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This is where Julian loves intervening , seeking to be as helpful as possible supporting organisations, teams and individuals close the gap between intent and accomplishment, and secure the wonderful results that follow. Typical examples in the last twelve months include support to a global telecoms company aiming to be more collaborative, assistance to a leadership team frustrated by its inability to construct strong common ground, and coaching of a group of middle managers struggling to focus on the essentials of customer and employee engagement.
Julian has been a leadership and change management consultant for over 20 years, with Coopers and Lybrand, Kinsley Lord and Towers Perrin. Since June 2008, he has been operating as an independent consultant with the aim of working across the public, private, third and international development sectors. His experience ranges across major institutions in the public sector: global corporations in the oil and gas, telecoms ,retail and IT services sectors: and a number of charitable and social enterprises. Most recent clients include Nokia, Shell, IPC, Serco, Department of Health, and the Ministry of Agriculture in Sierra Leone.
Julian holds an MA from Oxford and an MBA from Cranfield, and is a graduate of the Gestalt International Organisation and Systems Development Programme. He is qualified to administer Myers Briggs. And he tries to keep out of trouble as much as possible by raising four children under the age of 13, managing and coaching at a cricket and rugby youth club in North London, and running along metropolitan and rural trails.
I am drawn to the gap between intent and accomplishment. There are many examples in organisational, team and individual life when one follows the other, gloriously. But it is not always the case – the disappointment of the organisation witnessing the ineffective execution of the well crafted strategy, the frustration of the team that stubbornly refuses to amount to more than the sum of the parts, and the consternation of the individual who enacts and repeats patterns of behaviour that they are trying to alter.