John Horsley

For over thirty years John has worked at board and operations level with medium and large organisations in both executive and consulting roles. The results he has achieved testify to the effectiveness of the methodologies, tools, management skills and change processes he has developed to assist clients deliver successful change and performance improvement.

After leaving teaching John moved into commerce, working in sales and general management roles within the engineering components industry. During this period he developed an aptitude for managing successful business turnarounds.

Attracted by the challenge of working within a large organisation, John joined Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) where he was responsible for the management of the real estate, logistics, administration and information systems necessary to support the North Region's £220+ million revenue, 1200 employee business. His approach to management and organisation achieved significant improvements in performance in all departments, and in particular his re-organisation of Customer Administration was cited as a case study in the IMPACT programme managed by KPMG on behalf of the National Computing Council, major corporate sponsors and the DTI.

His work also featured as an exemplary case study in The Sunday Times video series - "Quality Improvement through Team-work".

Since 1990 John has been consulting on Organisation Design and Change and he has on several occasions taken executive roles in his client companies to lead change initiatives and turnaround situations.

John has a passion for sharing his skills and knowledge. He has been a visiting speaker at the MBA programmes of the University of Hull and Webster University in Geneva. Working with his long term DEC colleague and mentor Laurence Megson he developed some of the most innovative and effective training programmes in the fields of organisation design and innovation, high performance work teams, change management and sales planning.

A particular feature of his work is the use of specifically designed industry simulations to support large scale change initiatives, these include "Mad About Fish" (general commerce), "Get Connected" (Cable Media industry) and "Take Cover" (Insurance Broking).