Simon Holmes

Trusted human-centric technical leader and published technical author with 20+ years driving innovation through strategic vision, problem-solving, building collaborative relationships, and cultivating high-performing teams. Proven abilities in communicating complex concepts to broad audiences coupled with a unique blend of technical and business acumen.

Co-Founder and Consultant

Is your engineering team not running the way you want it to? Chances are it's not a technical issue or a skills gap. Chances are, it's more complex - it's human.

We partner with people who believe what we believe, namely that:
1) Software engineering is a deeply human endeavour
2) Software delivery and organisational performance are predicted by the underlying engineering culture

Alongside consultancy, change management, and interim management two of our most popular services are:

1) Engineering Culture Index
Our Engineering Culture Index provides a way to measure your engineering culture, highlighting the strengths of the team and the issues holding you back.

2) Team Dependencies Matrix
Identify the hidden bottlenecks and dependencies that are slowing your team town.

For both of these we help you with the root cause analysis and corrective actions. They are often combined together into a complete actionable audit.

Oxford Growth Advisors

Oxford Growth Advisors are boutique business advisors driving strategic transformation and accelerating revenue, profit & market share growth for small and medium-sized Tech & SaaS companies. 

I am a motivational & results-focused sales, product, & strategy leader with a proven 20-year track record driving transformation & growth for Tech & SaaS companies - across multiple industries & global regions.

Skilled at empowering Tech & SaaS leaders for rapid growth & sustainable success in fast-paced, high pressure, competitive markets, I focus on strategic transformation, revenue growth, product strategy, market-fit, & building high performing teams & individuals who consistently deliver results without burning out.

Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer

Brain Reframe

Clinical Psychotherapist and Executive High Performance Coach to top performing leaders, executives, and teams operating in fast-paced, high pressured and competitive environments.

As competition increases in your industry you need to be performing at your peak to stay ahead of the game. But constantly striving to be the best, and exceeding targets quarter on quarter, takes its toll on health, productivity, motivation, performance, and ultimately success. 

I work with private & executive clients to become high performers at work and in life without compromising health, happiness or relationships:

•	Increase personal productivity, focus and decisioning-making skills to become more effective every day
•	Develop behavioural-driven clarity and intentionality to keep progressing and performing at your best
•	Amplify energy and gain increased levels of confidence, decisiveness and momentum 
•	Become more influential in your careers and relationships
•	Live and lead with purpose, and build teams that create consistent and sustainable success
•	Reframe mindset, manage stress, and remove any limiting beliefs, self-sabotaging behaviours and habits, or other personal barriers to success 
•	Burnout prevention and recovery 

Additionally, I consult with organisations to create high performing AND healthy workplace cultures, leaders and teams – this is crucial to your top talent remaining engaged, energised and fulfilled, and the key to both your long term success and theirs.

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Founder, Owner and Director

Experian

Responsible for vision & roadmap for decision-management platform powered by real-time analytics and advanced decisioning logic.

Senior Director, Global Product Management Decision Analytics

CPHT Guildford

Re-training as a Clinical Hypnotherapist & Psychotherapist.

Education Training

Medallia

Responsible for delivery of decisioning, analytics and reporting solutions into the ONE Engagement platform at Thunderhead.com (now Medallia), a leading provider of enterprise solutions for customer experience management. With its cloud-based ONE platform, Thunderhead.com provides powerful SaaS solutions for customer engagement across all touchpoints

VP Product Management Decisioning & Analytics

Palisade Corporation

Responsible for sales and business development of Palisade Decision Tools Suite - leading risk and decision analysis software - into the UK, Nordics & Benelux regions.

Sales and Business Development Manager

Changing Thought

Helping customers achieve specific goals and desired behaviours through mindset coaching, NLP & CBT techniques.

Director

Chordiant Software

Principal Product Manager for Chordiant Decision Management Design Time tooling (including analytics).  Also responsible for creating product positioning and messaging.

Principal Product Manager

Industry Solution Specialist within Sales Consulting.  Specialist area Claims Leakage in Insurance.  Creating decisioning solutions for reducing claims leakage in P&C Insurance.

Pre-Sales for Chordiant Marketing Director (campaign management software) and Chordiant Decision Management (an end to end process for designing, developing, executing and monitoring decisions real-time - including predictive analytics and rules design)

Industry Solution Specialist / Pre-Sales Consultant

Debenhams

Analysis of customer data for Marketing and Business.  Examples of data analysis: selecting suitable customers for marketing campaigns, basket analysis of products for in-store layout, etc.

Customer Analyst

SPSS

Training Consultant for all SPSS products including SPSS Base, SPSS Data Entry, SPSS Syntax, Clementine, MapInfo, AnswerTree

Training Consultant

I focus on GROWTH.

Personal & Professional Growth. Business Growth. 

I'm a dynamic Executive High Performance Coach known for empowering business leaders to unlock their full potential and achieve long-lasting success both professionally and personally. 

I'm also a visionary CEO with a distinguished track record of growing and delivering significant business for tech & SaaS companies across global regions. 

✅  WHAT I DO 

✔ ️ I help ambitious CEOs & Senior Leaders in Tech, SaaS & FinTech consistently achieve world-class performance & results, sustainably.

✔ ️ Additionally, I consult with organisations to create high performing AND healthy workplace cultures, leaders, and teams – the key to both your long term success & theirs.

✔ ️ I have a particular interest in working with high-powered & ambitious executives who have a track record of success but are limited by a loud inner critic which stops them from achieving their full potential & becoming the confident, inspiring leaders they know they can be - and want to be.

👇 If this is YOU, I can help👇


✅  PEOPLE I SERVE 

►  Small & Medium-sized Software, Tech & SaaS Companies
►  Technology Services Companies
►  C-Suite Executives & Founder/Owners
►  Senior Leaders & High Potential Managers
►  Driven, Ambitious, High-Achieving Individuals 


✅  A STRUCTURED FRAMEWORK FOR SUCCESS

►  Measurable Results 
►  Business Development & Revenue Growth
►  Business Strategy & Leadership Development
►  Product Strategy & Market Fit
►  Executive Coaching & Mentoring
►  Sales Optimisation & Training
►  Mindset Coaching
►  Stress Management
►  Training & Workshops


✅  WHY IT WORKS 

Small to medium-sized tech companies reaching a pivotal moment for growth often lack the available resources and/or expertise to scale effectively AND sustainably.

Traditional management consulting is overkill and simply impractical for smaller companies operating below a certain threshold. Instead, my boutique growth advisory company offers tailored, agile & targeted solutions that acknowledge their unique challenges & limitations.

Additionally we equip the leaders of these companies with the necessary high performance skills to scale themselves and their teams without burning out or compromising their health, self, or relationships.


✅  WHY ME

►  Two decades of experience driving transformation and growth for tech/SaaS companies
►  Former VP of a $477M private equity owned software company
►  Senior Director of a global team for a $6.2Bn software company
►  Certified High Performance Coach & Clinical Psychotherapist

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