What I do

Pragmatic and Strategic Delivery.

People-Centred Impact.

With over 15 years’ experience as a management consultant specialising in the people side of transformation, I’ve worked across a wide range of organisations and systems – from global corporates to NHS trusts, national bodies, and community-led initiatives. My focus is always on delivering clarity, capability and cohesion in moments of change.

I’ve led national programmes, designed cross-sector strategies, shaped future delivery models, and supported organisations through critical periods of transition. Whether embedded within senior leadership teams or engaged on specific transformation workstreams, my approach is practical, rigorous, and rooted in relationships with one eye on the big picture, and the other on the detail.I’m a management consultant specialising in the people side of transformation, with over 15 years of experience delivering large-scale change across health, care, tech, and innovation sectors. My work focuses on the human side transformation— helping organisations reshape how they lead, work, and evolve to address current or future needs. 

Typical delivery areas

Discovery & Insight

Identify organisational strengths, challenges, and readiness through structured discovery and analysis.

Operating Models & Strategy

Design target operating models and align people, systems, and structures to strategic goals.

Change & Transformation

Lead change programmes including impact assessment, planning, governance, and stakeholder engagement.

Digital Implementation

Support digital system rollouts with a focus on adoption, workforce impact, and service integration.

Culture & Leadership

Build leadership capability and align culture through values, behaviours, and team development.

Health, pharma and life sciences sectors

Private sector

Health, pharma and life sciences sectors

  • Designed the transformation roadmap for the Mid-Cheshire Healthier Futures new hospital between 2025-2030 
  • Led the change strategy, planning and implementation for GSK (GlaxoSmithKlein)’s rollout of a new skills-focussed learning culture and learning system – across GSKs global footprint of 100k employees. 
  • Led target operating model design for integration of people digital services across six NHS organisations under One Devon 
  • Led the business change strategy of NHS England’s national Digital Staff Passport and roll-out and testing of early adopters in 15 trusts 
  • Led design of a new cardiology and hepato-biliary virtual wards delivery model and education roll-out for London ICBs 
  • Led design of a large-scale culture change programme for 7000 staff across an Ambulance Trust including staff engagement, new cultural and strategic framework, leadership development and defining new organisational ways of working 
  • Established a Primary Care Community of Practice and structure as part of the governance architecture of BLMKs ICS & ICB 
  • OD strategy for handling transition of regional NHS staff (dentistry and pharmacy) into new ICB structures 
  • Targeted culture work with various trust & ICS leadership teams, OD teams and directorates to define visions and goals
  • Design of a regional PCN Development Programme engaging with primary care stakeholders to co-design a regional support offer
  • Led Digital First South East region programme to increase SMI physical health check QOF compliance via data flow across all ICSs in the region through ICB buy-in to digital and system transformation 
  • Oversaw delivery of a system leadership development programme across all East of England systems through HEE 
  • Designed a mental health recovery peer support learning pathway for Notts HC ImROC 
  • Led the design of pioneering ed-tech for the care sector through UKRI Healthy Ageing programme’s Tribe Project 
  • Led the first OLS Innovation Exchange, identifying innovations and brokering relationships to reduce deaths by suicide 
  • Oversaw delivery of a pilot scheme of coachbot technology to measure efficacy in a NHS Community Provider 
  • Led a programme of citizen engagement and coproduction to influence the design of one of the UK’s ‘Healthy New Towns’ 
  • DHSE programme to support the TEC sector by collating and publishing lessons learnt from Covid-19 
  • Regional Quality Improvement ambassador programme design for acute trusts
  • Led design of a forensic mental health service digital coproduction pathway for a network of acute mental health services 
  • Supported bid work for clients including MOJ, MerseyCare and HMPPS 

Private sector

I work with private sector organisations across finance, FMCG, property, technology, logistics, and professional services, delivering programmes that blend learning strategy, organisational development, and people-centred transformation. My projects span leadership and capability development, wellbeing, cultural alignment, and new product innovation in the learning sector.

Banking & Financial Services

  • NatWest / RBS – Adult MoneySense financial education programme
  • Santander – Stress & Wellbeing programme
  • VTB Capital, Triodos Bank – people strategy and learning consultancy
  • BHP Billiton – Procurement Business Partner programme

Technology, Digital & Innovation

  • Oracle, Spotify, GEP – learning, people and transformation programmes
  • Cognizant – capability development and learning initiatives
  • Philips – Learning Toolkit design
  • QinetiQ – Learning Needs Analysis and L&D function review
  • Commonwealth War Graves Commission – strategic learning and comms support

FMCG, Retail & Global Brands

  • Unilever – VILT global programme design
  • PepsiCo, Electrolux, Bayer, Moët Hennessy – L&D strategy and delivery
  • King, Disney, EasyJet – learning and cultural change projects
  • MOL Europe – “I Am the Change” change management programme

Property, Construction & Real Estate

  • Morgan Sindall – Management Development Programme
  • CBRE, Lovell, Laing O’Rourke, MACE – leadership and organisational learning support

Learning Sector: Commercial Consulting & Product Innovation

I work with learning providers to support new product development, market strategy, and design. Clients include:

  • Cegos
  • Hemsley Fraser
  • DSW
  • Maximum Performance
  • Bitesize Learning
  • TLC

Personal Work

Purpose Beyond Projects

Alongside my consultancy work, I’m deeply committed to social impact through personal ventures, advisory roles, and community-led initiatives. This work reflects the values that underpin everything I do: inclusion, equity, lived experience, and people-centred systems change.

Founder, The Benedict Blythe Foundation

I founded the Foundation in memory of my son to campaign for safer schools for pupils with allergy and asthma, and positive learning environments. We work at the intersection of healthcare, education, and policy.
www.benedictblythe.com

Non-Executive & Advisory Roles

I’ve held a number of strategic voluntary and non-executive roles, including:

  • Director, BALM CIC www.balm.support
    I lead BALM — a community interest company building national infrastructure and support for bereaved families navigating the inquest system. BALM focuses on systemic reform and practical advocacy for those impacted by preventable deaths.
  • Vice Chair of a dual diagnosis charity for amplifying the voice of service users with mental illness and drug and alcohol addiction. 
  • Trustee for a national service-user-led organisation
  • Board Advisor to:
    • ImROC (Implementing Recovery through Organisational Change)
    • Money and Mental Health Policy Institute
    • StayingSafe.net (suicide prevention resource platform)
  • Contributor to several UK Parliament All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs), including:
    • Allergy
    • Prescribed Drug Dependence
    • School Food

Mentorship & Social Innovation

I support the next generation of purpose-led professionals through volunteer mentoring and innovation programmes, including:

  • OneHealthTech
  • Zinc Mission Partner
  • OnPurpose
  • Prince’s Trust Mentor

This portfolio of personal work is not separate from my professional identity – it strengthens it. It gives me unique perspective, accountability, and a clear sense of why the people side of transformation matters.

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