Testimonials

Here are some testimonials from my colleagues and clients.
(Verbal feedback available on request)

Stuart Munton
Chief for delivery
AND Digital

Simon has been a pleasure to work with since he started at AND Digital in 2018.

Simon is one of the 'go to' people in AND Digital for product centric knowledge. His expertise across product discovery, delivery, transformation and design sprints has been evident in the successful client work Simon has delivered across a range of sectors.
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From the start of his time with AND he has been keen to be involved in how we make AND Digital a remarkable place to work. Simon has been very active in our Product and our Delivery Communities of Practice (CoPs) as well as being a critical member of our senior Product practitioner Chapter Group.

Simon is always ready to share his insight with others, be that as a mentor, via the  'Customer Centricity Programme' that he setup for ~15 people in his AND Digital Club, or via talks that he has completed in external meet-ups such as Agile Reading.

Simon has also been one of the driving forces behind our 'AND She Can' programme that is working to close the digital skills gap by directly up-skilling and supporting groups of young women in their journey's towards tech roles.

Simon truly lives AND Digital's values of 'Wonder' 'Share' 'Delight' and I am very pleased to provide this recommendation for him.”

Edwin Groenendaal - CEO, Harness Intelligence

He is understanding and inspirational - the sort of person you simply want to work for and go the extra mile with.

Mary Ahern
CEO - Alps Education

I worked directly with Simon for several years at Alps and over recent years as a product coach.

Simon is an outstanding product manager. He is exceptionally knowledgeable on modern product, agile and experience design, he has a sharp commercial and business awareness and works hard to understand the specific context of my business and deliver outstnding products.

His insights and execution have helped me to shape Alps into the successful business it is today. I would highly recommend Simon as a product manager and coach.

Jason Burin Product Manager
- Constellation Brands

I worked with Simon over 9 months as part of a Product Centric transformation that Simon was leading with his team. We focussed on establishing a discovery lab for continuous discovery.

A couple key themes that Simon coached the team on:

1. The importance of product discovery and talking with customers to gain a deep understanding of the problems/challenges they face
2. Creating prototypes and testing them with customers… then keep iterating as part of the design loop with a focus on outcomes
3. Always bring your Engineers along on the journey as they often will provide the very best solutions

As I’ve grown in my career Simon’s coaching was and remains invaluable. The world of Product needs more people like Simon to help lead the way.

Adam Edwards
Product Manager - Trade Ledger

“I would highly recommend Simon for his Product Strategy and User Experience work.

Simon quickly understood the complex product which we were trying to create and came up with an excellent research plan which allowed us to fully understand the product USP, customer value, measures of success and risks.

It would be a pleasure to work with Simon again in the future.”

Fahad Ansari
Business Development Manager AND Digital

I have had the pleasure of working with Simon for the past 10 months and can say that Simon has been an amazing colleague to work with.

Simon not only is one of the best Product principals I have come across in all my years of professional services, but also has that rare talent and awareness of the wider aspects of working as a service professional - in that he has a keen commercial awareness and business development acumen, to spot opportunities to expand our offerings with our clients and exceptional influencing skills to land those opportunities.

Simon is always thinking about what comes next and certainly his client's have greatly benefitted from his strategic thinking, whilst also able to tactically implement those ideas.

Shan Beerstecher -
Club Executive, AND Digital

Simon is a valued member of my leadership team. His contribution has helped make Newton the successful club it is today.”

Tom Rooney
Product Director - Primark

Simon is a brilliant Product consultant and expert in digital product transformation.

He’s is not afraid of big-picture problems and willingly faces into them, quickly understanding the wider scope of what's really going on.
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For someone so good at working at this level I’ve found him remarkably action-oriented and good at identifying the next best action. Even when there’s a mountain to climb Simon will always come up with a plan and suggest what that first step should be!

Simon is also incredibly personable and an absolute pleasure to work with!

Nick Simm - Squad Lead - AND Digital

I’ve worked with Simon over the last 4 years at AND Digital on a variety of projects. He’s a fantastic person to work with!

First and foremost he’s an innovative product leader with extensive knowledge across the product life cycle and gets results. I have experienced his styles as a diligent co-worker, an effective product and user experience lead and as a supportive coach.

Simon is excellent at: building strong, authentic and long lasting stakeholder relationships; finding routes through complexity; connecting and building teams to buy into a vision and guide them to outcomes; understanding and sharing a wide range of product principles so that they are usefully applied in practice.

A stand out quality is Simon’s genuine passion about supporting other people’s growth and championing their successes.

I personally have thoroughly enjoyed working together over the years. I would highly recommend Simon as a senior product leader, with authentic values who would inject high quality outputs and positive energy into any team.