis on the university’s digital business transformation programme; confirming value and usability are delivered across change management plans.

Lead Business Analyst & Coach

Metadata Training

One-on-One Mentoring: Providing regular, personalised one-on-one coaching sessions to apprentices, ensuring the seamless integration of training course knowledge into practical workplace applications.

Bridging Theory and Practice: Playing a pivotal role in bridging the gap between theoretical learning and real-world workplace practices, ensuring that apprentices can effectively apply their skills.

Tailored Learning: Customising the learning process to align with the specific needs of both the employer and apprentices, ensuring that the training directly addresses the challenges faced in the workplace.

Alignment with Real-World Problems: Ensuring that apprentice learning aligns with the real problems they encounter in their day-to-day work, fostering practical problem-solving abilities.

Guiding the Learning Journey: Guiding mentees throughout their learning journey, helping them develop technical proficiency, and fostering their confidence.

Practical Skill Development: Enabling the transformation of theoretical knowledge into practical, hands-on skills, empowering apprentices to excel in their roles.

Coaching Through Challenges: Providing support and coaching to apprentices during setbacks and challenges, helping them navigate and overcome obstacles in their professional development.

Business Analyst Mentor

Heroic Public Benefit Corporation

Heroic is a dynamic platform that unites ancient wisdom, modern science, and world-class, scientifically validated tools to drive personal growth. 

In my role as a Heroic Performance Coach, I offer customised one-on-one coaching to help you unlock your fullest heroic potential and spark transformative change—one individual at a time. 

If you’re inspired, explore more at heroic.us or drop me a DM.

Heroic Performance Coach

London Metropolitan University

As a senior business analyst and coach, I executed business analysis, delivering group workshops and developing process improvements. A major part of my role, was to plan projects, share progress and evaluate results.

Here are some of the highlights of my achievements:

• Spearheaded Lecture Recording Project as part of virtual learning programme; delivered change, achieved results on time and within budget.
• Conceptualised and integrated continuous improvement initiatives, including focused project meetings; provided focused feedback and progress updates to ensure future business transformation.

Senior Business Analyst & Coach

HSBC Commercial Banking

Working with HSBC, I led requirements gathering workshops and obtained feedback from stakeholders to create business requirements documents and support the delivery of strategic initiatives and key projects.

Here are some of the highlights of my achievements:

• Motivated and coached team members; increased knowledge and confidence in use of systems, business analysis, project management and change management.
• Integrated continuous improvement initiatives; triggered improvements in reporting and strategic planning.

Visa Europe

In my role with Visa Europe, I assessed business conditions, considered project feasibility, identified areas for improvement and outlines solutions to deliver digital transformation. Partnering with internal and US stakeholders, I delivered global projects and met standards.

Here are some of the highlights of my achievements:

• Managed digital change projects; designed and instituted more transparent and secure payment options for members and customers.
• Played a pivotal role as an agile team member across three countries, mapped and documented business processes; originated improvement initiatives to achieve project deliverables.
• Contributed significantly to the launch of the new Visa Apprentice programme; delivered training and career coaching, marked assignments, tested knowledge and offered mentoring to develop a diverse range of IT professionals.

A decision maker and motivational communicator, a coordinator of key performance goals, I have coached individuals and teams to achieve digital change objectives. 

Engaging in key training activities, I am passionate about providing group and individual coaching to prepare business professionals for future business transformation. I also greatly relish new and refreshing challenges, which give me great satisfaction when I resolve issues.

A career performance coach, I deliver bootcamps providing exclusive coaching for technology professionals, enabling them to become more influential and impactful.

Presenting internal and private coaching for technology leaders and managers, I offer strategic support to enable organisational change. I am regularly called upon to deliver high performance coaching and training in value driven business analysis.

I guide business analysts and Technology professionals to move their mindset and businesses from their current position to where they want to be in the future.

As a business transformational coach and business analyst, I excel while leading challenging digital development projects and change initiatives to advance learning and improve business processes. I am a high achiever and impacting leader, with a talent for refining and advancing knowledge in business analysis, project delivery and change management within major organisations, creating and developing people and strategy to improve engagement.

As an imaginative and analytical individual, I can easily visualise the wider business, allowing me to steer change and strategic advancement to achieve results.

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𝘗𝘴. 𝘐𝘧 𝘐 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘦, 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥. 𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵. 𝘐 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶’𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵! :)

Helping cannabis companies with sales and marketing 📈

As a founder, entrepreneur, or executive, you're the face of the business.

And in 2025, you need to attract and maintain digital currency. 

If not, you're competitors will.

With over a decade of corporate sales and marketing experience, I help founders, entrepreneurs, and executives increase sales and revenue by building awareness and establishing trust with their customers ONLINE. 

Here's how we can work together: 

LinkedIn Marketing
        - For individuals and businesses
        - Brand Style Guide Alignment
        - Content Ideas
        - Full Content Creation 
        - Content Scheduling

LinkedIn Sales
        - Prospecting
        - Sales Strategy 
        - Negotiation Tactics
        - LinkedIn Sales Navigator
        - Customer Relationship Management 

Ultimately, it all comes down to effective communication. 

Both digitally and face-to-face. 

I'm here to help! 

www.stevenarthurgeorge.com

Steven Arthur George

A weekend in the hills never disappoints. 

Especially when you're on autopilot. 

Here's why: 

1) Fewer distractions 

2) More listening

3) More talking

In the past few months, my workload increased, and I haven't spent as much quality time with my partner. #fail  

I've been on autopilot. 

Luckily, nature always helps me take a step back. 

Both the silence and the stars. 

Because at the end of the day, it's just us two. 

Regardless of all the noise around us. 

And sometimes, I forget that...

Steven Arthur  George

I create content for founders, entrepreneurs, and executives

In 2017, I DM'd a CEO on LinkedIn
In 2018, I started working for his company
In 2020, I started posting content on LinkedIn
In 2021, I started offering my own freelance services
In 2023, I started my first solo service business 
In 2025, I started my first side project 
In 2026, _____________

Here's the thing. 

You could be looking for work. 

Or you could be offering your services. 

Either way, being active on this platform can benefit your professional career and personal life more than you would imagine. 

When I sent that DM in 2017, everything changed. 

I realized I had the ability to FIND and CONTACT a person directly on LinkedIn. 

Not just anyone, either — CEOs of large companies. 

I could actually get their attention. 

In the end, that's the beauty of LinkedIn. 

The ability to 1) attract and 2) communicate with people. 

People with job descriptions and full names. 

People with pictures, not designs. 

And most importantly, people who need your help!

Is that not worth 30 minutes a day?

Wins. Loses. Ups. Downs. That was my week. 
One day, I'm sealing a big partnership. 
Next, I'm realizing a big mistake. 

That's how it works.

Sometimes things fall into place perfectly. 

Other times, you have your tail between your legs. 

But I never forget an important conversation. 

Both the good ones and the bad ones. 

They either build or break trust. 

The most important thing in any business relationship. 

So, keep looking for partners you can build with. 

And trust that patience will reward you. 

With partners who add marbles to your jar! 

Who knows the reference ^^^ ?

If your company has a decent following, your profile already has an advantage over others on LinkedIn. 
I experienced it myself 4 years ago. 

When I wrote my first post on LinkedIn, I was employed by one of the largest companies in my industry at that time (ref work experience for name).

But 6 months before that, I noticed something. 

People were looking at my profile and sending me connection requests before I ever started writing. 

I figured it was for 2 reasons: 

1) I represented a large company in a management role 

2) I was active on LinkedIn (Likes, Comments, DMs) 

On top of that, the industry was just getting started in Europe, and there was a lot of curiosity around what was going on. 

Then, I started to post. 

At the time, I had 3k connections
• Followers weren't a thing yet

A year later, I had 10k followers 
• mix of followers & connections

Then I left and started building on my own. 

And it became harder. 

I no longer had a big company drawing attention. 

I had to create the attention all by myself.

Today, I have nearly 15k followers. 

And that last 5k? 

Well, it's taken me another 3 years. 

If you work in an executive, small-business owner, or founder role, there is no reason not to build a personal brand. 

In fact, you're missing out on an opportunity. 

An opportunity to build at a faster pace. 

There's no value you can put on it. 

DM me and I'll explain...

For the past 6 years, I've focused on a regulated market. 
It has been both rewarding and challenging.
But one question still remains: 

Will the regulators ever catch up? 

For context, my entire career has revolved around sales. 

And in sales, you have control over many aspects.

• What you sell
• How you sell it 
• Who you sell it to

But for the past 6 years, I've only controlled the WHAT. 

The HOW and WHO have been more complicated. 

The HOW, the most complicated of all. 

Why? 

Because it involves regulators. 

Regulators with undefined timelines. 

What does that mean? 

You can have the WHAT and WHO sorted out. 

But the HOW becomes a question mark (?) 

Specifically, the timing. 

In sales, this is both unique and frustrating. 

That said, I've continued to find ways to make it work. 

But I wonder, will the regulators ever catch up? 

Idk...

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