Senior advisory for leaders navigating complex change

Supporting organisations through structural change, delivery challenges, and operating model evolution - with clarity, judgement, and flow.

engagement

When leadership teams typically engage Silvermere

Leadership teams typically engage Silvermere when:

  • Change initiatives stall despite significant investment and intent

  • Delivery performance no longer reflects organisational ambition

  • Operating models are being questioned, reshaped, or no longer fit

  • Governance and control inhibit flow rather than enable it

  • Senior teams need clarity and judgement, not another framework

Clarity

How we support leadership teams

We work alongside leadership teams through three complementary advisory services — structured, independent, and grounded in real operating experience.

Board & Executive Advisory
Board-level delivery assurance, governance clarity and executive stabilisation. For Chairs, Boards and executive teams facing high-consequence transformation, reputational exposure, or periods where executive alignment and confidence must be restored.Transformation & Execution Risk
Independent diagnosis and structured stabilisation of complex programmes. For leadership teams where strategic ambition, investment scale and organisational complexity intersect — and where outcomes carry material financial, operational or reputational consequence.Operating Model & Delivery Effectiveness
Operating model design, cloud governance and delivery flow realignment. For organisations where technology delivery must keep pace with strategic intent — shaping how work flows, how decisions are made, and how value reaches capability.

We operate comfortably across strategy, structure, and delivery - particularly where trade-offs are real and outcomes matter.

acumen

Why Silvermere

Silvermere is a small, senior advisory consultancy.We are selective about the work we take on, and intentional about the relationships we build.We work directly with leadership teams on complex challenges where judgement, experience, and discretion matter.Our approach is deliberately hands-on and advisory-led - focused on shaping decisions, navigating trade-offs, and helping leaders move forward with clarity.

Clients choose Silvermere because:

  • They work with senior advisors, not layered teams

  • Engagements are shaped around context, not pre-defined frameworks

  • We are comfortable operating in ambiguity and constraint

  • Advice is grounded in real delivery experience, not theory

TRACK RECORD

Institutional experience within regulated and global enterprises

Silvermere Advisory's founders have operated within multinational, FTSE-listed and highly regulated environments — delivering and advising at the scale where outcomes carry financial, operational and reputational consequence.
Representative organisations include:

  • Informa — FTSE 100 global knowledge and information services group

  • International Airlines Group (IAG) — Multinational aviation group

  • British American Tobacco — Global consumer goods organisation operating in regulated markets

  • Landsec — FTSE-listed commercial real estate investment group

  • Tesco — Large-scale retail and e-commerce operations

  • WPP — Global marketing and communications group

  • Amgen — Regulated pharmaceutical and biotechnology organisation

  • GlaxoSmithKline — Global pharmaceutical environment

  • Eurostar — International high-speed transport

  • RS Group — Global industrial and distribution enterprise

  • Formula Chemicals — Manufacturing and industrial operations

  • Riskflow — Financial technology and supply chain technology

This experience spans:

  • Board-sponsored enterprise transformation

  • Global ERP, CRM and platform modernisation

  • Cloud operating model design and governance

  • Regulated compliance environments

  • Revenue and customer platform optimisation

  • Cross-border stakeholder governance

  • Supply chain and distribution expansion

We understand the discipline required when execution carries financial, operational or reputational consequence.

About

Presence

Silvermere Consulting is led by Steven and Jennifer Barker-Hodges, senior advisors with experience supporting leadership teams through complex organisational change.Together, we work at the intersection of strategy, operating models, and delivery - helping leaders navigate complexity, make sound decisions, and move forward with confidence.Our work spans periods of transition, structural change, and delivery challenge, where clarity and judgement are essential.

Jennifer

Managing PartnerBoard & Executive Advisory
Abu DhabiJennifer advises Chairs, Boards and executive leadership teams during high-consequence transformation and governance environments across the UAE, United Kingdom and Africa.Her work focuses on restoring executive confidence where strategic ambition, operational complexity and reputational exposure intersect.She is engaged when:

  • Board oversight requires independent assurance

  • Major platform or transformation investment is under scrutiny

  • Executive alignment has weakened

  • Governance cadence requires recalibration

  • Delivery confidence must be restored without destabilisation

  • Jennifer operates at the intersection of strategy and execution — translating delivery complexity into Board-level clarity.

Jennifer operates at the intersection of strategy and execution — translating delivery complexity into Board-level clarity.Her advisory style is structured, discreet and commercially grounded.Executive EducationSaïd Business School, University of Oxford
Harvard Business School Executive Education
First-Class Honours Degree in Business
Non-Executive Director in regulated sectors

Steven

Managing Partner
Technology & Operating Model Advisory
Abu DhabiSteven advises CIOs, CTOs and executive technology leaders in ambitious organisations where delivery must keep pace with strategic intent and where operating models need to evolve without losing creative momentum.His work focuses on turning ambition into delivery — shaping how technology organisations are structured, how decisions are made, and how value flows from idea to capability.He is engaged when:

  • Ambition is outpacing the delivery organisation's ability to keep up

  • Operating models need to evolve to support growth, scale or restructuring

  • Innovation needs a controlled path from idea to delivered capability

  • Senior leaders need an independent voice alongside internal teams and major consultancies

  • Delivery decisions carry material risk and the cost of getting them wrong is high

Steven combines deep operating experience with structural pragmatism, helping leadership teams scale with confidence while keeping delivery creative, coherent and calm under pressure.His advisory style is considered, independent and outcomes-focused.

Executive EducationMIT Sloan – Digital Business Strategy
Professional Scrum Master II
PRINCE2 Practitioner

Presence

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Silvermere Consulting FZCO is a UAE-registered consultancy operating from Dubai World Trade Centre Free Zone, supporting clients across the UAE and internationally.

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