Associate Consultant: Mark Thomas

Mark Thomas is an international business consultant, author and speaker specialising in business planning, managing change, human resource management and executive development. He worked for several years with Price Waterhouse in London where he advised on the business and organisational change issues arising out of strategic reviews in both private and public sector organisations.

His key areas of interest and business activity include strategic change management, the facilitation of business planning and top team events. He regularly designs, leads and facilitates top team sessions on a wide range of business planning issues and initiatives – re-organisations, change programmes and mergers for clients in a range of sectors including investment banking and telecommunications.

Mark is a visiting Assistant Professor at the TiasNimbas Business School in Holland and lectures at Suez the Corporate University and previously at MCE in Brussels. He has also worked with the Institute of Directors and the American Management Association as well as chairing international conferences in Paris, Vienna, Istanbul and Nice.

Clients include Lloyds TSB Asset Management, Pfizer, Rexam, Ernst &Young, Schroders, Cargill, DHL, T Mobile, Union Bank of Switzerland, Barclays Capital, HSBC, ECB, Red Bull, Motorola Reuters, Cisco, Sony, Sun International, Forte, Coca Cola, Masterfoods, Unilever, Neste, Aramex, Philip Morris, Mercer Consultancy, PPG, Oxford University Press, C&A, Sara Lee, Shell, Alcatel, NCR, Alcoa, Aspect Telecommunications, Autodesk and Logica.

Based in London, Mark works across the globe - he has worked in over 40 different countries, including the United States, Japan, Hong Kong, Denmark, Singapore, Finland, Dubai, Turkey and Russia.

Mark was educated at the University of Wales and the London School of Economics and is a Fellow of the UK Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Publications include The Gurus Guide to Leadership (Thorogood March 2006), High Performance Consulting Skills (Thorogood 2003), Supercharge Your Management Role - Making the Transition to Internal Consultant (Butterworth Heinemann 1996), Mergers and Acquisitions- Confronting the Organisation and People Issues. A special report (Thorogood 1997), and The Shorter MBA (Thorsens 1991).

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