Advisory
Our Advisory team brings together diverse skills to generate creative and imaginative solutions that your users and customers will love, and that support your organisation in a constantly changing world.
Our Advisory experts

Carl Gallagher
Director of Pre-Sales
Carl is an experienced IT professional with over 14 years of experience in service and process transformation using Microsoft technology. He can often be found with a backpack full of sticky-notes and pens, ready to help customer stakeholder groups define their problems and identify creative solutions.

Lisa Taillard
Director of Change, Adoption and Learning
Lisa is passionate about people and for the last 20 years has been delivering effective people change management solutions for digital transformation programmes across global organisations. She enjoys working with our clients to create tailored solutions that focus on ensuring those impacted by the change are ready, willing, and able to adopt the new ways of working.

Darragh Kelly
Director of Advisory
Darragh combines deep expertise in transformation and emerging technology, having led programs at both the Government Digital Service and Deloitte. With a strong background in agile methodology, human-centred design, and lean UX, Darragh has driven key initiatives like the GovTech Catalyst and worked with startups through the NSCS for Startups program. Thriving at the intersection of business needs, design thinking, and product-market fit, Darragh is the digital glue connecting diverse organisations to deliver impactful, user-centric solutions. Passionate about fostering innovation through collaboration, Darragh integrates the latest digital transformation and product strategy.


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Advisory news and insights
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How Catalyst can support your organisation’s transformation
Microsoft Catalyst is a framework (The IDEA framework) of activities designed to support organisations that are about to embark upon some form of transformation. Carl Gallagher discusses more in his latest blog.
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How to build your digital transformation roadmap
Hitachi Solutions and Microsoft came together on Thursday 3rd March for a hybrid event to understand the opportunities and challenges for Professional Services organisations. Featuring a customer story from Alexander Mann Solutions’ Chief Technology…
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Why professional services companies must invest in digital transformation
She adds that when professional services companies do invest in digital, they need to ensure they capture and manage the mass of data they generate effectively. Data must be in the right place at…