“Project One knows that if you trust, support and empower he consultants, the best client outcome will emerge.”
What accomplishment are you most proud of? I mentor two small family businesses; over the past seven years I’ve seen them grow from nothing to being sustainable and employing other local people. What’s your favourite restaurant and what would you order? The family Thai restaurant that I mentor in Bournemouth – I’d order Neua Salathai – spicy steak. I’ve been invited to Buddhist good luck ceremonies there and calm pervades the place. If you had a time machine what would you want to see? I’d like to be present when the nature of dark matter and dark energy are finally discovered, and we find out what the 96% of the Universe that we don’t currently understand is made of. If you could write a book about anything what would it be about? Large scale business and technology transformations, how they go wrong, and how to recover them.
First ever job? I froze peas for three summers to pay my way through Uni. I got to be expert at judging exactly one tonne of peas on a pallet – a skill I haven’t yet found a reuse for in my later life. What do you believe makes Project One different? Project One knows that if you trust, support and empower the consultants, the best client outcome will emerge. What little known fact might surprise your colleagues? I’m a rugby union referee, which sometimes comes in useful in mediating in business. What has been the most memorable moment so far at Project One? Working at my first client, and meeting four new Project One team mates, each of whom were brilliant and clicked into a perfect team immediately. What is the best aspect of your job? Coming into new organisations and applying the learning from many previous situations. Also, to open the eyes of client managers to new possibilities that may be outside the existing experience in their organisation. What do you do for fun? I love to explore the deep interiors of sunken battleships. In 2001, my team researched, located and undertook the pioneer dives on a US submarine, lost for 60 years, near Makassar, Sulawesi.
ABOVE - Andrew and his son Ross, diving at Truk Lagoon, Micronesia.
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