Phillip Ullmann Email & Phone Number

Covenant Advisory is an independent consultancy with a single vision – to help business, institutions, and the State find and achieve their true purpose - by having a positive impact on the communities they serve. The time has come for the relationship between business and society to change radically. This means prioritising people and nature over an exclusive concern with profit. We need new measures concerning people, communities, nature and wealth which must play equally fundamental roles in how we evaluate the progress of business, and its relationship with the State and society.We advocate covenant rather than contract - our mission is to pass on a flourishing inheritance for the next generation.We advise different stakeholders on how to best realign behaviours, management, systems, governance and culture to deliver greater purpose, productivity, and prosperity.

Phillip Ullmann is a social business entrepreneur with a track record of building disruptive business models that deliver value - measured as much by people, community, and nature as by financial metrics.He believes in creating environments where talented leaders who share a passion for innovation are given the opportunity to succeed, changing their lives and the teams they allow to self-manage. This philosophy is reflected in his ability to recruit some of the most successful executives who have grown and developed the Cordant Group, now with revenues of £850m and a combined workforce of over 100,000.Sharing success also means giving back to society and its important causes. In 2017, Phillip evolved the value system at Cordant further, defining it as a social business and introducing a set of measures to reflect that – capping executive pay and its dividend.In 2019, Phillip and his senior team co-authored Cordant’s Social Impact Report, mapping a five-point strategy aimed at improving worker opportunities with a focus on purpose not profits and wellbeing not just wealth. These categories included good jobs, maximising potential, building resilience, giving forward (charities etc), reviving business – all underpinned by the social model. A campaign was also launched to promote and implement the Real Living Wage.In 2020, Cordant Group was sold to Twenty20 Investors with a view to sustain its social business agenda. Whilst continuing his existing role as Chief Energiser, Phillip recently set up Covenant Advisory – an independent consultancy mandated to guide and advise business, its leaders, and state enterprises on their journey to social purpose, whilst aligning shareholders with other stakeholders.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Engineering

Gonville and Caius College

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)