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Pete Harpum

Pete primarily offers expertise in:

Leaders & Teams
Change & Transformation
Process facilitation
Project Communication
Project management & Agile practices
Strategy
Strategy & Organisational development
Sustainability

Experience

I have spent 20 years as a catalyst for and leader of organisational transformation, working as a management consultant and educator, predominantly in the life sciences and high technology engineering sectors. I have a range of organisational change leadership competencies across multiple industries and territories. Working with people in organisations, I seek to understand what lies behind the desire for change: below the apparently rational needs, behind the explicit reasoning.

I am a Professor of Biotechnology Management at Grenoble École de Management and on the faculty and external examiner at The Bartlett, the world’s number 1 School for the Built Environment (at University College London). My area of technical organisational expertise is the execution of strategy through portfolio, program, and project management. My research is predominantly in how to most effectively manage the early stages of projects, including managing design and drug discovery and development programs.

Areas of expertise

Action Learning
Benefit Management
Benefit Realisation
Business Coaching
Business Consulting
Business Development
Change Management
Change Leadership
Concept and Programme Design
Contract management
Design
Design of training/learning
Dynamics of power and influence
Digital Transformation
Engineering Global
Entrepeneurship & Innovation
Large-scale facilitation
Group Dynamics
Key account management
Leading in complexity, uncertainty, and ambiguity
Management consulting
Organisational Design
Portfolio Management
Process Consultancy
Programme Management
Project Academy
Project facilitation
Project Governance
Project Leadership Training
Project Management
Project Management Office (PMO)
Risk management
Stakeholder engagement
Strategy Development
Strategy
Systems Thinking
Transformation
Workshop Facilitation
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Education

Coaching and Leadership

“I manage the uncertainty and anxiety generated during change to provide a safe enough space for transformation. This creates safe places from which the co-creation of transformative action can be generated.”

Pete Harpum

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