United by our shared passion for making businesses work better, we bring a wealth of deep expertise
meet our leadership team
Sean Connolly
Chair
Sean was one of our founding partners back in 2000 and has led the company ever since. Sean plays a key role in driving the innovation and thinking behind the unique ways of working that help our clients achieve transformational change. Because our clients are often leaders in their own sectors, this demands a blend of conceptual rigor, integrated thinking and the ability to connect at all levels quickly to make things happen fast, whilst also ensuring they’re sustainable.
Working across Europe and the US, Sean has been instrumental in transforming business for a wide range of clients, including Walgreens, Severn Trent Water, and Boots. With sector experience encompassing retail, manufacturing, utilities and life sciences, he has deep expertise in transformation program design, customer back and future back thinking, strategy development and sustainable execution, lean process design, leadership development and culture change.
In 2017 Sean was named a Global Leader in Consulting Innovation by US-based Consulting Magazine; a prestigious award which is a testament to the deep insight, empathy and integrity he brings to his work with our clients’ businesses. In his time off, you’ll find him either watercolour painting, exploring far corners of the world, or reading about plants, or politics, or how to be a better ancestor.
James Clement
Partner
JamesClement@egremontgroup.com
A performance improvement specialist with more than 20 years’ experience co-creating sustainable change in complex organisations, James is one of our Partners. He specialises in leadership development, mobilisation and communication, and restoring flow to organisations – with the emphasis on performance led cultural change in large businesses with multiple locations.
James has been instrumental in numerous major change programs, developing the climate and pace for sustainable transformation. He’s worked in telecoms, retail, pharmaceuticals, utilities, hospitality and hospitality, professional services and charitable trusts. He joined us in 2008, and in one of his previous lives spent several years at Vodafone, delivering cross-functional change projects for the UK Board.
With a BSocSc. in political science and an MSc in international management, James is KAI and MBTI accredited.
James has an eclectic taste; not just in music (he loves alternative indie rock and, surprisingly, country), but also in his hobbies, which include curing meats, reading up on the politics of organisations, and cycling incredibly fast on country lanes (he competed in L’Etape du Tour de France in 2018).
Tom Hardiman
Partner
TomHardiman@egremontgroup.com
Tom leads transformation projects with our largest clients. He joined EG in 2014 and brings to the team invaluable expertise in designing change programmes within complex organisations. With more than 30 years’ experience in industry and consulting, his work at EG takes him all over the world and he works with long standing clients in government, aviation, manufacturing, retail, supply chain, pharmacy, and professional services.
Examples of recent transformation programmes that Tom has lead include customer proposition development for 5 UK professional services companies acquired by a US PE firm, agent remuneration for a franchise business, building a global proposition for a UK retailer and transformation of an airport group. Before joining us, he held several senior airport management roles.
Before this, he was a management consultant with Gemini Consulting, following an early career as a psychologist for the Ministry of Defence. Tom’s specialist business qualifications include Accredited Negotiator from the GAP Partnership School, and Accelerated Development Programme, London Business School. He holds an MSc in human factors and ergonomics and a BSc in psychology, both from Birmingham University.
Hannah Crossley
Principal
hannahcrossley@egremontgroup.com
With over 15 years of experience, Hannah’s work has spanned all four of our service offerings and she has a passion for people-centred transformational change. Her area of expertise is in leading projects with a focus on driving change through operating model / organisation design and leadership development with clients across sectors including retail, leisure, utilities, financial services and the not-for-profit sector. She has worked in Europe, the US and Australasia.
Hannah is driven by giving a voice to those people in organisations who aren’t typically heard, helping to unlock the potential of people and teams within the business – the thing that really captures her are the moments of growth in the teams and individuals she’s worked with.
Hannah is passionate about making a positive difference – both through her projects and in the wider world. She leads our BCorp agenda, which maintains a focus on how to give back, support sustainability initiatives, and leave a long-lasting positive impact.
Hannah loves sustainable knitwear, really good cheddar, and Somerset cider. She’s spent the last few months renovating her house and planting her garden (but she promises she’s not boring).