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Ian Harvey

Expertise

Ian Harvey is a strategy and OKR consultant who has spent the last five years working with Chief Executives and leadership teams of scaleups and tech enabled businesses across the UK, Europe, and North America. Clients have ranged from venture backed scaleups in Brighton and Tallinn to global organisations in Washington DC, Austin, Prague, Paris, and London.
Strategy comes first. Ian helps leadership teams get honest about what they are really trying to achieve, agree where to focus, and build the conditions for execution to follow. Whether the entry point is a strategy refresh, a stalled growth plan, or a leadership team that knows it could be sharper, his work consistently lands on the same outcome: a clear picture of what good looks like, and a team who genuinely own it.
He is best known for his use of OKRs as a lever for broader strategic change. His ten OKR principles draw a clear line between leadership intent, team focus, and weekly execution, and treat OKRs as a tool for alignment and learning rather than performance management. Done well, they give leadership teams a faster, more grown up rhythm of decision making.

Experience

Before founding Outcomes Thinking, Ian held senior roles at GSK, Pearson, Elsevier, and EMC, leading strategy, transformation, and product programmes in complex global environments. That background means he is as comfortable with a board level conversation about market positioning as he is with the practical mechanics of how a leadership team runs its week.
Ian works with founders, CEOs, and senior leaders who want their strategy to actually land. He brings clarity, candour, and a respect for the realities of running a business.

Out of Hours

Outside of work, Ian is a long standing/suffering Arsenal season ticket holder. Closer to home, he splits his time between the kitchen, the golf course, and the gym. He is a decent cook, a terrible golfer and a perennially injured runner. He is a keen explorer of craft beer, whisky, music and art.

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