Group Partners

Clients

Twenty five years as Group Partners, with clients around the world. Scroll from the 1990s to now.

Tap any logo for its story and, where we have one, what the client said.

1990s

Through the 1990s and 2000s, structured visual thinking found its first great clients.

2001

Group Partners is formed. The first sessions run on big pads of paper, and the clients start to call back.

2002On our client list in 2002.
“I have used John and his team for 3 Government turnaround challenges. Their approach worked every time and gave us the tools to create significant change. We fundamentally transformed three agencies. The one caveat is that your fellow leaders/seniors must have the courage to push for the delivery outcome!”

Mark Grimshaw, Chief Executive
Rural Payments Agency, Child Support Agency and Jobcentre Plus

2006

Electrostatic paper goes up on the wall for the first time, for the state of Oklahoma, and a session can now hold a whole system.

2007First named on our client list in 2007.
2008First named on our client list in 2008.
2009First named on our client list in 2009.
2010First named on our client list in 2010.

Where the work happened

Tap a place to see who we worked with there.

World map with the places Group Partners has worked lit up
“I’ve spoken to a few leaders who attended the session, and they have all, without fail, stated that this is the best strategy review session they have ever participated in…”

Juba Mashaba, Chief Human Resources Officer
Cell C, Johannesburg

2011

Frameworks and modules let one programme run across many teams and many countries.

2013First named on our client list in 2013.
“…Add all of us to the list of awestruck and inspired people you have helped define their goals, vision and the road to get there.”

Andy Walraven, Chief Creative Officer
XEN, California

2016

From Fox Studios in Los Angeles to American Express in New York, and then, in 2020, sessions held entirely online.

2018From our client lists and work on file, 2018.
2019Work on file from 2019.
2020Work on file from 2020.
“We really appreciated the opportunity to work with Group Partners as we developed the next stage of our strategy to end youth homelessness. The ability to take complex information and turn it into easy-to-navigate visualisations is a real art form…”

Robert Cade, Director of Strategy and Performance
Centrepoint, London

2021

Hospital systems and car dealers across the United States, streaming in California and development work in Dhaka.

2021Work on file from 2021.

And many more

Names from our client lists over the years, with their logos still to gather.

  • Active Navigation
  • Anglo Coal
  • at800
  • B9 Shipping
  • Battersea Power Station
  • BSoftB
  • C-BEX
  • Capture Media
  • CES
  • CIO Forum
  • City Axis
  • Connect+
  • County of Los Angeles
  • CPCR
  • DDG
  • Dutch Police
  • Eagle Direct
  • Enshaa
  • esellas
  • Fantastic Corporation
  • Fed Health
  • Fox IT
  • Global Shipping
  • Home Office
  • Humanitarian World
  • Jacobs Rimmel
  • Landmark
  • InterProvider
  • Liberata
  • Marshall Engineering
  • MDDA
  • Minderoo
  • Mr & Mrs Smith
  • Nigerian Elections
  • Norman Broadbent
  • Nuffield Trust
  • Old Mutual
  • Regeneration of Ibadan
  • Results International
  • Rugby World Cup 2015
  • Six Degrees
  • Society of British Aerospace Companies
  • Sun Digital
  • Synergos Institute
  • Thameside
  • Tharsus
  • Time Warner
  • Waterberg Welfare Society
  • XEN

Now

Structured visual thinking for decades, and twenty five years as Group Partners, with clients around the world.

About Group Partners

“This work has completely exceeded our expectations, it is so critical to our business and without this event we would be in the dark ages forever.”

Jim Devlin, President
Invensys Home Controls Division, Virginia