Jon Watkinson MBE MBA MA
Change & Implementation Manager
The Project Network Ltd

Jon is Senior Manager with The Project Network Ltd specialising in project implementation in the public sector. He delivered a successful 4-year change programme for Centre for Defence Analysis, a division of an MOD agency and more recently the procurement and implementation of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) for the London Borough of Lambeth, including initiating their New Ways of Working agenda. He is currently consulting for Runnymede Borough Council with their adoption of flexible working and a new, VoIP enabled, Customer Call Centre. Jon bridges the gap between the technical aspects of IT and the practical delivery to the business, including the behaviour change aspects of organisational culture that are required to harvest the benefits of technology.

Jon has a predominantly MOD background in change management, IT and procurement, but also has project management experience in the private sector for clients including: Dell, Accenture, EDS and Vodafone and HP. Following training at Sandhurst, Jon served as a British Army Royal Engineer officer specialising in bomb disposal and was awarded the MBE for leading the unit doing bomb disposal clearance of Kuwait after the first Gulf War.