As anyone whose worked in an office or interacted with government knows, complex, wicked problems almost always have a “political” dimension that cannot be ignored. I am a specialist at helping clients understand their options and formulate a strategy to deal with the politics head on.

 

Whether you are dealing with disputes, bid partnering decisions, or the threat of thermonuclear war, you need to understand what everybody is trying to get from the dispute, and see what your options are and what will happen if you can’t agree.

 

With a background of over 35 years working in analysis and consultancy, I have helped individuals, large corporations, universities and the government to understand and form strategies – which can be hard and uncompromising if appropriate, soft, conciliatory and accommodating if appropriate, and imaginative, novel and outside the box if appropriate.

 

I founded the company Decision Workshops in 2011 to bring the science of Confrontation Analysis to the world, and am the authour of the Dilemma Explorer program. 

 

From March 2014 to November 2024 I worked for the United Kingdom Defence Science and Technology Laboratories' (Dstl).

 

From November 2024 I have been retired and have been working  on Confrontation Analysis since then.