About us
Inspiration can take many forms, but often comes in an unexpected way and when you least expect it. This is the background to the creation of “a-Up”.
The summer of 2014 was definitely the festival of Yorkshire, the County placed into the global spotlight through the Tour de France zipping around our streets, hills and vales at the beginning of July.
The creation of ‘a-Up’ centred around the following principles – high performance, growth, bespoke and collaboration, so……
a – synonymous with high performance
up – representing positive movement or growth
or “a up” a friendly greeting offered between Yorkshire folk – collaboration
How you see this depends on your frame of reference, as no two businesses, opportunities and challenges are the same. Therefore each business needs a bespoke plan and design matched with the right planning and execution disciplines which will work within that organisation. This is how a-Up can help you achieve commercial success through strategic alignment.
You can have all the components to a business, but success will only come if they are all in complete alignment and working together, so taking the Tour de France analogy – “a bicycle without a chain will only go in one direction, downhill!”
Neil Henderson
Summary
- Highly experienced senior strategic leader, with a proven track record for developing and delivering strategic change, digital transformation and managing scale customer operations.
- A diverse 30 year career in financial services has equipped me with a wide range of skills and experience. I am very adaptable and have consistently delivered impressive business results in a very dynamic industry.
- I have recently undertaken the following assignments and roles:
- Global lead of digital mortgage transformations for a global bank;
- Strategic review of new digital disrupter proposition for leading Scandinavian bank;
- Strategy & solution adviser for banking division of Europe’s largest business process outsourcer and professional services organisation;
- Business Solution lead and design authority on UK’s largest mortgage outsourcing deal;
- Transformation director for UK mortgages for large UK retail bank;
- Accountable executive for UK mortgage digital programme for large UK retail bank;
- Operations director for UK mortgages and consumer lending business for large UK retail bank.
Further details are available on my LinkedIn page
