About Jonathan
Helping enterprise leaders everywhere strategically align their organizations
to overcome disruption and
improve performance.
As a Professor of Management Practice at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School and a seasoned executive consultant with decades of experience, Jonathan offers a rare and powerful bridge between cutting-edge academic research and practical business leadership.
Jonathan’s work addresses the root causes of organisational misalignment. Whether a business is struggling to respond to change, pivot, innovate, scale, or simply perform at its potential, Jonathan ‘holds up the mirror’ for senior leadership, revealing a better way forward. He helps leaders to rethink and articulate their purpose, formulate strategy, identify capabilities, and realign teams behind a uniting vision.
Jonathan’s expertise is unique. While most consultants struggle to relate to the theory needed to think differently, and most academics lack the practical insight to apply their thinking to real client situations, Jonathan is both a world-leading thought leader and a practitioner.
This rare combination means Jonathan can offer:
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Jonathan is the author and originator of the Strategic Alignment Framework, a better way of thinking that helps leaders build organisations that are resilient, efficient, and truly aligned - consistently able to outperform their peers.
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He brings an objective, challenger perspective, helping senior teams question assumptions, clarify priorities, and unlock new possibilities.
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Jonathan is known for his honest advice and skilful application of evidence-based frameworks, supporting leaders to make intelligent choices, enact meaningful change and ultimately think differently about their organisations.
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By combining academic rigour with practical experience, Jonathan enables leaders and teams to take confident, effective action for themselves.
Holding up the mirror for senior leadership, revealing a better way forward.
Jonathan regularly publishes in leading journals such as Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review and is the author of “Align: A Leadership Blueprint for Aligning Enterprise Purpose, Strategy and Organization,” a finalist for Business Book of the Year 2020.
He is a trusted commentator for the Financial Times, BBC, Wall Street Journal, CNN, and Forbes. He advises executive teams internationally, is a Civilian Subject Matter Expert at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (British Army), was the 2022 Shimomura Fellow at the Development Bank of Japan, Tokyo and is Special Advisor to White and Black.
Jonathan holds a doctorate in management studies from the University of Cambridge and was a visiting scholar at MIT.
How Jonathan delivers impact
Jonathan’s delivery is highly tailored to the needs of each leadership team, ensuring relevance, resonance, and results.
Board
Advisory
Jonathan advises and coaches senior leaders, including C-suites and boards, on strategic thinking, options and priorities.
Leadership
workshops
Jonathan regularly facilitates enterprise-wide leadership thinking through a curated workshop process, exposing senior executive teams to an external perspective, research insights, and key proprietary frameworks.
Keynote
Speaking
Jonathan is a regular keynote speaker at major international and industry conferences on the latest developments in management practice.
What is strategic alignment?
of aligned companies hit or beat their targets.
14%
of leaders believe their organisations are aligned.
Strategic alignment is the deliberate arrangement of an enterprise’s core value drivers - purpose, strategy, capabilities, people, culture, structure, processes, and systems - so that they work together to drive performance and enhance enterprise qualities.
It’s not a checklist or a one-off project. It’s a discipline and a mindset.