Johnny Walker

The Executive Edge

Grab some time with me 👉MyExecJob.com 👈 
I Help Six-Figure CIO, CTO, CISO and Head of IT & Change 
Get Their Ideal job, Faster, 
With The Proven 7-Step System For Job Seeking Success

If you are an executive permanent, contract
or interim technology exec (minimum £150k)
and looking for your next role,
then you’ve come to the right place.

I know you’re worried about how long you could be
(or already have been) out of work. You're not alone.

You’re hacked off with the number of applications
you’ve made, only to never hear back. It’s just rude.

Attaching your CV and then having to
fill out an online form with exactly the same information
- that's a mugs game.

And let’s not talk about recruiters.
Just don’t go there.

The uncertainty -
the not knowing when you’re going to get back in,
that’s stressful.

I know. I know - and I’m here for you.

Your ideal technology leaders job is out there.
But it’s not always advertised.

You *can* get your ideal job to come to you
- it’s actually faster this way.

It also pays more.

You don’t even have to sell yourself.

Your ideal job, faster, for more money,
without having to sell yourself.

The Executive Edge job seeking coaching program
is exclusively for senior people like you
and has been refined over several years
and 570+ successes with six and seven-figure earners.

It’s not for everyone.
I’m not for everyone.

I expect and deliver results.
Definitive, measurable results.

Everyone gets exactly what they paid for.
You'll get your ideal job, faster,
for more money, without having to sell yourself.

Which then begs the question...
are you too comfortable blaming “the market”
or “circumstances” for your lack of success?

I’m not judging, but I am giving you fair warning.
Join the Executive Edge program
and I take away all the excuses
and replace them with certainty and confidence.

Schedule a call with me 👉MyExecJob.com 👈 
to see if you're right for the program

Executive Career Coaching, for IT leaders like you.

Johnny

Job Seeking and Executive Career Coach - Your ideal job. Faster. For more money.

👇👇 Get your hands on the good stuff below 👇👇

1️⃣ How To Position And Message Yourself To Get Found By Your Ideal Employer. 
Craft an Irresistible Elevator Pitch: Uncover the secret formula that instantly resonates with employers, and sets you apart as a sought-after candidate. It’s that good! [make link]

2️⃣ How To Craft Your High Performance Executive CV.  
Learn how to structure your CV to get the Yes from the hiring manager for an interview. [make link]

3️⃣ How To Create the Perfect Executive Job Seekers LinkedIn Profile. 
Discover the Exact Keyword Strategy the Hiring Managers are Using, to search for you. [make link]

4️⃣ How To Rapidly Grow Your LinkedIn Network with Ideal Hiring Manager Connections. 
Learn how to get LinkedIn to ‘hand deliver’ your invites to hiring manager personal email inboxes, without using a single one of your invitation request allowance. [make link]

5️⃣How To Succeed with LinkedIn Content - the Easy Way. 
Discover the Power of Comments: Learn how to position your content as perfectly relevant and perfectly timed, without having to work out what and when by yourself. [make link]

6️⃣How To Nail the Executive Interview - Every Time. 
Discover the Power of The Buyer’s Journey: Learn how to position yourself as THE value proposition candidate and ‘must hire’ decision from the hiring manager. [make link]

The Podcast - The Executive Edge Interviews 
Watch here: https://go.exece.co.uk/EEInterviews

The YouTube Channel
Sign up here: https://go.exece.co.uk/YouTube

The Free 'Executive Edge' Facebook Group
Join here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theexecutiveedgegroup 

Public Speaking and Guesting
If you would like to enquire about booking me as a speaker, please complete this booking form 
https://www.theexecedge.com/speaker-enquiry-form/

Executive Job Seeking Masterclasses

Transitioning out of the UK Armed Forces is not straight forward

It's even trickier when you're an Officer.

And let's not talk about how lame CTP is.

I've climbed the highest free-standing mountain in the world and hustled my middle-aged ass along the 100m track at the London Olympic stadium in 2012, both times to raise money and awareness for Help for Heroes.

I've visited Tidworth House and have spoken to those who have served and survived.

I've chosen to say thank you.

I've built what I believe to be a world-class job seeking coaching program, which UK Armed Forces Officers have completed and say was the difference between confusion and confidence. Between wrong moves and a clear road map to job seeking success.

It's for you.

DM me for more information and I'll help you.
#theexecedge
Officers Career Coach

Help for the Transitioning or Veteran UK Armed Forces[ Officer] 

The Executive Edge Show

LinkedIn Live show every Wednesday at 12.00 pm "The Executive Edge Show". Follow the hashtag #theexecedgeshow for all things executive career and job search related.

Episode 1. What your most powerful channel to market is -  https://lnkd.in/dXzPu_U
Episode 2. Recruiters - only deal with the very best - https://lnkd.in/dUw2SRa
Episode 3. The optimal time of year to make New Years resolutions: https://lnkd.in/dBiAcNK
Episode 4. Getting through lockdown whilst job searching - https://lnkd.in/dN9K2ns
Episode 5. Break free from the stress and uncertainty of your job search - https://lnkd.in/dFr67Ed
Episode 6. Free Content - how to know when it's worthwhile - https://lnkd.in/dYX54Hw
Episode 7. Restart your job search anytime with energy and immediacy - https://lnkd.in/dV_i2v6
Episode 8. All the prep in the world is nothing in you don't take Action -  https://lnkd.in/dvhMtxv
Episode 9: Your CV has one purpose - to get you that interview -  https://lnkd.in/dwE4gwe
Episode 10: How to be more visible on LinkedIn - https://lnkd.in/dHrdtfq
Episode 11: The FREE Executive Job Seeking Accelerator - what's it all about - https://lnkd.in/dgtB--y
Episode 12: Ask Me Anything Session packed full of free value: https://lnkd.in/djzKai4
Episode 13: Recruiters - The Good, The Bad and the Ugly:  https://lnkd.in/dYdcF7z
Episode 14: Guest Speaker Pam Case, LinkedIn Expert: https://lnkd.in/dEiWKqD
Episode 15: Be the CEO of your job search: https://lnkd.in/d5yUBew
Episode 16: How to break your job search down into bite-sized manageable chunks
https://lnkd.in/deqD8M2
Episode 17: GFGH Intensive/Live Coaching Program coming soon: https://lnkd.in/dFd8uai
Episode 18: Be Visible to the hiring manager, Guest Speaker Elsewine Rietveld, Confidence on Camera:https://lnkd.in/dUcx2Mw
Episode 19: Write engaging/visible content, Guest Speaker: Deborah Ager: How to write engaging content and stand out:  https://lnkd.in/dqWtXPd

#theexecedge
Executive Career Coach

Host and Executive Career Coach

Johnny M Walker

JOHNNY WALKER

EXECUTIVE CAREER AND JOB SEEKING COACH FOR SIX AND SEVEN-FIGURE EARNERS

Johnny Walker, one of the few guarantees in online coaching, is the creator of The Executive Edge Program and the 7 Steps to Six-Figures System. These systems help executives and high earners get their ideal job, faster, for more money, without having to sell themselves and have more fulfilling careers.

www.johnnymwalker.com

Who is Johnny M Walker?

You either land your ideal job faster and for more money…or you don’t.

If your job search isn’t yielding the results you deserve, it’s not your fault. 

The job market is tough, especially for senior executives like CIOs, CTOs, and CISOs. 

Endless applications, recruiters who don’t get it, and interviews that go nowhere can leave you frustrated and stuck.

That’s why I created The Executive Edge. I’m Johnny Walker, and I specialise in helping senior executives - CIOs, CTOs, and CISOs - break free from the grind of traditional job hunting and land their ideal roles.

With over 600+ success stories behind me, I’ve developed a science-backed, step-by-step formula that simplifies the process:

✅Discover and unlock the hidden job market
✅Craft a standout CV that commands attention
✅Master interviews with confidence and ease
✅Use LinkedIn to build visibility and meaningful connections

This isn’t just coaching, it’s actionable teaching with measurable results. 

Whether you're tired of wasting hours on online applications, feeling stuck with recruiters, or not getting the offers you deserve, we’ll give you the tools to turn things around.

Here’s why it works:

📍I focus exclusively on senior executives like you.
📍I’ve got 450+ client testimonials to back it up.
📍You’re following a proven system. 

Your next role is waiting - it’s time to make it happen. 

If you’re ready to leave the frustration behind, DM me or book a call today.

If you are an executive permanent, contract
or interim technology exec (minimum £150k)
and looking for your next role,
then you’ve come to the right place.

Grab some time with me 👉MyExecJob.com 👈 
I Help Six-Figure CIO, CTO, CISO and Head of IT & Change 
Get Their Ideal job, Faster, 
With The Proven 7-Step System For Job Seeking Success

I know you’re worried about how long you could be
(or already have been) out of work. You're not alone.

You’re hacked off with the number of applications
you’ve made, only to never hear back. It’s just rude.

Attaching your CV and then having to
fill out an online form with exactly the same information
- that's a mugs game.

And let’s not talk about recruiters.
Just don’t go there.

The uncertainty -
the not knowing when you’re going to get back in,
that’s stressful.

I know. I know - and I’m here for you.

Your ideal technology leaders job is out there.
But it’s not always advertised.

You *can* get your ideal job to come to you
- it’s actually faster this way.

It also pays more.

You don’t even have to sell yourself.

Your ideal job, faster, for more money,
without having to sell yourself.

The Executive Edge job seeking coaching program
is exclusively for senior people like you
and has been refined over several years
and 370+ successes with six and seven-figure earners.

It’s not for everyone.
I’m not for everyone.

I expect and deliver results.
Definitive, measurable results.

Everyone gets exactly what they paid for.
You'll get your ideal job, faster,
for more money, without having to sell yourself.

Which then begs the question...
are you too comfortable blaming “the market”
or “circumstances” for your lack of success?

I’m not judging, but I am giving you fair warning.
Join the Executive Edge program
and I take away all the excuses
and replace them with certainty and confidence.

Schedule a call with me www.myexecjob.com
to see if you're right for the program.

Executive Career Coaching, for IT leaders like you.

Johnny

They say that success is a rubbish teacher and you learn more from your failures.

Let's just say that this year was a strong learning year ;-)

Here's my list of 12 "Walkers Wisdom" that may be useful to you too - they apply to corporate execs (including those looking to change job, my clients) as much as entrepreneurs (me), so have a watch and add in the comments anything you've learned this year.

1. Health is wealth
2. Action kills anxiety
3. Cash is king
4. Focus
5. People > things
6. Habits over Goals
7. Your first client / boss is your future self
8. Signal to Noise
9. Reverse engineering to go forward
10. Go fast, go alone. Go far, take a team
11. Grit
12 Love > everything

Happy Xmas and New year all - I am back on Jan 5th. DM me if you want my attention that week, when the jobs market opens back up.

Enjoy

I help job seekers land their next job with higher pay and happiness, even faster, with AI | Career coach for job seekers | 600+ Client Success Stories | Proven science-based formula for career transitions. $/£997.

Atull Ltd

Helping IT Change Leaders at global financial services companies to reduce IT Operations costs by c. £10m, by leading the delivery of Digital Transformation & Business Change. Provider of Business Consultancy, Agile Transformation, Product Management, Business Analysis and Project Management services.

Director & Senior Business Consultant

Mozaic Services Limited

Business Consultancy specialising in transformational Operating Model design and implementation

Product Model Consultant (Associate MS Amlin, Serco Group, A&O, Home Office, UKHSA, TMHCC, CCS)

Serco

Built nascent IT strategy to align to a revised business strategy, starting from a bottom-up approach across key IT areas (e.g. architecture, service) defining metrics, vision, key initiatives and intended state.

Information Technology Strategy Consultant

MS Amlin

Transformed to a product operating model to embrace IT products with the aim to lower operational costs and increase efficiency. Developed communications to exec on the upcoming transformation to a product operating model. Project-managed activities and deliverables to stand-up the operating model, improve 8x key ITIL processes, find owners, develop a success measurement framework, and align IT applications and supporting business services into products. Observed benefits of ownership via a 10% work rate increase.

Product Operating Model Transformation Consultant

Allen & Overy

🎯Competing with the tension between serving fee-earner demand vs responsibility to maintain and support existing systems, the global IT function was failing to keep up, and suffer the costs of technical debt and siloed working. IT needed to lower operational cost and mitigate the risk of delivery failure, through a transformed operating model.
→ Assembled 2 multi-disciplined product teams to improve pain point products and prove value.
→ Built product backlogs in Azure DevOps and set up roles and ceremonies for Kanban ways of working.
→ Built SharePoint and Mural-based product team playbooks covering agile, portfolio and roadmap development using monday.com, and governance - to improve maturity and ways of working.
→ Measured, presented, and proved product team performance to senior executives.
→ Built 3-level organisational product hierarchy using application inventories and project portfolios.
→ Created and applied idea demand management process for IT to incept work from the business in a triaged and analysed way, reducing portfolio costs.
→ Developed E2E change governance lifecycle process to evaluate changes through design and implementation, connecting to ServiceNow, through multiple interviews with stakeholders.
🏆The 2 product teams showed proof-of-value working at least 25% faster than if project teams were stood up. Assuming 30% product team expansion, this would save £4.3m p.a. in costs, with more on better decision-making by the exec from team reports and from knowledge retention, which also reduced break-fix incidents by 25%. Idea demand management process ensured only critical work takes place and is correctly evaluated and prioritised beforehand, saving £3m of project budget.

Product Operating Model Transformation Consultant and Business Architect

UK Home Office

Invited to assess the progress made on product centric ways of working with policing, which had fallen under public scrutiny. Assembled a business-case mandate for pivoting on the trajectory taken. Concluded that better, wider understanding of product centricity, senior sponsorship, and a well governed next iteration was needed - enacted by making top-down and bottom-up changes, increasing engagement and transparency, starting with leadership.

Business Case Mandate writer

UK Health Security Agency

Responding to a hard-hitting spending review, the UKHSA had to meet the challenge of providing a reduced IT service whilst quickly losing IT staff. I helped define a potential product team composition of roles, behaviours and interfaces with projects and governance. Identified viable IT products and product teams, consisting of permanent and floating temporary resources able to traverse teams to meet demand.

Agile Transformation Consultant

Tokio Marine HCC

🎯TMHCC had acquired a series of companies and changed IT leadership. IT needed to both lower operating cost and mitigate delivery risks. Engaged by the new CIO to develop and implement a product operating model, and form product teams with IT resources and business stakeholders in leadership roles, so the business could drive their product’s vision directly & achieve greater customer focus.
→ Assembled and launched 10x line-of-business product teams, following a staged process to initiate the team and set up its ways of working.
→ Built product backlogs in Azure DevOps and queues within ServiceNow and set up roles and ceremonies for ways of working.
→ Built SharePoint-based product team playbooks covering agile, portfolio and roadmap development, and governance - to improve maturity and ways of working.
→ Developed detailed role profiles for key product team roles and established ways to assess current staff against them or recruit from the market.
→ Designed architecture-led change governance and accompanying processes to incept work into product teams through installing a Business Design Authority.
→ As product manager, mapped the end-to-end London Markets underwriter process, from receiving opportunities from brokers through to settlement of quotes, to identify & prioritise improvements
🏆Our product operating model enabled product teams to work 25% faster than project teams. Assuming 50% product team expansion, this saved £3.8m p.a. in costs, with additional savings on real-time and better decision-making by the exec from team reports and knowledge retention that also reduced break-fix incidents by 30%. Business leadership in these teams would enable direct product revenue benefits, e.g., adopting the top 10 London Markets team improvement initiatives was estimated to enable revenue increases by 15%, around £8m p.a.

Agile & Product Transformation Consultant & Product Manager

Crown Commercial Service

The CCS had to transform their entire procurement framework, dealing with ageing processes and accommodating changes in legislation following EU exit. Proposed a revised procurement framework by revising the TOM to decrease supplier dependence and rely on APIs and multi-sourced supplier specialist apps working together. Developed user personas covering buyer, supplier, and procurement roles, around the revised procurement system, to meet CCS objectives.

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

🎯The DLUHC’s LDCU aims to build councils’ digital capability, by providing training, funding opportunities for digital projects and collaboration across councils through the sharing of digital work. I managed the outflow of monies to councils and suppliers, acted as collaboration manager to several Covid-19 projects, and promoted council engagement on a wider-scale, to mitigate the risks of siloed working and duplicated effort across UK councils.
→ Enabled outbound grant payments to councils that won funding for collaborative digital projects, by managing and improving a complex process between interviews, decision making, policy and business case approvals, through to Treasury consent, grant determination and payment scheduling.
→ Collaboration managed Covid-19 relief projects aimed at using council data towards identifying triggers for social vulnerability, that could prompt early preventative interventions and mitigations.
→ Managed SAP payments to suppliers, procured new suppliers and set up purchase orders.
🏆Provided grant funding through the LDCU of over £10m to councils with high value initiatives and re-engaged 260 local councils to generate interest and lower risks of siloed working and duplication.

Collaboration and Finance Manager and Business Analyst

🫵 Are you an IT change leader at a blue-chip global financial services company?

📈 Do you need to reduce IT operating costs by about £10m p.a. without compromising, and even improving performance?

🤔 Are you overwhelmed by IT trying to keep pace with the business' rapidly increasing demands?
🤔 Are you frustrated by the perception that your IT teams are working in silos and not talking enough?
🤔 Are you pressured by the lack of decision making that imposes challenges on your portfolio?
🤔 Are you firefighting so often that you can't find the time or money to invest in IT for the future?

🏆 How much better would it be if you could reduce IT operating costs by £10m p.a., whilst having a better IT function that keeps pace with the business as a partner to it + the gains to reinvest into tech?

💡The reasons for your problems are either processes needing optimisation, relationships needing greater attention, or your organisation not focusing enough on the right things to do. This requires changes that put people, empowerment and decision-making at the heart of the change.

🫠 I've got over 25 years' experience, and have encountered and resolved these problems with over 20 clients. On average, I've assisted IT change leaders with saving £10m through various Digital Transformation and Business Change approaches, that have also helped strengthen IT and better align it to the business. I've transformed IT operating models, instigated product-thinking, solved on-the-ground problems that consume resource time, and built digital solutions to enhance processes.

📈 This is why my clients say things like: "Best described as 'fire and forget', he gets on with things, stays on topic, navigates difficult situations and stakeholders, and delivers quality output" and "Attention to detail is one of his strengths but he fit in well with our culture and took a flexible and pragmatic approach which worked well with our business".

🎬 If you want to reduce IT operating costs in the region of £10m without compromising performance, then contact me on 07876206306 for a confidential conversation. I look forward to helping you.

Specialties:
➡️Embedding product-based operating models and governance centered around product thinking 
➡️Analysing existing systems and processes, recommending and then implementing improvements 
➡️Leading digital product management within teams to drive product success against its vision 
➡️Defining value streams that track to portfolio initiatives and products 
➡️Building cost and data models and bespoke workflows to solve complex business problems

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