Jon Spruce
Transformation Partner, Leadership Coach & Mentor
Supporting leaders and teams to navigate complexity, clarify direction, and deliver results that matter.
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About Jon
Transformation Partner, Leadership Coach & Mentor
work with leaders, teams, and organisations navigating complexity, change, and high-stakes delivery. My background spans large-scale transformation, leadership development, and improving how work actually flows in environments where ambiguity, pressure, and competing priorities are the norm.
Over the years, my work has taken me across defence, financial services, digital, and engineering-led organisations. While much of that journey began through Agile and DevOps, my focus today is broader: helping people make sense of complex systems, lead with clarity, and deliver outcomes that genuinely matter.
My approach is grounded, practical, and human. I work by building trust, understanding context, and supporting people to think clearly about the decisions in front of them. Sometimes that looks like coaching, sometimes mentoring, and sometimes simply creating the space for better conversations to happen.
Outside of work, I have two long-standing passions: property development and aviation. I enjoy being hands-on on building sites, and I’m working towards gaining my Private Pilot’s Licence. When I need perspective, you’ll often find me in Wales, swimming in very cold lakes and reminding myself to slow down.
Jon is an outcome-focused transformation partner and leadership coach, with deep experience supporting people and teams building complex products and systems.
Experience Across Complex Environments
I’ve worked with organisations across a wide range of industries and geographies: including defence, financial services, telecoms, government, retail, pharmaceuticals, renewable energy, fintech, and fashion.
Despite their differences, the underlying challenges are often the same:
complex systems, competing priorities, unclear ownership, and pressure to deliver meaningful outcomes in uncertain conditions.
My work focuses on helping leaders and teams navigate those challenges by working with the whole system (people, structures, ways of working, and decision-making) rather than applying surface-level fixes.
I place a strong emphasis on trust, connection, and clarity. When teams understand how their work fits together, and leaders are aligned on what matters most, delivery becomes more focused, more humane, and more effective.
Whether you’re facing a specific challenge or sensing that something needs to change but isn’t yet clear, my role is to help you make sense of what’s really going on and decide what to do next and with confidence.
HOW CAN I SUPPORT YOUR JOURNEY?
COACHING
Offering expert agile coaching to both help startups and large enterprises build innovative and impactful products.
TRAINING
As an experienced trainer, I bring life to any material through engaging techniques, making the content come alive.
MENTORING
Providing mentorship to Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Product Owners, and Agile Teams to build their capability and growth.
SPEAKING
I regularly speak at conferences, on expert panels, webinars, podcasts, and corporate events globally.
How Do I Work?
I’ve worked across very different environments from fast-moving creative and digital organisations to highly regulated, engineering-led and financial institutions. What those contexts share is complexity, pressure, and the need to make good decisions without perfect information.
My approach is grounded and contextual. I take time to understand how work really happens – the people involved, the systems they operate in, and the constraints they’re working under – before suggesting any change.
I’m comfortable addressing difficult topics when they matter, and I do so with care and respect for the individuals involved. That balance between honesty and empathy has been essential when working with senior leaders, specialists, and teams operating in regulated or high-stakes environments.
I don’t arrive with a fixed methodology. Instead, I work alongside clients to help them make sense of their situation, clarify what matters most, and take deliberate steps toward meaningful, sustainable change.
TRAINING & WORKSHOPS
Learning designed around your context, not a fixed curriculum
I design and deliver focused training and bespoke workshops that support teams and leaders working in complex environments.
My background includes formal accreditation across a range of Agile and scaling frameworks, but my work today is less about teaching theory and more about helping organisations apply the right ideas in the right way, given their context, constraints, and goals.
Most engagements are custom-built rather than off-the-shelf. They are shaped around the challenges teams are actually facing – whether that’s improving collaboration across functions, strengthening leadership capability, clarifying ways of working, or supporting a broader transformation effort.
Sessions can be delivered in person or remotely and are designed to be:
practical rather than theoretical
participative rather than lecture-led
grounded in real examples from the organisation
I no longer focus on running large volumes of public training. Instead, training is typically delivered as:
private courses
tailored workshops
learning interventions that sit alongside coaching, mentoring, or transformation work
If you’re looking to build capability in a way that genuinely sticks, rather than simply ticking a training box, I’m happy to explore what would be most useful for your teams.
Selected Talks
A selection of talks delivered internationally at conferences, meet-ups, leadership events, and organisations.
Many of my talks are invitations to help people make sense of change — particularly where leadership, delivery, and human dynamics intersect in complex environments.
These sessions are delivered internationally at conferences, leadership events, and within private organisations.
My talks draw on real experience from inside environments where the work is hard, the constraints are real, and the answers aren’t obvious. I focus on helping audiences make sense of what’s happening beneath the surface — in leadership, teams, systems, and decision-making.
My style is grounded and conversational. I aim to be honest without being preachy, thoughtful without being abstract, and practical without over-simplifying. Audiences tend to leave with clearer thinking, shared language, and ideas they can actually use.
I speak selectively, often alongside coaching, mentoring, or transformation work. If you’re considering a talk or facilitated session and want to explore whether it would be a good fit, I’m happy to have a conversation.
Agile Consulting, Training & Speaking
11 Videos
Complex Products & Programmes
I’ve worked across a wide range of product and programme environments from global consumer brands and digital platforms used by millions, to long-running, high-stakes programmes operating under significant regulatory and technical constraints.
My background includes leading and supporting teams delivering everything from early mobile applications and large-scale digital experiences, to complex product development and multi-year transformation programmes.
That work has included:
global brand and product launches
digital platforms and services at significant scale
complex engineering and defence programmes
enterprise transformation within regulated financial institutions
Across all of these contexts, the constant has been complexity – multiple stakeholders, competing priorities, technical uncertainty, and the need to align people around a shared outcome.
While the outputs vary, the work itself is always about helping teams collaborate effectively, make better decisions, and deliver in environments where there is no simple playbook.
The videos below offer a snapshot of some of that work across different industries, scales, and challenges
Digital & Physical Products, TV Advertising & Live Events
18 Videos
Working Together
I work with leaders, teams, and organisations in a small number of ways, depending on what’s most useful for the context you’re in.
Coaching
Supporting leaders and teams to think clearly, navigate complexity, and grow their capability over time.
Mentoring
Experience-led conversations that provide perspective, challenge, and support – particularly during moments of transition or increased responsibility.
Training & Workshops
Bespoke learning sessions designed around your environment, goals, and constraints – often delivered alongside coaching or transformation work.
Speaking
Selected talks and facilitated sessions for conferences, leadership events, and internal organisations exploring change, leadership, and delivery in complex environments.
If you’re unsure which of these is the right place to start, a short conversation is usually the easiest way to work that out.
Get in touch to explore what would be most useful.