Dr Simon Davey is a digital, organizational development and change management consultant with twenty five years experience working with charities and the public sector and previously within academia and business. He has led programmes as diverse as:

  • a major digital transformation for a grant making foundation
  • the UK national IT volunteering programme, 
  • two innovative extended school programmes raising aspirations and attainment for disadvantaged young women, 
  • a programme to support school leaders in implementing sustainable food skills for children 
  • a national initative within a major UK young people’s charity transforming the application of ICT in social work and digital inclusion of marginalized young people 

Simon consults on:

  • digital transformation, 
  • business analysis, 
  • change management and accountability, 
  • good governance, 
  • organizational ICT reviews and digital strategy and implementation
  • database/CRM implementations and resolutions
  • project recovery

Key successes include:

  1. Leading the national IT volunteer programme from its first request to over £250,000 of volunteer support in its first year
  2. Resolving 95 change requests and saving £250,000 of IT costs by clarifying processes
  3. Taking a small organisation through projects due diligence to unlock £660,000 of grant funding
  4. Supporting a major national charity from a concept to a fully funded programme which sustained for seven years
  5. Rebuilding the digital foundations (and processes) of a charity from digital strategy to better ways of working, improved systems, better support, clearer training and better risk management and compliance.

Making Choices - Getting the Right Work Done - Delivering Positive Outcomes

Simon is experienced in business development and programme management, committed to improving access to justice, to empowering young people and creating sustainable, practical tools and methodologies. In other words, helping you and your organisation make more impact, more easily.

Simon also takes a policy, governance and regulatory role through various roles and trusteeships.

Current Roles

  • Managing Director and Lead Consultant, Omega Alpha Limited (consultancy firm) - since 1998
  • Freeman, Worshipful Company of Management Consultants (member of Education Committee, member of Membership Committee, member of Communications Committee)
  • Member, Livery Companies Skills Council, City of London
  • School Governor, Haslingden High School, Rossendale

Recent consultancy has focused on improving the effectiveness of digital, data and ways of working in charities, predominantly in the access to justice space.

Former roles include:

DIGITAL, TECHNOLOGY AND ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

  • Head of Digital Transformation, The Legal Education Foundation (2022-2023)
  • Consultant and Guest Lecturer, Centre for Charity Effectiveness, City University (formerly Cass) Business School
  • Programme Manager, Inspire IT (Action for Children)
  • Project Manager, The Jeanie Project
  • Director, IT4Communities (national IT volunteering programme)

GOVERNANCE AND REGULATION

  • Independent Commissioner, Data and Marketing Commission (2014-2020) and Member, ICO Regulators and AI Working Group (as DMC representative)
  • Independent Person (formerly Chair and Vice-Chair), Standards Committee, London Borough of Bromley
  • School Governor, Harris Primary Academy Shortlands and Harris Primary Academy Beckenham (Vice Chair, Governing Body and Chair, Finance and General Purposes Committee) (2014-2017)
  • Trustee, Law for Life (2020-2023)
  • Trustee, Sound Delivery Media
  • Board Member, CIM Charity and Social Marketing Group

EDUCATION

  • Programme Director, Emerging Scholars' [formerly Programme Leader, Emerging Scholars' Intervention Programme (Saturday school)]
  • Project Leader, Urban Scholars Intervention Programme
  • Programme Manager, Supporting School Leadership

Former clients include:

  • 360Giving
  • Access to Justice Foundation
  • Action for Children
  • Ashiana Project
  • Birth Companions
  • Bobath Centre for Children with Cerebral Palsy
  • Business in the Community
  • Carers in Hertfordshire
  • Central England Law Centre
  • Central Foundation Girls School
  • Charities Evaluation Services
  • Chatham House (Royal Institute for International Affairs)
  • City and Islington College (as part of HA-EET)
  • Community First
  • Conker Consulting
  • Development Trusts Association
  • Direct Marketing Association
  • Disability Law Service
  • East London Consortium (Schools Partnership)
  • Ethical Property Foundation
  • Fair Trials
  • Free Representation Unit
  • Governance Hub
  • Grantscape
  • Hammersmith Society
  • Heart n Soul
  • High Peak CVS
  • Hornimans Adventure Playground
  • Housing Justice
  • ICT Hub
  • Institute of Fundraising
  • IT4Communities
  • LASA (London Advice Services Alliance)
  • Latin American Womens Rights Service (LAWRS)
  • Law Centres Network
  • LawWorks
  • Legal Services Agency
  • London Housing Foundation
  • Magic Breakfast
  • Magic Outcomes
  • Manchester Community Information Network
  • Mayday Trust
  • Media Trust
  • Microsoft
  • Money Advice Trust 
  • National Literacy Association
  • NCVO (National Council of Voluntary Organisations)
  • PAVS (Pembrokeshire Association of Voluntary Services)
  • Pfeg (Personal Finance Education Group)
  • Prisoners Abroad
  • Shell Europe Oil Products
  • The Legal Education Foundation
  • Toynbee Hall
  • TreeHouse
  • Volunteering England
  • Worshipful Company of Information Technologists
  • Youthnet