About Us

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John Desborough has 35+ years as a senior IT professional and management consultant with extensive experience in Data & Information Governance & Management, Practice Development & Management, Program and Project Management. His experience includes:

• Establishing and growing consulting/implementation practices and growing them internationally – including:
• Running multiple multi-national implementation programs with budgets in excess of $10M. 
• Rescuing large “red” programs and turning them around into successful implementations
• Establishing and growing Program Management and Project Management Offices for clients, as part of implementation activities. 
• Developed and managed channel partner programs with a variety of software vendors and subcontractors to deliver solutions and services to clients. 

In addition to Program, Project and Practice Management, John has significant background in strategic and business planning, requirements definition, IT portfolio and program management and project implementation, information and data management, information data governance and IT/business strategy development and implementation within private and public-sector organizations.  His expertise includes corporate strategy, product management, business development and resource management/people care. He excels in establishing and facilitating collaboration across diverse sets of stakeholders and distributed/joint teams to engender successful business outcomes. 

In the data quality and data governance domain, John has worked with over 400 clients to undertake assessments of data quality health and maturity, data governance maturity and worked with clients to develop strategies and execution plans for their implementation. He has developed a series of assessment and health check surveys for research, and advisory, purposes which have seen over 1,750 companies complete in the last two years. Using a set of technologies that allow for the remote assessment/health check surveys to be completed, John has also undertaken to take those skills and extend what Desborough Consulting Group can provide to clients: assessments, quiz funnels, and forms-based solutions that can integrate into client ecosystems. 

Partial client list:

ABN Amro    · Airbus    · Aon    · Aon Benfield, UK    · AT&T    · Bank Openheim    · Bechtel    · Blue Cross Blue Shield California    · Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce    · Canadian Resident Matching Service    · Citibank    · Coca Cola Company    · EDS    · Enbridge    · Gan Insurance    · General Motors    · Lincoln Life    · Lloyds TSB    · Manitoba Public Insurance   · McCain    · Nextel    · Norfolk County, UK    · PetroCanada    · Pfizer    · Rolls Royce Aerospace    · Shaw Communications Inc   · Sun Bank    · Suzuki    · Tundra Semiconductor    · UK Department of Work and Pensions    · Wesleyan Assurance Society    · Westpac Bank     

Desborough Consulting Group Inc.

2439 Rosewood Ave, Ottawa, Ontario Canada K2B 7L3

info@desboroughgroup.com +1.613.240.1823