Welcome to the extraordinary post- covid world. Driving a ‘transformation’ of ‘transformation’

2024 Client Brochure

Welcome. Executive Summary

You are an ACCOUNTABLE chairman, CEO or main board member, or a senior public servant. You are facing ever more complex demands on your organisation.In one sense the UK economy is much more robust than many realise, but the ‘world of work’ since we were first founded in 2000, as independent challengers in our board level project sector, has relentlessly changed.

The ‘model of work’ nowadays, defined by a revealing analysis of ONS data shows that 55% of the 30 million or so ‘in work’ in the UK are PAYE taxed, CORE, conventional employees.This core is surrounded by a very large constituency of ‘self-drive portfolio workers’- the freelancers, comprising the other 45%. They provide cost-effective, innovative, committed (they are ‘accountable leaders’ in their own portfolios) . Often providing ‘fractional’ support to deliver part of the value of the ‘core’ delivery. For example, it is portfolio independents who are key to the way UK ‘mission critical’ agriculture REALLY works. The ‘landowners’ are supported by the ‘independent, often portfolio, contractors’.

Our key question is a simple one. Are you looking for a skilled board- experienced INDEPENDENT to work ALONGSIDE you, as an independent leader of change, a trusted advisor, to help you achieve success.

IF so, why not just pick up the phone to our 49 St James’s Street London office on 020 7830 9663. Or just contact our MD, David Pinchard, ‘in confidence’ in an e mail to info@transformation-leaders.com and we would be delighted to share with you some of our own experiences of success. And we can tell you more about our
five rules for transformation success which we were asked to deliver to a major European Conference on Business Change and Transformation in the City of London in 2024. Rules which have been critical to the success of our many transformation projects in which we have played our own critical part.

However, if are you looking for a flexible daily-rate DIRECTED ( thus a quasi-employee within current PAYE tax terms) freelancers, then the world is filled with a very large number of skilled head- renting agency volume suppliers. Curiously they often work on significantly higher percentage resourcing margins than ourselves. As far as we can see our long established model is unique and has saved our clients well over £1M so far over traditional head renting models.

Some of our clients at board level include:

Risk versus reward

‘Change’ is with us all every day However to ‘transform’ all or part of your organisation is a ‘choice’. It carries with it ‘risk’, as well as ‘reward’.

It all starts with an understanding of the ‘purpose’ of any organisation.  For without nailing that, then any transformation project can lack coherence. ‘Success’ is where everyone can see the benefits. Customers or citizens. Secondly the skilled employees and contractors who ‘deliver the value’. And finally, the shareholders or taxpayers, who see the long term returns of profitable success (or with Governments, often less reliably, on citizen’s votes).

It is better not to start if you are unprepared and without expert experienced outside independent help. As ‘failure’ can be very damaging. The RISKS are high. ‘The patient can die on the operating table’ as one of our many clients wisely warned us. He was the main appointed and ‘accountable board director’ of this transformation project in the UK and European division, around £1bn turnover, as part of one of the world’s leading energy companies. Happily this two year project was a complete success.

Any organisation has to be working 100% whilst any new transformative model is tested and gradually embedded.  And naturally a sizeable proportion of  employees rightly fear change.  As, all too often, over the last 20 years, technology is used as a weapon to reduce costs, reduce headcounts.

When actually technology can be a way of increasing the standards of customer or taxpayer service, increasing top line revenue, or to achieve better use of the taxpayer’s pound. And,  thus may not need less employees at all, but developed and or redirected.

The onwards march of technology and smart systems

We ran our first members insight session on GenAI in January 2023, the first in that year’s regular face- to- face central London ‘insight and networking’ series.

We then ran an update session in St James Square for our chosen members and clients in May 2024. We all could see the feeding frenzy on GenAI, reported by Gartner, which continues to be relentless. Best call them ‘large language models’ for GenAI is not really AI. Yet. But certainly Google will start to feel the heat, for ChatGPT often offers a far more useful and quick ‘search process’.

There have been a significant number of GenAI launches since then, all hoping to find new subscribing clients. ChatGPT, the first to emerge, is indeed remarkable. Here is what ChatGPT says about us here recently, in a simple query for ‘60 words on transformation-leaders ’. It appeared, like magic, in 30 seconds.

‘Transformation Leaders is a network of elite independent transformation professionals. It connects experienced leaders with businesses seeking successful transformation projects emphasising high level ethics and integrity. The network also offers valuable insight events and networking opportunities, including in-person and virtual sessions. The organisations success is highlighted by its effective track record and commitment to professional development and support for its members.’

We could not put it better or more succinctly ourselves.

Membership. Our proven philosophy is simple. Just the ONE, RIGHT, Board experienced INDEPENDENT can help deliver what many a large big- name consultancy cannot. Are you good and passionate enough to undertake this vital project work at ‘board level ‘?

So, if you wish to be considered for membership of our unique independent specialist grouping in transformation. You have a fine career, leading to board level experience, or a head of a department in a big corporate, and are now a senior independent.

You really enjoy helping an accountable employed CEO or a head of a department to lead successful transformation. You are financially and robustly independent, a key requirement when being able to ‘speak truth to power’ in complex board level projects.

If interested, then do just send us your current CV to info@transformation-leaders.com with your telephone details and we will set up a chat to see how we can best help you. If you are invited to membership, then the cost is modest, £415 before VAT to join. Including your first ‘quarterly. There is an important service we deliver on joining, which is to construct your career into an anonymous T-L.com ‘Short CV’ TM   a key transactional document that we use with success to help our clients.

And then, after joining, there are just three ‘quarterlies’ of £83 before vat a year using the secure ‘gocardless’ system. That is less than £60 a month in year one’ , down to less than £30 a month in year two. Many of our members very much like what we do and stay with us for a long time. This board level project sector is a marathon, not a sprint. An incredible resource. We are a special part of a great independent’s toolbox, never the only one.

One of our amazing very long term top engineering members put it this way… ’transformation-leaders.com consistently delivers ‘knowledge and insight’ month by month as ‘eager and expensive’ is the preserve of others.

And in this ever- changing world the best independent transformation leaders need to be hungry to keep ‘up to speed’ to enable them to be of ‘best help’ to his or her accountable client.

PS. Maybe a board is missing something important? We have observed that, on occasion, it can be a sensible investment to find the ‘right’ ,board experienced, senior INDEPENDENT to carry out a short insightful ‘independent review’ of an organisation’s ‘strategy’. For example. An expert review on a core ‘digital strategy’ might take a top expert 10 days. (5 days to explore, five to write the board review and deliver it). But, with a maximum of 16 days ending with an overall board report can have an excellent effect in spotting savings that can be made, or new revenue opportunities missed. Total cost, including sourcing process might be around £20K. We call this chairmans-itch.com Do take a look.

In Summary

For over 20 years now we provide a crucial link between business leaders who need to achieve transformation success and the scarce, highly skilled and experienced, elite group of motivated senior independents.

For our clients. To provide a most thoughtful access to the scarce resource and extensive knowledge needed to help achieve the transformation of their business or organisation, on which its possible survival depends. ‘Trusted Advisors’ capable of helping an accountable organisational leader to deliver success. Some of our value lies in properly defining ‘the deliverables’ of a project to aid sensible shortlist interviews. 

For our selected members. To provide a gateway to the support and opportunities needed to be a successful independent transformation leader, as part of a highly qualified, skilled and experienced elite group. This is a tried and tested process that has delivered incredibly high levels of transformational success.