Selected work
Problems, approaches, results.
Evidence of how Education Host delivers and how I lead it — platforms the company operates, the methods behind its consultancy, and the strategic calls behind both. No invented clients, no vanity metrics.
Data & Insight
Enriching housing data for better decisions
- Problem
- A social housing provider's management system held years of operational data, but on its own it couldn't answer the questions managers actually asked about communities, deprivation and need.
- Approach
- In an individual consultancy engagement, I joined core housing management data with external datasets — indices of deprivation, postcode lookups and demographic segmentation — and supported the evaluation and selection of an enterprise reporting tool.
- Result
- Housing data that could carry real analytical weight, and a reporting tool decision informed by hands-on evidence rather than vendor demos. The kind of ground-level data work that now informs how I steer Education Host's data and reporting services. (Historic engagement; details deliberately kept general.)
Data & Insight
Dashboards managers actually use
- Problem
- Organisations accumulate reports nobody reads: too many metrics, unclear owners, and dashboards built around what the data warehouse contains rather than the decisions people make.
- Approach
- Start from the decision, not the dataset. We work with the people who own the outcome, agree the handful of questions that matter, fix the data quality issues that undermine trust, then build reporting that answers those questions plainly.
- Result
- The method Education Host applies in its data and reporting consultancy — grounded in my earlier enterprise BI delivery — covering data quality groundwork, reporting design and the training that makes reporting stick.