About the Business

John has been involved in transforming organisations of over 20 years. He started in engineering, and after obtaining an MBA, spent formative years with Hilton International, then in ABB, the engineering multinational. With ABB, the complexity of the reality of efficient and effective operations became all too clear. John become exposed to national and international management and change projects, in a rapidly changing business environment.

John then worked with Vanguard Consulting, where the methodologies of strategy and change were learned. Especially being able to understand an organisation as a system of interrelated parts. Working with a multitude of different organisations, with very good consultants, gave John the experience to assess and lead effective change himself.

Lean, as originated in the Toyota Production System, Senge, Argyris, and Deming ideas provide robust tools to understand organisations, and to deliver change. When confronted with barriers to change, John is able to develop flexible approaches to the challenges that real organisations face.

John has delivered lean & bespoke workshops, leaders development, managers training, and team building. Taken leadership teams through major change, and transformed services - removing waste in work flows, developing teamwork, and improving the operations.

Business Services

How I help organisations

How I help organisations

The pace required as a manager today, creates challenges that are far easier to solve when supported by someone with the right innovative expertise; built on knowledge of what works and what does not. I lead change, working with both private and public sector organisations.

The way I do this, is by understanding your issues, collaborate with you and develop a clear plan, and work with your people to make change happen. This is really about innovative change, that takes people, teams and organisations through transformation; from old to new. Its about learning from the past, and applying novel approaches that are at the cutting edge of flexible, effective, team operations.

Organisation Health Check: Understand where and what to focus on for success. One of the most difficult things for any experienced manager to do is to evaluate their own organisation. As an experienced manager and change consultant. I can help you to bring an impartial understanding to some of the issues you face.

Improve your work flows: Analysing your work flows, quantifying waste and inefficiency. And seeing how this impacts on your staff and performance. Stripping out waste, to improve service and efficiency.

Develop effective teams: Empowering people and enabling effective decision-making. Developing teams to become effective at continuous improvement, and adding value to the workflow.

Transform your services: Redefine and redesign end to end, to deliver more value and better customer satsfaction. Developing a new way of working that deals with solving the root cause of the barriers to efficiency.

Culture Change: Taking your people to higher levels of commitment and responsibility. Developing end to end commitment, breaking down barriers between departments.

Management development: Coaching for effective leadership. Understanding how to effectively manage core services through measures, and maximising value. How to create empowered staff.

Effective measures: Use data and information to make better decisions. Working with managers to develop measures that allow you to pinpoint causes that affect performance, and set up continuous improvement.


Location & Hours
Buckingham, MK18 1NX
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