With a BSc in Catering Systems and an MSc in Organisation Development, John has 40 years’ experience in the hospitality, leisure, travel and sports sectors and 37 years’ management consultancy experience. Between September 1986 and June 2004, John worked for Deloitte, rising to the role of Director, originally in their hospitality and leisure division and latterly in their Sports Business Group where John headed up their international sports venues team. Since then John has established his own consultancy company where he continues to provide advice in the leisure and consumer sectors.Skill Sets: Strategy development; operational reviews; profit improvement strategies; feasibility studies/commercial due diligence; development brief preparation; consumer research, both quantitative and qualitative; business planning; business turnaround; staff restructuring; project management; corporate governance reviews; commercial value engineering; market entry strategy; competitive tendering/outsourcing; pricing strategy; fully computer literate.Key Strengths: Ability to challenge board level assumptions in a constructive way; Strategic outlook identifying long term risks & opportunities; Ensuring project/issue ownership stays with the management team; Ability to interpret data quickly to form a clear image of business performance; Getting the right balance between strategy & tactics; Vision building; Profit focused, optimising ROI; Team builder.