Strategic consultants and leadership facilitators for the UK and Europe
Welcome to Owen Morris Partnership!
We provide practical, independent ‘strategic’ and ‘leadership’ support to Boards, executive teams and managers regarding the direction, governance, performance and development of their people and organisations.
Strategic thinking support: for better and more confident decisions.
If you are a leader or run a leadership team, we can help you boost the effectiveness and quality of thinking, problem-solving and decision-making. For example:
- We can help with fully defining problems, generating insight and analysing options
- We can help uncover blind-spots and challenge assumptions and biased thinking
- We can help you open-up thinking and reach team consensus better
- We can help you use a more systematic or rigorous approach in your decision-making
- You can use us a confidential ‘partner’ to sound out or develop ideas before raising with colleagues
Our support is particularly helpful, for example, where the path forward is not clear, where issues are complex, or where there is little alignment in views or ideas between team members. Or if your organisation is facing major or strategic change – like market disruption, an organisational re-structuring, or a leadership transition.
Our strategic support services include:
- Tailored 1:1 or team support on strategic/decision-making issues
- Market/stakeholder research and consultation
- Strategic/business reviews and analysis
- Strategic options assessment and strategy development
- Product, market and operating plans
- Performance improvement reviews and solutions
Support for leadership, organisational development and change
Alongside strategic support, we help leaders to lead, align, manage and develop people, teams and their organisation in pursuit of corporate goals. Often, we are helping leaders deal with major strategic issues like uncertainty, change, growth or re-structuring.
Our services cover the following areas, for example:
- Organisational structure, culture and values
- Leadership and management practices and processes
- Team development
- Individual development coaching
- Governance and senior team/board effectiveness
- Change planning and development
- Project and interim support
Structured facilitation. Independent thinking. Practical outcomes.
In our work, facilitation often plays a major role. It enables Boards and teams to step outside day-to-day pressures and work together effectively. 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, keeping team-spirit positive and respecful
- Practical: we focus on outcomes people can act on
Supporting leaders across business, public and charity sectors
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.
We have particular experience, for example, amongst charities, not-for-profit/regulatory bodies, membership associations, financial companies, professional service firms and SMEs.
Our systems perspective: intelligence > strategy > leadership > organisation
In all our work we emphasize a holistic, systematic view of how to drive organisational performance, stressing the above four, key drivers: the need first for internal and external information/intelligence, which duly informs and shapes strategy; which in turn drives leadership; which then requires appropriate organisational support resources and systems.
Who we are. How we are different.
- Established 15+ years and run by co-founders Mike Owen and Anthony Morris, who share three decades of direct management experience
- Specialist strategic consultancy stressing personal service and attention to clients
- Close network of associate partners with expertise in specialist functions
- Very wide-ranging experience across 30+ business, public and charity/non-profit sectors. This enables us to offer wider vision, perspective and experience to clients.
- Senior partner, Mike, brings 25+ years of senior leadership and Board experience. You get someone who’s ‘been there’ running and developing organisations himself. He understands senior management.
- We’re not just a facilitator or a consultant. We blend our advisory, consulting, facilitating and coaching services to offer a tailored service to each client.
More about Mike, our senior partner
- Two management degrees, including MBA. Diplomas in Marketing and Market Research. Diploma in Modern Applied Psychology and certified in Transformation Coaching and Positive Psychology Coaching.
- 10 years in large corporates: Baker Perkins Engineering, Time Life International, BT Yellow Pages, Lloyds Bank, Barclays Bank and Grant Thornton Robson Rhodes
- 8 years in exec and Board roles in public sector bodies, including NHS, Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, Housing Solutions Grp, London University and Amersham College
- 10 years in CEO/exec roles at not-for-profit bodies, including Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Proprietary Healthcare Association of Great Britain, IT Service Management Association, and British Psychotherapy Foundation
- 15 years as a charity trustee, including at Royal Life Saving Society (Chair), British Safety Council, The Landscape Institute and Chartered Institute of Environmental Health.
Start a conversation with us today!
We’re Owen Morris Partnership– independent strategic and leadership 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.