Welcome to Owen Morris Partnership!
We are independent strategic and leadership ‘coaching’ facilitators. We help leaders – and their teams – think, plan, make decisions and work better together.
Clearer thinking. Wider perspectives. Better decisions.
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 for leaders to be able to work through their thinking with others and, at the same time, hear and discuss wider insight, ideas and perspectives.
That’s where we come in. We act as a trusted, external ‘strategic partner’ for leaders, helping to provide extra space, objectivity and process-support for thinking about issues and making decisions. And we facilitate wider group conversations that both strengthen thinking further and enhance support. Leaders achieve:
- Sharper, clearer thinking:
- Increased confidence in decisions
- Stronger staff alignment and commitment
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.
Structured facilitation. Independent thinking. Practical outcomes.
We bring an external perspective to help teams step outside day-to-day pressures and see the bigger picture more clearly. Our facilitation is always:
- Independent: we can help surface unspoken ideas and views and gently challenge
- Structured: we create clear, purposeful processes for discussion
- Human: we pay attention to relationships, tone and dynamics
- Practical: we focus on outcomes people can act on
Wider executive support for moving forward
As well as facilitation, we offer support with research and analysis, strategic and 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.
Our approach: thoughtful, strategic and practical
Behind our approach is a stress on the core role of clear strategic thinking and a ‘systems’ view of how organisations operate.
Strategic thinking gives an organisation its heart, purpose, and direction. It has to be based on discussing ideas and different perspectives, not just hard data. And it needs to involve widely across an organisation, to be effective. This is where facilitation fits in.
We see strategy in turn as vitally linked to leadership. And we see organisations as human ‘systems’, where strategy and leadership must be managed in sync with crucial other elements, for example, culture, values, and management processes. An overall holistic approach is key.
Professional support based on decades of real organisational experience!
The practice, established over ten years ago, is led by founding partners, Mike Owen and Anthony Morris, who share decades of experience across commercial, public and not-for-profit sectors. We also have an extended network of associate specialist partners in a range of disciplines, ranging from finance to HR.
Senior Partner, Mike Owen
An MBA, Mike has 25+ years’, very wide-ranging management experience across more than two dozen markets, spanning commercial, public and charity/not-for-profit sectors.
His commercial sector experience, focused in sales/marketing, includes major companies: 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.
Mike’s public sector experience includes a senior strategy role in the NHS and Board roles in the housing and education sectors. His wide non-profit experience includes a diverse range of executive, non-executive and consulting roles, particularly with professional bodies.
His non-profit CEO/director roles have included, for example, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, the Service Management Association, the British Psychotherapy Foundation and the Proprietary Healthcare Association. His 15+ years’ trustee Board experience includes the British Safety Council, London University, the 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
Co-founder and partner, Anthony, has over 20 years’ management experience, focused across commercial and charitable organisations.
His business experience includes 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, and a community support charity in the West Midlands.
Start a conversation with us today!
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 to discuss a project, call us today on 01994 278118 or email us via the Contact page.