Lark Consulting Limited was founded by Leyton Lark in November 2007
A Profile of Leyton Lark
Leyton is an experienced business leader and consultant. Following a BSc (Hons) in engineering from Kingston upon Thames he completed his Rolls-Royce apprenticeship. He spent the first twelve years of his working life designing and developing aero engines. He is a member of the Institution on Mechanical Engineers, and a member of the Royal Aeronautical Society and has been a Chartered Engineer for over 25 years.
In the early 90s Leyton moved into manufacturing and supply where he gained extensive experience of international negotiations involving complex projects in the Aerospace, Marine and Power Generation sectors in Europe and the USA . His experience in managing strategic relationships resulted in a deep knowledge of how to make collaboration work.
Leyton has studied business and management in the UK and at the Kelly School of Business, Indiana University in the USA. He has a number of management qualifications including a Masters in Business Administration from Loughborough University.
After over 24 years with Rolls-Royce Leyton spent five years as a consultant with Capgemini gaining further experience in both the public and private sector including the UK MoD, the DWP, HMRC and local government. During this time he published research on the global sourcing of services describing the characteristics of outsourcing and off-shoring decisions.
Leyton is a member of the “Innovation Lab”, an international and interdisciplinary group of innovation researchers, sponsored by The Advanced Institute of Management Research, AIM.
Today as the Director of Lark Consulting Limited Leyton’s clients include the UK Council for electronic Business and the UK MoD. He is secretary of the UK Defence Joint Support Chain Management Steering Group. He is also actively involved in developing DefStan 00-600, the Defence Standard for in-service support as part of coherent business architecture for UK Defence.
Leyton also holds Directorships with DAMAUK, (the Data Management Association), and Roseworthy Properties.
Recommendations
“I have selected a few comments from clients that serve to highlight Leyton’s qualities: “Able to engage senior executives as peers helping them to resolve their issues”, “He draws on years of experience dealing with people at all levels of organisations to achieve the goals of his assignments”, “succeeded in unifying a group of disparate people into a strong cohesive high performing team”….
An effective partner should have deep knowledge of your industry, broad experience of leading change and high credibility. Leyton has demonstrated that he has these qualities in abundance.”
Phil Walker Capgemini Consulting UK, COO
Publications
Global Sourcing of Services – CPO Agenda Winter 2007 08