Welcome to Owen Morris Partnership! We are independent strategic and leadership support facilitators.
We help leaders – and their teams – think, plan, make decisions and work better together.
The need for wider thinking and a fresh perspective
Organisations face changes around them everyday but, of course, it’s not always easy for leaders to know how best to respond. What can be so valuable, therefore, is to have the spark and stimulus of wider input, thinking and structured dialogue. In short, the power of collective intelligence. We help you access such power.
A fresh perspective is especially valuable if your organisation is facing major or strategic change – like market disruption, an organisational re-structuring, or a leadership transition – or where there’s a need to challenge existing assumptions and ensure fresh ideas and solutions.
Strategic facilitators to help shape your future success
Our approach draws on many potential methods, including, of course, research and analysis, but particularly well-facilitated thinking and deliberation with targeted people from inside or outside your organisation, together with the application of various cognitive and creative techniques.
As independent facilitators, we’re well placed to surface untapped or unspoken views and ideas, as well as gently offering challenge and boosting clarity of thinking and stimulating consensus.
Leadership support facilitators to make the future happen
As well as strategic facilitation, we offer support with strategy development, business planning, organisational development, Board governance, change and innovation. Also, our services include management coaching, team development, and interim/project management.
We work with leaders of business, not-for-profit and public sector organisations – including CEOs, Chairs, Boards, non-execs, senior executive teams and individual managers.
Intelligence > strategy > leadership > organisation
Behind our approach is a stress on the core role of clear, effective ‘thinking’ and a ‘systems’ view of how so much of organisational success depends on four key drivers: intelligence informs strategy, which drives leadership, which in turn needs good organisational systems.
Sadly, sometimes leaders may not have the required time, experience or perspective required. That’s where Owen Morris can assist:
- Intelligence: See the latest trends, analyse data, identify and think through the key issues, develop creative ideas, evaluate choices, and make wise decisions. Clearly, rigorously, and mitigating against biases.
- Strategy: Research, develop, define and monitor strategies and effective plans. From inspiring ‘strategic purpose’ statements to agile work/team plans.
- Leadership: Developing inspiring leadership practices for the organisation. So that all staff feel valued, engaged, empowered, informed and motivated to deliver their best.
- Organisation: Defining and putting in place needed organisational practices and systems to support strategy and leadership. Including structure, culture, team/work practices, communication, information/reporting, risk, technology, and work environment policies.
Strategic and leadership support facilitators – with more than 25 years’ experience
The practice has a small core team but with an extended network of associate specialist partners in a range of management disciplines, ranging from finance to HR.
Our commercial clients range from professional service firms, owner-managed firms, and family-run enterprises to new start-ups/sole traders. In the not-for-profit sector, we specialise in large and small charities, membership/professional bodies, social enterprises and NGOs.
Senior Partner, Mike Owen
An MBA, a CMI Fellow and qualified marketer and researcher, Mike is an experienced general manager, CEO, Board Chair, joint-venture MD, non-exec/trustee, executive/Board facilitator (e.g. DISC certified), and management coach/mentor, with experience across a uniquely diverse and valuable range of over two-dozen business and non-business sectors…
His commercial sector experience includes 15 years in sales/marketing with major companies, including Baker Perkins Engineering, Time Warner Inc, British Telecom, Lloyds Bank and Barclays Bank. He’s also been a senior consultant with international advisers Grant Thornton and MD or CEO with companies in the health and IT sectors. More recently, with Owen Morris, he has advised businesses ranging from start-ups to established professional service firms.
His public sector experience includes head of planning for a £600m-turnover national NHS authority and Board roles with a range of organisations in the housing and education sectors.
Mike’s extensive non-profit experience includes a diverse range of executive, non-executive and consulting roles, particularly amongst member-based and professional bodies. His CEO/operational director experience includes, for example, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, the Service Management Association, the British Psychotherapy Foundation and the Proprietary Healthcare Association of Great Britain.
His more than 15 years’ experience in Board trustee roles spans small and large charities, including the Abbeyfield Society, British Safety Council, London University, the chartered Landscape Institute, the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, and most recently, the Royal Life Saving Society where he was Chair of the Board of Trustees.
Operations Partner, Anthony Morris
Operations Partner, Anthony, has similarly over 20 years’ management experience across both commercial and charitable organisations. His business experience comprises management roles in the catering, consumer durables and manufacturing sectors. He has also set up, run and successfully sold two service-based businesses.
His several years’ experience in the charity sector includes roles with mental healthy charity, MIND, in the Thames Valley, and with a community support charity in the West Midlands. He has also been extensively involved with the Abbeyfield Society, Oxford.
We’re Owen Morris Partnership – independent strategic and leadership support facilitators. We’re ready to work with your organisation!
Read more about our services and experience here us on this website. And, if you’d like discuss a project, call us today on 01994 278118 or email us via the Contact page.