Laura

Manson-Smith

Global Leader Organization Strategy Consulting

Laura Manson- Smith is a business transformation specialist with twenty years of experience in delivering sustainable change focusing on the people and cultural dimensions.

Her consulting work with clients helps them to improve business performance by aligning their people, processes and organization to strategy.

Laura brings a rare blend of commercial skills and a deep understanding of large scale behavioral change. She has a natural aptitude for building and working with diverse teams to overcome challenges and deliver results.

She worked alongside the client transformation director of a $5bn upstream oil and gas business to lead the organization redesign towards a new functional model.

Working with the executive team of a defense organization she helped to identify £3.4bn of savings and equip the organization with a new people strategy, skills and ways of working.

She helped an energy company roll out a new performance management process to 50,000 employees on order to achieve a greater focus on safety behaviors.

Laura has worked in a range of industries including energy, defense, government, and pharmaceuticals.

She has a global outlook through work in Europe, US, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

Ms. Manson-Smith has a bachelor of science honors degree in physics with a year in Europe from Imperial College, London. She is a qualified chartered accountant.