Matthew is Managing Director at Kirros Consulting and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Westminster. As a management consultant and facilitator, he brings over 18 years’ experience in running programmes to enhance individual, team, and organisational performance. He offers expertise in leadership development, personal and team resilience and employee wellbeing programmes. Matthew previously worked for twelve years in the pharmaceutical industry, including at Eli Lilly & Company, where he held positions in sales management, marketing, and market research.
In recent years, Matthew has designed and run employee wellbeing programmes for organisations including the Home Office, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), Nationwide Building Society, Microsoft UK, and Lend Lease. Between 2014 – 2016, he codesigned a ground-breaking psychometric test for resilience, the Resilience Quotient Inventory™ (RQi™) in collaboration with Dr Julian Edwards (Open University) and a team of experts at the Westminster Centre of Resilience. The RQi™ is used along performance coaching in some of the most successful organisations in the world, including Johnson & Johnson, Astra Zeneca, Microsoft, McDonalds, BAE Systems, and Imperial College London.
Matthew holds a BSc (hons) in Zoology, a PhD in Developmental Biology and completed a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in the University of London. He also holds qualifications in psychotherapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and has trained extensively in performance coaching. He is an accredited practitioner of the Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i), the EQ-i 360, Facet5, and is a Master Trainer for the Resilience Quotient Inventory (RQi™)