Senior product and transformation leadership, embedded where it matters.
02
We align
Bringing clarity to roadmaps, priorities and stakeholder direction.
03
We deliver
Strategy to execution. Every plan leads to a measurable outcome.
04
We stay calm
Trusted to navigate complexity when the stakes are high.
What we do
Three capabilities. One clear path forward.
01
Product Leadership
Building stronger product organisations through clear strategy, effective prioritisation, roadmap development and leadership support. Grounded in 14+ years leading digital products across healthcare, travel technology, legal technology and enterprise SaaS.
Product StrategyRoadmappingLeadership Support
02
Digital Transformation
Supporting organisations through complex transformation initiatives where people, process and technology must move together. Creating alignment, reducing resistance and helping change stick while maintaining delivery momentum.
Helping organisations improve how work moves from strategy to delivery. Combining agile practices, leadership alignment and practical execution to create lasting change rather than process theatre.
Product teams are struggling to deliver consistently
02
Roadmaps lack clarity, focus or stakeholder alignment
03
Agile ways of working are not producing meaningful results
04
A transformation programme has stalled or lost momentum
05
Leadership teams need an independent perspective
06
Teams are overwhelmed by competing priorities and unclear ownership
07
A business needs senior product leadership without a full-time hire
Tizi helps teams cut through complexity, make confident decisions and move forward with purpose.
About Tizi
Named for a mountain pass. Built for the ascent ahead.
Tizi Consultants is led by Simone Kiernan, a Senior Product Leader with 14+ years delivering complex digital products across healthcare, travel technology, legal tech, and enterprise SaaS.
Known for being calm under pressure and trusted by both technical teams and executives to get hard things shipped — without cutting corners.
Delivered complex digital products and transformation programmes across healthcare, travel technology, legal technology and enterprise SaaS environments. Trusted to bring clarity, alignment and momentum to initiatives where delivery, product strategy and organisational change intersect.
Product leadership, digital transformation and agile delivery — tailored to where your organisation actually is, not where consultants wish it were.
Product Leadership
The problem
Product teams often find themselves executing requests rather than solving problems. Roadmaps are bloated with features that don't move the needle. Leaders are talented but lack the strategic framing and organisational influence to drive real outcomes.
The approach
Drawing on 14+ years of senior product leadership across healthcare, SaaS, cloud platforms, and regulated industries. Focused on the foundations that make product organisations perform: clear strategy, disciplined prioritisation and a team structure that enables rather than constrains.
Product strategy definition and alignment with business goals
Roadmap review, restructure, and communication planning
Fractional and interim product leadership support
Discovery process design and customer research practice
PM team capability assessment and development planning
The outcome
A product organisation that earns trust across the business. Clearer priorities. Faster, better-evidenced decisions. Leadership that drives outcomes rather than outputs.
Digital Transformation
The problem
Most transformation programmes fail not because the strategy is wrong, but because the human side is underestimated. People resist change they don't understand. Energy is high at launch and exhausted by month three. Technology changes but ways of working don't.
The approach
Supporting organisations through complex transformation initiatives where people, process and technology must move together. The engagement focuses on creating genuine alignment across leadership and teams, reducing resistance through clear communication, and building the internal capability to sustain change independently.
Transformation programme planning and delivery oversight
Leadership alignment and coalition building
Change communication strategy and narrative development
Resistance mapping and targeted engagement planning
Embedding mechanisms to sustain change after engagement ends
The outcome
A transformation programme that builds rather than burns trust. Technology and process changes that stick. An organisation with the confidence and capability to continue without ongoing external support.
Agile Transformation
The problem
Most organisations adopt agile terminology without changing how work actually flows. Sprints become status meetings with a different name. The real issue is rarely the framework — it's the absence of genuine leadership alignment and practical execution discipline around it.
The approach
Drawing on agile practices, leadership alignment and practical execution principles — tailored to the size and maturity of each organisation — beginning with an honest assessment of culture, structure, and team readiness.
Agile maturity assessment across teams and leadership
Ways of working design tailored to the organisation
Coaching at team and leadership level throughout
Delivery process improvement and execution discipline
Progress measurement and continuous improvement governance
The outcome
Delivered across multiple organisations — working with all stakeholders from strategy through to production. More predictable delivery, improved quality, and significantly less rework. The measure of success isn't adoption on day one. It's whether it's still working six months after I leave.
Typical engagements
How we typically help
For growing organisations
Fractional Product Leadership
Senior product leadership without the commitment of a permanent hire. Ideal for growing organisations that need strategic direction, roadmap clarity and leadership support.
For large-scale change
Digital Transformation Advisory
Guidance for organisations navigating large-scale change initiatives. Supporting leadership teams through planning, alignment, delivery and adoption.
For stalled initiatives
Programme Recovery
When critical initiatives lose momentum, miss deadlines or struggle with alignment. Focused intervention to restore clarity, ownership and delivery confidence.
During periods of change
Interim Product & Delivery Leadership
Hands-on leadership for transformation programmes, product organisations and business-critical initiatives during periods of change.
Not sure which service fits? Let's find out together.
“I specialise in bringing clarity, alignment and momentum to organisations where delivery, product strategy and transformation intersect.”
With over 14 years leading complex digital products and transformation programmes across healthcare, travel technology, legal technology and enterprise SaaS, I bring clarity, structure and momentum to organisations navigating significant change — working across strategy, delivery and organisational alignment.
I'm known for being calm under pressure and decisive in complex situations. Clients and colleagues trust me to bridge the gap between business strategy and engineering reality — bringing senior leadership perspective while staying close enough to delivery to know what's actually happening.
“Multiple organisations. One consistent outcome — predictable delivery, improved quality, and transformation programmes that hold long after the engagement ends.”
Over more than a decade, I've worked across regulated industries, cloud-scale platforms, and fast-moving product teams — always with the same focus: clear priorities, reliable delivery, and outcomes that last.
Leading product delivery in a highly regulated clinical environment
Working across engineering, data, operations, and clinical stakeholders to align product delivery with patient and business outcomes. Driving clarity and prioritisation in a regulated infrastructure.
Re-platforming a core booking engine and modernising analytics
Led the re-platforming of a hospitality booking engine and redesigned the analytics system from the ground up — modernising reporting and delivering clearer commercial insights for clients.
Re-platforming · Analytics · Client adoption
Legal Tech SaaS
End-to-end redesign and cloud migration of a contract management platform
Managed the full redesign of a legal contract management platform, including a complex integration with a third-party claims system and migration from legacy infrastructure to cloud.
Cloud migration · Systems integration · Regulated SaaS
Enterprise SaaS & Cloud Infrastructure
Owning a major cloud re-platforming programme at scale
Owned the roadmap for a large-scale re-platforming onto Azure cloud infrastructure, enabling next-generation capabilities across voice, chat, and email channels for a global enterprise product.
14+ years delivering digital products and transformation programmes. Trusted by technical teams, product organisations and executive stakeholders to bring clarity, alignment and momentum to complex initiatives.
Healthcare Technology
Digital product delivery in regulated clinical environments including HIPAA-compliant infrastructure
Travel Technology
Re-platforming of booking engines and modernisation of hospitality analytics platforms
Legal Technology
End-to-end redesign and cloud migration of contract management and legal SaaS platforms
Enterprise SaaS
Large-scale cloud re-platforming, authentication platforms and contact centre infrastructure
Cloud Infrastructure
Azure cloud migrations, CI/CD pipelines and platform engineering across global enterprise products
Previous experience includes leadership roles across Avaya, Micro Focus, HPE, Updraft and Aró Digital.
Core skills
What I bring to every engagement
Product Leadership
Product & Delivery Leadership
Roadmapping & Prioritisation
Fractional & Interim Leadership
Metrics, OKRs & Reporting
Risk & Dependency Management
Technical
Platform & Cloud Migration (Azure)
Systems Integration & APIs
Data & Analytics Platforms
Machine Learning Use-Case Definition
CI/CD & Release Governance
Transformation & Leadership
Digital Transformation Advisory
Stakeholder & Executive Alignment
Agile Coaching (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe)
Compliance: PCI, HIPAA, ISO
Engineering Team Leadership
Vendor & Budget Management
Education & Certifications
MSc Information Systems Management
Postgraduate degree
Bachelor of Commerce
Undergraduate degree
PG Diploma — Digital Marketing & Analytics
Postgraduate diploma
Advanced Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM)
Scrum Alliance
The Tizi story
Tizi n'Tichka is the highest mountain pass in North Africa — a winding road connecting Marrakech to the Sahara through the Atlas Mountains at 2,260 metres. No shortcuts. The road narrows. Conditions change.
That's the metaphor for this practice. Not promising the terrain is easier than it is — but making sure the journey is navigated well. A steady presence when the road is not obvious.
A discovery call is a no-pressure 30-minute conversation. No deck. No pitch. Just a straight conversation about where you are and whether there's a good fit.
Get in touch
Fill in the form and I'll respond within one business day. If you'd prefer to connect directly, LinkedIn is the best route.
I work with organisations of all sizes, across sectors, and take on both short-form advisory engagements and longer transformation programmes.
