Clive Bonny

Our founder and principal consultant is Clive Bonny. He has over 25 years commercial experience in delivering bottom line benefits for client teams from the MD to the receptionist. Many years advisory experience with Investors in People, Innovation and Enterprise Agencies has produced many national award winning projects. Clive has delivered over 50 government funded business growth schemes for small to medium sized businesses through enterprise support programmes. Clive also works closely with large corporates and the public and not-for-profit sectors.

Results have brought clients increase in turnover with more sales, reduction in costs with process improvements, and improved recruitment and retention with employer branding and employee vetting. SMP’s associates are qualified and experienced advisors. Clive is a founder of a not-for-profit Innovation Forum and delivers consultancy funded by government bodies to bring innovative products and services to market. Previous roles have included Chairman of a national business consortium, and Programme Developer for professional institutes.

His business research on best practice has been published by The Economist and endorsed by industry leaders including the Director General of the Institute of Directors, Chairman of Investors in People and the late Sir John Harvey-Jones, past Chairman of ICI. Clive has delivered Alliance Partnering programmes for corporates and smaller enterprises and his alliance partners include:

* Benchmarking Networks linking businesses for Best Practice
* The Professional bodies for Business Consulting www.ibconsulting.org.uk
* The Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce as a Fellow
* Enterprise Agencies and Corporate Responsibility Networks

He has supported the national launch of Improvement and Development Agency toolkits for Sports and Culture, and Wellbeing to reduce exposure to workplace risks, and promote employee health, engagement and motivation.