I am Director and Principal Consultant at Blackmetric Business Solutions Limited. I am available to speak at conferences and events on topics relating to Business Analysis and Business Change.
To discuss your needs further, please contact me on +44(0)23 9298 4546, or e-mail me using a contact form.
Previous topics and clients/conferences have included:
- Building Business Capability 2019
- BA*World Toronto 2019
- BA Conference Europe 2019
- European BA Day 2019, Frankfurt
- BA Summit Southern Africa 2019
- Various IIBA Events across the UK
- Isle of Man BA Network event 2019
- Guernsey GTA Event 2019
- BA & Beyond, Brussels, 2019
- Business Change & Transformation Conference, London, 2019
- Building Business Capability 2018
- BA Summit Southern Africa 2018
- BA & Beyond, Brussels, 2018
- BA Conference Europe 2018
- Cambridge BA Community Event 2018
- BA Camp, Vienna, 2018
- Minneapolis & St Paul Professional Development Day 2018
- Balkan Business Analysis Conference 2018
- Innovation & Business Change Conference 2018
- Business Change & Transformation Conference, London, 2018
- JCI National Convention 2017
- Wisconsin Business Analysis Development Day 2017
- BA Summit Southern Africa 2017
- Building Business Capability 2017
- BA Conference Europe 2017
- Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management Conference 2016
- BA Conference Europe 2016
- Building Business Capability Conference 2016
- Building Business Capability 2015, Las Vegas “Strategic Business Analysis: Identifying the Business Need Before the Project Starts” and “Strategy: The Elephant in the Room”
- BA Conference Europe 2015 “Strategy: The Elephant in the Room”
- Advanced Business Approaches 2015, Slovenia “The role of Strategy in Change: An organisational compass”
- UCISA PCMG15 2015 “The dark arts of business analysis”
- Building Business Capability 2014, Miami “The indispensable BA and the surprising truth: You work in sales!”
- BA Conference Europe 2014 “The indispensable BA and the surprising truth: You work in sales!”
- PAMS Summit 2014, Krakow, Afternoon Keynote “Avoiding the dark, dead-ended rabbit holes: The importance of BA and PM collaboration before a project is initiated.”
- BA Camp 2014, Vienna, Opening Keynote “Promoting the value of the BA role”
- Intel BA Web 2014 “Avoiding the Solution Illusion”
- BSC2013 Latvia, Opening Keynote “Helping stakeholders to take a step back and avoid the solution illusion”
- Charity IT Leaders’ Forum: “The ‘Dark Arts’ of Business Analysis”
- BA Conference Europe, 2013 “Avoid the Dark, Dead-Ended Rabbit Holes: A Thin Slice of Problem Analysis”
- Financial Services Client “Promoting the value of Business Analysis” – A 50 minute presentation designed to engage & inspire the audience whilst showing the “art of the possible” and what the BA role could and should be.
- Franklin-Hackett ‘Mindsets to maximise your performance Conference 2013’
- UNICOM Business Analysis Conference 2013 “Avoiding the ‘Solution Illusion’: A Thin Slice of Problem Analysis”
- Virgin Media – “Promoting the value of the BA team” – A 1 hour presentation designed to provide the audience with concrete tips, tools and techniques on how they can communicate the value of Business Analysis to their stakeholders.
- High-Tech Client, Cambridge – Keynote speech at internal BA conference – A 1 hour keynote presentation followed by an interactive brainstorming session with syndicate groups
- UNICOM Building Business Capabilities with Business Analysis Conference, 2012 – conference chair. I chaired the conference, and gave a presentation on the value that good quality business analysis can add.
- Business Analysis Conference Europe, 2012 – “From Scepticism to Advocacy: Proving the value of the BA role”
- ReqLabs 2012 (Kyiv, Ukraine) “Enterprise Analysis: The importance of the ‘Why’ and the ‘What“. – A 45 minute presentation introducing concrete techniques that can be used to understand a business problem
- Analyst Days (Minsk, Belarus) – A 45 minute presentation showing when and where business analysis is useful on projects, and discussing how to convince sceptical stakeholders. Followed by co-running a half-day training workshop focussing on business analysis early in the project lifecycle.
- Business Analysis Conference Europe 2011 – “Business engagement on technical IT projects” – a 50 minute presentation giving a case study and providing the audience with tips on how to engage business stakeholders
- ReqLabs conference Kiev, Ukraine 2011: “Stakeholder Engagement : Delivering Projects in the face of adversity”
- Business Analysis Conference Europe 2010 – “BA function, IT or business change?” – I co-presented a 50 minute presentation discussing whether the BA function should sit with IT, or with the business.
- 2011 IIBA New York City Chapter Meeting- “Making a difference in change projects : The expanding BA role”
- 2011 IIBA Washington DC Chapter Meeting- “Making a difference in change projects : The expanding BA role”
- 2011 IIBA New Jersey Chapter Meeting – “Stakeholder Engagement : Delivering projects in the face of adversity”
- 2011 IIBA Baltimore Chapter Meeting- “Stakeholder Engagement : Delivering projects in the face of adversity”
- JCI Portsmouth – “Speaking on your feet” – Public speaking workshop
Adrian Reed Speaking at the BA Conference Europe 2011
Adrian Reed speaking at IIBA event