Chris Lawrence
Principal Director @Accenture
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WORK HISTORY
Principal Director @Accenture
GB
Principal Director in Accenture’s U.K. CMT Strategy and Consulting Practice, with a strong focus on the media sector.
EDUCATION
University of Birmingham
MPhil, Medieval History
University of Cambridge
MA - 1st Class, History
SKILLS
ABOUT CHRIS LAWRENCE
Chris Lawrence is an advisor, operational leader and business developer, with more than 20 years of experience in management consulting, operating internationally, leading multi-cultural and cross-functional teams to develop strategies and deliver transformational change.Specialise in advising on, shaping and quality assuring, transformation initiatives, primarily for media and educational organisations, setting them up for success. Business consultant, with strong technology understanding, particularly across media supply chain (broadcasting and publishing)Success in previously setting up and leading consulting practices at Cognizant, BSI and Avid, including building one of the UK\'s largest media specialist consultancies when at Cognizant. Background combines big 4 consulting rigour (KPMG and PwC), working for / with a broadcaster (BBC), at a publisher (BSI), for tech service providers (Siemens, Cognizant) and at a media specialist vendor (Avid), giving breadth of experience, credibility and contactsConsistent success in setting up and deploying blended teams (combining tier one consultants with deep industry specialists) to win pitches against other consultancies and deliver complex change. Strong connections in media and education, especially across UK broadcast ecosystem (broadcasters, cloud providers, specialist vendors, industry bodies, analyst firms) and experience working with alliance partners UK Management Consulting Association (MCA) award winning client projects (BBC, FA) as evidence of best in class project delivery. Led multiple other transformation engagements for broadcasters and publishers. Regularly also perform quality assurance reviews.International work includes developing a relaunch strategy for the Trinidadian state broadcaster; shaping a cloud enabled transformation programme for the world\'s largest Spanish speaking broadcaster; and quality assuring the technology plans and costings for the new national broadcast centre for a Scandinavian broadcaster.
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