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Nicholas Warn (Nick) is a Chartered Engineer and Certified Management Consultant with over three decades of experience helping organisations transform and perform. He is a Fellow of the UK Institute of Consulting, and currently serves as Chair of the International Council of Management Consulting Institutes (ICMCI) — the global body for the consulting profession — where he also represents the ICMCI Board on its accreditation body, the Institute Quality Assurance (IQA). Nick founded his consultancy practice in 1990, working across multiple sectors in business transformation and performance improvement, with international collaborations in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Before entering consultancy, he built a successful industrial career with Dunlop across the UK, India and Germany, before becoming a Director of companies in the packaging and security printing sectors.Alongside his consulting work, Nick is a Director of a Hampshire-based charity providing furniture and household essentials for people in need, and offering training and work experience to volunteers entering employment. He is married with two grown-up children and four grandsons — and when he's not at the strategy table, you'll find him on the golf course or in the vegetable garden.
As a Chartered Engineer, Nick is an active member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, taking part in the activities of the South of England Branch of the Institute.
Nick is a Fellow of the UK Institute of Consulting and sits on the Institute of Consultancy Advisory Committee, responsible for governance of the Institute within the IC's parent body the Chartered Management Institute.
Prior to becoming Chair, Nick has served as Chair of the Professional Development and Standards Committee and Chair of the Quality Assurance Committee (now IQA). In those roles, Nick has been instrumental in developing, publishing and implementing the global Competence Framework for individual consultants, the Code of Professional Conduct, and the implementation framework for applying the ISO 20700 Guidance Standard for management consultancy services.