Managing Partner

John Grisby is an industry consultant and academic Professor of Practice (Leadership). He's based in London and works internationally across multiple sectors. John has a track record of helping business leaders and corporate executives transform their roles, teams and organisations.

He specialises in building capacity and accelerating practice to achieve sustainable results, reducing failure to cope with business/industry '4.0' environments. John uses a range of Systems Leadership and 'best in class' Business Systems Improvement methodologies to help clients understand complexity, lead/manage through change and solve problems.

John has learned almost everything about leadership, systems, complexity, change and problem solving from six resources.

• First, as an industry practitioner and academic Professor of Practice (Leadership). He's familiar with how academic rigour, pedagogy, research, methodology and theory applies in real world industry.
• Second, from Myles Downey, author of the best-selling book Effective Coaching and pioneer in an evidence-based performance coaching 'Inner Game' methodology (individuals/teams/organisations).
• Third, Dr Clare Graves and Dr Don Beck, developers of Mindset-Thinking Systems, a soft Systems Leadership approach to organisational behavior, complexity, change and problem solving.
• Fourth, from Dr Ichak Adizes, founder of the Adizes Institute and developer of the 'best in class' Company Lifecycle methodology, a hard systems approach to business improvement, growth, change and performance..
• Fifth, Dr Geert Hofstede Professor Emeritus of Organizational Anthropology and International Management at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, well known for his pioneering research in cross-cultural groups and organizations.
• Last, from the many clients around the world who openly shared their experiences, theirsuccesses and their struggles.