Steve Patten

Current

Owner at Metamorph Ltd

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Steve Patten’s Summary

A Business Change Programme/Project manager with a solid track record for delivery and a keen commercial focus gained.over a 30 year career within a wide range of industries and business contexts.

Has delivered many spectacular turnarounds and project rescue assignments as well as significant business transformation programmes resulting from mergers takeovers and business rationalisation.

A strong people person with a mantra of "Vision into Profit through People", recognising the povotal role relationships have in determining success or failure of any initiative. A licensed and certified Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP).

Steve is an accomplished workshop facilitator (vision, strategy, planning, risk management, issue resolution, conflict resolution) as well as entertaining speaker on leadership effectiveness.

A co-developer of the "Synergy Programme"suite of interventions aimed at promoting a "change able" culture within the workplace and author of "Live Younger Longer", a guide to taking control of your health and longevity.

Currently available immediately for short or long term assignments.

Steve Patten’s Specialties:

Financial Services
Retail
Banking
Insurance
Life Assurance
Programme Management
Post Merger Integration
Change Managememt
Culture Change

Steve Patten’s Experience

Owner

Metamorph Ltd

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

January 2001 — Present (8 years 7 months)

•Successful turnaround of a £10m Head Office relocation programme
•Call centre, warehouse and distribution rationalisation delivered operational savings of €8mSTGpa
•Post merger rationalisation within a major publicly quoted media group.
•Pre-announcement planning of major retail chain integration within corporate group headquarters
•Planned the relocation of the largest Broadcast Centre in the UK
•Headed the design of a an internet based “high net worth” bank
•Established a centre of excellence for Portfolio, Programme and Project Management.
•Set up a Programme Office for a major business transformation with £20M budget and 180 staff
•Produced a white paper on best practice in Change, leading a team of 150 independant experts
•Coached and mentored staff in Portfolio/Programme and Project disciplines.
•Coached and mentored individuals in Leadership Effectiveness and Work Life Balance

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Steve Patten’s Interests:

Developing "change enabled" people through promoting integrity based values and beliefs Being with wife and family Playing golf Sailing

Steve Patten’s Groups:

NCC
Ringennane Golf Club, UK Interim Management HR IT Finance

eOffice
Executive Suite
InternetRetailing - for leaders in e-commerce and multichannel retail
NCC Alumni
Musicians
UK Interim Management - HR, IT, Finance, Supply Chain & Procurement and Business Change
Event Planning & Management:
Creating "Change Able" cultures within organisations
KindExcellence
Pragmatics - International Performance & Talent Managers
VISION Consulting Alumni
National Computing Centre Collaboration Forum
Retail Week
Consultants against the Recession