About John Bolden, TLIR Group Founder & Principal Consultant
In 1979, John started out upon his corporate transformation / business improvement enabling career. John has accumulated a significant base of experience across financial services, technology, telecommunications, retail, distribution, logistics, energy and pharmaceutical sectors and in national, federal, state, provincial, municipal government settings worldwide.
His corporate transformation / business improvement portfolio spans merger, acquisition, divestiture, information technology, streamlining, global single instance systems/ processes/services; business/process reengineering, consolidation, corporate/subsidiary interlock, outsourcing, shared service, new economy (e-commerce, e-business), regulatory imperatives and much more ranging from small, localized projects up to global initiatives costing $Billions.
John’s portfolio now exceeds 1,500 projects where he has either led, guided, advised, contributed or intervened to ensure that efforts to improve the business met expectations.His managerial background encompasses leadership of teams and departments of up to 1,500 technology and process re-engineering people (internal staff, contractors, vendors - local and international), internal user communities up to 35,000 and external constituent communities in excess of 200 million worldwide.
John possesses the rare capability of being equally comfortable imparting strategic transformation advice and guidance as a subject matter contributor, working as part of a team or task force or providing direct, decisive leadership to ensure critical objectives are met. John’s ability to dynamically accommodate the ever-changing mechanics, dynamics and politics that surround business improvement is an extremely important and powerful differentiator.
In addition to direct client engagements, John conducts ongoing research into the prevalent issues that lead to cost overruns, delays, quality issues, organization vs. project conflict, vendor litigation, unacceptable ROI, frustrated stakeholders, tarnished reputations and worse. The baseline for his thinking is now 3,400+ significant projects spanning every common form of business improvement along with some not so common that are truly bleeding edge. These projects vary from cosmetic through to mission critical and beyond, ranging from $500K to $17Bn+. Several thousand projects of lesser significance in size / cost yet just as important in the minds of those who conceived, planned and executed them augment the core baseline.
His identification of the key traits and tendencies that contribute to failure and what can be done about them is recognized as innovative, practical and value laden. John’s articles are widely published and his presentations have engaged executives, managers and staff in public and private forums worldwide.
John’s unique understanding and perspective represents a paradigm shift in the way organizations should approach, plan and execute each and every corporate transformation / business improvement initiative. John is always happy to discuss any aspect of his thinking about the reasons why so many good, worthy efforts to improve the business do not meet expectations.
Education, Professional Development & Affiliations
Gerson Lehrman (New York) – Distinguished Scholar: Council of Business Advisors
Visiting Instructor – Britannia College, Executive Training Centre
Society for the Leadership of Change – Member, Panel of Experts
Kellogg Graduate School of Management, North Western University (Chicago) – EMS
International Project Management Society – Fellow
University of Massachusetts (Boston) – Advanced Mediation and Negotiation
International Institute of Change Management – Fellow
London School of Technology – MSc Graduate Program – Compiler Logic
International Society of Six Sigma Professionals – Champion, Master Black Belt
London School of Technology (UK) – BSc Mathematics
Imperial War College – International Studies
Allied Kommandatura (West Berlin) – International Studies
Royal Military Academy (UK) - Commissioned Officer
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