SQM- Strategic Planning

Bill is a successful Organisational Development Consultant combining his extensive practical experience at Director level across many industries with his academic knowledge. Focussing on strategic business development, Bill believes in developing the whole organisation through strategy, structure, systems, staff skills, and culture, to enable a business to grow effectively.

Bill has enjoyed a diverse career, beginning in IT where he engineered organisational changes developing innovative systems to achieve impact, resulting in his first Director role responsible for IT integration. Bill moved to Durham University Business School rising to a role as Director of the Management Development Centre. At Durham, Bill harvested the best practices in organisational and people development, and so after Durham, became an owner/partner of a consultancy firm working with companies in UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia, and Australia.

Bill has a Doctorate in Business Administration focussing on Strategic Decision making, a MSc (Distinction) Business Project Management, and a BA(Hons) Mathematics & Computing. Bill is also a Chartered Engineer, a Chartered Information Technology Professional, and is qualified in Psychometric assessment.

Bill has; designed, written, and delivered MA degrees in Business Management, and Leadership & Management in Education, authored a business management book published by the Financial Times, and two financial management textbooks for the Chartered Management Institute. As an Academy Ambassador, Bill is currently mentoring 3 MAT CEOs, and working strategically with 7 MATs. Bill is also Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of the 'Percy Hedley Foundation'. Returning to IT, Bill is now also developing Apps for the Apple Mac Store, and Windows Store.