Chief Executive Officer
Tel: 0191 2112989
Email: contact@woodholmes.co.uk
Stuart has over 15 years experience working at the highest level in consulting and corporate environments where he has been employed as a strategist and change agent helping organisations devise and deliver a wide range of projects. He is an experienced people and project manager with expertise both as an external and internal consultant. He has worked on a wide range of projectsfrom small individual assignments to highly complex multi-million pound ICT transformation and physical infrastructure programmes.
Originally trained as an environmental scientist at Imperial College London, Stuart was employed as a consultant advising organisations on environmental policy and legal obligations. His specialism was in environmental policy in construction and minerals extraction, environmental information networks air quality and carbon.
During the Dot.com boom Stuart joined a major global telecoms firm looking at how the firm could practically exploit emerging internet technologies. Reporting directly to the board, this Internet Centric Strategy team developed and delivered some of the most ambitious transformation projects of the time using a wide range of change management techniques and web based tools.
Since returning to consultancy world Stuart has acted as CEO of Wood Holmes, growing and expanding this small firm from its research roots into a significant strategy consulting practice. Within this, Stuart works with a wide range of clients on strategic planning and complex problems primarily in the areas of strategic planning, organisational change management, sustainability, urban regeneration & construction with clients including Bouygues, HSBC, British Telecom, Parsons Brinkerhoff, ACAS, DEFRA, SABIC Petrochemicals, United Utilities and Deloittes.
Stuart has extensive knowledge and a research interest in Complexity & Network Theory and in particular the understanding of complex systems in knowledge sharing and change management. He is a member of The Complexity Research Group at London School of Economics and has presented at many conferences as well as publishing several papers and articles.
He has been a visiting lecturer at the Imperial College of Science Technology & Medicine, London; University of Newcastle Upon Tyne and has delivered presentations to audiences as diverse as the Chinese Embassy, BBC Radio 4, School Leavers and Blue Chip Corporate Boards. Stuart has most recently become an expert assessor on the British Urban Regeneration Association (BURA) Best Practice Awards Panel.
He is married with 3 children and lives in Sunderland, UK.
