Who we are

Directors

Mike Price: Over 20 years of experience that includes developing the strategy and change leadership skills of senior leaders, board-level strategy consulting, and business leadership. Currently an Executive Fellow at Henley Business School, visiting tutor at London Business School's Centre for Management Development, and member of the advisory board at University of Bath School of Management. Formerly board member of Arthur D. Little's Global Strategy Practice and head of the firm's UK Strategy Practice and of strategy training globally; director of executive education at Imparta Ltd; senior strategic planner and R&D engineer at British Aerospace; and research scientist with the Ministry of Defence
BSc, MBA, Diploma in Marketing, CEng

Vicky Rhodes: Over 15 years of experience teaching strategic thinking and consulting on strategy, policy and economics in the public and private sectors. Currently visiting tutor at London Business School's Centre for Management Development and strategy coach at Henley Business School; formerly a consultant with Pricewaterhouse Coopers and with The Waterfront Partnership
BA, MSc, Accredited for LifO

Senior Consultants

Andreas Priestland: Over 25 years of international experience in the fields of leadership, learning and change, designing and implementing leadership development programmes and coaching leadership teams as they seek to implement change, such as post-merger integration, culture change, downsizing and company-wide initiatives. Currently a visiting tutor at Henley Business School. A major part of his career has been with BP International specialising in organisational development and learning
BSc, Diploma in Market Research, PGCE, NTL certificate in Organisational Development. MBTI certified

Vanessa Sadler: Over 20 years experience, of which 15 has been spent living and working outside the UK, as a CTI trained coach and trainer specialising in leadership development. Currently a leadership coach and facilitator with the Center for Creative Leadership. Formerly a strategy consultant for the LEK Partnership and then Schipol Airport, a business development manager for AT&T, and a chemical engineer working for Shell UK
BSc, MBA Certified for MBTI, CPI 260, FIRO-B, CDP, Voices, Benchmarks and others

Nathalie Metcalf: Over 20 years of international advisory experience, including spells with Accenture, Arthur D. Little, INSEAD business school and as an independent consultant; currently a visiting coach at Henley Business School, the University of Bath School of Management, Judge Institute and Warwick Business School
BSc, MBA, Diploma in Clinical Psychology. Certified for MBTI. Fluent in French

Ian Diamond: Over 20 years of experience including organisational and professional development, strategy consulting on strategy and product marketing. Currently visiting tutor at London Business School's Centre for Management Development, HEC Management School - University of Liège, HHL Leipzig - Graduate School of Management, and the HULT International Business School. Formerly consulting roles at Arthur D. Little and Charles River Associates, and marketing roles at Shell Chemicals
BSc, Diploma in Management. Fluent in Spanish

Consultants

Jim Lockwood: More than 30 years experience in the petrochemical industry working outside the U.K. in a variety of international sales, marketing and technology management positions for ExxonMobil. Commercial Director for a new ExxonMobil joint venture in Holland before retirement. Currently teaching business acumen and facilitating strategy sessions for our corporate and professional services clients
PhD

Associates

In addition to our core team above, we draw upon an extensive range of associates to cover a comprehensive range of topics, to increase our capacity to deliver leadership coaching and to extend our international reach.