Strategic Review
Providing consulting services to executive teams to facilitate strategy development, to challenge existing strategic plans, and to assess business plan delivery and change readiness.
Applied Skills:
Foresight and visioning, corporate and business strategy development, customer and market insights, competitiveness, price setting and margin management, innovation and commercial launch planning, acquisitions and merger integration, organisation design and change management.
Experience:
Over 25 years’ corporate and professional services experience in strategy development and execution, advising the World’s leading companies
Significant leadership roles in strategy and operations consulting at Deloitte, including the CEO of Deloitte’s strategy practice in Europe (Monitor Deloitte)
Specific industry sector expertise in consumer healthcare, pharmaceuticals, engineering and science, media, and energy and resources
Chartered Engineer at BP International, with experience in research and development, ventures, sales and marketing, strategic planning
Relevant Qualifications:
Master of Business Administration, Cranfield School of Management, 1992/93
Testimonials:
Deloitte Global Excellence Award (judged on client strategic impact, change management complexity and commercial value)
Leadership Agility
Research-led advisory services relating to the psychology of leadership agility, including consumer insights, leadership and organisation development, team collaboration and communication.
Applied Skills:
Consumer psychology and behavioural change, research and statistical methods, social psychology of groups and individuals, cognition, human capital consulting, talent management, negotiation and influence, decision making and heuristics, differential psychology, the psychology of resilience and agility
Experience:
- Research thesis investigating the use of serious games to assess the performance and mental agility of a population of international senior managers in a global consumer goods company
- Collaboration with Dr Dimitrios Tsivrikos (CPsychol AFBOsS), a highly experienced academic, consultant and advisor in consumer psychology, and a Senior Lecturer at University College London.
- Deep practical experience of complex and international organisational change programmes
Relevant Qualifications:
MSc Industrial, Organisational and Business Psychology, University College London, 2016/17 (Distinction)
Certified Professional Scrum Master
Executive Mentor
Leadership mentoring, team coaching and facilitation, non-executive Board advisory.
Applied skills:
Executive leadership development, business strategy articulation, shareholder value, business resilience and risk management, team and individual performance coaching, adaptive and programmatic transformation, board governance and executive mentoring.
Experience:
- Significant leadership and P&L responsibility, including roles as a CEO, Managing Partner, and International Sector leader.
- Board-level experience through client service on major programs, facilitation in executive transition labs, and strategic advisor in Board Effectiveness reviews
- Non-Executive Director/Trustee at Prostate Cancer UK (Charity). Member of the Board Finance, Audit and Risk Committee and the Board Research Committee.
Client Testimonial:
“And, of course, as ever Simon was a pleasure to work with. I felt – and continue to feel – he is properly vested in helping me and the team succeed. I’ve found his injection of ideas and provocation around our strategy very helpful” (Partner, Professional Services Firm, 2017)