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Grounded Systems Ltd was founded by Mike Yearworth in 2008. Mike has a background in engineering and management and is Emeritus Professor of Management Science at the University of Exeter.

Mike works with organisations on the following:

  • Leading planning, transforming and strategy-making workshops with senior leadership teams
  • Problem structuring through stakeholder workshops supported by online group support systems
  • Multi-organisational collaboration

Mike’s preferred way of facilitating workshops with leadership teams is to work online in one-to-one and group sessions supported by strategyfinder, as developed by Colin Eden and Fran Ackermann. He uses a variety of Problem Structuring Methods (PSMs) including:

  • Hierarchical Process Modelling (HPM) based on modelling purpose with a how/why dialectic, process performance scoring, and argumentation
  • Causal Loop Diagrams
  • Multimethodologies