About

Navigating Uncertainty

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Formed in 2018, numid specialises in collaborative engagement that creates workable, pragmatic and innovative solutions. We understand that public sector organisations work in highly uncertain environments, with a wide range of conflicting priorities and risks.

Our mission is to create efficiency of service delivery in everything we do, creating safer, more resilient boroughs by linking operational resilience needs to Council strategic priorities; maintaining and enhancing resilience and response capabilities in ways that work with organisational strategy and direction.

Walking the line between efficiencies while maintaining resilience and incident response capabilities is challenging, but not necessarily conflicting – and we understand that one cannot exist without the other.

Harnessing two decades of operational civil protection and organisational resilience experience, combined with strategic management support and business management makes Numid a unique provider of resilience consultancy, helping to solve resilience challenges in ways that align to strategic imperatives and priorities.

Meet Our Consultants

numid brings together experts from across the sector to harness the experience, creativity and skills needed to navigate uncertainty and deliver solutions that work for our clients

David McClory

MBA, Managing Director and Principal Consultant

David is a management consultant specialising in strategic problem solving, programme design and resilience planning. David has two decades of management experience in local and regional government at operational and strategic levels.

Starting his career as an army officer, David specialises in crisis management and resilience planning in local and regional levels. David transitioned into strategic design and transformation, service improvement, strategic support and programme management during his MBA training.

David is one of a handful of local government managers to attend the Cabinet Office Policy School at 10 Downing Street. In 2017, David served on the Grenfell Response Team as a humanitarian aid co-ordinator and was the programme manager for the unified London public health system leadership forum during the Covid-19.

Testimonials

Tom Hook

Strategic Director of Policy and Participation, Barking and Dagenham Council

“I don't think I've seen as successful and motivational a manager work with such a varied range of staff.”

Rahat Ismail

Locality Manager, Barking and Dagenham Council

“David is one of the best managers that I have had the pleasure to work with. He articulates information in a way that is insightful, enriching and inspiring, bringing out and developing the best in others so that they can play their part in improving performance.”

Charlotte Hall

Principal Policy Manager: Health and Care Systems, Health Team, Greater London Authority

“It has been fantastic to work with David. David brought, intellectual rigour, creativity, flexibility and good humour to the work with us, as well as exceptional project management skills. He have been invaluable in helping the team to navigate both the recovery missions’ development and in establishing programme management systems for the team’s wider work.”