Mike Straw

CEO and Managing Partner
Achieve Breakthrough

Mike is the CEO and Managing Partner of Achieve Breakthrough, an award-winning change consultancy revolutionising how Procurement functions work in the world’s largest organisations.

He didn’t coin the phrase “culture eats strategy for breakfast”, but he lives and breathes it! And for two decades he’s been working with distinguished CEOs and senior business leaders on honing their corporate culture to be one that promotes continual innovation. Mike founded Achieve Breakthrough to unlock his client’s ambitions: making the seemingly impossible, possible.

These include industry leading blue chip corporations across sectors such as Technology, FMCG, and Global Retail. They have notably worked with several top pharma organizations who in particular have sought the transformational business partnering expertise that Achieve Breakthrough are renowned for.

Mike is co-author of The Little Black Book of Change and is an international speaker and thought leader on transformational leadership.

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Day 2 – March 1, 2017

Tuesday, March 8th, 2016

10:15 Breakthrough Thinking and Performance in Procurement – the Missing Piece of the Jigsaw

Procurement is relentlessly tasked with driving bottom line efficiency without compromising on quality or innovation. Furthermore, they are increasingly required to work dynamically with demanding and diverse stakeholders, whilst managing a decrease in their own resources. Oh, and they have to remain happy whilst doing it all!

In the face of this, the solutions on offer always seem to be the same: business partnering, outsourced transactions, SRM, new operating models, compliance and protection, re-structure, collaboration – the list goes on.

This session sheds light on the critical ‘missing piece of the jigsaw’ – the un-locker that can transform Procurement and truly re-invent what is possible. The next transformation in Procurement is nigh, the question is who will be its author; you or your competitors? We will provide access to the vital elements that if adopted will cause a real breakthrough in what is possible for your Procurement function and the industry at large.