Volunteers and Volunteering

Current Activists

The Business Integrated Governance Community Interest Company relies on volunteering to generate material, grow and operate.

Many have helped by supporting events, workshops or discussions. In addition to the founders, the following people have, in the opinion of the BIG CIC, proved to be key contributors, beyond the simple provision of help: 

Apologies all – this is out of date – we will update it soon.

Thank you all!

If you would like to help in some shape or form – please contact us or use the Volunteer form to start the ball rolling.

Original Founders

The following people have, in the opinion of the BIG CIC, provided such a ‘founding’ contribution: 

Name		Background	BIG Contribution
Adam Simmonds		Business Management and Entrepreneurship Student (at the time).	An active Director through V1, specifically helping to organise activity, and co-developer of the V1 Website. Supported presentations to university stakeholders.
Adrian Dooley		Honorary Fellow of the Association for Project Management and founder of Praxis Framework.	Provided a thorough review of the BIG concept. Provided a thorough edit of an extract of the BIG material for the V1 Praxis version of BIG.
Alex Shapley		30 years' experience in Project, Programme, Portfolio, PMO & Business Change across multiple industry sectors, cultures & continents. Specialist in ‘mid-flight’ recovery. MSP®, PRINCE2®, APM PMQ, AgilePM®, IPMA, Lean and ITIL® Certifications. Member of APM & PMI.	A Founding Director of the Business Integrated Governance CIC. Specifically interested in Governance, Vision, Definition, Business Case, Outcomes, Benefits, Single Version of the Truth & “Strategy to Delivery and Back Again”. Sounding board for BIG thought leaders. Supported initial material development and co-presented multiple Workshops to BIG Stakeholder groups.
Andrey Malakhov		Managing Partner at PMLogix (consulting company). PMP, PRINCE2®, Prosci certified.	An active director into V2 of BIG. Provided extensive review of initial concept and co presented several BIG workshops. Extensive input to V2 – management, development, review, and created the “look and feel” of the Body of Knowledge.
Chris Bragg		Extensive experience in strategy execution, balanced scorecard design and implementation, PMO (SXO, VRO, PPM, Program and PMIS) and project management, general management and operations.	He is developing tools to support BIG understanding, knowledge management, data and decision management, and practice. Provided sounding board for, contribution to and critical feedback on material in V2.
David Dunning		Founder of the Business Integrated Governance CIC (and the original Core P3M Data Club), Co-founder of Deep Team and CPS.	Provided the initial inspiration / ideas / seed material for V1 and facilitated development workshops involving c.50 people. Continued to lead development into V2 and drive stakeholder engagement across numerous communities, professional groups and partner organisations.
Martin Samphire		Experienced management consultant and programme director / lead in private / public sectors. Former Chair of the APM Governance SIG – authored or co-authored APM guides (Directing, Sponsoring, Directing Agile Change), authored Section 19 - Governance of organisational project management and projects of the Gower Handbook of Programme Management (2016 2nd edition).	Was an initial participant in the initiative. Provided thought leadership in portfolio management and governance in BIG V1. Provided extensive review of initial concept and co presented several BIG workshops. Extensive input to V2 development and review.
Pamela Schure		Management Consultant, Product Manager - expert in Agile, Product Management, Product Marketing, Consulting, Organizational Change, Training, Coaching, OKRs. Author of Product Management for Dummies.	Key participant in the initiative to enable the connection of Product Management. Significant contribution and edit of the Product Node in BIG. Co-presented several BIG Workshops and has been supportive presenting the Product perspective in Strategy.
Ricardo Santos		Senior Programme Manager, Change Management Practitioner, leading large-scale Change and Transformation programmes.	An active Director through V1, specifically helping to organise activities, present the project / programme perspective, and support presentations, and lead the development of the V1 Website.
Ross Miller		Highly experienced & committed Business & Change Consultant & leader seeking opportunities to help businesses, social enterprises, CIOs and community organisations to develop robust governance, financial sustainability, clarity of purpose, enhanced outcomes etc.	Has become an active supporter of the BIG Concept and latterly a Director of the BIG CIC - specifically tackling the BIG CIC website.
Sachin Melwani		Has 20+ years of experience delivering PMO, Programme Delivery and Transformational Change on major ERP and infrastructure projects. Member of the Association of Cost Engineers Southwest Regional Board, Nuclear Institute's Digital SIG, and an extensive public speaker to university / industry conferences. An AXELOS P3M3 Qualified Assessor, and Six Sigma certified.	Was active in the thought leadership around BIG before COVID lockdown and has again become a key voice of experience and reason in the Launch of V2, while also editing and providing material contributions.
Simon Harris		Has many years of experience within the portfolio, programme and project management industry where he has been a successful consultant and trainer, having created operating frameworks and built a library of materials. Since a stroke in October 2020 he has been recovering and has retired from commerce - but he is still thinking and is interested in use of tech enabled community for brain injury rehab. Latterly involved in community-based collaboration.	Was an initial participant in the initiative. Provided thought leadership across the portfolio, programme and project management perspective. Provided extensive review of initial concept and supported creation of initial BIG presentation materials. Was forced to pause involvement with the initiative but has now become active in our collaboration domain.

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Thank you all!

Original Key Contributors

Many have helped by supporting events, workshops or discussions. In addition to the founders, the following people have, in the opinion of the BIG CIC, proved to be key contributors, beyond the simple provision of help: 

Thank you all!

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Original Helpers

The following people have also helped the BIG CIC in some shape or form, and agreed to be listed: 

In addition to these named individuals, there are 53 others we have not been able to contact regarding permission to mention them by name. 

With the 12 founders, 17 key contributors, 46 names and 53 un-named helpers – that amounts to 138 people who have supported our initiative directly.  

Thank you all for helping with BIG!