The Bang Kinetic team works with public and third sector clients to help plan, research, design and – crucially - make effective changes happen.  Whether your services need to respond to strategic opportunity or change; you are setting out in a new delivery direction; you need to address your engagement with service users or you need to reflect on past projects and ‘what next?’ -  the Bang Kinetic team can support you.

We offer a unique combination of project management, research, evaluation and communication skills, together with a deep and current understanding of the strategic drivers and challenges affecting those involved in the public sector, including those wider organisations who deliver publically funded services. We have a broad expertise, with a particular expertise in the health sector. Our team comprises senior level strategic thinkers, with real experience of leading, delivering and supporting complex change. We forge successful, close and supportive working relationships with our clients as ‘partners’ in their team.

We are a small consultancy with a large network of associates, with whom we have well-established working relationships. This means that we can put together the right team for your project, rather than fit your project to our team. Although Bang Kinetic is new, our relationship with Bang Communications gives you the security of 20 years trading experience, delivering hundreds of projects, from the very small to the very large.

Directors

Peter O’Sullivan, MBA

Peter brings 25 years of management experience to bear on identifying and closing perception gaps – understanding issues and their causes, identifying change options, defining strategies and bringing them to fruition. With a strong pragmatic grasp of the potential and limitations of IT and web, brand and communications, leadership and consultation Peter combines focussed research and analytical ability with practical experience of a broad range of possible solutions and implementation strategies.

Recent assignments have included: improving stakeholder communications for Defra; refreshing the brand for the European Medicines Agency; and helping NHS PCTs make better decisions based on their priorities. Peter can really help organisations with clarity – with understanding how other people perceive them and how they perceive themselves, together with the reality of their position today and their ambitions for tomorrow.

Dr. Steve Lowden

Steve considers himself to be a strategic pragmatist and has over 30 years senior public sector leadership experience. He is a seasoned Director and experienced Chief Executive with considerable strategic, policy, performance management, organisational change and public engagement experience. He also has a wealth of experience in leadership, mentoring and developing high performance teams.

Recent assignments have included setting up a new health sector organization; reviewing safeguarding procedures after Baby Peter; working as Programme Director with PCTs and Councils in delivering new housing for people with learning disabilities; and leading commissioning of non-acute work in a large PCT. His Phd is from Nottingham University and he has authored a number of publications on managing people and finance, developing strategy and legal issues.

Hilary O’Sullivan

Hilary has spent over 20 years delivering research and consultancy projects to clients to support their strategic decisions. She has a strong background in research and analysis, gained working through a range of large and small consultancies both in the UK and overseas, for a wide range of clients. Hilary is passionate about helping clients make sense, and best use of, the plethora of data, opinion, research and good practice that surrounds them, and respond to the complex of strategic guidance with which they must comply to operate, prove their impact and access funding.

Clients supported have ranged from government departments to small third sector organisations. Hilary has a particular experience in supporting local authorities, and working with partnerships which bring them together with private and third sector partners. Recent assignments have been varied and include: work for a number of area regeneration partnerships to understand local service needs and options, and help them secure funds to deliver against these; stakeholder opinion gathering exercises for organisations including NHS Employers, Criminal Justice Board and NHS Jobs; and a full service and options evaluation for a homelessness charity in Brighton.