Stephen BerryMBA MSc BSc(Hons) FCMA CGMA ACIB DipFS PgD

Author

Conference speaker

Coach

Strategies of the Serengeti(1st edition 2006, 2nd edition 2010)

Teach yourself successful strategy in a week(1st edition 2012, 2nd edition 2016)

www.StrategiesoftheSerengeti.com

A wide variety of speeches from Strategies of the Serengeti – topics and strategies to fit in with the overall conference agenda:USA (New York, New Orleans, Washington DC)Sri Lanka, Zambia, Malawi, South Africa, many European countries and throughout the UK.

Non-Serengeti themes; e.g. ‘Walking up the down escalator’ and ‘Innovate or die’.

Trainer

Coaching assignments have included:• CEO during a critical business phase• Technically talented CFO who needed

to develop better people skills• Snr Exec during a major business

rebranding process• Snr Exec entering a new JV

Strategy formulationWorking with CEOs, Boards, Divisions and Departments to develop organisational strategies for success in a wide variety of industries and organisational sizes.Our key question ...... How do we get to where we want to get to?

Training Finance teams

Team development

Training trainersMaking difficult subjects engaging

A wide range of team interventions using High Performing Team criteria – no team is ever the same and performance is always enhanced.

Have trained widely with accountancy institutes CIMA, ACCA, ICA, ICAS and CAI to increase the performance of finance teams in business partnering, ‘the 21st

century finance function’, commerciality, strategic thinking and a range of other areas

“If this guy can make finance interesting, we need him to train our trainers to make interesting things interesting” (a Divisional CEO)

Finance, Strategic thinking, Commercial thinking,Performance Management, Business Partnering, Innovative thinking www.NeosLearning.com

Current or recent projects include:

•Training a very wide range of organisations – including national and local Government, retail, industrial, construction,service, finance, publishing industries and throughout the public sector in areas including financial awareness and strategicthinking.•Responsible for significant elements of several Senior Management Development Programmes with a variety oforganisations.•Facilitation of senior management groups from organisations as diverse as Motor manufacturers, retailers, constructioncompanies, Public Sector, charities, academic and consultancies.•Coaching senior non-finance executives and Finance Directors.•Presenter of Chartered Institute of Management Accountants mastercourses in 4 countries.

Steve’s MBA was from Manchester Business School, and he holds qualifications at the highest level in accountancy andbanking.

In 2002/16 Steve has worked in 25 countries on 4 continents with organisations such as: The Academy of Chief Executives,AICPA (USA), Atomic Weapons Establishment, Arcadia Group, Babcock, BAE Systems, Barclays bank, BBDO (Canada, Spain,UK), Bovis Lend Lease (Greece, UK), Cable & Wireless International (USA), Citroen, City & Guilds, Costain, Covidien (14countries), DEFRA, Diageo, Dyncorp Inc (USA), Edinburgh City Council, Ernst & Young (UK, South Africa), First ChoiceHolidays, UK Home Office, HSBC, JCB, John Lewis Partnership, Johnson & Johnson, Leeds Business School, LoughboroughUniversity Business School, Matalan, Mazda, MOD, Morgan Stanley Bank, National Health Service, Nestle (UK, Switzerland),News International, Northampton Borough Council, Norwich Union, Office for National Statistics, Omantel (Oman), OpenUniversity (UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Germany), Oracle (UK, France), Osborne, Oxford CityCouncil, Oxford University Press, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Royal Bank of Scotland, Shop Direct, Sunsail, SOCAM (Malawi),Superdrug, Thames Water, HM Treasury, University of London, Virgin Atlantic Airways, Virgin Holidays, Volkswagen,Wilkinson, World Bank (USA), CIMA (UK, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Zambia), ACCA, AICPA (USA), ICAE&W, CipFA, ICAS, CIPD.

Stephen BerryMBA MSc BSc(Hons) FCMA CGMA ACIB DipFS PgD

Former PLC Finance Director and International MBA lecturer in Business Strategy, currently a conferencespeaker, trainer, coach, strategy facilitator/consultant and author. Steve’s employment experience has been ina wide variety of sectors including property, construction, FMCG and plastics supplementing consultancyexperience in an even wider field. In his career, Steve has been responsible for a major FMCG pan-Europeanexpansion, 7 business disposals, 1 very large MBO and a business ‘turnaround’ to profitability.

Author of ‘Strategies of the Serengeti’ and ‘Teach yourself successful strategy’.

Based in the UK, but have worked inthe following countries: