University of Oxford

NHS Education for Scotland

Associate Director

Secondment to Scottish Government to develop the design strategy and positioning for the Digital Front Door, a major commitment in the Digital Health & Care Strategy.

This strategy commits to developing a new streamlined approach to how people navigate their way through services, which will include a safe, simple and secure digital app. This will support people to access information and services directly – like a 'digital front door' – as well as self-manage, and access and contribute to their own health and care information.

The Scottish Government

Design Lead, Digital Front Door

NHS24

Head of Service Design

Temporary redeployment, supporting vaccination-related public-facing digital services. Product & design lead on the unpaid carer and 18-29 year old registration service.

COVID-19 Vaccination Programme

Trustee of this important membership organisation working to give all children in Scotland an equal chance to flourish is at the heart of everything we do.

Children in Scotland

Director

WaitWhat

Host, Meditative Story (podcast)

Head of Product for this a new team within NHS Scotland making valuable tools and infrastructure for clinicians, care workers and citizens, and making them differently. We're hiring product managers, service designers, user researchers,  and interaction designers.

Head of Product

Values-led company making next-generation meditation products.

Mindfulness Everywhere

The British Council is the UKs international organisation for educational opportunities and cultural relations - and the only charity in the UK with a revenue over £1Bn.

British Council

Trustee

Sync is a set of activities designed to support cultural organisations in Scotland develop a more progressive relationship with technology and technologists. It has three central elements: the annual Culture Hack Scotland event, a Geeks-in-Residence programme and the Sync Tank magazine.

Sync

Strategy Producer

The mobile mindfulness app for modern life.

buddhify

Creator

Edinburgh Festivals Innovation Lab

Innovation Lead

21awake makes beautifully-designed digital meditation products such as buddhify. We also do strategic work related to innovation in the arts, but only if you ask really nicely. This company is now subsumed by Mindfulness Everywhere.

21awake Ltd

Mission Models Money

Part of the NESTA Connect team which raises the profile of collaborative innovation in the UK.  My particular remit is to explore the role of the web in providing powerful new ways of creating commercial and social value.

NESTA

Development Manager

Business change consultant in Accenture's UK public and third sector management consulting practice.  Clients included major goverment departments and third sector organisations.  One year secondment to executive team of Mission Models Money, a major change campaign in the UK arts and culture sector.

Accenture

Business Change Consultant

Initial engagement was as a pre-university employee based at IBM SouthBank working in the Retail Service Solution business unit.  Following this while at Oxford University I was held on retainer for strategic advice re: retaining high-potential consulting talent

Rohan Gunatillake