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.

Zachary Wright MBA, LSSB

Grapevine: Your Virtual Office Platform

Grapevine is your Virtual HQ—a centralized platform where distributed teams can share updates, manage knowledge, and stay connected across departments. It’s not another tool—it’s the layer that connects them all.

Instead of relying on Slack threads, scattered Notion pages, and siloed updates, Grapevine gives employees one structured, searchable system, not to necessarily replace those tools but to bring them together, where teams can access what they need, when they need it and take action.

“The intranet wasn’t built for how we work today. Grapevine is.”

 Our Vision is to create a world where work is no longer defined by physical spaces, but by limitless opportunities for connection and collaboration the achieve great things in life and business. We believe that by providing the best Virtual HQ software, we can transform the workplace and improve the lives of everyone involved.

Our Mission is to empower organizations to thrive in a rapidly changing world, but our vision goes beyond that. We want to create a future where work is flexible, inclusive, and fulfilling for all.

Our Philosophy: As owners and employees of Grapevine, we are committed to creating a workplace that is not only efficient and productive but also engaging, collaborative, and fun. We believe that work should be a place where everyone feels valued, supported, and inspired to do their best work. We envision a world where work is no longer a burden but a source of pride and fulfillment, and we are dedicated to making that vision a reality.

Founder & CEO

Dena Startup Lab 

One of the initial members to join the community as a "Founding Founder": Dena Startup Lab is a free-to-join GTM community of early-stage B2B software founders, whose priority is achieving product-market fit.

Startup Community Member

iMEO Company

iMEO, short for improving management, employees, and organizations sets out to improve the way leaders and employees interact with one another and achieve goals with our strategic approach to performance management to help build alignment, focus, accountability, and commitment, work in the same direction to achieve goals faster, grow with a purpose, and stretch for amazing with OKRs!

Qumu Corporation

Strategy Staff Executive, Director of Sales Operations & Sales Engineering

Hired by Qumu’s VP of Strategy to support the planning, implementation and overall execution of strategic initiatives across the enterprise.

Qumu (NASDAQ: QUMU) is the leading provider of a best-in-class platform to create, manage, secure, distribute and measure the success of live and on-demand video for the intelligent enterprise. The Qumu platform enables customers to drive employee engagement, increase access to video, and modernize the workplace by providing a more efficient and effective way to share knowledge. The world's largest organizations leverage Qumu's Enterprise Video as a Service (EVaaS)™ including Visa, Toyota, AT&T, Bayer, Dow, Vodafone, MasterCard, CVS, KPMG, British Telecom, and many more.

Strategy Staff Executive & Head, Sales Operations

Infobelt, Inc

Program Management Office Lead

Operations Analyst

Tactegra

Tactegra is a process-based management consulting firm that helps companies improve the way they do business. We’re experts in Integrated Process Solutions, Project and Operations Support, Lean Six Sigma, and Organizational Change Management. Our people are experienced consultants focused on creating value for your business. That’s why we have savvy people and smart solutions working together to help you reach your goals. Our process-based solutions help organizations improve operational efficiency, eliminate waste, and manage risks. We learn about your people, become experts on your process and technology, and create a solution that works for you. Once we solve a problem, it’s solved for good.

Business Process Analyst

Apex Systems

Team Lead - Financial Services

Professional Technical Recruiter

Technical Recruiter

Summit Diagnostics

Medical Collector

Carolinas HealthCare System

Operating Room Assistant II

I didn’t grow up dreaming of startups.

I was too busy roofing houses, cleaning blood off OR floors, and trying to figure out how to make ends meet.

College? I dropped out. Three times.
Not because I wasn’t capable—because I didn’t believe I was.

Eventually, I clawed my way back in.
Found organizational psychology.
Became obsessed with one question:

How do we make work actually work—for everyone?

From there, I went from the factory floor to the boardroom.
From process mapping in consulting cubicles where I was told to stop talking...
To leading Strategy & Ops at a publicly traded company—100% remote.

That’s where it clicked.

We weren’t just working from home.
We were trying to work across Slack, Notion, SharePoint, Google Drive, Zoom, and 9 time zones.
And no one knew what was going on or where anything lived.

The office as we knew it? It’s gone.

But most companies haven’t adapted.
They’re still relying on scattered tools, lost updates, and crossed fingers.

That’s why I built Grapevine.

It’s your Virtual HQ soon to be your Virtual Operating System—a centralized platform for remote and distributed teams where they can:

→ Share updates where everyone sees it
→ Manage knowledge where work actually happens
→ Stay connected from anywhere in the world
→ Work async and collaborate in real-time
→ Finally operate as one company instead of siloed departments

Because if your team isn’t aligned, it doesn’t matter how “busy” they are.
Without direction, busyness is just disguised stagnation.

Grapevine isn’t another tool. It’s the system your other tools never gave you.

And it’s built for the people I came from:

The overlooked middle.
The doers who keep the company running but are always the last to know.
The leaders stuck duct-taping everything together just to stay afloat.

This isn’t theory. This is lived experience turned into product.

And I’m building it—with everything I’ve got.

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