Phil Thomas

Post Nominal Letters:

GCGI (Leadership & Management), MCMI, MInstLM, LCGI (Training), AssocCIPD

Business Name:

The Centre for Management and Business Development (c4mbd) LLP

Position:

Partner

What I do

Develop communication and training, e-learning design, public speaking

My expertise

I’m good at problem solving; mostly people and processes, but I have done technical.  I’m brilliant at developing organisational communication where I thrive on the challenge of getting the message across face to face and electronically.  Oh, and I am a qualified project manager.

A little bit about my past

It’s no secret that I am proud that I have spent most of my life in the military; latterly technical with a training development slant, working with new equipment and defence contractors.  I developed an interest in Lean when working in process support and development for the British Army Recruiting Group.  Thinking about it I realised that I had been pushing the ‘lean’ agenda all my managerial life… back then we just called it being efficient!

Life isn’t all about work; in my spare time I…

love the outdoors, that’s what drew me to the military life.  Now, as always, I spend as much time as I can outside where my interests in natural history, growing my own food and sustainability are naturally at home.