LBI Consulting helps senior leaders in complex organisations develop strategy that works, design structures that deliver, and build leadership ready for uncertainty.
Founded by Mike Jones, a strategy advisor with a background in military leadership and systems thinking, we work with organisations where conventional approaches fall short. We don't rely on off-the-shelf frameworks. We work closely with senior leaders on strategy, structure, and leadership as a connected system.
We don't sell context-free frameworks. We start with reality.
Who we work with:
CEOs and Managing Directors in complex, operational sectors
COOs and Directors of Operations managing scale and uncertainty
Strategy and Transformation leaders seeking traction, not just vision
Our clients are typically in rail, engineering, infrastructure, healthcare, and manufacturing. Complex environments where strategy has to survive contact with reality.
Our approach:
We bring rigorous thinking from systems theory, military strategy, and complexity science, translated into practical application.
We start with reality: what the organisation actually does, what the environment is actually doing, what you can structurally change now. Not idealised futures. Not comfortable narratives.
We stay until the work is done.
Meet the Team
Mike Jones
Director & Founder
Mike is a strategy advisor, organisational psychologist, and systems thinking practitioner. He works with senior leaders on complex strategic and organisational challenges where conventional approaches fall short.
Before consulting, he served in the British Army, leading teams in high-stakes environments. He hosts the Strategy Meets Reality podcast.
Senior Partner
Patrick specialises in using systems approaches for working with large, complex organisations, including whole sectors. He has worked on many strategies and restructuring projects, analysing structural weaknesses, and designing appropriate solutions and practical change plans.
Patrick is an established author on systems, organisations and management.
Patrick Hoverstadt
Head of Executive Coaching
Olga Vysotska is a Psychometrician specialising in the diversity of personality, working with individuals and teams across the private and public sectors. She helps people navigate work-related stress in high-pressure environments.
Olga is a visiting lecturer at KLC School of Design, and a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Olga Vysotska
Senior Partner
Simon has worked as a management consultant for over thirty years across the public and private sectors, specialising in strategy, financing and large-scale organisational change. He has led client-facing consulting operations across Europe, North America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa for organisations including Arthur D. Little, Deloitte, Nortel, Lucent, Nokia and CSC.
Simon is also a visiting lecturer for Systems Practice.
Simon MacCormac
Head of Team Development
Julia is a team coach, facilitator and business psychologist with experience across healthcare, financial services, energy, telecommunications and professional services. She has held senior HR, L&D and change leadership roles in organisations including Virgin, GE and Orange in the UK and internationally.
She brings over three decades of leadership and business psychology experience to team, leadership and talent development, and is an expert in employee voice and employee listening.
Julia Smith
Psychometrics Specialist
Nikita is a Personality Psychology specialist with extensive experience in psychometrics, applying insights across coaching, education, and team development.
He is a visiting lecturer at Saïd Oxford, HEC, HULT, and Kingston Business Schools. Nikita is also a co-author of the book "Personality: A User’s Guide".
Nikita Mikhailov
Senior Partner
Gavin works with organisations and partnerships to apply systems approaches to complex improvement challenges, primarily in local government and multi-agency settings. He brings experience across the public, private and voluntary sectors.
He has designed and delivered systems leadership programmes for over 500 practitioners, translating complexity into practical learning and action.
Gavin Roberts
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