ZOKRI

Strategy and OKR Consultant

Outcomes Thinking 

I help product organisations change their focus from outputs to outcomes. 

My typical clients are high-growth tech-oriented startups.  

I coach leadership teams to articulate their strategy, define persistent metrics and set powerful goals. 

Then I work with their teams to employ fast learning cycles to significantly improve their chances of delivering the outcomes the organisation and their customers need.

https://www.outcomesthinking.com/learnokr

Strategy and OKR Coach

Elsevier

At Elsevier I focused on achieving a few key goals. 
* Building organisational alignment through the implementation of OKRs
* Coaching and training product teams in outcomes planning product management techniques
* Managing the organisations largest portfolio of product investments

Achieving this has drawn on my three key work passions
* Through the implementation of OKRs I helped colleague understand the 'why?'
* Collectively we promoted inclusion and psychological safety with the teams we worked in
* I helped strengthen the bond between strategy and execution.

I also learned from working with a rapidly growing and highly capable technology organisation as part of the leadership team. 

And learned from the things I’ve tried that didn’t work and continue to do so!

Senior Portfolio Director

Program Manager

Pearson

In a technical product management role, I pioneered the use of semantic technology at Pearson, with a purpose of connecting data to provide organisational, content and customer insights. Created the strategy for linked data and formed a vision that spanned the key data that drives Pearson. 

Led a team that built the first Pearson tool to utilise semantic technology.

Head of Semantic Technology

Department head, accountable for the solution design, technical strategy, development and business fit of global content related products. Launched an image management product for educational content authors.
Accountable for three significant international digital products. Led a team of c. 45 mixed domain people.

Head of Content Management - Systems Development

Marsh

Brought on board in an interim role to kick-start the implementation of corporate web based content management systems. Accountable for re-focusing the programme and fast tracking a return on investment. Introduced Agile techniques to this inflight programme.

Provided department wide guidance on programme management best practice.

Interim Program Manager

Director level consultant, leading engagements with EMC’s highest profile clients all with budgets exceeding £1m. Consulted on transformation and change management for clients in a range of sectors, including finance, insurance and oil and gas.

Principal Consultant

Interim Project Management of a difficult IT project replacing key systems in insurance and reinsurance functions. 

Successfully re-focused scope of the project and delivered the system to pilot groups within the business.

Interim Project Manager

Envoque

Founding Partner

Strategy and Business Analyst

I am a strategy and OKR coach who helps organisations from household names to hyper-growth unicorns align and focus with OKRs. 

Do you want to connect your work to your strategy? Do you want to  focus on the things that really impact your customers, your employees and your organisation? 

If so, let’s talk.

If you want to know more about what I do, my clients can tell you better than I can.

“Collaborational, easy to work with, reliable, sticks to his words, inclusive, really values including everyone and pays attention to detail and each member of a (workshop) group”
Olivia Hupfeld, EQT Ventures describing a recent on-site workshop

“Pragmatic, hands on, flexible and business oriented expert who can apply OKR principles in a practical way to any organisation” - 
CPO, Insurtech Unicorn.

“With Ian's help we made a huge amount of progress last quarter from a standing start. The OKRs are incredibly clear and specific. We established a really good basis.”   
CEO

“Deep expertise and recognised OKR Leader”
CoS, Unicorn

"Yes, we definitely saw a difference. I would like to thank you a ton for the pro-active collaboration last year – it really helped us move forward!" - COO Unicorn Fintech

”Senior team had a range of complex personalities…. your approach was to build relationships and manage stakeholders carefully which paid off”



“You helped the Leadership Team become outcomes driven”

"Huge amount of progress last quarter from a standing start"

“Ian was particularly good at holding us to account”

“Ian is a terrific facilitator. The right balance of seriousness, knowledge, humour and patience.“

Ian Harvey

Urban Sports Club

Leading member and corporate product strategies and organizations for all markets and brands of Urban Sports Group.

Head of Product

Wayfair

- Led the Supplier Design System team
- Led the Frontend App Dev under Supplier Platform
- Led an initiative to redesign the IA (information architecture) of all supplier tools

Lead Product Manager, Supplier Platform

Setting up the strategy for building a consistent user experience across all supplier-facing tools at Wayfair.
- Building a Supplier Design System to enable 60+ teams across supplier domain to build consistent, high-quality user experiences.
- Building a frontend development framework and services to enable faster and higher quality app development.

Senior Product Manager, Supplier Platform - Experience Standards & Components

As for any large eCommerce platform, there’s a massive amount of data moving around.

My mission is to make sure Wayfair has a modern cloud-based supplier data platform that provides all product teams across Wayfair easy-access to all supplier and analytics data with needed governance, velocity, reliability, and integrity.

Senior Product Manager, Supplier Data Platform

My mission was to offer all Wayfair suppliers an easy-to-use, reliable, and powerful revenue reporting tools. While also making sure there’s a strong internal alignment around that goal.

We launched a new way for suppliers to check their revenue and sales that improved suppliers engagement, and at the same time created w Wayfair-wide sales API for other teams to use.

Senior Product Manager, Supplier Analytics & Reporting

Knowledge Officer

Mentor at the Product Management six months Camp, multiple intakes.
The camp is an introductory program for people shifting into Product Management and early-stage PMs.
- One-on-one mentoring
- Sessions and talks about different Product Management topics
- Mock interviews

Product Management Mentor

LEVERTON

- Acted as group PM for Data Consumption (search, analytics, & integrations), aligning multiple development teams as well as marketing and sales on a clear vision, strategy, & value propositions; defining the boundaries between apps and different use cases.
- Built a remote team working on revamping the API, which opened new use cases for our AI tech.
- Initiated and designed a Product Management Mentorship Programm; while mentoring several PMs myself.

Senior Product Manager, Data Consumption

KPMG Deutschland

- Shaped a unified enterprise portal for all KPMG GMS applications worldwide, improving customer retention and improving usability and security of the platform.
- Managed multiple remote teams across four countries simultaneously.
- Coached two other POs helping them progress in their career.

Sr. Product Owner, Enterprise Platforms

Rocket Internet SE

- Built, launched and managed all apps (mobile and web) for a car-sharing startup, opening in 3 countries, achieving 20%+ MoM growth rate. (sole PM report to CEO)

Product Manager, Mobile Apps

Arkony

- Pivoted the company to a more appealing product offering with more precise value propositions and target users, resulted in two distinctive social platforms.

Product Manager, Social Media Platforms

MGD - Effective Education

- Built and managed a full project management system with near real-time reporting raising the performance of development teams and projects by at least 60%.

Project Manager, PMO

CUBE Egypt

- Built and launched three products, which enabled us to stay bootstrapped for 4 years before investment.

Product Lead (acting CPTO), Co-founder

I help companies make products that inspire people. User-centricity is not an option, but also, I believe that we can't build inspiring products unless our teams are inspired, empowered, and nurtured.

Forming and articulating a vision is essential but not enough. Solving big problems is always a good strategy. And it's always down to faster implementation and continuous discovery that makes the vision a reality.

With 100s of hours of coaching and mentoring for product managers, I know how to help both early-stage and senior PMs grow, upskill, and solve challenges.

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