John Groarke, has over 31 years experience as a management consultant in a career that includes:

Operational (strategy consulting) – providing and leading internal support in business operations, service delivery, learning and knowledge, and training to major professional services firms in Asia Pacific | IBM Business Consulting Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting

External Consulting – working for clients of major professional services firms in Europe and Asia Pacific as a strategy consultant specialising in information technology | IBM Business Consulting Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Price Waterhouse Urwick, JEGMC - UK, Grant Thornton Management Consultants

Internal Consulting – working as the internal IT consultant to a large group of companies in the United Kingdom | Silentnight Holdings plc

Operational (industry) – developing proven IT skills from programming, through systems design and analysis, to IT management and finally management services (managing IT plus Organisation & Methods and Operations Research activities) | GB Papers plc

CLIENTS

My 300+ clients, over the years, are from these sectors (ANZSIC divisions):

Reference stories and case studies are available, on request. Client testimonials are also available, depending upon the non-disclosure agreements entered into.

I am a Mentor for the Australian Government's Enterprise Connect - Enterprise Learning and Mentoring (ELM) program.

Pro-bono

NSW Enterprise Workshop - presenter (services strategy), review panellist, trial judge, mentor
Media Women in Business (MWIB) Mentoring Program - business plan judge, business pitch judge

Memberships

Member, NSW+ACT Chapter President (2011-12), National Vice-President, IMC Director  - Institute of Management Consultants
Member - Australian Institute of Management NSW & ACT
Member - Sydney Facilitators Network

 Connections

AUSTRADE
LinkedIn
Twitter

Collaborations and co-operations

Verne Ordman & Associates is a provider of business writing style guides and training services to our clients

News

Advanced Training: Positioning a consultancy business for greater success - a two half-day course, for the University of Sydney's Centre for Continuing Education:

• next run (#2) - Sat 24 & 31 Mar 2012, review content & enrol. This course is for consultants and consulting firms who have been operating for a minimum of two years.

Core Training: Operating a consultancy business - a two day course for the University of Sydney's Centre for Continuing Education:

• next run (#15) - Sat 4 & 11 Feb 2012 - review content & enrol. This course is for consultants and consulting firms who are in start-up or have been operating for less than two years.

'Old' news 

Exhibitions & Conferences: Flying Solo LIVE! / Independent's Day - we have exhibited at Flying Solo's public event at the Australian Technology Park, Redfern, Sydney for four consecutive years (2011, 2010, 2009, 2008).

Seminars: NSW Government - Industry & Investment - Small Business September initiative - we have presented our How to make a living as a consultant - the fundamental actions seminar and workshop at The Business Centre, North Parramatta in 2011, 2010 and 2009 (three times each year!), and we plan to present in 2012 too.

Seminar: NSW Government - Industry & Investment - MicroBiz Week initiative - we have presented our How to make a living as a consultant - the fundamental actions seminar and workshop at The Business Centre, North Parramatta in 2011, and we plan to present in 2012 too.

Conference: Hargraves Institute 2009 Innovation Conference - we presented a paper "Have we got an innovative advisor for you", which examined the characteristics of the advisor.

© John Groarke | JEGMC (John E Groarke Management Consultant) | JEGMC Strategy Consulting : 2005 - 2012