Arthur Partridge
Owner, AyPeeCo
A licensed Trainer and Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming, Business and Personal Coach , Trainer and strategic thinker from a Blue Chip Multinational background, who successfully pioneered simple solutions to resolve complex problems, optimised resources to reduce overheads and increased the bottom-line through creative, unconventional and often ‘Ground Breaking’ thinking. A visionary, who works with a blank sheet to create solutions, enrols people into new ways of thinking and creates communities to deliver results.
Broad base of experience in Strategic Planning, Finance and Business Risk, I.T., Stock and Production Planning, Logistics, Customer Services, Human Resources, Merchandising and Retail
1998 - 2000Made a £21Bn turnover company resilient to incident - zero impact on the business despite 23 incidents since 1998. Caused £300k investment in resilient technology.
Changed the Disaster Recovery (DR) structure into a fit Business Continuity organisation across 8 sites, 50+ Departments and 8 Recovery teams.
Provided a unique DR standby site used every day to support Head Office's IT Infrastructure and requiring minimal manning during Disaster Recovery.
Created interdependent teams that communicate effortlessly across the organisation.
Pushed accountability for DR to the business management and gained Board support.
Caused departments and recovery teams to write succinct (4page) plans for their survival.