About
Led by Andrew Porteous
Andrew is a highly experienced leadership and team development consultant and coach. He combines well-established, professionally recognised psychometrics, feedback tools and practical facilitation to help individuals and teams build stronger leadership capability and high-performing teams.
His work helps leaders understand not only what is happening in their organisation, but why it is happening.
Organisations Andrew has had the pleasure of working with
Across more than 30 years of consulting, including work undertaken with previous practices. Not all are current EthicEyes Limited clients.
- Arowana
- Aviva
- BAA
- BAE Systems
- Barbon Insurance
- BP International
- BSH
- BT
- Canopius
- Capio Healthcare
- Capita Group
- Capital Consulting
- Chartered Institute of Insurers
- DCMS
- EMI
- Essent Trading
- Gardiner and Theobald
- The Gunvor Group
- Guy Carpenter
- Learning & Skills Council
- Marex
- Marsh
- Mercer
- Merrill Lynch
- Microsoft
- Mitsui Bussan
- Mizuho International
- NHS (various)
- National Lottery Community Fund
- PwC
- Really Useful Group
- RBS
- Securitas
- Serco
- Sony ATV
- Scottish Power
- Sheikh Mohammed Leadership Forum
- Socar Trading
- Tui
- Unilever
- University of Southampton
- Universal Music
- Vauxhall
- Wasserman Group
- Yahoo!
Led by Andrew Porteous, the practice combines psychometrics, 360 feedback, facilitation, executive coaching and practical organisational development experience. Andrew remains closely involved in every piece of work, bringing senior judgement, psychological insight and practical organisational experience to each assignment.
He is known for a pragmatic style, broad business experience and an engaging, down-to-earth manner. The approach is practical, evidence-based, psychologically informed and grounded in real organisational experience.
Where an assignment requires additional capacity or specialist expertise, trusted associates and partners can be involved.
“I’ve never been very interested in clever answers to the wrong problem.”
Experience and credentials
- Over 30 years’ consulting experience
- BPS-certified psychometrics
- Executive coaching and coach supervision
- Leadership, team, change and senior selection
- Cross-sector experience
Formal credentials
BA (Hons), MBA, BPS Certification Psychometrics & Quantitative Psychology, EMCC Accredited Coach and Coach Supervisor.
How I work
Understanding the problem before prescribing the answer
“More than anything else, I enjoy helping people improve their lot.”
Organisations are complex things. There are competing pressures, different perspectives and a lot of moving parts. Over the years I have learnt that the best solution is not always the obvious one.
I ask difficult questions and keep pushing until I understand what an organisation is really like, not simply what its structures, plans or presentations suggest it is like. Its operating reality matters.
I would rather turn down an assignment than take on work that has not been properly thought through. If the problem is wrong, the brief is wrong or the organisation is not ready to act on what we find, an elegant piece of consultancy will not produce the result anyone actually wants.
What matters to me is being useful to the client: bringing judgement, curiosity and a kind, human approach, and doing work that leads to something better after I have gone.
Upcoming book
Andrew’s forthcoming book
A field guide to the strange world of organisations.
Andrew is currently developing a forthcoming book: a practical and wry field guide to the strange truths, illogical behaviours and flawed beliefs that shape organisational life.
The book explores the questions many people quietly carry around at work: why meetings multiply, why appraisals disappoint, why change so often fails, why good people stop giving their best, and why organisations so often behave differently from the values they display.
It brings together decades of consulting experience, lived organisational stories and practical insight for leaders, managers and anyone who has ever sat in a meeting wondering why on earth organisations work the way they do.
“Most people are taught how to get a job, but not how organisations really work.”
The book is currently in development. Selected ideas and observations will appear first in Articles & Field Notes.
Next step
Start with a confidential conversation
The first conversation explores your context, what may be happening beneath the surface, and whether the right next step is leadership development, team development, change support, senior selection insight or a focused diagnostic review.