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Advisor to The Football Association

We have worked closely with The Football Association (the FA) on a variety of projects. These projects have included assistance with the Burns Review (2005) reviewing the structural reform of the organisation, the development of the first integrated strategy (2008) for The FA and football in England through to 2012, support on the development of the National Game Strategy, and the establishment of the new Women’s Super League.

Developing a Global Strategic Plan for the International Cricket Council

We assisted the International Cricket Council (ICC), cricket’s world governing body, in the development of a strategic plan that set out the way forward for the next five years for the ICC and the game globally.

Developing Sporting Talent in England

For the first time, Sport England held in one document an overview of all their main sports’ plans for identifying and nurturing their talented athletes in the early stages of their development. Sport England has allocated considerable resources, accessed through Lottery funding, to the development of sporting talent in key sports between 2006 and 2009. They determined this investment must deliver significant improvement in the ability of the sporting community, and particularly the National Governing Bodies of Sport (NGB’s), to identify and nurture talented athletes, within an effective sports system to provide Sport England with a clear picture of their current talent frameworks, scope and application so that gaps could be identified and remedial action recommended. This was a complex challenge, requiring collaborative working with personnel from a wide range of sporting bodies, with 16 weeks from commissioning to presentation of the final report.

Donald Russell Direct - Out of the Ashes of BSE

This is an amazing story of a niche meat business whose business was in export quality beef prior to the outbreak of BSE in 1996. At a stroke Donald Russell's entire export business was wiped out. Their recovery is a story to inspire others, how identifying new growth markets, supplying industry leading quality, learning from others and providing inspirational leadership to people can be the basis of success even in the harshest and most hostile business environment. It was my privilege to work, as an adviser, with Hans Baumann, Donald Russell's Swiss CEO during the formative years building the new business.

DTZ Capital Markets

We were commissioned in summer 2005 to work with one of the world's leading real-estate advisory companies to develop a strategy and organisational model for an integrated Capital Markets business in Europe, Middle East and the rest of the World

Highlands and Islands Enterprise

In mid 2005, Highlands and Islands Enterprise engaged Genesis, on an extensive three-year leadership development programme. This case study looks at the programme to date and discusses the Genesis approach to leadership.

International Company Development

Renaissance & Company offers a blend of practical management in identifying options to move beyond the status quo. This ensures the development of an international strategy that is both ambitious and achievable. More than 50 companies have produced and executed successful international growth strategies through a process led by Renaissance consultants.

International Development of Holland & Sherry

Holland & Sherry is a world famous cloth merchant based in Peebles, Scotland. Premium quality cloths are distributed globally and the company has successfully expanded into the interiors fabrics sector in the USA. The international development strategy delivered significant increased sales adn profit through increased focus and improved personal and team performance.

Leading Publicly Quoted Irish Insurance Company

We were asked to work with the Group CEO and his team to develop and evaluate a series of initiatives for accelerating the Group’s profitable growth.

Modernising Leadership and Governance at the LTA

Over the last two years Alistair Gray has worked closely with the voluntary leaders and professional management of the Lawn Tennis Association to achieve major reforms of their leadership and governance.

Modernising the Law Society of Scotland

Over the last three years we have been privileged to work with the Law Society of Scotland on the reform of the Council, Board and Executive teams. This included the development of strategy for one of the longest established law societies at a time where the profession faced unprecedented change

Modernising the Leadership of the R&A - Golf's international governing body

The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews wished to move from the era of the Secretariat to a modernised executive structure, where the senior managers were focused on performance of their functional areas.

Performance Improvement at English Cricket

Over the last 5 years our consultants have worked with the Board and Senior Management at the ECB to set the agenda for higher levels of performance on and off the field.

Post Merger Integration of Rémy Cointréau and Bols

Rémy Cointréau and Bols merged in 2000 to form one of the world's leading drinks manufacturers. The integration of these French and Dutch companies was a potentially challenging process. Kevin Parker and Alistair, then with Genesis developed an innovative process to engage the executives of both companies to prepare an execution plan for the merger and successfully achieve the goals of the merger.

Product Strategy development for Angling, Cultural and Heritage and Equestrian tourism and Developing an innovation culture in Irish tourism

Genesis Ireland consultants worked with Fáilte Ireland teams to deliver product strategies in a range of areas including Angling, Culture and Heritage, and Equestrian tourism.

Review of Ireland’s performance at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games

Our consultants carried out a review of the performance of the Irish team at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

Scenario Thinking at ScottishPower plc

ScottishPower is a major fully integrated electricity utility. Historically generation was based on fossil fuel fired power stations, backed up with hydro electric and nuclear power plants. Scenario thinking enabled them to decide on the future of generation and their strategy towards new technologies such as fuel cells.

Strategic Change in irish Rugby

Renaissance consultants have completed a number of assignments for the Irish Rugby Football Union including the development of their first ever five year strategic plan and a review of Ireland's performance in the 2007 Rugby World Cup. Both major reviews led to significant change in the governing body of one of Ireland's leading sports

Successful New Product Development

Our client was a newly formed business division of a major international food group. The new company was experiencing difficulties with its new product development process in terms of resource bottlenecks, projects being stalled, failed initiatives, and no successfully commercialised products in market. Through a radical review of the processes we enable the company to develop successful new product streams in a relatively short period of time. This in turn transformed their relationship with major retailers

Transformation at UPM Kymmene - the world leading papermaker

Our consultants worked with UPM Kymmene over a decade to transform the performance of a number of their mills and operating divisions.

Turning Good Leaders into Great Leaders

We conducted a series of High Performance workshops for the leadership team of the Irish subsidiary of a leading pharmaceutical multinational.

Unique Sponsorship Platform for RIAS

Genesis’ partnerships consultants worked with Odeon to create a unique sponsorship platform for RIAS, a specialist insurer for over 50s, to engage with potential customers. Odeon ‘Senior Screen’, a season of films for mature guests, was launched in October 2006 and RIAS began sponsoring the initiative in May 2007. This first time sponsorship provided a unique opportunity to create a long term and relevant presence in a cinema environment. Our consultants managed the logistics and sponsorship content of the partnership.

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