Partner
Ben Collins
Ben has over 20 years of experience in a range of consumer goods companies working with household names such as Carling, Kellogg’s, Nike, Lucozade, and Dunlop. With a background in sales and marketing, he has delivered transformational change in a number of leadership roles.
Prior to joining Oliver Wight EAME, Ben’s last two roles were Head of Commercial Capability for Suntory UK&I and Operations and Planning Director at Molson Coors Brewing Company UK&I. As Head of Commercial Capability Ben has focused on building organisational and process capability, working with multifunctional teams on key competencies such as Digital Commerce, Resilience, IBP, Strategy, and Joint Business Planning.
Our brains are hard-wired against change, so we need to carefully and deliberately take people with us, one by one, to first want to change and then be part of that change.Ben Collins, Partner at Oliver Wight
Resources
The latest from Ben
Thought Piece
Why Embedding Change Is Harder than Designing It – and What to Do About It
You've built the vision and co-created the design. Now comes the part most organisations get wrong: making change stick when people's instinct is to revert to what they know.
Ben Collins
Partner
Thought Piece
How Co-Creation Builds the Change Capability Your Organisation Actually Needs
Leadership commitment means nothing without the people who translate vision into practice. The Enable phase of Oliver Wight’s change approach is where change stops being a leadership ambition and starts becoming organisational reality.
Ben Collins
Partner
Thought Piece
Why Real Business Change Starts with Leaders Not Processes
If you're not prepared to change first, don't expect anyone else to follow. Oliver Wight’s change methodology places leadership at the centre for good reason: it's where most change programmes succeed or fail.
Ben Collins
Partner
Thought Piece
Why Sponsors Hold the Key to Change Programmes That Actually Stick
You've been asked to sponsor a change initiative. It's a vote of confidence in your leadership. Understanding the true demands of sponsorship is the first step to meeting them.
Ben Collins
Partner
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