April Strategy LLP

Twenty years ago, our Co-founder Tim Westall came up with the idea of setting up a management consultancy that put the customer at the centre of strategy. Now, we're celebrating 20 years of global consultancy across a range of sectors, with a growing team and client base. Watch our anniversary video to find out more about the April Strategy story 📹 "It's still thriving, doing better, more impactful work than I could have imagined. And there's a great team and a great ethos that's entirely consistent with what we had in mind back in the day, which I'm really proud of." - Tim Westall, April Strategy Co-founder and Managing Partner. With thanks to all our clients who have been part of our journey. #strategy #design #change #20years

Season's greetings to all our clients, colleagues and friends celebrating. Thank you for your support during our 20th anniversary year. We look forward to working with you in 2025!

Why are some organisations more successful at leading transformation than others? They aren’t planning better than their competitors. They don’t have greater insight to the market than others. So, what are they doing? Find out in the output from our latest April Forum 👉 https://lnkd.in/erTXrdDN The April Forum is a roundtable discussion for senior leaders to exchange ideas and solve problems. Visit our website Forum page for more details and to register interest in future events. #Transformation #Strategy #Change #Leaders #Leadership #Forum

A warm welcome to our new Partner Peter Lewis, a trusted adviser with 25 years' experience in change and transformation, and a passion for helping people reach their full potential.   Peter joins our team having worked with clients across industries, guiding them from strategy and operating model design to leading transformation programmes and hands-on delivery of change. With experience in learning programmes, HR and talent management, he is passionate about people development and has been instrumental in leading organisation-wide, cultural change. April Managing Partner John Vincent said: "I am delighted that Peter has chosen to join the April team. He brings huge senior director and partner-level experience of working with international businesses on developing strategic solutions and designing and building organisations to deliver them sustainably. "His human-centric, collaborative approach, allied to his deep expertise and experience, makes him a natural fast fit for April. He is already making a big positive impact for our clients and team.” #welcome #team #partner #transformation #strategy #change #peopledevelopment

It was a privilege to bring together a truly international group of exceptional leaders, from different sectors and organisations across the UK, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, to share and explore perspectives, challenges, and learning on the topic of leading successful strategic transformation in a fast-moving, uncertain environment at our recent April Forum.   A huge thank you to Stuart Leven, CEO of Orascom Hotels Management, who helped frame and introduce the topic, and to all the attendees, whose reflections and insightful contributions fuelled a brilliant conversation that explored important common themes, including:   🔸 How to strike the right balance between ‘framework’ to make it easy to do the basics right, with ‘flexibility’ to enable creativity, innovation, and adaptability. 🔸How to build a diverse, innovative, resilient team to lead and deliver the transformation, deliberately recruiting for out-of-industry experience and creative solutioning, as well as adaptive, resilient delivery and great colleague engagement. 🔸How to optimise the rapidly changing potential uses of data and digital technology to benefit customers, team and profit, in carefully planned but necessarily adaptive business transformation. 🔸How to build, manage and maintain the momentum and pace of transformation when many segments of the internal colleague audience would rather go slower or not at all. 🔸How to use continued optimistic storytelling to frame and make sense of the transformational journey in a culturally sensitive way to engage, motivate and energise, even in the face of headwinds and disruptions. More insight and analysis from our discussion will be published in the next April Strategy blog. #Transformation #Strategy #Leadership #Innovation #Adaptability #Forum

A very happy Diwali to all our clients and colleagues celebrating 🪔

Meet Richard Chapman, innovation realist, coach, mountaineer and Partner at April Strategy.    Rich joined us in 2020 with over 25 years' experience in strategy, innovation, and growth, including new product development, coaching and consulting.    With a first-class degree in biotechnology, he combines scientific rigour with creative flair and helps clients uncover the reality of what growth implies and requires.    He believes successful innovation is all about behaviour change. “To get someone to buy something they haven’t bought before, or behave in a way they didn’t before, is an enormous challenge,” says Rich.    “We must convince them it is worth it - functionally, emotionally, psychologically - and these challenges are the same when an organisation needs to change. To change an organisation, we need to change people’s minds, and that is difficult. When was the last time you changed your mind about something?”    As a coach, he has been praised for his supportive, non-judgemental style. “I would highly recommend Rich to anyone seeking coaching,” said one charity director. “The reflective space he created made it easier to think creatively to overcome issues, to identify root causes and to make progress.”    An experienced mountaineer, Rich runs therapeutic rock-climbing programmes to help people living with severe mental illness and was recently appointed as a Non-Executive Director for the charity Mountain Training UK and Ireland.    Find out more about Rich and the team on our website 👉 www.aprilstrategy.com/who #MeetTheTeam #Strategy #Innovation #BehaviourChange #Coach

On #WorldMentalHealthDay, we're sharing tips on how to spot burnout. This year's theme for the annual awareness day is: "It is time to prioritise mental health in the workplace." With a third of our team volunteering or working in the mental health sector, we know how important this is. Take some time to look at the advice from Mental Health UK and seek support if you spot the signs 👇 #WMHD24 #MentalHealthAtWork #Burnout

What are April Strategy's strengths? Watch our final anniversary video to find out what our clients say, which includes: 🔸 Challenge AND collaboration 🔸 Intellectual horsepower AND common sense 🔸 Ideas AND delivery Thanks to all our clients who have joined us in marking our 20th birthday this year. #strategy #design #change #impact

What does it take to lead successful delivery of strategic transformation in a fast-moving, uncertain environment? Visionary leadership skills such as foresight, flexibility and communication are no longer enough. In practice, it now needs seemingly contradictory combinations such as: 🔸 optimistic, future-facing storytelling with active focus on flawless execution 🔸 planning discipline and excellence without being fixed on any one plan 🔸 recruiting for personal resilience, as well as cultural sensitivity and diversity We'll be discussing this at our next April Forum with guest speaker Stuart Leven, a CEO with huge experience of delivering complex change in volatile markets in uncertain times, and other global C-suite leaders. The April Forum is an exclusive meeting place for senior leaders to exchange ideas and solve problems. To register interest in attending future Forums, e-mail [email protected]. #VUCA #Transformation #Leadership #CEO #CSuite #Forum