My name is Nigel Smales.

I am a widely experienced Business Adviser with the energy, versatility, vision, practicality, commitment and leadership to have added insight and value in a broad variety of cultures, industries and organisations as:

• A Change Management Consultant on a range of business transformation programmes for clients in the Banking, Insurance, Publishing & Media, Construction, Telecommunications, Packaging & Logistics, Energy, Utilities and Pharmaceuticals industries, and in Consumer & Industrial Product Manufacturing;
• A Project Manager or Project Management Consultant on diverse significant capital investment projects to meet business and operational needs in the Telecommunications, Health Care, Banking, Insurance and Retail industries, and in Civic & Commercial Development & Construction.

For seven years, I led a financial transformation consultancy business with a total turnover of £40m, and in a career of almost 40 years, I have advised and assisted more than 100 clients including:

• In the UK – Associated Newspapers; Aviva; British Home Stores; BBC; Energis; GlaxoSmithKline; The Hospitals for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street; Lloyds TSB; London Borough of Wandsworth; Midland Bank; Mirror Group; National Grid; Royal & Sun Alliance; Philips; PricewaterhouseCoopers; Prudential; St Bartholomew’s Hospital; Savacentre; Shell; Wessex Regional Health Authority.
• Across Europe – StoraEnso (Finland); St Gobain and Sodexo (France); Bayer, Deutsche Telekom, Dresdner Bank, E.ON, Smalbach Lubeca and T-Mobile (Germany); Fortis, Rabobank and VNU (Netherlands); Novartis and Zurich Financial Services (Switzerland).
• Elsewhere – Bacardi (Bermuda); Sun Life and Winnipeg Health Sciences Centre (Canada); The State Bank of India; Mitsubishi Bank and Takenaka Construction (Japan); The Kuwait National Health Service; The Royal Commission for Jubail & Yanbu (Saudi Arabia); Sasol (South Africa); Excel Switching, Enron, Fortis and Prudential Financial (USA).