Steve a highly experienced business leader, strategist and marketer with a passion for leading innovation, growth and change – and is the founder of Strategy Lab.
Steve combines a 25 year career in senior leadership positions – in general management, strategy, marketing and governance roles – with his passion for leading change and a relentless focus on results.
His vision for Strategy Lab was to bring together a wealth of real-world business experience and success - and make it available to his clients when and where they need it. Advisors that have been there themselves can add an enormous amount of value – by adding their years of trial, error and success to modern management practice and insights.
Steve advises clients on how to grow and transform through the application of leading-edge business and marketing strategies, and acts as an adviser to Boards, CEO’s and senior Executives. He is also available to operate within his clients’ businesses to develop and implement strategy, marketing and change programmes.
With extensive experience leading change in organisations from a market focused perspective – he has the ability to align strategy and structure, maximise growth opportunities, deal with complex business issues, develop and implement strategic business and marketing plans – and above all achieve the targeted results.
Steve is very familiar with the unique requirements of operating in partnership with Private Equity stakeholders. As a participant in a management buy-out of Onesource Group he was the head of strategy and marketing from the initial acquisition, through a period of sustained growth, weathering the storm of the global financial crisis, and ultimately a successful sale of the business.