Philip Hellyer Clarity. Strategy. Transformation.

Partner

At Hedwyn, we catalyse situational awareness and create clarity for people who own and run businesses in order to help them make strategic decisions and take action with confidence.

Our core offering is a Discovery Framing Lab that rapidly makes sense of changing situations and enables our clients to get off the back foot and act more deliberately, less reactively. This is often followed by scenario planning and more detailed roadmaps.

Managing Consultant

I work with people who are mired in complex situations, helping them act with clarity. With a background in accountancy and computing science, I work on both 'sides' of the strategy fence. I enable people in business to make better decisions about IT and people in IT to more effectively support business.

We specialise in pragmatic approaches that improve systemic structure and reduce unintended consequences, expressing the structure and processes of organisations in ways that highlight the implications of investments in change, provoking insights that inform strategic decisions.

Recent projects include work with an insurer to redesign their core underwriting system and to streamline the mess of spreadsheets and data-sources that inform critical decisions.

Also recent: an implementable architecture based on business capabilities for a global giant. DevOps and Agile practices for a leading psychological research startup. Helping people new-in-role sustain success.

Training and workshops: Soft-skills for techies, helping architects get their business cases signed off. Getting Started in EA: Designing an Architecture Function to Fit your Enterprise. Design sprints for rapid innovation and prototyping.

Business Coach to the technically-minded

Often people with deep skills need help navigating the world of business, particularly when interacting at board level. I help them bridge the gaps between where they're most comfortable and where they want to get to.

Most of my clients are deeply skilled, often in a technical discipline. Many of them are in infotech, others have accounting or legal backgrounds. What they have in common is a desire to change, to transform, to make faster progress toward who or what they want to be. Sometimes they only have a rough idea of what they want.

Coaching is for people who will get where they're going anyway; it's an accelerator that adds accountability, brings clarity, and helps you generate and evaluate options more quickly. And that's where I come in...

Start-up Advisor

If you're not using Beeminder, maybe your goals aren't important enough. We make it easier to accomplish the things that you want to do, know that you can do, but probably won't do. That's akrasia in a nutshell.

Enterprise Mentor & Non-Exec Advisor

Among other things, I'm participating in the UK government's Business in You campaign to encourage more people to start or grow their business. If you're a London-based entrepreneur on the cusp of transforming your business, maybe I can help you think more clearly.

Public Speaker

I am a popular speaker at technical and business conferences, often focusing on enterprise architecture, the psychology of business design, or on the retail and payments industries. If you would like to engage me to speak for your organisation, on any topic, please get in touch.

Enterprise Architecture Group Lead

I head up a team of Enterprise Architects in the Business Change Function. We govern the change roadmap, ensuring that programmes align to strategies, highlighting risks & dependencies, and monitoring the realisation of business benefit. I represent the Application, Information, and Technology architectures on the Strategic Review Board.

Flying Trapeze Instructor

Come and learn to fly on the Grand Volant in the Great Outdoors. Scary but safe, this is an experience you can't imagine beforehand. We guide each student through a progression of tricks, starting with an impressive looking knee-hang — and we'll catch you from your trick if you're consistent enough.

Accounting & Tax

I started my career in accounting, doing everything from income tax preparation to film production accounting before returning to University and moving into technology. Even then, my first role was as an analyst with the Alberta Treasury department.

You're in luck!

You can ask me to repeat a previous presentation or to tailor something for your organisation or team.