Garratt Learning Services
About
Bob and Sally Garratt have consulted internationally for over 25 years on five of the six continents. They are known for their discreet work on corporate governance; board review and development; director mentoring; top team development; and Strategic Thinking.
They come from a background where organisational learning and development are underpinned by the rigour Action Learning and the blending of human behaviour with the feedback mechanisms of cybernetics. Bob wrote the first book called The Learning Organisation in 1986 and they have worked on large scale organisational changes in the engineering, financial services, defence electronics and non-profit sectors as well as in government. The book Twelve Organisational Capabilities: Valuing People At Work describes their novel approach.
Bob has recently conducted lecture tours on developments in corporate governance for the governments of Australia, India and South Africa. He has worked at national level in the UK, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa. He has been an expert on the project for the reconsideration of the governance of the International Monetary Fund In Washington DC.
He has always been a “pracademic” blending the direction and chairing of companies with business school teaching although starting with architectural education. He has been on the faculties of the Judge Institute, University of Cambridge, The Business School of Imperial College, London; and is now a Visiting Professor at Cass Business School, London. He is Professor Extraordinaire at the University of Stellenbosch Business School, South Africa and chairs their Unit For Corporate Governance in Africa. He is the Past Master of The Worshipful Company of Management Consultants, London and a Freeman of the City of London.
Sally Garratt has been an independent consultant, developer and coach/mentor since 1978. Before that she worked as a Training Officer in the pharmaceutical industry, in project management posts in architectural design practices and with women returners.
She has worked with her husband on corporate governance issues and recent Board Evaluation exercises have been for a major transportation company and a major mining company in South Africa, a Manchester-based plc specialising in semi-conductors, a regulatory body in the NHS, a national UK IT company, a large Housing Association and an architectural practice.
She is an experienced business coach/mentor and was involved in the establishment of The Global Coaching Partnership. Recent coaching assignments have included working with directors of a national housing association; senior managers in a national children’s charity; the Research and Development Director of a pharmaceutical company; the Managing Director of a PR and communications company; and Church of England priests. She is on the register of mentors for the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants and has just started her first assignment for them.
Sally has conducted Organisational Capability Surveys, been involved in Action Learning sets, and has designed and run management development and training programmes for a wide variety of organisations in both the public and private sectors. She has run workshops on the pros and cons of becoming an independent consultant, carried out research for television and the construction industry, and worked with sixthformers on “Insight into Industry” and “Challenge of Management” courses.
Other projects have included working in Kosovo with senior civil servants in the newly-established Ministry of Trade and Industry; researching training and development needs for leaders and managers in the FE, Work-based Learning and Adult & Community Learning sectors; and working with a group of senior women to set up a consultancy which offers support and consultancy to GPs.
She held a part-time Lectureship at City University’s Centre for Continuing Education in 1987/88, was the External Examiner for the University’s Centre in Business Skills for Consultants and ran the Consultancy module of the University’s MSc in Continuing Education and Training.
She has a degree in Malay and Anthropology from London University's School of Oriental and African Studies and became a Member of the Institute of Personnel Management in 1974.
