With over 20 years in senior leadership roles in Financial Services and more recently working as a consultant and coach, Dougie is highly experienced in the management of change and development of leaders.

Dougie has spent more than 10 years playing a key role in organisational design, culture and process transformation working with global teams. Prior to that he held various leadership positions where he built a reputation for delivering outstanding performance by unleashing the potential of individuals and teams whilst transforming ways of working.

Working with senior leaders and their teams to embed effective transformation and project management methodologies, Dougie ensures a carefully considered people strategy remains at the core. He has helped many business leaders ensure that the business vision for the future was communicated in a way that was compelling at all levels, reducing the resistance to change and providing a strong foundation for progress.

Dougie combines extensive hands on personal experience of leading through change with the theories and models he has explored as a certified Prosci Change Management and Agile Project Management Practitioner. Dougie has seen the huge impact effective leadership can have on businesses going through change and works with senior leaders to ensure that difficult business decisions are implemented in a way that unleashes potential whilst minimising risks.

Dougie was a director with Beith Community Development Trust for several years where he supported the charity’s goal to provide employment opportunities whilst improving community engagement and inclusion.