Patrick has worked as a consultant since 1995 with organisations in the private, public and third sectors and in 24 countries. His consulting work has mainly been on strategy, organisational design and change. He specialises in using systems approaches for working with very large complex organisations including whole sectors. He has worked on over 200 strategy and restructuring projects, developing strategies and practical change plans, diagnosing structural weaknesses and designing organisations. He has developed methodologies for several difficult business problems including:

• Business Strategy

• Ecosystem modelling

• Large-scale organisational change

• Strategic risk

• Measuring organisational agility

• Collaborative governance

 

Patrick ran an engineering business for 13 years before becoming a consultant and founding Fractal. He has written numerous research papers, is a regular keynote speaker at conferences, has contributed to eight books on systems, organisation and management, is the author of “Fractal Organisation” a book on the Viable System Model as a way to understand and design organisations which was published by Wiley in 2008 and is used on seven masters programmes around the world. He co-wrote “Patterns of Strategy” a book on a systemic approach to strategy published by Gower in 2017 and wrote “The Grammar of Systems” in 2022. He chairs SCiO, the international professional body for systems and complexity practitioners, has lectured at 10 universities and business schools and is a Visiting Research Fellow at Cranfield.