About Me:

I’ve spent the last twenty (plus) years delivering technology enabled change in public sector organisations across the UK.

I started off in old school IT, rebuilding under-performing IT functions, moved onto changing the ways organisations work using technology as a catalyst, and more recently just changing the way organisations work.

Along the way, I’ve merged organisations, built interactive museum galleries, changed the way the Royal Household works, delivered self-funded digital inclusion initiatives,  and built highly effective, happy teams.

Over time, I’ve adopted the principles of Digital: building systems with people, not for them; embracing co-design, agile development and changing processes before systems. 

I’ve just joined the University of Strathclyde as Chief Digital and Information Officer. Before that, I was the CDIO at Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust on the South coast of England. As their first CDIO, over three years I was proud to change the focus from IT to Digital and to deliver real and sustained change, which led to the Trust navigating the challenges of Covid effectively.

I’m an advocate for digital, and will happily discuss what digital means to different people, but am more interested in how we can harness digital technology and information to deliver change for the organisation and its stakeholders.

I’m also a Senior Officer of the University, and in the past have been both an executive director and a non-executive director. 

I’m a certified Change Management Practitioner, a coach/mentor for minority women and women in tech, and an inclusivity champion. I Tweet @bethlawton9.