Business Management Consultants

Directors

JOHN COURTNEY A.I.B.C., M.A.B.S., MInstD

The Chairman of Strategy Consulting Limited, John Courtney has been a Company Director for over 20 years, including many years as Chairman or Managing Director in his own businesses which have ranged from sporting goods to agricultural chemicals. He has been a Non Executive Director for several SME's.

John has trained at The Academy of Business Strategy, and is an associate of the Institute of Business Consulting, and a member of the Institute of Directors. He is also a visiting lecturer on the MBA course at Cranfield University School of Management and is also a Judge in The National Business Awards sponsored by Orange.

John has run training seminars at board level on corporate strategy and made presentations to both large and small groups on funding strategies. He brings a wealth of experience, particularly in corporate strategy, funding, business planning, internet strategy and marketing strategy including new product development and brand marketing strategy.

John is an approachable, practical, down to earth consultant comfortable in the board room of plc's as well as helping with implementation with smaller companies.

 

KATHRYN DAWSON BSc. (Hons), M.B.A.

Kathryn Dawson is the company's Marketing Director, and she is also an experienced and multi-skilled consultant in her own right. Prior to Strategy Consulting, Kath was head of Strategic Business Analysis and International Client Administration with a multinational corporation and operated in both the UK and USA.

Kath is mainly responsible for client, supplier and associate relationships. Her passion is to deliver effective Search Engine Optimisation for clients.

 

STEPHANIE ILES

Stephanie's talent is in Sales and Marketing Management. Her career spans almost 20 years and has been split between these two sectors, initially in Media and then in Freight Forwarding. Stephanie also spent 8 years assisting in the rebuilding of the largest Kuwaiti Newspaper's Commercial Press, she then worked in southern California working in Video Production and then in Freight Forwarding.

Stephanie assists our clients by heightening their awareness of the various funding and strategic tools that we work with to ensure that they have the optimum amount of options available to progress their business.

Associate Directors

ANN GOODWIN Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipM

Ann began her long and varied marketing career with household names such as Fisons, RS Components and Bostik. Whilst working for the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, Ann developed and implemented a strategy to communicate the health and safety message both in the UK and overseas to various safety critical industries including construction, rail, oil and healthcare.

Her last position as an employee was as Marketing Director for Catalis Rail Training, an international supplier of training and development services to the rail industry, where Ann had responsibility to develop a management portfolio of services for the newly privatised industry. Clients included Railtrack, Virgin Trains, Amec, Balfour, Alstom and Kier.

Today, Ann advises on strategic marketing direction to meet clients’ business objectives. In addition, Ann overseas the implementation of marketing plans to ensure the various tactical aspects are adopted across the breadth of the marketing mix. Despite holding senior positions, Ann has never lost the ability to 'roll up her sleeves' and deliver cost-effective, practical solutions that work.

In recent years, she has supported clients at both a strategic and tactical level across a number of industries including Construction, NHS and Healthcare, Rail, FMCG, Leisure and IT.

As a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and a Chartered Marketer, Ann has lectured for the professional CIM exams and delivered numerous training courses on marketing.

Outside of work, Ann is an avid follower and member of Leicester Tigers and England rugby supporters clubs.

 

DAVID RICH F.C.P.I.L, F.I.L.E.X.

David is an Associate Director with Strategy Consulting and an Associate with Beer & Partners. He has helped many businesses obtain funding via private equity investments and the Small Firm’s Loan Guarantee Scheme and is an expert at preparing business plans and forecasts for such applications. His wide expertise and experience are also used to help and advise businesses on how to grow and thrive in today’s competitive marketplace. He is also a business advisor with his activities centred mainly on the internet, software and insurance sectors.

David is a former lawyer with over 20 years in claims related professions, the majority of which was spent with the UK’s leading personal injury law firm. He has for many years regularly written articles on IT and business for various industry journals. He holds a number of board positions and has successfully built and sold a number of his own businesses.

 

Associate Consultants

GARY COOK MBA

Gary Cook has been helping businesses and organisations with marketing and strategy for more than 20 years and continually attracts strong plaudits for his ability to engage, develop and inspire clients and client staff whilst fulfilling a project brief. He is able to cover the full consulting cycle from initial scoping through to the development of new ideas and their implementation. An excellent communicator and strategic thinker, alongside his consulting activities Gary also delivers Marketing and Strategy ‘learning’ as a Visiting Academic in a number of leading UK Business Schools and for the Institute of Directors.

His sector expertise is wide ranging and centres on his ability to adapt the delivery of his expertise to the specific context of any organisation and industry. Gary has worked for a wide range of companies and organisations including: IBM, BA, Amey, Alstom, Porsche, BAE Systems, Galliford Try, Rolls Royce, Nike, Nissan, Renault, Care UK, Aggregate Industries, Suzuki, Thomas Cook, Inchcape, NHS, Hyundai, Thistle and Guoman Hotels and Surrey, Bradford and Coventry Councils. Sustained executive teaching engagements include: Network Rail and TfL (3 years); Corus (4 years); N G Bailey (6 years); and Ford (8 years). Sector specific experience would incorporate: automotive; transport; hotel and leisure; engineering; public sector; and retail and other B2C companies where customer service and experience are paramount. Gary has also developed and managed a number of specifically tailored ‘Corporate Universities’ on behalf of companies including Ford Motor Company, Sumitomo and Group 4 Securicor.

Gary has an MBA from Warwick; a first degree in management from Bradford; and the Postgraduate Diploma from the Chartered Institute of Marketing. His educational faculty experience stretches across a number of Business Schools and other learning organisations including Warwick, Henley, Loughborough, Bradford, Manchester, Brunel, Birmingham, Keele and Ashcroft International Business School, the CIM, the IOD and the ILM.

 

JANE BROMLEY Chartered Marketer, DipM, BA Hons

With 19 years business experience, Jane has advised the Boards and Management teams of both blue chip and smaller companies for well over a decade. Having set up a company from scratch, led a European roll out, increased revenues by £millions several times over, helped companies to turn around sliding profits and headed up global product launches, she uses her extensive expertise to help businesses achieve their full potential.

Jane trained at Cranfield University and Ashridge in Breakthrough Business Strategy. One of the very first Chartered Marketers, she has an international reputation for delivering results through effective business strategies and creating compelling value for customers. She lectures on subjects ranging from “What successful companies do differently”, “Bringing business strategy to life” to “Extraordinary Results through customer loyalty”. She is currently writing a book on leadership.

 

ANTHONY CARNELL BA, MA, CIPD

Anthony is a Human Resources Professional with 18 years blue-chip and high technology experience operating across cultural and business sectors, with particular expertise in learning, performance management, OD, on-line HR applications (e.HR), career development and HR strategy. Anthony has worked in line, HR Director and consulting roles. A very confident communicator with a logical mind, Anthony is known for his positive behaviour, energy and personal drive.

Anthony is a member of the CIPD and is highly prized for his breadth of experience, ability to influence throughout organisational hierarchies, his wide-ranging client base, and his presence in Boardroom and in line contexts. If you need something done against the odds, Anthony is usually the right person to see it through. Anthony’s clients range from small to large organisations, and include:

Abbey National, AC Neilsen, ALSTOM, AMEX, Barclays, BT, Cannons Group plc, Chartered Trust, Citroen, DeBeers (DTC), Debenhams, E.ON, Equitable Life, Foreign & Colonial, Glaxosmithkline, Interbrand, Ipsos-RSL, Lotus Development (UK), Marks & Spencer, McCormick, Mead, Mourant, NEC Group, New World Group, SAS, Siemens, Unipart Group, VERITAS, and some public-sector organisations.

 

PETE WAILES

Pete has been active in the search industry for 7 years, and brings a heavily technical approach to SEO.

Coming from a programming background, Pete is highly skilled at diagnosing and fixing issues with website architecture, content management systems and internal linking.

In his many years in the industry as a consultant and in-house marketer, he's accrued a vast amount of experience also in email, affiliate, PPC and viral/social marketing, as well as audience building and data analysis.

Pete's also been known know to speak at various industry conferences, including SES and SMX, the leading global search conferences.

 

MENNO KUIPER

Menno is one of the industry’s top PPC experts, and is a Google PPC / Analytics specialist and is GAP Certified. He specialises in increasing website profitability and conversion rates by identifying acute problem areas using Google Analytics, followed by landing page optimisation. Menno can setup and analyze your PPC campaigns and get the best ROI by researching the keywords used for the campaign and setup ROI tracking.

He is also an expert on Google’s Product Extensions is a feature of Google AdWords launched in 2010 that allows you to leverage your existing Google Merchant Centre feed to integrate your products directly in your search ads.

 

SUE MORGAN

With over 20 years of experience in diverse roles across Sales, Sales Operations, Marketing, Tech Support, and Research & Development, Sue enables clients to understand how their company is perceived by their customers and how to take effective action on customer perceptions. Sue has advised executives and management in Sales, Marketing, and Customer Experience Management organizations for Fortune 500 companies. Clients realize improved efficiency (and reduced costs) by better alignment of resources, and increased competitive differentiation and revenue by focusing and excelling at what’s most important to their customer.

Sue brings a wealth of experience guiding organizations to proactively focus on the customer, especially during times of dynamic change such as economic downturn and mergers and acquisitions. Sue is recognized as a trusted advisor with her ability to align and connect people, programs, and processes across organizations and geographies. Sue worked in the hotel industry in convention sales and recently completed customer experience assessment and value strategy recommendations to a hotel group in the US. Sue’s passionate commitment to coaching diverse people to evolve beyond their comfort zone is evident in all she does.

 

JAN RAKOWICZ MBA

Jan has been a management consultant for the past 15 years, interspersed with a number of interim general management assignments. He has worked for a wide range of organizations including Boston Consulting Group, Societe Generale, a supplier of furniture to IKEA, a corporate finance boutique, the European Patent Office and primary healthcare.

Jan has worked in Western and Central Europe and speaks fluent English, Polish, French and German. His special interests are organisation strategy, implementation of change, and aligning the purpose of the organisation with that of its stakeholders.

 

DANNY DAVIS MBA, Bsc(Hons), DipM, MCIM, MCMI, Cmgr, Chartered Marketer

Danny specialises in the integration of business units, departments, functions, process, IT and systems having run the merger of BP/Castrol across Europe ($101m spend, 180 projects), EMAP, Alcatel. He has also project managed some of the largest change programmes on the planet ($525m global spend).

Danny lectures at London Business School on the Strategy and M&A/JV courses to MBA, Exec MBA, Global Exec MBA, Sloane and Masters in Finance programmes. He is on the board of the Chartered Management Institute (70,000 members) as a Non Exec and was in the England water polo squad for a decade, captaining his club in the European cup.

 

RAY CLANCY

Ray is a PR specialist and has 20 years experience in Fleet Street working for the Press Association, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday. She is a regular contributor to The Sun, Sunday Express and Family Circle magazine. She specialises in tailor-made articles that give clients control over what appears in publications and works with photographers and marketing specialists. Ray also provides media awareness seminars. She is a mentor for the Prince's Trust.

 

 

MARK WING

Mark consults on both image and culture. He helps organisations market themselves, their products and their services more effectively as a brand.

His driving passion is to produce Marques of excellence. He does this by defining how the principles that drive your brand, both internally and externally, are aligned to your brand promise.

He graduated in 1985 and worked with Enterprise IG for 7 years and Wolff Olins for 6 years before becoming Head of Design at Conran Design Group.

In recent years Mark has worked as an independent brand strategy consultant, helping clients define the desired customer experience for their services, both on and off-line. He has also led culture change programmes, brand engagement projects and defined a variety of internal communication campaigns to support these. He is understandably very proud of the high profile brand identities he has helped to create over the years.

 

DAVID REGLER

David's background extends over 17 years in sales management, ranging from small and medium sized businesses to international organisations. Always a hands-on sales leader, David has recruited and managed sales teams to exceed targets and drive revenue growth in competitive business-to-business environments.

Since 2005 David has worked as a management consultant specialising in sales strategy, operations and execution. His client portfolio ranges from start-ups & emerging companies, through to established firms needing to re-start or turnaround sales performance. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Sales & Marketing Management.

Our links with the Institute of Management Consultancy, the Academy of Business Strategy, the Institute of Directors and Beer & Partners and the Chartered Institute of Marketing provide an extensive network of qualified and experienced consultants with a depth of experience in strategy, marketing, finance, business planning and the internet.

 

NIK HRSTIC AABS, MInstD

Nik has a successful record in both strategic business planning and implementation. He has helped ‘Blue Chip’ companies exceed their expectations with market entry and business development, restructuring, performance turnaround and merger and acquisition initiatives.

He has start-up, JV, emerging market, growth and mature companies experience with both public and privately held organisations. He is commercially focused on behalf of his clients and has excellent analytical, problem solving, communication and relationship building skills.

Nik has more than 20 years corporate experience in industry with leading multi-nationals in manufacturing and supply chain services sectors. He has worked for more than a decade in Managing Director / Regional Vice President roles in UK, North America, Europe and the Far East.

 

PHILIP ASTLEY MORTON F.C.C.A.

Philip is a Chartered Certified Accountant with a background as Financial Controller / Finance Director in manufacturing companies. He now specialises in developing financial models for businesses, particularly those that are looking to raise funding and need a better understanding of their cash flow & working capital requirements. Philip also assists businesses with “one off” accounting projects and with the development and improvement of their internal procedures and financial reporting.

If you would like to know more about our business strategy services contact us today on 0845 838 0936 or email us.