Sea Change Maritime
Sea Change Maritime
STRATEGY • SKILLS • INNOVATION
STRATEGY • SKILLS • INNOVATION
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I grew up with the sea at the centre of everything. My father was a ship broker for a large multinational and dinner-table conversation was vessels being ordered and commissioned and the excitement of launching ceremonies. Long before I understood any of it, I understood that the sea moves the world and that there are people, skills and judgement behind every part of that.
That's stayed with me through over twenty years working across the sector, in security, training, business development and most recently qualification development. At Securewest International, I saw first-hand what it takes to keep people and vessels safe in some of the world's highest-threat waters, managing accounts including the US Military Sealift Command and Maersk and helping build a 24/7 Maritime Assistance Centre that depended entirely on the judgement and skills of the people running it. No amount of technology substituted for that.
More recently, at South Devon College, I got to build that same principle into the next generation. Leading two successful Innovate UK consortium bids, including skills lead partner in an £8m CMDC Round 3 and the ROC+DOCK autonomous systems programme. All the time growing our apprentice employer network fourfold and watching students go from classroom to successful employment in a range of maritime occupations.
The maritime sector is now going through its biggest change since sail gave way to the internal combustion engine. I've spent my career learning the same lesson from every angle, in security operations and in classrooms alike:
No technology delivers on its own
People make it work. If they have the skills to
Sea Change Maritime is where that lifetime of watching the sector change and helping people change with it, becomes the work itself
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