Patrick has specialised in using systems approaches for working with very large complex organisations as a consultant since 1995 across sectors and 24 countries. His consulting work has mainly been on strategy, organisational design and change.
He worked with the Agile Business Consortium in developing agile approaches to strategy, governance and scaling agile using systems approaches.
Patrick is a regular keynote speaker at conferences, has contributed to eight books on systems, organisation and management, is the author of “Fractal Organisation” 2008, on the Viable System Model which is used on seven masters programmes around the world. He co-wrote “Patterns of Strategy” 2017 on a systemic approach to strategy and wrote “The Grammar of Systems” in 2022. He chairs SCiO, the international professional body for systems practitioners, has lectured at 10 universities and business schools and is a Visiting Research Fellow at Cranfield.