Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr

Sep 2024 – Sep 2025 · 1 yr

Mar 2023 – Sep 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

Feb 2023 – Sep 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos · Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom · Remote

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos · Manchester, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid

Sep 2022 – Sep 2024 · 2 yrs

May 2021 – May 2022 · 1 yr · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

• The CMCE bridges the gap between academic research and consulting practice to help consultants increase the value of what they deliver. I am helping with their strategy development.

Mar 2021 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr

Jan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 2 mos

Jan 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos

Jan 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos

Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr

Sep 2020 – Jul 2021 · 10 mos

Jan 2020 – Apr 2025 · 5 yrs 3 mos · Exeter, England, United Kingdom · On-site

• Consulting Masterclasses: MBA cohort

Apr 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 11 mos · Greater Cardiff Area

• I co-founded and am now Chair of Repair Cafe Wales - an environmental non-profit which starts, runs and supports Repair Cafes in Wales. Repair Cafes reduce CO2 emissions, build communities, and improve mental health by matching people that need things fixed with people that can fix them for free. We grew the firm to 90 Repair Cafes in Wales in four years, and now have over 2000 volunteers.

Jan 2016 – Present · 10 yrs 2 mos · United Kingdom

• I use evidence-based advice to help small consulting firms grow their value.

Sep 2005 – Present · 20 yrs 6 mos · Cardiff, United Kingdom

• I am a leading authority on the advisory industry and a strategic advisor to boutique consultancies. I have researched, taught, written about and practiced management consulting for over twenty years. My textbook on Management Consulting, with Oxford University Press, was the best-selling book on this topic in the world, and my most recent book on growing boutique consultancies won an award from the Centre for Management Consulting Excellence. My training courses for consultants & MBAs recently won a national award from the British Academy of Management, and three University ‘teaching excellence’ prizes.
• I have advised several large consultancies on innovation, including KPMG and IBM, and have helped over 100 boutique consultancies improve their revenues.
• In addition, I was the first academic Fellow of the International Council of Management Consultancy Institutes, am a Fellow of the CIPD and the Advanced Institute of Management, and a Member of the Institute of Consulting. I have won over £450,000 of research awards including three prestigious ESRC awards to study innovation in the consulting industry.

Sep 2004 – Jan 2007 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Isle of Man

• I was the co-founder and owner of a high growth telco supplier with strong IP. I wrote and won the patent on the product and raised seed capital for the start-up, and successfully negotiated with brands such as Virgin and O2. We appeared on BBC 2's Dragons' Den in 2006 and sold the company to PowaPoint in 2007.

Jan 2004 – Apr 2023 · 19 yrs 3 mos

Sep 2003 – Sep 2005 · 2 yrs · Lancaster, England, United Kingdom

• Introduced and developed a strategic relationship with Accenture and Lancaster Management School.

Jan 2001 – Sep 2003 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Responsible for team conducting business analysis and process design for all digital products.

Dec 1999 – Mar 2001 · 1 yr 3 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• Undertook a variety of change management roles in consulting projects at British Airways, Energis, Barclays, and the Royal bank of Scotland.

Jul 1996 – Jul 1999 · 3 yrs · United Kingdom

• A variety of consulting contracts including:
• Research on Professional Service Firms
• Change management for medium-sized manufacturers
• Strategy work for telecoms clients
• Employee Engagement