Bart Smith - Principal
- ExperienceRead more
Bart has over 25 years' experience in consulting and the civil service, with board level responsibility and expertise in managing transformational change and operational improvement. Bart's experience spans strategy development and implementation; programme and change management; team development and culture change. The common thread running through his work is the vital need to engage and commit people to change, without which changes to systems and processes yield little.
After starting his career in the US, in the 1980's, Bart came to Britain to work in the area of strategy and change, particularly before and after privatisations. He has worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers and predecessor firms, serving clients in retail, consumer goods, industrial products and the public sector, often in support of private equity investments. From 2001-03, Bart was Operations Director for PwC's consulting business. In 2005 he joined the Office of Fair Trading as Chief Operating Officer with a remit to drive through fundamental cultural change, making the office more efficient and results-oriented. He returned to consulting in 2008, and has continued to deliver complex IT-enabled business change programmes for clients in the public sector and in telecommunications.
- QualificationsRead more
Bart has a BA and MA in International Economics from Tufts University in the US. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Consulting, a Certified Management Consultant, an MSP Practitioner and a Member of the Association for Project Management.
- InterestsRead more
A keen fly fisherman (although he does not manage to out-think the trout as often as he'd like), Bart also enjoys shooting, hill walking and off-piste skiing, where his enthusiasm makes up for lack of skill. A rugby player in his youth, he now enjoys this primarily as a spectator. This is as a result of the last game he played, in his 20s against a very physical Fiji Police team. Bart remains a close follower of his beloved Boston Red Sox, but much to the consternation of his American relatives he has also become a keen follower of English cricket.
