jeremy p. farrell
A senior professional services projects and delivery manager with an extensive history of successful delivery across industries, solutions and geographies.
15 years’ Delivery, Project and Program Management in IT Services including ERP and SaaS HR.
9 years’ business and line management.
5 years’ strategic HR and HR transformation.
Adds strategic value and contributes to the success of your business and your customers through extensive professional skills and business awareness, underscored by a breadth of understanding of technical issues.
A successful career spanning professional roles and responsibilities as a consultant, manager, leader, project manager, strategic thinker and problem solver.
Successfully delivering digital transformation projects and programmes across the globe for over two decades, JP has been developing people to bring success and meaning to their lives through his training, writing, and publishing.
He has managed projects and services businesses for IBM, EDS, Informatica, in 25 countries spanning many industries and technologies on client projects. He sat on IBM's EMEA Project Management Professions Board for six years, and a member of many steering committees and project boards.
JP delivered services for clients such as Harrods, Highways England, NHS, IBM, Nationwide UK, Anglo American, Close Bros. Bank, RBS, Network Rail, Standard Bank, Raifeissen Bank, SCAW Metals, Kentron, Debenhams, Yale Security, Yoox.com, SOK Finland, Petronet, AECI, Mobily, Bharti Airtel.
His practical leadership expertise started developing as a ship's officer in the early 80's, restaurant manager, recruitment agency GM, project director, software services manager, head of management development, executive coach, global programme lead, service delivery manager, planning & assurance, non-profit chair, HR partner.
JP received specialist training in coaching, quality improvement, generative change, leadership development, and (literally) firefighting.
He creates training courses based on practical experiences to engage, enable, and encourage you to set and achieve meaningful and rewarding goals.
JP has delivered training on projects, business, life, and leadership, to hundreds of students ranging from unemployed African youth to engineers on an oil rig in the Indian Ocean, and seemingly everything in between. Over 3000 students enrolled in his online video courses.
He is a Certified PMP, PRINCE2, and AgilePM Practitioner, with a Bachelor of Commerce in Management, and an advanced certificate in Strategic Human Resources Management.
I have a career history demonstrating successful people and business management, project and program management, organisational transformation at a global level, and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.
My experience includes:
Professional Services Director and Delivery Manager.
Professional Services in middleware and data transformation.
Strategic Human Resources as HR Business Partner, HR Transition Manager, Leadership Development, Graduate Recruitment, Performance Management, Staff Recruitment.
Global transformation of IBM’s HR delivery model of people, process and technology.
Implemented IBM’s HR Centre of Excellence in Manila, Philippines.
Project Manager of a Disaster Management Centre implementation.
Public Sector Programme Management.
Executive organisational transformation programme.
Chairman of an Educational Upliftment Program
Project Management across EMEA, Nordics, Latin America and Asia-Pacific.