Graham Birkenhead

Graham is a business excellence-focused senior manager and consultant with an engineering background. A former officer in the Royal Air Force and now a management consultant, he brings an eclectic mix of management and consultancy skills built up over 30 years of field experience. He uses these skills to support and coach clients in the implementation of the changes required for scaling and growth. Graham provides a unique people-centric and lean perspective to business problems. He excels at finding the root cause of any issue and developing creative solutions and processes that build on the underlying strengths of the organization. He has a keen understanding of people and organizations as behavioural systems. He is on a mission to help transform the way people work, and the way they work together, creating the cultural and operational foundations for sustainable growth. He has a passion for teaching, educating, and sharing knowledge and understanding. Graham has lectured at Masters level, taught underwater using hand signals, and led numerous workshops and training events on diverse subjects such as leadership, networking, lean thinking, and knowledge management.