“I have had the pleasure of working closely with Ian Robinson for more than 15 years. In my role as Managing Director of the England Cricket team, Ian helped my senior team and I prepare strategic plans which resulted in the England men’s team winning 3 consecutive Ashes Series for the first time in 60 years, the ICC World T20, and becoming the number one ranked Test team in the world.
Following my appointment as Chief Executive of Glamorgan County Cricket Club, I engaged Ian to work alongside the Board and senior executive to develop a long-term strategic plan for the Club. The plan provided clear direction for the organisation through some challenging financial and operational times including the COVID pandemic and a global recession.
Ian has the ability to cut through complex issues, provide clarity and simplicity to strategic planning and empower senior managers and their staff to track progress to success. I have no hesitation in advocating his knowledge, skills and experience to anyone requiring support on strategic planning and implementation.”
Hugh Morris MBE, Former Managing Director, England Cricket and former CEO, Glamorgan Country Cricket Club.
"I have had the pleasure of working with Ian Robinson for over 15 years across several organisations.
Ian introduced a clear and simple way of planning and delivering player development and elite team performance strategy to multiple sports including England Cricket, British Tennis and the British Olympic / Paralympic system led by UK Sport.
Ian combines a unique knowledge of strategic planning and operational delivery with expert facilitation skills. This enables him to connect with a diverse range of business executives, elite sport leaders, top coaches, scientists and medics.
Ian is excellent at helping teams to reach consensus and establish clear strategic direction. He adeptly helps leadership to engage their people in operational delivery to drive strategy into consistent action. Ian possesses the emotional intelligence required to quickly tune into an organisation’s culture, build rapport, energise groups and establish confidence in the plans developed.
I have no doubt that Ian’s support has played a significant role in the success of the teams I’ve been part of over the last 15 years in high-performance sport. Therefore, I would wholeheartedly recommend Ian to anyone looking to develop and drive forward their plans".
Simon Timson,
Performance Director, City Football Group,
former Head of Pathway, England Cricket and Performance Director, British Tennis, British Skeleton & UK Sport.
“I worked with Ian for 5 years in my role as CEO at UK Sport when Ian led our strategy and operational excellence team.
Ian’s work was instrumental in developing the UK Sport 10-year strategy launched in 2021 that is the driver for everything UK Sport does in leading high performance sport to create the greatest decade of extraordinary sporting moments.
Ian has a genuine love of strategic planning and possesses a great toolbox of skills to help teams develop strategy at either organisation, department or team level.
The combination of his experience in sport and other industries allows him to bring objectivity underpinned by understanding of how our elite sport performance world works.
He is a great relationship builder and is able to easily drop into unknown teams to add value quickly.”
Sally Munday OBE, Chief Executive, UK Sport.
“Ian helped lead a group of senior stakeholders in a strategy and prioritisation review.
His professionalism, knowledge and enthusiasm came out throughout, enabling very positive outcomes to be achieved.
He was able to build trust quickly enabling him to challenge appropriately and ensure the difficult conversations took place.
His energy really made the whole experience very positive!”
Tim Cornell
Hospital Director – Manchester, Nuffield Health /
Manchester Institute of Health and Performance.
"I first worked with Ian over a decade ago when I was Chief Executive of the English Institute of Sport (now the UK Sports Institute).
Ian helped me and the senior team develop a long term strategy which enabled us to collaborate effectively with our multiple stakeholders, which in turn resulted in the organization contributing to Team GB’s and Paralympic GB’s successes in the Games held in Rio and Tokyo.
Ian is a master of his art, as his relaxed but purposeful style encourages teams to explore what really matters in their business and to develop strategies for maximum impact.
I have no hesitation in recommending him to those organisations looking to come together to build plans to move their organisation forward".
Nigel Walker OBE,
former CEO, English Institute of Sport.
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