Key Skills

• Product strategy, development and innovation

• Bringing successful products and services to market

• Building high performing teams

• Executive and team coaching

• Operating model design and implementation

• Lean Portfolio management

• Program and project management

• Customer and stakeholder engagement

• Change management - through the people and process

Global experience

An understanding of different cultures is a key attribute of Acend people. Kyle has worked with organizations and teams in:

• USA

• Ireland

• UK

• Europe

• Japan

• India

Professional credentials

• M.Sc. Corporate Innovation - Lund University, Sweden

• B.Sc. Business Management - Dublin Institute of Technology

• VFQ Agile Practitioner

• VFQ Agile Product Management Practitioner

• Lean Six Sigma Green belt

• PRINCE2 Practitioner

Previous experience highlights

Agile Program Delivery Lead at MARSH Insurance

Working with the Head engineering, product and IT. Together we lead a program of 63 people building out a new Tech platform for the global organisation.

Responsibilities :

• Delivery lead at the program level designing and managing the Demand intake process

• Design and manage the ways of working at the program level

• Reporting of various types

• Delivery lead across 3 teams - coaching teams on a product mindset

• Coached the PM and PO on what good looks like around requirements, Action taking and execution

• Managed multiple vendors

Outcome

New operating model and roll out of new global insurance platform leading to a 25% lower cost to serve new business

Enterprise Product Portfolio coach at AXA Insurance

Working with the Head of Strategy, Planning and Delivery at AXA Insurance Ireland

Responsibilities :

• I coached 11 Program managers helping them shift to modern Program ways of working (From Project to product), Quarterly planning, Outcome focused OKR's Measuring business impact, looking back on Key results

• Coached the PM and PO on what adopting a product approach looks like, taking action and execution

• Lead a cross business and tech council, helping AXA adopt a new mindset supporting organizational goals

Outcome

New operating model to support AXAs innovation ambitions

Transformation lead – GSK

Led a team of Consultants and client partners on an organization wide digital transformation

Outcome

The organization changed the way they build digital products and services and also how they structured teams

Head of Product & Founder – Peel

An E-commerce Subscription service

Responsibilities :

• Coaching and leading the team daily

• Product strategy and execution

• Lead the product development & innovation approach for the team

Outcome

Delivered a working MVP to paying customers in 9 days

Grew from 0 - 200 monthly subscribers across an evolving range of products