Who Davie is
I am a practitioner and executive advisor with more than three decades of experience in complex businesses.
My work focuses on raising business performance through people-centred transformation. I work across the system, aligning leadership, process and execution so that improvement is delivered and sustained.
I build capability that remains when I step away, leaving stronger teams, clearer control and measurable performance improvement.
“Fixing the Places Where Time is Lost”
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Biography
Davie Thomson established his independent consulting practice in the mid-1990s, working with complex manufacturing and engineering businesses on operational performance and large-scale transformation. In 2018, he stepped into a FTSE 250 plc as a senior executive for a defined period, leading international operational transformation from within the organisation. The role was a long-term intervention rather than a change of career, bringing his external transformation experience into a public company environment at scale. He concluded that engagement in 2021 and returned fully to independent practice, combining board-level advisory with system-wide execution across complex organisations worldwide. Alongside his advisory and executive work, Davie has also built and led other ventures, including a First Aid training business and a hypnotherapy practice, reflecting a long-standing interest in people, behaviour and performance under pressure. He is the author of books exploring time, performance and organisational behaviour.
Senior roles
Board and executive responsibility in complex, time-critical environments.
Global Experience
Transformation leadership delivered across six continents in manufacturing, engineering and supply chain
FTSE 250 Career
Senior executive leadership within a FTSE 250 plc.
30 years MD role
Managing Director of a consulting practice for over 30 years
End-to-End Execution
Across leadership and operations.
Specialisms:
“I focus on the conditions that dictate performance.”
Supporting boards and leadership teams in defining strategic direction, then translating that intent into executable priorities across the organisation.
Designing and embedding performance systems that make strategy visible, measurable and owned at every level.
Strengthening capability across leadership, management and frontline teams to ensure that improvement endures beyond the intervention.
Designing and leading enterprise-wide change that strengthens capability, accelerates performance and embeds lasting improvement.
Reducing end-to-end lead times, improving throughput and strengthening constraint behaviour across the enterprise.
Driving measurable improvements in output, cost, margin and cash through structured operational improvement.
The Timeline emerged from decades of observing the same underlying performance patterns across different organisations.
It is a structured way of making system behaviour visible early enough to act, strengthening cash, margin and operational control.
If you want to explore the thinking in more detail, start with a Timeline Evaluation conversation.