GA Business Services: Consulting on Strategic Development, Work Winning and Business Transformation
With 20+ years of experience across diverse industries including construction, utilities and housing, customers talk to me to make real change.
In an increasingly complex world, GA Business Services will enable you to navigate business change and development by recognising the challenges and opportunities faced by your organisation, allowing it to reach its full potential
as the leader of the business, Graham is a strategic planner & business development professional
He has worked across the Infrastructure, Utilities and Built Environment sectors for over 20 years, with some of the UK’s largest blue chip construction companies.
Graham’s experience and sector knowledge will enable your business or project to evolve with most suitable team in place, at a sustainable speed, with a focus on both the short and long-term future.
Whether you’re developing a strategy, looking to grow your business, or changing the way your organisation runs entirely, he will ensure your objectives are met swiftly and effectively.
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Meeting client needs by:
Developing and deploying strategies to create significant business change
Identifying and leading major opportunities and acquisitions
Advising on effective work winning processes
Building award winning teams and partnerships
Managing and delivering organisational transformation projects
"Graham has an in-depth strategic understanding of how the construction industry works, its moving parts and how to navigate them. He helped us significantly improve our business development strategy by identifying our ideal segment targets and how to approach the various stakeholders. Last but not least, he always keeps an open mind and positive attitude, which makes working with him an absolute pleasure."
Martin Azmanov- Co-founder, Structor.io 
“Graham has worked with WaND on a number of multi-sector infrastructure projects and procurements providing consistent high quality input. He is insightful and astute whether working at a strategic or at a detailed level. We always enjoy working with Graham, and look forward to continuing our productive relationship”
Ian S Dennison- Director, WaND Consulting 
"GA Business Services provides excellent support for two of our major framework pursuits, providing strong leadership for the international bid team, and dropping into a range of different roles from innovator through to hands on solution developer. They direct the work of the many different teams, maintaining a sense of urgency and pace that’s needed on multi-month framework pursuits. Graham remains a trusted advisor to both myself as project sponsor and the task teams that he is helping to steer to a successful outcome."
Jonathan Chapman- Managing Director, Burns & McDonnell 
"We have worked with Graham on several specialist bids to support our existing team. He always brings a new injection of ideas and controls to help us deliver an excellent proposition to our client."
Steve Jackson - Strategy Director, Wates Property Services 
"Graham played a key part in strategising our revised business development and marketing offerings for the launch of our new businesses to market, providing great insight and guidance which was vital to the success of the launch. Graham ensured we had a solid grounding for our discussions through excellent market intelligence and evidence-based decision making, and continues to advise us on strategic projects."
Matt Hiley- Commercial Director, Novus Property Solutions 
"Graham is a highly professional bid leader, who is particularly able to define the key issues, constructively challenge entrenched thinking amongst SMEs and stimulate and lead the required conversations and discussions. His written contributions and timelines of delivery are consistently of the highest order. An excellent team leader and peer. Highly recommended."
Jerry Petherick- Former (now retired) Managing Director, Care & Custody division, G4S 
“GA Business Services continues to provide Groundline with the tools and advice it needs to navigate through complex bidding and tendering processes, while understanding our business and culture. By taking on the role of the customer, we enjoy the comfort of a stringent peer review prior to our submissions and we are seeing the success of this new process that we’ve developed together."
Adam Yates- Consulting Director, Groundline Engineering 
"Graham has an in-depth strategic understanding of how the construction industry works, its moving parts and how to navigate them. He helped us significantly improve our business development strategy by identifying our ideal segment targets and how to approach the various stakeholders. Last but not least, he always keeps an open mind and positive attitude, which makes working with him an absolute pleasure."
Martin Azmanov- Co-founder, Structor.io
“Graham has worked with WaND on a number of multi-sector infrastructure projects and procurements providing consistent high quality input. He is insightful and astute whether working at a strategic or at a detailed level. We always enjoy working with Graham, and look forward to continuing our productive relationship”
Ian S Dennison- Director, WaND Consulting
"GA Business Services provides excellent support for two of our major framework pursuits, providing strong leadership for the international bid team, and dropping into a range of different roles from innovator through to hands on solution developer. They direct the work of the many different teams, maintaining a sense of urgency and pace that’s needed on multi-month framework pursuits. Graham remains a trusted advisor to both myself as project sponsor and the task teams that he is helping to steer to a successful outcome."
Jonathan Chapman- Managing Director, Burns & McDonnell
"We have worked with Graham on several specialist bids to support our existing team. He always brings a new injection of ideas and controls to help us deliver an excellent proposition to our client."
Steve Jackson - Strategy Director, Wates Property Services
"Graham played a key part in strategising our revised business development and marketing offerings for the launch of our new businesses to market, providing great insight and guidance which was vital to the success of the launch. Graham ensured we had a solid grounding for our discussions through excellent market intelligence and evidence-based decision making, and continues to advise us on strategic projects."
Matt Hiley- Commercial Director, Novus Property Solutions
"Graham is a highly professional bid leader, who is particularly able to define the key issues, constructively challenge entrenched thinking amongst SMEs and stimulate and lead the required conversations and discussions. His written contributions and timelines of delivery are consistently of the highest order. An excellent team leader and peer. Highly recommended."
Jerry Petherick- Former (now retired) Managing Director, Care & Custody division, G4S
“GA Business Services continues to provide Groundline with the tools and advice it needs to navigate through complex bidding and tendering processes, while understanding our business and culture. By taking on the role of the customer, we enjoy the comfort of a stringent peer review prior to our submissions and we are seeing the success of this new process that we’ve developed together."
Adam Yates- Consulting Director, Groundline Engineering
Case Studies & Typical Scenarios
Novus Property Solutions
Case Study: Novus Property Solutions. The business plan is to double its turnover and profit, which required a transformation in the way in which they
Burns & McDonnell
Case Study: Burns & McDonnell. The development of winning strategies to enable US engineering and construction firm Burns & McDonnell to move successfully into the