Patrick Medley

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT PATRICK MEDLEY

STRATEGIC ADVISOR MENTOR PASSIONATE EDUCATOR AND ENVIRONMENTALIST I have had over 30 years’ experience as a management consultant, having worked in the business consulting practices of Coopers & Lybrand, PricewaterhouseCoopers and IBM in London, Singapore, and Sydney. I have led strategy, marketing, process improvement and technology engagements at many of the top global and local Consumer facing organisations and was recognized globally as a thought leader and visionary. In my last roles, I was the Global Managing Partner leading IBM Consulting\'s Consumer Products practice worldwide. I am currently the Managing Partner of Kedleton & Co and I sit on the Advisory Board of The Strategy Group as well as providing strategic advice and mentoring to a number of start-ups.I am passionate about teaching, and since leaving IBM in 2013, was on the Adjunct Faculty at the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). I was responsible for the Strategic Consulting Projects course for the Full time MBA and MBAX programmes. I also worked with the AGSM Executive Education team, delivering training around the Trusted Advisor. In 2019, I was appointed as Professor of Practice at the University of Sydney Business School, working with the Global Executive MBA programme and Executive Education, where I teach Consulting skills as well as mentoring the students through their capstone projects.I am also a passionate environmentalist. I started the first professional Environmental Services practice in Australia at Cooper & Lybrand in 1990 and worked with many leading organisations as they developed their early environmental strategies. I also led the first formal environmental audit in Australia. Over the years, I have worked with and mentored many environmental (and other) charities as they developed their strategies. I was a trustee of WWF, and now sit on the Advisory Council of the Foundation for National Parks and Wildlife who are focused on Growing Australia\'s National Parks and Saving Australia\'s unique native species. I served as President and Chair of the Board of FNPW from 2018 to 2023. I also sit on the Environment Advisory Committee of the Inner West Council.I am a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (UK). I have an MBA from the University of Sydney and a Double Honours in Commerce and Engineering from the University of Birmingham, England.