Huw Thomas

• • Leadership of Board of Trustees of high impact mental health charity affiliated to National Mind

• • Delivered people-based ROI for adoption of Calderys TOM & SAP technology across India Refractory and Steel

Casting Flux enterprise, co-designing business change strategy for 2 ERP platform transformations in 6 months.

• • Prepared 200+ commercial end-users across 6 industrial plants (Finance, Controlling, Procurement, Material

Management, Sales & Distribution, Production Planning, Quality) through site-specific workshops exploring local change impacts, building understanding with key users, delivering training collateral to embed TOM working practices

• • Reconciled competing functional priorities in validating change vision with Calderys leadership. Stakeholder communication campaign built awareness, change drivers, colleague involvement, and ownership

• • Eliminated 95% of legacy operational workarounds and enabled faster monthly financial closures, to reinforce TOM operational resilience

• • Avoided 100% disruption to business operations by trialling new FI, CO, MM transaction codes with key analysts pre go-live and embedding in hypercare.

• • Benefits (process transactions, disruption avoided, BAU production targets) mapped and tracked through hypercare

• • Key users and resistors at all 6 sites involved to understand local inertia, co-design engagement and build ownership

• • Engaged 50 key users in change champion network and System Integrator team members to build process foundation and achieve 90%+ compliance in Hypercare. This helped move the dial on slow adopters

• • End-to-end change partnering with finance regulator teams in Supervision, Policy, Competition, Authorisations, at senior management & operational levels. Planning, management, delivery and embedding of people side of new published policy, digital, technology changes for professional service teams of lawyers and policy developers

• • Handbook re-platform: Engaged 24 lawyers/tech champions to understand and break down legacy ways of

working, shaping learning needs, and co-created new legal instrument drafting and review process. Reduced time to publish estimated at minimum 25% through greater real-time collaboration between lawyers integrating diverse sources. Lack of user engagement in legal community mitigated through co-design of change impact analysis and tool trialling, with 50%+ legal tech group involvement. User experience compliant with Govt Digital Service standards

through platform supplier partnership and co-design

• • Consumer Finance Reporting Policy Delivered business change, engagement strategies to help wider industry and FCA regulatory divisions embed new consumer finance data reporting returns, positively impacting 20,000 regulated

firms. Developed engagement threads to prep firms' submissions; addressing all compliance queries prior to

hypercare. Complex external (govt, trade bodies, statutory panels) & colleague communication campaigns co

designed and landed, meeting statutory policy consultation requirements

• • Designated Reporter Regime Coached and developed wholesale and principal trading firm leadership teams in

change management capabilities, building their capacity to prepare teams for new ways of working and achieve 100% policy compliance following policy go-live for firms with post-trade reporting responsibilities