About Andy Bass
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Dr Andy Bass is a strategic leadership advisor, speaker, consultant and author. He has extensive international consulting experience and a rich background in executive education across top business schools. Andy draws on expertise in systems, innovation and organizational learning to create mutual reinforcement of the efforts of commercial and technical people. Andy has a proven track record of engaging corporate audiences such as L’Oréal & KPMG, and associations like Women in Banking & Finance. Through his presentations, advice and consulting, he show you how you can accelerate programmes & launches, resolve internal conflicts, and enhance customer satisfaction. The result is to maximise what Andy calls your “Return on Hidden Assets”.
Outside of work, Andy has dabbled in the dangerous world of stand-up comedy (with decidedly mixed results!), and played lead guitar in a tribute band dedicated to the music of Canadian progressive rock band Rush.
Andy has advised leaders on three continents and thirty industries. He has worked across a wide range of industries and sectors including professional services, technology, media, health, financial services, packaging, automotive and education. The organizations he has worked with include Aon Risk Solutions, Collins Aerospace, KPMG, DLA Piper, L’Oreal, Deutsche Bank, AAH Pharmaceuticals, Rieke Packaging, Lowell Observatory and The Advanced Propulsion Centre. While based in the UK, Andy has worked on projects in the US, France, Germany, Finland, Mexico, India and China.
Renowned international authority on management consulting Alan Weiss inducted Andy into the Million Dollar Consulting Hall of Fame in 2017. He says that: “Andy is that rare consulting talent who appreciates the synergy between strategic direction and committed support. He sees the job through until the client sees the practical results.”
Andy has written five books on his approaches, including Start With What Works: a faster way to grow your business, and Committed Action: the three-step method to inspire your people to take ownership and get results and his most recent, The Suits & Geeks Trap: get your commercial and technical people to work with you rather than against each other.
Andy has spoken for dozens of corporate and association audiences including L’Oreal, Barclays, Al Ghurair and Bupa International. He has also acted as a TEDx MC. As a speaker, Andy always matches his presentation to audience seniority and preferred levels of interaction. As well as delivering traditional keynotes in person and virtually, he draws on a rich background in facilitation and executive education across top business schools, and as a leader of CEO Peer Groups for MacKay CEO Forums (Canada).
Andy served on the ‘Big Thinkers’ panel of experts for #oglivychange, the innovative behavioural change practice of Ogilvy. He served as an advisory board member for two fast growth companies in the Silverstone Technology Cluster, and has served as a mentor for start-up acccelerator Entrepreneurial Spark (supported by Nat West). He has served as a member of the West Midlands Regional Advisory Board of the leadership education charity Common Purpose, as a Board Director of the business lobbying and networking group Birmingham Forward, and is former advisor to the Birmingham Future Mentoring Scheme.
Andy has a PhD in Software Engineering from Aston University, and a BSc in Computer Science and Ergonomics (the application of human sciences, especially psychology, to design), also from Aston. He is a Visiting Professor in Consulting Practice at Birmingham City University where he is currently helping in the establishment of a Venture Capital fund for students.
Andy is a director of Upcycle, a charity that reconditions furniture and prevents it ending up in landfill.