James Wilkinson

James Wilkinson

Change and Project Management Consultant

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Delivery Director at Brink

  • Education

    • Bedford Modern School

      1998 - 2009
      AAA at A-Level - History, English Literature, Mathematics

      Activities and Societies: School Magazine Co-Editor. AS Level - French - Grade AAdvanced Extension Award - English - Distinction10 A* Grades at GCSE (Mathematics and English)

    • Imperial College Business School

      2024 - 2025
      Master of Business Administration - MBA
    • University of Durham

      2009 - 2012
      Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) History 2.1 Honours

      Activities and Societies: Co-wrote two plays as Secretary of the College Drama Society

  • Experience

    • Austin Andrew Ltd

      Jul 2012 - Jan 2014
      Change and Project Management Consultant
    • IBM iX

      Jun 2014 - Dec 2017
      Senior Consultant

      Worked in multiple roles including:- Running an Agile project on Internet Banking platforms for a major UK Financial Services provider- Defining a Distributed Model for Agile at the same client, to deliver changes on one of their flagship employee applications- Working on multi-million Digital Transformation programmes for a major UK Financial Services provider to define solutions for Internet and Mobile Banking platforms.

    • Challenges Zambia

      Dec 2017 - Apr 2019
      Country Manager

      Responsible for managing the in country operations for an Challenges Zambia, an organisation focussed on providing consultancy services to support SME development in Zambia and Southern Africa.

    • Brink

      Apr 2019 - now

      Delivery DirectorCo-Lead our Delivery Practice which supports Programme Delivery Support the design and delivery of innovation funds which support early stage innovations. Work directly with funders on organisational change and design, to improve the implementation of innovation programmes. Adopt and adapt agile and lean methodologies to do this. Brink combines methodology, systems and mind-setting to make innovation that lasts. We are currently working closely with a small group of purpose-aligned clients, while testing and learning different approaches in the market.

      • Delivery Director

        Apr 2023 - now
      • Delivery Lead

        Jan 2022 - Apr 2023
      • Innovation Manager

        Apr 2019 - Jan 2022
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Level 5 Certificate in Management & Leadership

      Chartered Management Institute
      Jan 2019
  • Volunteer Experience

    • Volunteer

      Issued by World Challenge on Jul 2007
      World ChallengeAssociated with James Wilkinson
    • Team Leader

      Issued by Challenges Uganda on Oct 2017
      Challenges UgandaAssociated with James Wilkinson
    • Mentor

      Issued by Challenges Zambia on Apr 2019
      Challenges ZambiaAssociated with James Wilkinson