Welcome to Wynn Consulting, an independent decision-support consultancy for public bodies.

Our Principal Consultant, Douglas Wynn, was formerly a politics academic and chair of several local government employers’ bodies. He has provided high-quality consultancy services for public sector clients since 1984, initially on behalf of Strathclyde Graduate Business School, then Deloitte Consulting for nine years and (since 2003) through this practice, Wynn Consulting.

Services which Douglas provides include organisational and strategic reviews, options appraisal, change management, performance improvement, independent consultations, business cases, ministerial submissions and client-side project advice.

Our aim is to provide clients with high quality services at optimum fee rates, either by direct delivery wherever appropriate or by a mix of our own inputs and the specialist expertise of trusted associates to provide a holistic solution. Complete confidentiality and sensitivity to client requirements are observed in all assignments. Organisations with which we have worked to date include Deloitte Consulting, Turner and Townsend Project Management, Caledonian Economics and the Transport Research Institute of Napier University.

Since inception in 2003 Wynn Consulting has inter alia :

• provided three ‘Green Book’ options appraisals – the first for The National Museums of Scotland in support of its (successful) grant application for a £45m refurbishment scheme, the second for Capability Scotland in considering the shape of its future services and the third for The Scottish Arts Council in considering options for the accommodation of the new National Theatre of Scotland;
• completed a ‘Best Value’ Review of The National Galleries of Scotland as a sub-contractor to Deloitte Consulting;
• supported and participated at board level in the comprehensive modernisation programme of The City of Edinburgh Council, inter alia providing advice on project governance, appraisal matrices, partnership working and a SWOT analysis of a key department. Wynn Consulting completed a web-based consultation on partnership working for the Council in October 2006;
• undertaken an independent review and report to Midlothian Council on industrial relations problems in its commercial services;
• written the successful case for an independent Regional Transport Partnership for Shetland Islands Council and submitted it to Scottish Ministers. This now allows it to control its own transport policy and governance for its unique circumstances; and
• written four business cases to the Scottish tertiary funding councils and ministers on behalf of colleges - and achieved grant funding;

Please view the information on service areas and client appreciation on this site, or call or e-mail me for an informal discussion.